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Robert Whitaker and George Harrison_May 20th 1966_Chiswick House: Paperback Writer/Rain

Photo: Robert Whitaker

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison jamming in Liverpool in late 1959 while they were still the Quarrymen.

John Hanrahan: Do you keep in contact with Paul and Ringo?

George Harrison: Yeah, yeah. I've seen them both a lot, and they're well. You know, I think with our age as well [we've] mellowed out. There was a period of time where Paul and I didn't get on very well, but we're great friends now, and I think time slips away, and we realise that. It sort of comes back around, the cycle. I mean I was -- I met Paul when I was 13 years old or 12 years old, you know, at school. So there's much more fun and good experiences that we've shared than the bad ones.

Hanrahan: Is there ever any chance that you might come back and do a record together in some form? I mean everybody would like it obviously.

George: Well the first stage seems to have happened inasmuch as Paul and I are good friends now. The next stage is if we can pick up a couple of guitars and sing a few old Buddy Holly tunes together. Who knows? We may be able to knock out a tune or two, and if we can get that far then what's to stop us getting in the studio together for one reason or another, but it would never -- it would never be anything like some great big reunion album or concert. I think we're passed that stage. We're just thankful to be able to be friendly, and if we can actually produce a tune or something you know, that's a nice little song, that would be enough.

Hanrahan: Why the ghost of Buddy Holly? Why would he --

George: Well it's just that when we were kids and got our guitars, we were into all those early Elvis, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and I mean that's the kind of thing where if we were to get in a room, picked up a guitar, we're more likely to sing uh, Peggy Sue than we are to sing Yesterday.

George Harrison in Copenhagen with Delaney and Bonnie, 1969 by Jan Persson, my edit of original via George’s twitter.

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From the book Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George

“Robertson navel oranges.” Armstrong Nurseries. 1939.