#George and John

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Photo by Mike McCartney:

“On board the Royal Iris just before the boys performed on the all-night Riverboat Shuffle [presumably on July 6, 1962]. They’re in the second-best dressing room — Acker Bilk had the star’s room — behind the captain’s bridge. We’d heard of something called an ouija board. We knew you turned a glass upside down on a table and somehow it would connect you to the supernatural. So the boys held each other’s wrists to create a magic circle. The only thing we didn’t know was that you had to put your hand on the glass!” - Mike McCartney, Remember: The Recollections and Photographs of Michael McCartney (1992) “We once did a Ouija board thing when we were kids, it was just me, George… and John, I think… So we weren’t really into all that, but somebody just said, ‘Let’s do it.’ So we’re touching the glass, you know, saying ‘OK, nobody push it, OK?’ So then, suddenly… whoa, it’s moving! Now, my mum had died a couple of years before and it says, ‘Congratulations… son…’ And we’re going, ‘NO!’ ‘Congratulations… son… number one… In NME!’ And so we were all, ‘Oh, f**k off! There’s no way she would know what NME was’. And there’s George, you know (laughing). He’d been pushing it all the time! Bad boy!” - Paul McCartney, NME, October 2010 (x)

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[imagine-mokey]

George and John sitting together. Something is amusing George!

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[harrisonstories]

As the Lennon-McCartney copyright was more or less sacrosanct, Harrison’s contributions to their songs were never credited. “I had my one or two songs occasionally, but really I was more involved than that,” he says. “I know now, writing with friends, that when you’re all sitting around and a song comes out, you have to think carefully about assigning how many percent each person gets. ’Cause there’s nothing worse than being involved in a situation where you think, ‘Wasn’t I there?’ “A lot of Lennon-McCartney songs had other people involved, whether it’s lyrics or structures or circumstance. A good example is ‘I Feel Fine.’ I’ll tell you exactly how that came about: We were crossing Scotland in the back of an Austin Princess, singing ‘Matchbox’ in three-part harmony. And it turned into ‘I Feel Fine.’ The guitar part was from Bobby Parker’s ‘Watch Your Step,’ just a bastardized version. I was there for the whole of its creation — but it’s still a Lennon-McCartney.” “Tell me about it!” Paul McCartney smiles when told of George’s comment. “I wrote ‘Yesterday’ single-handed and not only do I share it — now with Yoko — but the Lennon name comes before mine.” Paul concedes the point about “I Feel Fine” but suggests that “if you were to get picky about all that stuff there’s a million woes and a million reasons to sing the blues. In actual fact we just decided to split it down the middle. Me and John were the writers, unless George came up with something. Anybody who threw half a line in, it just really didn’t count.”

-- Marc Rowland, "The Quiet Wilbury", Musician (1990)

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[beatleshalloween]

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[ludmilachaibemachado]

"Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry."

- George Harrison

John Lennon and George Harrison in Newquay filming Magical Mistery Tour, 13 September 1967. Keystone Features/Getty Images

Via @maccalover66 on Instagram

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[rodeoromeo]

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[beatle-stories333]

i always loved the way george loved john and john loved george😌 they’re so chaotic lil bro and big bro energy💕💕

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[friendofgeorgeharrison]

Olivia Harrison about the 1980 phone call informing them of John Lennon's death

"All I can say about that moment was... You know, that phone call in the night and you know it’s not good. And you don’t want to answer the phone but you don’t have a choice. And you know, I happened to be the one [who] answered that call, monumental call in the night to say... Someone said, you know ‘John’s dead’. And I thought, you know, you have ten seconds to try figure out how you’re going to break this news. I said... George actually said ‘who is it?” And he thought it was Ringo. That was so sad, you know, really it was sad. And he... We just didn’t know what to do. We just put the blanket over our heads and held on for a while. […] He said ‘what happened?’ I said ‘it’s one of your mates, one of your mates’. He said ‘Ringo?’ I said ‘no, John’. Nobody could imagine that happening."

Woman's Hour BBC 4, 22th June 2022

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[ringosmistress]

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🍎 Penny Lane 🍎

Here it is ! My piece for ALL TOGETHER NOW , a riso tribute to the Beatles ! I chose one of my favourite Beatles song, Penny Lane, for its nostalgic vibe and evocative narrative lyrics. Those of you familiar with it might identify some of the song's characters in the crowd !

