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It’s important to point out that there’s far more critical work to be done—LGBTQ rights are still under siege all over the world. Because what the public didn’t know was that Brian Epstein was gay. John never ever tried anything [on with me], I slept with him a million times. If you were, you’d better spend your summer indoors, in the closet.
Earlier in the decade, Brian made two bold and visionary statements about the future.
The law said Brian had to hide his own love away—so instead, he worked tirelessly to ensure that The Beatles’ great message of love would be heard not just in 1967—but fifty years later in 2017, and forever and ever after. “They would say they seem to have a kind of telepathic connection where they were just sort of in tune with each other.
Roaring drunk, and it was always with a female, never once [with a man].
McCartney reportedly said this to refute claims made by author Philip Norman, who claimed in his book John Lennon: The Life that Lennon and McCartney shared a gay relationship and that Lennon had a past that he was insecure about (via NY Post).
The author claims John Lennon and Paul McCartney shared a connection that was beyond just creative
The Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership is often considered to be one of the greatest duos in music history, and they have been regarded as the most successful.
I hope that my readers, audience, followers—and everyone everywhere celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love—will work hard to pursue their own dreams, and to do something that will make a genuine difference in this world.
Brian Epstein suit on display at The Beatles Story, Liverpool.
Vivek J.
Tiwary (@VivekJTiwary) is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and writer of “The Fifth Beatle”.
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The creative and the personal, they had to be entwined. Had he lived to 2017, Brian Epstein might have attended the wedding of Sean Lennon’s godfather Elton John to David Furnish… And perhaps he might have fulfilled his own dream of getting married, too.For me, plumbing the dark depths and bright heights of the human sides of Brian’s story has been truly inspirational, and his inspiration has guided me through my entire adult life.
The media recorded it, thinking it a lighthearted joke. Epstein’s second visionary statement has been largely overlooked—but it was in fact bolder, more inspiring, and not only dangerous but borderline seditious. The Beatles were undoubtedly the kings of that era, with many fans curious about their wild lives backstage and in the recording booth.
Lead singer Paul McCartney and co-lead John Lennon shared a creative partnership as songwriters.
“It was too intense, really, to sustain the personal relationship.”
And they both found women who took on that role in their lives: Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney (nee Eastman).
“I think once John gets together with Yoko, Paul says, ‘OK, well, John’s with Yoko. Now I’m gonna go for Linda,’ ” said Leslie.
In so doing Brian Epstein made the world a far richer place for love than it would have been without him.
Photo of Brian Epstein on display at The Beatles Story, Liverpool.
Six years after Brian died in Liverpool, I was born in New York City to immigrants of Indian origin. In 2013, forty-six years after his untimely death, the United States Supreme Court struck down the core of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, and at virtually the same time Parliament made marriage for same-sex couples legal in England and Wales.
He said (via NY Post),
My feeling about their relationship has always been that it was remarkably intense and close, and complex. It was literally a felony to be attracted to a member of the same sex.
Very few of us can fully understand the pressures Brian Epstein faced or the obstacles he had to overcome fifty years ago, in order to realize his own dreams and in furtherance of the dreams of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Though in the later years of the partnership, they worked less with each other, the duo still retained credits due to an agreement they had made.
While their creative partnership is one for the books, so is their relationship. But had Brian Epstein lived to celebrate Liverpool Pride fifty years after his untimely death—and the simultaneous 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love and the Sexual Offences Act’s decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales—he would have been pleased about a lot more than the enduring legacy of his Beatles.
I don’t think of my work on The Fifth Beatle as activist, but I hope that it is inspiring.