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george harrison with sexy little earrings and choker you will always be famous
GEORGE HARRISON on the Dick Cavett Show, November 23, 1971
I have a lot of questions for you john
December 20, 1966 | George Harrison responds to rumours that The Beatles are breaking upĀ
GEORGE HARRISON and JOHN LENNON, Get Back Part III
GEORGE HARRISON AND HIS NECK/BOWTIES a series
George Harrison Recording Let It Be The Beatles Get Back, Part II
GEORGE HARRISONāS OUTFITS: DAY TWELVE ā JANUARY 21, 1969 The Beatles: Get Back (2021) dir. Peter Jackson
John Lennon and George Harrison in Get BackĀ
george harrison in a yellow turtleneck. thatās the post
good morning to george's red boots only
the many styles of george harrison in the new get back trailerĀ
and yet the mic was not the thing that hurt george the most in get back pt 1
george harrison matching his socks to his bright red shirt. while also wearing neon green pants. nothing more precious has ever existed
This is a painting George Harrison made for Ringo on his birthday in 1974! C:
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Painting, George Harrison, 1974
Former band mate, George Harrison drew this for Ringo as a gift for his birthday in 1974. Even though they were no longer in The Beatles together they kept in close contact.Ā
late 60s paul and george in the studio together :)
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967) dir. The Beatles
John Lennon & George Harrison (1964)
Ok, here it is. We've had the 'insane things Paul has said about John' list, now here's 'insane things John has said about Paul'*
*Note: Some of these are āJohn said to meā quotes rather than words from John himself, so take these ones with a grain of salt.
And because so much of Johnās Paul-induced insanity reflected in his actions, some (dis)honourable mentionsā¦
Cutting up a girl's clothes and calling her a whore for sleeping with Paul (from the Beatles Anthology book)
Being mean to Jane when Paul first meets her
Defending Paul after the LSD controversy time and time again
Writing 'I'm always perfect' on a photo of Paul and 'funeral' on a photo of Paul & Linda's wedding
Getting upset about Too Many People and writing How Do You Sleep in response
Mocking the Ram photo with a pig
Using the 'Let Me Roll It' riff in Beef Jerky
Having a fight with Yoko and immediately running off to Paris
Other icebergsā¦
Insane things Paul has said about John
McLennon - by @frodolives
Paul McCartney - by @frodolives
Sources, full quotes and some others that wouldn't fit under the cut!
"If I can't have a fight with my best friend, I don't know who I can have a fight with" - The Mike Douglas Show, 1972
"Things are still the same between us. He was and still is my closest friend, except for Yoko" - 1971 interview
"He said to me, 'Artie, you worked with your Paul recently ⦠I'm getting calls ⦠that my Paul wants to work with me and I'm thinking about it ⦠How did it go when you worked with Paul?'" - Art Garfunkel anecdote (submitted by @didwemeetsomewherebefore)
Mintz: There's one name that has not come up in our discussion [...] Paulie. John: Yes, we did! We got Paul in it. And I object to that 'Paulie' business - 1973 interview (submitted by @didwemeetsomewherebefore)
"If anybody said anything bad about Paul, John'd take a swing at you. He'd say, "You can't talk about Paul like that". Paul was his best buddy" - Alice Cooper anecdote
"I'm entitled to call Paul what I want to, and vice versa; it's in our family. But if somebody else calls him names I won't take it." - 1974 interview
"Paul was one of the most innovative bass players that ever played bass. And half the stuff thatās going on now is directly ripped off from his Beatle period." - 1980 interview
After a late lunch, Linda launched into a long paean to the joys of living in England. When she was finished, she turned to John and said, āDonāt you miss England?ā āFrankly,ā John replied, āI miss Paris.ā - Loving John by May Pang (1983) (submitted by @big-barn-bed)
"The Boulevard Saint-Germainegreer shone in all its springbok glory as he stepped lightly on some French loafers toward the waiting arms of Comrade Amie" (and a lot more) - Skywriting by Word of Mouth
"My cheri my pau pau, do you remember when we were at a cafe on the left bank? You could not find your garter? Because it was on your little prod" - John's song demo (submitted by @thewalrusespublicist)
"I'm just like everybody else, Harry, I fell for Paul's looks." - Harry Nilsson anecdote (submitted by @thegirlwiththeaxe)
"He also looked like Elvis. I dug him." - John in Hunter Daviesā The Beatles: The Authorised Biography (1968) (submitted by @lesbianjohnlennon)
