Golden Slumbers

“Sometimes if you said Happy Birthday [to George] on the 24th he’d say, ‘It’s not my birthday.’ If you said it on the 25th he’d say, ‘You missed it.’”

“My earliest memory of my dad is probably him somewhere in a garden covered in dirt, somewhere hot, a tropical garden, in jeans, khakis, covered in dirt just continuously planting trees. I think that’s what I thought he did for the first seven years of my life. I was completely unaware that he had anything to do with music. I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing ‘Yellow Submarine’, and I didn’t understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were in The Beatles?’ And he said, ‘Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.’”

“This is because David Bowie is gone, isn’t it?”