Their relationship in its day, though not public was an open secret, especially to their rock buddies who admired the couple greatly.

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One closeted half of one of the best bands ever was having an affair, rivaling that of Shakespeare, with his long dead bandmate.

The two first met prostituting when they were around 15 as they were incredibly poor.

When that backfired, one suggested mugging dudes in back alleys but the more violently perceived one couldn’t do it, so they started an empire. Despite the fact they were estranged for the late halves of their lives, they often booked rooms in hotels under different names and their public feud was just for show, much like most of their lives.

As well as this they ghostwrote some of the most famous songs ever for each other, and called each other regularly.

Their relationship in its day, though not public was an open secret, especially to their rock buddies who admired the couple greatly.

The wife of the deceased member of this couple has no idea and would probably scream if she found out.

The wife of the other knew about it, supported it and just wanted her husband to be happy even if that meant abandoning the kids.

During their reign, they threw bricks at each-others windows, tried to fight each-others girlfriends, publicly screamed about how much they missed each other at parties, spiralled into depression, took copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, and were planning to ‘reunite’ and get a old man farm together before one half’s unfortunate death.

The alive one, who is considered a bit lame, still loves his other half immensely and plans to release a tell-all once the banshee dies as he wants to preserve their relationship and finally tell the truth about the ordeal.

Truly a sad story indeed.

John Lennon
Yoko Ono

Paul McCartney
Linda McCartney

The Beatles

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?

The last song John Lennon ever sang on stage was by Paul McCartney: “I Saw Her Standing There.” When Lennon did the song at Madison Square Garden during a guest appearance in an Elton John show on Nov. 28, 1974, he introduced it as “a number [by] an old estranged fiancé of mine called Paul.” Hanging out with Elton’s entourage – a camp camp in which the boys often referred to one another as “she,” Lennon fit right in: The others called him “Catherine.”

It’s long been an article of Beatleology that Lennon, whose life ended 28 years ago tomorrow, indulged band manager Brian Epstein, who had a crush on him, in a one-night stand, didn’t enjoy it, and returned to a life of resolute, even excessive, heterosexuality.

In a new bio, Philip Norman makes it clear that there was more to the story. The book is called “John Lennon: The Life,” but given the homoerotic subtext you could call it “A Gay in the Life.” “Do you know why I like you?” John once asked Yoko Ono. “It’s because you look like a bloke in drag. You’re like a mate.” Yoko replied with a laugh that he must be “a closet fag.”

The gay jokes Lennon rained on Epstein typified his acrid sense of humor, but judge for yourself whether Lennon, who according to Epstein’s onetime boyfriend Joe Flannery was the only Beatle who mocked Epstein’s sexuality to his face, was strangely cruel. During rehearsals for “Baby You’re a Rich Man” (some say even on the actual recording) Lennon altered the chorus to, “Baby you’re a rich fag Jew.” He once asked an Epstein employee, “If you’re not queer and you’re not Jewish, what are you doing working for Brian?”

When Lennon suggested that it would revitalize his second marriage if he strayed outside it, Yoko Ono recalls that he told her, “It would hurt you like crazy if I made it with a girl. With a guy, maybe you wouldn’t be hurt, because that’s not competition. But I can’t make it with a guy because I love women too much, and I’d have to fall in love with the guy and I don’t think I can.” Then, Ono says, he told her that she, too, should have affairs, even recommending “Mind Games” guitarist David Spinozza. “David’s so beautiful,” John told her. “I wouldn’t mind having sex with him.”

Norman, who interviewed Ono for the book before she withdrew her backing, calling it “mean to John,” lingers over the still-shocking viciousness of Lennon’s 1971 anti-McCartney solo song, “How Do You Sleep?” It was a nuclear riposte to a mild, oblique reference to Lennon on McCartney’s album “Ram.” Writes Norman:

“John’s wounded anger was more that of an ex-spouse than ex-colleague, reinforcing a suspicion in Yoko’s mind that his feelings for Paul had been far more intense than the world ever guessed. From chance remarks he had made, she gathered there had even been a moment when – on the principle that bohemians should try everything – he had contemplated an affair with Paul, but had been deterred by Paul’s immovable heterosexuality. Nor, apparently was Yoko the only one to have picked up on this. Around Apple, in her hearing, Paul would sometimes be called John’s Princess. She had also once heard a rehearsal tape with John’s voice calling out “Paul . . . Paul . . .’ in a strangely subservient, pleading way. “I knew there was something going on there,’ she remembers. “From his point of view, not from Paul’s. And he was so angry at Paul, I couldn’t help wondering what it was really about.’ “

The possible sources of Lennon’s pain and anger, which invigorated the art that producer George Martin dubbed “the lemon juice” against McCartney’s “virgin olive oil,” are many. In a span of nine years, Lennon, who barely knew his father, lost his mother to a car accident, his best friend Stu Sutcliffe to a brain hemorrhage and his surrogate father Epstein. He was also laden with guilt – “I introduced Brian to pills – which gives me a guilt association with his death,” he said, and he knew he badly mistreated his father (when the older man eventually sought reconciliation), his first wife Cynthia and his first son Julian. Lennon is remembered as an antiwar figure, but for most of his life he was at war with himself. – Source