As the limousine edged through the screaming fans outside the cinema, John said laconically, 'Push Paul out first, he's the prettiest.' - Victor Spinetti, Up Front: His Strictly Confidential Autobiography (2006) (submitted by @fishfingerpies)
I could even hear what they were saying off-mike; āOh Paul, youāre so cute tonight.ā was met with the reply 'Sod off, Lennon.ā - concert anecdote (submitted by @rabiessnail )
'Are those jeans tight, Paul?' That was John. 'What do you mean tight?' 'I can see your suspender belt through 'em and your stockings. You've got ladders in them.' Victor Spinetti, Up Front: His Strictly Confidential Autobiography (2006)
John: It sounds a vaguely good idea but I wouldnāt have my wife or any of me friends wearing them. Paul: Well, youāve had us wearing them. John: I know, Paulie, but youāre so well-built - 1964 interview
Ringo: And I Love Her, yeah I love that one ā¦and the way you sing it knocks me out, man. John: And the way that camera goes over your head⦠I thought, 'hello' - 1964 interview
"Meeting Paul was just like two people meeting.Ā Not falling in love or anything.Ā Just us.Ā It went on.Ā It worked." - John in Hunter Daviesā The Beatles: The Authorised Biography (1968) (submitted by @i-am-the-oyster, @thewalrusespublicist)
"Hey! Did you dream about me last night? ā¦Very strong dream. We both dreamt about it. It was amazing! Different dreams, you know, but I thought you mustāve been thereā¦. I was touching you" - Let It Be sessions, 1969 (submitted by @adriennefrombrooklyn)
"We do need each other alot. When we used to get together after a month off, we used to be embarrassed about touching each other. Weād do an elaborate handshake just to hide the embarrassment⦠or we did mad dances. Then we got to hugging each other. Now we do the Buddhist bit⦠arms around. Itās just saying hello, thatās all." - - John in Hunter Daviesā The Beatles: The Authorised Biography (1968)
Houghton: How do you feel about Paul McCartney now? John: Uh, weāre ā haha. [laughs] This is like a joke: āWeāre just good friends.ā Weāre ā weāre pretty close now, like I was telling you before. - 1974 interview
"Nobody ever said anything about Paul having a spell over me, when I was with him for a long time. Or me having a spell over Paul. They didnāt think that was abnormal, two guys together. [ā¦] Why didnāt anybody ever say, āHow come those guys donāt split up? I mean, whatās going on backstage? I mean, what is that Paul and John business? Why ā you know, how can they be together so long?ā - 1980 interview
"When Iām up against the wall, Paul, youāll find I do my best" - Let It Be sessions, 1969 (submitted by @iiiiiiits-m)
"The plus is that your best friend, also, can hold you without⦠I mean, Iām not a homosexual, or we could have had a homosexual relationship and maybe that would have satisfied it, with working with other male artists." - 1972 interview (submitted by @big-barn-bed)
āWhen we sang together, Paul and I would share the same microphone. Iād be close enough to kiss him [ā¦] So weād be playing these concerts, in front of thousands of people, but the only thing I could see was Paulās face. He was always there next to me ā I could always feel his presence. Itās what I remember most about those concerts.ā - Elliot Mintz, 'We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me' (2024)
Paul: Thereās a story. Thereās another one ā āDonāt Let Me Downā. āOh darling, Iāll never let you down.ā Like weāre doingā John: Yeah. Itās like you and me are lovers. Paul: [reserved] Yeah. [pause] John: Weāll just have to camp it up for those two. Paul: Yeah. Well, Iāll be wearing my skirt for the show, anyway. - Let It Be sessions, 1969 (submitted by @alienoriana)
"The early stuff ā the Hard Dayās Night period, I call it ā the early period, was the early equiā seā what Iām ā what Iām equating it to is the sexual equivalent of the beginning of a relationship, of people in love. And the Sgt. Pepper-Abbey Road period was the period of maturity in the relationship. And maybe had we gone on together, maybe something more interesting would have come out of it." - 1980 interview (submitted by @thewalrusespublicist)
"I mean, there were quite a few women heād obviously had that I never knew about. God knows when he was doing it, but he must have been doing it" - 1972 interview
āItās just handy to fuck your best friend. Thatās what it is. And once I resolved the fact that it was a woman as well, itās all right. We go through the trauma of life and death every day so itās not so much of a worry about what sex we are anymore. Iām living with an artist whoās inspiring me to work." - 1971 interview (note: I know the 'best friend' here is Yoko, but the implications, baby...)