➡🍏 You can now preorder your copy of the All Together Now print sleeve on the project's crowdfunding page , so if you'd like to get your hands on a deliciously riso printed version of this piece and many more, please consider supporting us ! See you soon 🌞

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[harrisonarchive]

With Estelle Bennett in January 1964.

“I hit it off with George Harrison as soon as we met. We kept running into each other at parties and gatherings and always found our eyes meeting no matter how many other people were in the room. George and I talked whenever we’d see each other. We found we liked the same things, long walks while wearing comfortable clothes and being with sincere people who liked us for ourselves and not because we were in show business. I think I was the happiest when I was talking with George. There was something about him that made me open up and spill out anything that was on my mind. I think he felt the same way, for he’d often call late in the evening and talk on the phone for hours. We started seeing each other in England, but then had to say goodbye when he and the other Beatles left for Paris and an engagement. He called me every day. He even flew into London so he could see me on the one day he was off. I liked George. He wasn’t my boyfriend, but someone special, someone who meant an awful lot to me.” - Estelle Bennett, Movieland and TV Times, circa 1964 “[George and John would] take us to all these romantic white-tablecloth restaurants [in London], but once we got there all they’d want to talk about was American rock and roll.‘Tell us about the Temptations,‘ George would say. Then John would ask, ‘What’s Ben E. King really like?‘ So we’d just go down the list, telling them stories about all the acts we worked with at the Brooklyn Fox. And as we’d talk, John and George would sit there like they were hypnotized.” - Ronnie Spector, Be My Baby (1990) (x)

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[imagine-mokey]

Omg what a hot Lennison!!!

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[harrisonstories]

What did you think of Get Back (2021)?

I loved Get Back!

The Nagra Tapes were one of the things which took my interest in The Beatles to a whole new nerdy level when I first properly got into them. It felt like such a privilege to hear them interact that intimately, decades in the past, and it opened my eyes to the fact their dynamic was far more complex than any of us could comprehend. Never in my life did I think we'd get a chance to see the amount of footage which came to light in Get Back -- for a long time it was doubtful Let It Be would even be re-released. That combined with the fact I wasn't able to experience the Anthology in real-time made the whole release period truly magical.

What I appreciated most about it was that it gave viewers a chance to feel like another observer in the room. I love a good autobiography, but the downside of them is you always have to go by one person's impression of an event and the people around them. It was nice to be able to notice things that maybe someone in the room wouldn't have picked up on, and it really seemed made for the fans -- sadly a rarity.

As a George fan, the focus on him in part 1 was greatly appreciated. I've never seen a documentary center him in that way and actually make you feel what he was going through. Something else which took me (pleasantly) by surprise was the side story of John and George's relationship. Whenever George has spoken about John, it's tended to be dismissed as slightly delusional hero-worship. One-sided. I always knew John loved him, but even I couldn't quite gauge what was going on there. Partly because of an unfortunate lack of research by biographers and partly because John's public words about him were often in complicated times. In Get Back though, you can see they truly did share something unique, and I could finally understand where George was coming from. John's softness came out around him, and there was a level of ease between them I'd never seen before.

My only real gripe with the film was the lack of context it provided, and the ramifications this has had on the way The Beatles are perceived. I was disappointed, for instance, that George wasn't given credit for Billy Preston's arrival, and that Ringo was not only left out of the lunchroom audio, but was made out to not be at the table at all. Given that part 1 was heavy on the George drama, IMO it should've been equally emphasised that he played a key part in the Get Back project being able to progress. I also would've liked to have seen more scenes of him feeling relaxed, singing, and joking around so that viewers would understand his mood was for a reason and not his general state of being. With the lunchroom convo, I appreciate it was hard to navigate, but it hasn't sat well with me that everybody's been left to believe this was only between John and Paul, and Ringo wasn't relevant. It gives credence to the narrative that The Beatles were really Lennon/McCartney.

Thanks for the question. Sorry this turned out so long!

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[beatleshalloween]

The Beatles Valentine's Day Challenge

Lennison

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horror directors + their most known movie + my favorite

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[diioonysus]

it's all in the eyes

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