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John Lennon has a moment on the drive back to the Dakota and refuses to get out of the car until the man with "Catcher in the Rye" is gone. Thus, he survives the night, and the moment leaves him feeling the impact of knowing that one day, one of 'em is gonna die, and he wants to get together again before it happens.
Another Beatles album and shenanigans ensue.
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In the summer of 1980, a radio DJ in New York receives requests for songs in her midnight to 5 am show.
Two regular listeners, "JP" and "Old Friend", start communicating through her program.
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“I think that to make real art - like, if you want to tap into the current of what’s really going on, you can’t be fully aware of it. You can’t be all in your head about it. You’re not speakin’ the truth, you’re feeling it - lettin’ it speak through you. You’re taking from the realm of truth and transforming it into something a human can perceive, but you don’t always know what it is.”
In late 1966, the baby-faced balladeer Paul McCartney meets an unsuccessful artist named John Lennon at an Avant Garde gala.
The ensuing relationship causes him to publicly lose his mind.
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July 1980. Ringo is turning 40, and to celebrate, he's invited a group of friends to stay with him for a week in a house he rented in the Bahamas. John is nervous. This will be more time with Paul than he's spent in years. And that's before he finds out that they'll be sharing a room.
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He let it linger and fester. This vulnerability at his side, this queer bend in the rhythm of his life. The strange lode-bearing sunbeam that Paul had become for him. John got to thinking it was romantic. That it would last because it was so absurd, and John’s life was nothing if not absurd.
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John and Paul, then and now.