"He rang up and said heād got this job and couldnāt come to the group. So I told him on the phone, āEither come or youāre out.ā So he had to make a decision between me and his dad then, and in the end he chose me. But it was a long trip." - 1971 interview
"This song was written by an old estranged fiancƩ of mine called Paul" - Introducing 'I Saw Her Standing There' at Madison Square Garden, 1974 (submitted by @didwemeetsomewherebefore)
"The person I actually picked as my partner, who Iād recognised had talent, and I could get on with, was Paul" - 1980 interview (submitted by @crepesuzette2023)
"It would not have been the same. It would have been a different thing. But maybe it wouldnāt either. Maybe it was a marriage that had to end. Some marriages donāt get through that ā that phase. Itās hard to speculate about what would have been." - 1980 interview (submitted by @thewalrusespublicist)
"I was living with Paul then, so I wrote with him. Itās whoever youāre living with. He writes with Linda. Heās living with her. Itās just natural" - 1971 interview
"It's like when the lawyers come into the divorce, you know? And that makes it a whole different ball game, you know⦠'speak to my lawyer'" - 1973 interview
"It was never a legal deal between Paul and I. It was a deal we made when we were fifteen or sixteen, when we decided to write together, that weād put both our names on āem, you know." - 1980 interview
"And āgo out and get her,ā you know, and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, āGo ahead.ā On a conscious level, he didnāt want me to go ahead. So subconsciously, he⦠The angel in him was saying, āBless you.ā The devil in him didnāt like it at all. Because he didnāt want to lose his partner." - John talking about Hey Jude, 1980 interview
"When I slagged off the Beatle thing in the papers, it was like divorce pangs, and me being me it was blast this and fuck that" - 1974 interview
"And itās really lawyers that make⦠divorces nasty. You know, if there was a nice ceremony like getting married, for divorce, then it would be much better. Even divorce of business partners. Because it wouldnāt be so nasty." - 1971 interview
"Itās like asking a divorced couple, āWhat day was it that ā that decided you to ā that the marriage wasnāt going well?ā I didnāt ā there was no date." - 1976 interview
"Iāve compared it to a marriage a million times, and I hope itās⦠understandable for people that arenāt married, or any relationship. It was a long relationship." - 1976 interview
"Iāve only selected to work with ā for more than a one night stand, say with an odd thing with [David] Bowie, or an odd thing with Elton [John], or anybody who was hanging around ā two people. Paul McCartney, and Yoko Ono. Okay?" - 1980 interview
"I seen through junkies, I been through it all, I seen religion from Jesus to Paul" - 'I Found Out' lyrics, 1970 (submitted by @johns-prince)
āIām glad thatās over. I feel like Iāve been keeping a vigil for him. Not that I care, you understand.ā - John, according to John Green, Dakota Days (1983)
"One girl very shyly gave George a button badge which said āGeorge for PM.ā āWhy would Paul McCartney want you?ā said John to George.ā - Hunter Daviesā The Beatles: The Authorised Biography (1968) (submitted by @didwemeetsomewherebefore)
John: "I was trying to put it 'round that I was gay, you know-- I thought that would throw them off⦠dancing at all the gay clubs in Los Angeles, flirting with the boys⦠but it never got off the ground." Q: "I think I've only heard that lately about Paul." John: "Oh, I've had him, he's no good." - 1975 interview (submitted by @johns-prince)
And I had a little upstairs, an unusable upstairs, and I kept a radio up there. Very faint. All of a sudden John said, "Is that Paul?" I thought it was somebody he knew named Paul. I didn't see anybody walk by. I said, "No." On the radio, Paul McCartney. We never mentioned anything about The Beatles. This little, low sound you could barely hear, he picked it right up. So, it just made me aware of how much attuned he was with The Beatles after they broke up.. - Gary Tracy, John's optometrist (slightly different version here)
John: "I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's 'Get Back.' When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line 'Get back to where you once belonged,' he'd look at Yoko." - 1980 interview (submitted by @johns-prince)
