“It was only after moving to England, where being Mexican was considered ‘exotic,’ that [Olivia] became fully aware of the discrimination she had encountered in Los Angeles. ‘I always knew I wasn’t going to be one of those cheerleaders in a little skirt, and I had a feeling it was because I was brown,’ she says. ‘Now I see the role that Mexicans have been put into in Los Angeles, which is basically doing the jobs the whites don’t want. If you took all the gardeners, waiters and nannies away from Beverly Hills, the place would screech to a halt.’” - The Daily Telegraph (December 20, 1995)
“I was born in Los Angeles but my grandparents were born in Guanajuato. […]
When my husband married me, he married into a Mexican family. George loved Mexican music, he watched some of these films with me, he even had Jorge Negrete on the jukebox. My father used to sing with his brothers, around 1938, and like every musician he used to go around with his guitar. So George actually took my dad into the studio and recorded him. And my dad and my mother sang like four full songs, that probably your mother and your father, or your grandparents know.
We used to have to call him Jorge. Sometimes if he wanted to use another name, he would use Jorge Arias, because that is my maiden name.” - Olivia Harrison, Morelia Film Fest interview (2016)
“My mother’s father, Esiquiel Arias, was a singer, and dad recorded him singing these great Mexican songs. My mother’s mother was related to Jorge Negrete, who was a film star and singer, I guess at the same level as Elvis or Bing Crosby in Mexico. Dad was a huge fan and had him on the jukebox at home. There’s a long line of musicians on both sides.” - Dhani Harrison, MOJO (November 2017)
And in connection with the photo...
“I was stuck at some boring dinner [at MIDEM] when I saw Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman. I went over to him and he was with this fella George Greif, who was himself a manager. We got talking and I said to Greif, ‘I don’t know if this is a compliment or an insult, but you remind me of Lord Buckley.’ He said, ‘I managed him for eighteen years!’
I couldn’t believe it, so we spent a few hours talking and he said that Buckley lived in this little shack he called Crackerbox Palace. I wrote that down on my cigarette packet and, again, like Devil’s Radio, it was a good phrase for a song. Near the end of the single there’s a line in it in direct relation to Lord Buckley: ‘I met a Mr. Greif/and he said/I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace/was not expecting you/let’s tap and tap at Crackerbox Palace/know that the Lord is well and inside of you.’ I made the raw input into a story about getting born and living in the world, but again, everybody thought I was taking about the other Lord.” - George Harrison, Musician (November 1987)
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