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Photos by Roger Di Vito/Camera Press London.

“True Love at Henley on Thames: ex-Beatle George Harrison, tired of his forgotten man image, has got it all together again, says he never felt better, and is filming here in his Berkshire home, promoting his new album, ’33 1/3,’ in which he revives the Cole Porter oldie, ‘True Love.” - press blurb

“Just this summer I was sitting ‘round with the guitar and that song came into my mind and I just started playing it. And then I thought that it’s so, I don’t know, off the wall really and it’s such a nice song anyway, it’s a very simple melody and very simple words — it’s only about four words in it — and yet it’s a nice song, it’s a love song, it’s an up-song. And I just like the tune and I started fiddling about with it and with the chords, and then I just heard that arrangement that could be done just like that. That song could be done any way, really, you know.” - George Harrison, A Personal Music Dialogue with George Harrison at 33 & 1/3 (1976) “We’d been watching Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, watching that movie [High Society], and they do a duet, and just that little harmony thing they do, because she wasn’t know as really a singer. He’d play and we’d sing it. It just would get in his head, it would go around and around — I guess a lot of people get loops in their heads about songs — and then the natural progression was to go in the studio and record it. He didn’t care if it was punk rock, he was putting out ‘True Love.’” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio (2018) Q: “I looked at it for the first thirty seconds you’re on the screen, Where did they get this guy? And I thought, that’s George.” George Harrison: “I’m such a ham. I think I’ve had an image, people have had a concept of me being really straight ‚cause I was the serious one or something.” Q: “You were the mysterious one.” GH: “But actually, I mean, I’m the biggest lunatic around; one of them anyway.” - A Personal Music Dialogue with George Harrison at 33 & 1/3 (1976) It’s the seventh month of the year, so what better time to revisit the (Harri)songs that are track number seven on their respective albums? ("True Love" is track 7 on Thirty-Three & 1/3.) You can find those track 7 posts here. “My dad’s favorite number was 7, and a lot of things that he did were according to the number 7, whether he meant it or not. That was the highest honor I could have given a track on the album [Brainwashed], to put it track 7.” - Dhani Harrison, Brainwashed EPK

July 1976

Photo by Alvan Meyerowitz.

March 12th 1979 Time Magazine Cover

Mini Marcos GT

Marcos is a small British car company, founded in Luton in 1959 by Jem Marsh and Frank Costin; which has remained in business until 2007. In 1965 the Mini Marcos was launched, a variant with a lightened coupé body of the famous Mini car and produced in a limited series until 1970, obtaining considerable successes in the race. The Mini Marcos was the only British car to finish the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans with pilots Jean-Louis Marnat and Claude Ballot-Léna; and has also established four British land speed class records. Engine Morris Type 970 S; 999 cc - 100 Hp; carburetors Weber 45 DCOE Gearbox 4-speed, claw shifted Roll-bar Sassa with certificate. Minilite wheels. Car prepared for some time (late '80s). Papers: HTP FIA (GTP - Period F); FIA technical passport This is car that can participate in the Le Mans Classic