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"After hearing that one enterprising hotel employee had helped himself to the boys' bedsheets and towels, cut them up and sold them as souvenir strips to fans, John led the Beatles into his hotel room bathroom, whereupon they ritualistically urinated on a pile of used towels."

ㅡ From the book "The Beatles And Me On Tour" by Ivor Davis.

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✽ Brian Epstein & George Harrison ✽  

‘Strangers find him an easy conversationalist because he is a good listener and shows a genuine interest in the outside world. He wants to know and I find this an endearing trait in a young man who is so successful and so rich that if he never learned anything new he would not suffer any loss.’ - Brian

‘We didn’t think we were going to make it at all. It was only Brian telling us we were gonna make it. Brian Epstein our manager, and George Harrison.’ - John Lennon

‘From the beginning we’ve always met the right people. Before we got wise to the business, we heard and experienced so many sharks who were raking in the loot and paying the groups nothing. […] But this is where I can give an example of our luck: we were lucky to meet Brian Epstein.’ - George

‘I always think of George as a friend.’ - Brian 

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Eleanor Bron & The Beatles during a press conference in Salzburg, Austria | 13 March 1965 (I)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE HARRISON // FEBRUARY 25, 1943

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John Lennon & Neil Aspinall during Robert Whitaker's Yesterday and Today photo session | March 1966 © Leslie Bryce

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“I was thinking the other day, ‘I wish I had sat and just hugged John all the time when we were together.’ (…) I’d just sit around and hug him forever. That’s the depth of my feeling for him.” - Paul McCartney, 2020

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…at Ringo’s house   1969

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The Beatles behind the scenes of Help! In May of 1965

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The Beatles | 1964 © Ringo Starr

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PAUL MCCARTNEY taking pictures of himself in a mirror, 1963/1964

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It came as a welcome relief that John and Paul, along with Neil Aspinall, planned a quick trip to New York on May 11, where several press events had been scheduled to announce Apple Records in the States. Friends agreed that getting John away might do him a world of good; being alone, with just Paul to steady him, might have a calming influence. Paul was grappling with his own set of anxieties. “We wanted a grand launch,” Paul said, “but I had a strange feeling and was very nervous.” Drugs, he later admitted, may have been at the root of his problem. – Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography

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John Lennon’s Spain 65′ hat appreciation post

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This is a recently discovered photograph of John Lennon and Paul McCartney with Helen Shapiro outside of the Gaumont Theatre, Hanley on March 3rd 1963. This was the final night of the Helen Shapiro package tour. By this time the Beatles had been elevated in the line-up from playing the 1st spot on the bill to the final act in the first half. The photograph was taken by a young female fan from Stoke-on-Trent.

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The Beatles at Holdsworth House in Halifax, England | 9 October 1964

"They had been playing at the Gaumont Theatre in Bradford and they needed a place to stay," recalls Gail, who was 14 at the time – and very much a fan. "My father told me a couple of days before they arrived that they were coming and I think it was probably the hardest secret I have ever had to keep. I didn’t tell anyone though, not a soul and I remember when it had all happened and I went back to school, hardly anyone was talking to me," she laughs.

The night in question was Friday, October 9, 1964 – John Lennon’s 24th birthday – and Gail recalls how it was around 11pm when the four Liverpool lads arrived after a bit of a diversion and the help of a police escort to keep their destination a secret – a plan which worked.

"They chatted to guests in the bar when they arrived, then had dinner in a private room upstairs. We still have a signed copy of the menu and their original bills, which show a rather rich selection of trout, turtle soup, cold duckling and steak tartare. I love the fact that our French Maitre D’ at the time referred to them as 'Beetles'!" Including the chauffeur’s dinner, the entire bill came to £17 6s (£17.30) – more than a week’s wages at the time.

The bar bill, including whiskies, stouts and pints of Whitbread, came to £2 15s (£2.75). Paul, George, Ringo and Brian Epstein drank in the Long Bar until the early hours along with John who, despite his toothache, was still the life and soul of the party, told endless jokes and did a brilliant imitation of a pompous Yorkshire mill owner – he was a great mimic.

Because the business was just a country club and not a hotel, the Pearsons had to find beds for their visitors. "They actually ended up using ours. Can you imagine that?" says Gail. "John and Ringo slept in what was mine and my sister’s room and Paul and George slept in my parents' bedroom. They borrowed twin beds especially.

"I remember we had set up for them to have breakfast the following morning and they didn’t come down. I was walking up and down the corridor waiting. Eventually my mother grabbed me by the hand, knocked on the bedroom door where Paul and George were sleeping and thrust me inside. 'My daughter has been waiting all morning to see you' she said and left me there. I don’t know how she dared." Gail adds that George offered her a cigarette "which I refused" and asked if the old house was haunted. We'd been to Ibiza on holiday and I was chatting to Paul about that.

Kim, just eight at the time, admits the visit was "a little over my head". "I was very shy and remember not wanting to meet them so I hid in the ladies' cloakroom under a dressing table. All of a sudden this hand came through the curtains, a hand with rings on practically every finger. It was Ringo and he just said 'come out and meet the lads'."

The girls had their photos taken each sitting on McCartney’s knee. "Kim’s came out but unfortunately mine didn’t," says Gail.

Because it had been Lennon’s birthday the girls gave him a Cavalier Country Club tie. "I don’t know if he ever wore it but he did remember the visit because he sent us a copy of his book In His Own Write".

John And Ringo Slept In My Bed The Yorkshire Post | 27 June 2011

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“George Harrison had a big bar of Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut and he gave pieces to me, Pete Clarke and Derek Taylor. Paul McCartney walked in and saw us all eating chocolate and wanted some. George, very deliberately, put the last piece in his mouth. (Laughs) It’s childish, and I’ve done things like that in the Merseybeats, but Paul was really annoyed that George didn’t give him his last piece of Fruit and Nut. (Laughs)”

— Billy Kinsley of The Merseybeats, BBFC’s Harrison Exclusive (2011)

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