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Sir Paul McCartney's girlfriend Nancy Shevell has moved in with him.

The Beatles legend asked the US millionairess - who he has been dating for almost a year - to move into Peasmarsh, his East Sussex estate, after she began spending almost every weekend there.

A family friend said: 'Paul and Nancy are as solid a couple as you can get after just a short time together. She always seems to be at Peasmarsh anyway so it made sense to him just to ask her to move in.

'She'll still travel between the UK and her base in the US but is setting up home with Paul.'

The 66-year-old musician asked Beatrice, his four-year-old daughter with ex-wife Heather Mills, for her approval before asking Nancy to live with him.

Paul's fashion designer daughter Stella - who had a well-publicised feud with Heather - has also given the move her blessing, although she is said to be urging her father not to rush into marriage.

The source added to Britain's The Sun newspaper: 'Paul asked Beatrice if she liked Nancy and got a resounding 'Yes', which meant the world to him.'

Paul bought the secluded Peasmarsh estate as a wedding gift for his first wife Linda in 1969.

Source: MSN Entertainment.

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Oh no, I didn't forget I was just busy. Happy 68th Birthday, John. Thank you for everything.

Round glasses, beaky nose, an air of faintly amused cynicism: the man on the cover of Philip Norman's latest book is instantly recognisable. John Lennon's iconic face is as perfect for T-shirts as Che Guevara's. And, like Guevara, he's deified as a man of the people, a musical genius, a 20th-century romantic figure to admire and emulate. At least, that's the sell.

'He's a secular saint,' claims Norman, whose book John Lennon: The Life is his second foray into the late superstar's life. The first, 1981's Shout!, took in all of The Beatles, though it had an obvious Lennon bias. 'His image is painted like a holy icon. He himself would have been appalled by that. Lennon tried to demythologise himself while he was alive. He hated the unreality of his life with The Beatles and tried to reinstate normality the whole time.'

When it comes to Lennon's more unpleasant qualities, Norman's latest venture doesn't beat around the bush, but it's unlikely to debunk the musician's godlike status. Weighing in at a hefty 817 pages, the affectionate biography paints a more detailed picture than any Lennon book before it, and includes interviews with Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney.

'With a story like this, if you find any new information, you can't bear to leave it out,' shrugs the author. 'There are events that were the same as in Shout! but I had to revise a lot of my conclusions. That was a portrait of four people; this is like a full-length portrait of John in oils.'

A lot of new information about Lennon is revealed, from the mystery woman who inspired Norwegian Wood to his romance with pop-star Alma Cogan. However, the revelations that Lennon had sexual thoughts about his mother and Paul McCartney have grabbed most of the media attention.

Norman, however, insists Lennon didn't have an OediPaul complex. 'It tends to be put in an idiotic way,' he sighs, 'but he didn't really have a gay lust for Paul at all. He wanted to be a real artist, like Matisse or Van Gogh, and he thought artists had to try everything, so he wondered if he should try a gay relationship. Paul was around. He'd also have done anything to get The Beatles famous. And, according to Yoko, there was a side of him that quite liked campness.'

'His mother was this extraordinary figure that was in his life but was not his [to own],' Norman continues, 'because she had another man and the two sons from that relationship. But he saw her all the time and she was like a flirtatious big sister. And he had a big imagination.'

Norman likes Lennon and makes no bones about it, despite the warts-and-all account. 'For me, the biggest surprises were about John's character,' he says. 'The hidden John; insecure and vulnerable and very romantic. The world remembers a cynical, tough character but there's an incredible romantic side. And the insecure side where he never felt happy with what he did.'

Source: Metro.co.uk

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In a jaw-dropping postscript in Philip Norman's new biography, "John Lennon: The Life," out next month, Sean Lennon tells how his father flew off the handle and screamed into his ear as a young boy.

"[He was] teaching me how to cut and eat steak, which was a mystery to me at age 4; how to stick the fork in and cut behind it, and that was how you got a piece in your mouth," writes Sean, 32, whose mom is Yoko Ono. "I think it was that night when he got very upset with me, I think because of something I did very cheekily with the steak. He did wind up yelling at me very, very loudly to the point where he damaged my ear, and I had to go to the hospital."

He says John, mortified by his cruelty, was immediately apologetic: "I remember when I was lying on the floor and hurting, and him holding me and saying, 'I'm so sorry.' He did have a temper."

Sean recalls his dad's soft side, too. "I remember one time he accidentally let one of the heavy wooden doors at The Dakota slam on my finger," Sean tells Norman. "And he was very upset about that. My fingernail eventually fell off." Another time, "Alice, our black cat, had jumped out the window after a pigeon and died, and I remember that was the only time, I think, I ever saw my dad cry." [MORE]

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I added 6 scans of John in The Word Magazine. An article about the book John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman. Credits goes to Gloigloi at LJ.

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Renowned biographer PHILIP NORMAN has accused the late Beatle of having gay fantasies in his controversial new book John Lennon: The Life.

However in an interview, which you can listen to by clicking here, Paul says John never made a move on him - despite them sharing a bed many times while on tour.

Paul says: "I don't think (the gay claims) are true. John never ever tried anything, I slept with him a million times.

"I've seen him on tour roaring drunk, out of his mind in the early days before he sobered up and went to rehab. Roaring drunk and it was always with a female, never once.

"If you've got a little gay tendancy and your roaring drunk I'd have caught him once." [MORE]

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I added some pictures of Paul and a picture of Stella at the The National Magazine Company's 30 Days Of Fashion And Beauty.

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scarlett_bat posted this at johnheartpaul and thought was interesting to post here:

So, going through my parents' VHS tapes in search of more Beatles stuff, as I often do, I found this 1989 interview with Paul from 48 hours. It was pretty good, although I only got to see part of it, but there was this gem from the interviewer (my reaction to it won me some strange looks from my dad):

Out of the loop interviewer: “Let me ask you about one of your new songs. This One. About a marriage?”
Paul: “A relationship, yeah.”

And he goes on to start discussing it in terms of a marriage... but then segues into explaining how really it's a song about John. I just love how he responds with a "yes," rather than "no, actually, just a friendship." It's worth a laugh, especially at the end, when he tells the interviewer that he loves him. :D Starting at 8:30 in part 7 and continuing amusingly at the beginning of part 8, ending at 1:33

PART 7

PART 8

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