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The Beatles at Shea Stadium

“Little story my ex-gf told me about George Harrison when she was given the task of interviewing George in London many years ago. It was her first big interview as a journo. She was almost frozen in fear, excitement and nerves all the same time, when she first got there. (‘I am sitting across one of feckin’ Beatles’ sort of feeling’) George could clearly see it in her. Young reporter and all. Then George tried to calm her down with some small chat but it didnt really work. Then he started the interview himself. He said; if I was a young reporter interviewing George Harrison, the first question I would ask him would be…. Then I would answer blah blah blah… Then I would also ask George…… She basically scribbled the entire ‘interview’ down and had maybe one or two questions towards the end, on her own. But George basically 'wrote’ the whole interview for her. She said he was one of the most gracious people you will ever meet. Was heartbroken when we heard he had died. No airs about him.” - sglowrider, TheHoosier.com, 4 October 2017 (x)

The second line goes, ‘No one I think is in my tree.’  Well, what I was trying to say in that line is ‘Nobody seems to be as hip as me, therefore I must be crazy or a genius.’ It’s the same problem as I had when I was five: ‘There is something wrong with me because I seem to see things other people don’t see. Am I crazy, or am I a genius?’ … What I’m saying, in my insecure way, is ‘Nobody seems to understand where I’m coming from. I seem to see things in a different way from most people.’   —  JOHN, 1980

— David Foster, Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping the Charts, and Winning Grammys

George and I lived very near each other in Liverpool. So, in fact, we were just a bust stop away from each other. I’d get on the bus, and then the stop afterwards George would get on.  (…)  Might have been a failing  of mine, to tend to talk down to him, because I’d known him as a younger kid.   —  ANTHOLOGY, EPISODE 1.

the beatles in madrid (1965)

HELP! (1965) DIR. RICHARD LESTER

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                  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE HARRISON! (FEBRUARY 25, 1943)

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“I felt sorry for Chris Montez; he was just a little Mexican bloke. He did a slow song on a chair, a Spanish tune, and the Teds were all shouting, ‘Boo, fuck off.’ He said, ‘Oh, you don’t like it, OK,’ and he stopped and put down his guitar and tried something else. It was sad really, but Beatlemania was coming on; Please Please Me had been a hit and From Me To You was on the way.” [George, Anthology]

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