Crackerbox Palace

“George was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you. We knew where we stood with each other.” - Tom Petty, Rolling Stone (January 17, 2002)

Q: “What kind of records did [George] play around the house?” Olivia Harrison: “We played everything. A lot of ethnic music… I mean, when I first came to Friar Park there was a jukebox there, there were two jukeboxes. And there was everything from Christmas carols on the sitar to the Singing Postman to Hank Williams to Leadbelly, the Platters, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, the Goons […], the Ink Spots… Big Bill Broonzy.” - NPR, 2004 (x)

— Peter Tork

Scan - George Harrison and others at Dovedale School, ca. 1953… If you haven’t already spotted him, he’s the second from the left in the bottom row. ;)

— Marianne Faithfull, Memories, Dreams and Reflections. (2007)

— George Harrison after the Liverpool civic reception for The Beatles, 10 July 1964 (via thateventuality)

I love you, George. :)

“George Harrison! And I got a chance to tell him years later. We met at a party at Ron Dennis’ house — the McLaren Formula One guy — and I told him he was my Beatle ‘crush’ way back! He was such a charming guy. You wouldn’t be able to say that to just anybody! We played that game where you have a celebrity’s name on your head and you have to guess who it is. He actually was George Harrison, although he didn’t know it! And his wife Olivia asked him: 'Are you good looking?’ and he said: 'Well, I think so!’ Which was very sweet… I found them very charming people.” - Kiki Dee in response to the question, “Who was your first musical crush?” for the Exeter Express & Echo (July 11, 2013)

Relax bro ain’t nobody takin it from you 😭

“[At a dinner hosted by Al Aronowitz] David Bromberg picked it up and started playing a vaguely Hispanic chord pattern that became 'The Hold Up.' As Bromberg recalls, Harrison couldn't resist getting involved and 'the song came out of us in about thirty minutes. We weren't trying to do anything — least of all to write a song. It just came out.' The finished product appeared on the David Bromberg album, and is redolent of the two men's celebrated sense of humor. The track was a quirky, jokey version of 'Taxman,' the 'holdup' in question being one perpetrated by the IRS. The writing was agreed, but vernacular abounds, and it's not hard to pinpoint who wrote which lines. The witty piece still tickles Bromberg: 'Some of the best lines are his — the phrase "getting the nose wet," that's very English. Also, it was also in his head to say, "I'll put a bullet right through your best liver." That's very funny.' Harrison was true to form when a session was held to overdub his slide guitar onto Bromberg's live recording of the song. The multi-skilled Bromberg appreciated his thorough approach: 'He was a very thoughtful player; I never saw him do any improvisation at all. In our interactions, with me, he worked in a way I'd never seen anyone else work. He worked on the solo in the studio, he sat in the control booth, plugged the guitar into the board, and had the tape played over and over. He worked out exactly what he was going to play, and laid it down.' The outcome was a classic Harrison guitar vignette, displaying a skill admired by other musicians rather than critics, as David Bromberg explains: 'He could develop an instrumental hook, and that is much harder than playing a hot solo. He could develop a simple little melodic idea that would be repeated in the course of a song, so that you would never be able to hear the song without hearing this hook. He was really good at that. That's not something that people often discuss.’” - While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison

Male speaker: There was a rumor carried in the New York press and on radio this past week that you're all wearing wigs because you were trying to join a London club which is very exclusive. Is it true or false? Are you wearing wigs? PAUL: Oh. Do you believe that? Do you? PAUL: No, it's not true. Male speaker: Your hair looks much more uniform than it did two years ago. PAUL: Thanks, honey. PAUL: No, that's not true, you know. But thanks all the same. New York press conference, August 22, 1966

the hours and times (1991)

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Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr in White Album recording session (1968) Photographer: Linda McCartney

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr in recording session for Abbey Road (1969) Photographer: Linda Eastman Source: The Beatles Recording

RINGO STARR and BARBARA BACH. 1981. Photos taken by Tony Korody.