SYNOPSIS: In A Prolonged Jealousy, we tackle one of Tune In’s main talking points: that Paul McCartney is a fundamentally jealous person whose obsessive, one-sided jealousy of and over John Lennon was brought to a boil by the presence of Stuart Sutcliffe in the band. 

Is Tune In’s unforgiving portrayal of Paul’s jealousy fair? Or is it over the top? We’ll discuss!



*This episode was originally posted on Nov 17, 2023 and subsequently re-uploaded on Nov 21, 2023 to add a few minutes of additional information relative to the topic. In the interest of full transparency, we haven’t edited or deleted anything from our original episode, just added the additional info to the discussion around the 1:36:45 mark.

PLAYLIST

Frenzy SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS

Woo-Hoo ROCK*A*TEENS

Raunchy BILL JUSTICE

What’d I Say RAY CHARLES

Lucille LITTLE RICHARD

Flamenco Sketches MILES DAVIS

Sleepwalk SANTO AND JOHNNY

Let it Be Me THE EVERLY BROTHERS

Just Walking in the Rain THE PRISONAIRES

Go! Go! Go! ROY ORBISON

Duck Tail JOE CLAY

I’ll Be On My Way THE BEATLES

SOURCES

The Beatles by Hunter Davies (1968)

The Beatles by Bob Spitz (2005)

“The Beatles’ Shadow: Stuart Sutcliffe” by Pauline Sutcliffe (2002)

“The Lost Beatle: The Stuart Sutcliffe Story” BBC (2005)

John Lennon The Life by Philip Norman (2005)

Paul McCartney The Life by Philip Norman (2016)

Beatles Book Monthly Magazine (May 1994)

Beatles Anthology (1995)