![]() ![]() I have read “The Beatles Bibliography’s” review of it, which is less than stellar: “Beatle fans should take issue with this travesty of a memoir, not simply because of Schwartz’s malevolent, almost venomous attacks on Paul, but because of the book’s self-serving and non-referential tone.” I will eventually, even though just tone of those two pages doesn’t make me want to rush out and buy it. We’ll never know unless Yoko confirms it. DiLello was friends with Taylor and he would have mentioned the postcards, perhaps in a disguised way, it’s too good a story and he didn’t shy away from John Lennon as Jesus Christ. Not even his memoir would have mentioned it without sanction. But I find it unlikely she would have heard of it from Taylor himself. She did hang around the Apple offices a lot, she knew Taylor and it’s possible she heard the story of his postcards through office gossip or even saw one in the mail. Yet it is difficult to see how she could have made it up. Many people give no credence to most of the memoir let alone the postcard story. Paul had started the relationship with Maggie before he’d broken up with Jane and only broke it off, according to her account here sometime soon after meeting Linda, so he was literally living with Francie in between. I’ve no idea of the truth:fiction ratio, but I am aware that the negative Beatles books often get dismissed as inaccurate, whereas the positive ones get a free pass.Īn interesting sidelight to this is that, unless I’ve got it wrong, Paul was seeing three women steadily at the same time, Maggie McGivern, Francie and Linda. Has anyone else read the book? FS gets a bit of a bad press from many Beatle fans, but I thought it was an interesting insight into that time. ![]() It’s interesting – a lot has been written about how Paul turned to drink and got depressed after the band broke up, but if Schwartz’s account is correct it might have been going on for some months before. The book tells a lot of how Paul felt pretty crushed by fame, family (the split with Jane and tensions with some of his Liverpool relatives), Apple and Beatles business during their relationship, and he had a lot of black moods. We were discussing Paul’s dark moods around 1968/9, and some of the missives he sent to fellow Beatles and staff.īelow is a scan of the bit in Francie Schwartz’s book about the ‘Jap tart’ postcard that Paul wrote for John to see. This came up in a Derek Taylor thread, but I didn’t want it to go too off-topic. ![]()
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