But in mid-January 1973 Lennon and Ono quarrelled publicly at another party. āI wish I was back with Paul,ā Lennon reportedly said. - Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of The Beatles. (2009) (submitted by @notgrungybitchin)
'From time to time John would say to me ''I wonder what Paul is thinking about, right now.'' I said John, I've only met him a couple of times in my life you know ⦠I have no idea. And John would ask ''Do you think he thinks about me at all?''' - Elliot Mintz (submitted by @thewalrusespublicist )
āHe was always saying, āI wonder what Paul is doing.ā When John and I were together, and this is about a week or two before our relationship ended, I remember him saying, āDo you think I should write with Paul again?ā I said, āAbsolutely. You should because you want to. The two of you as solo performers are good, but together you canāt be beaten.ā - May Pang
āYeah, I miss Paul a lot. Itās been a year since Iāve seen him. He came over with Linda to me place in New York. Course Iād love to see him again. Heās an old friend, isnāt he?ā - 1974 interview
"I never thought weād come to that, because I didnāt think we were that stupid. But we were naĆÆve enough to let people come between us." - 1971 interview
āPaul? My dear oneā - 1980 interview (submitted by @didwemeetsomewherebefore)
"Iāve read cracks about, āOh, the Beatles sang āAll You Need Is Loveā, but it didnāt work for them,ā but nothing will ever break the love we have for each other." - 1972 interview
'"I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul." She asked him: "Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?", and he said: "Because I love Paul." - Harry Nilsson anecdote (submitted by @bluewater9)
Here it is, Beatle People! The official 'Insane Things Paul Has Said About John' list, as created by the people of tumblr. I hope this is a useful supplement to the original McLennon iceberg
Update: The John insane quote iceberg is now available here
Sources under the cut:
āHe was a very cool boyā (@javelinbk)
"Whenever other people do that it always reminds me of John" (@javelinbk)
"We put our names next to each other in our school exercise books" (@beatlepaul4ever)
When was Lennon at his best? "When he was asleep." (@didwemeetsomewherebefore)
"A delicious broth of a boy" (@zilabee)
"A lovely little baby, John was" (@mallowedheart)
"Daddy's room" (@pauls1967moustache)
"Weāre songwriting together even if weāre not together" (@midchelle)
"John seemed like some sort of emperor in control of it all" (@blondecasino)
"I'm trying to get my son to have a son and call him Lennon, and then he'll be Lennon McCartney" (@peaceloveandstarrs)
āJohn and I had millions of fabulous little experiences in Parisā (@divine-sphinx)
"We used to have wanking sessions" (@merseydreams)
"You can be heterosexual and be having a homosexual dream and wake up, and think, 'Shit, am I gay?'" (@skylikeaflame)
"It was a place called Menlove Avenue. [Pauses] Someone's going to read significance into that: Paul and John on Menlove Avenue. Come onnnnnnn" (@s-l-martin)
"I slept with him a million times" (@s-l-martin)
"A wild and woolly genius who it was my pleasure to work with, walk with, talk with, and occasionally sleep with." (@didwemeetsomewherebefore)
"In bed" (@i-am-the-oyster)
"Well, Iām sure Brian was in love with John, Iām sure thatās absolutely right. I mean, everyone was in love with John; John was lovable, John was a very lovable guy." (@whenyourbirdisbroken)
"Dear friend, throw the wine, Iām in love with a friend of mine." (@heartsinthebasement)
"We got very drunk and cried about how we loved each other" (@nikidontsurf)
āThen also we were like married, so you got the bitterness. Itās not a woman scorned this time, itās two men scorned ā probably even worse. And I had to make way for Yoko. My relationship with John could not have remained as it was and Yoko feel secure.ā (@thefortunateisle)
"If I was a girl, maybe I could go out andā¦" (@alienoriana, @majinmelmo)
"You just donāt hang around with your ex-wife" (@javelinbk)
"No, I have a lot of dreams about John, and they're always good" (@notgrungybitchin, @skylikeaflame)
"This (painting) is Johnās Room. It just looked to me like John, when he had his long hair and then his cloak or whatever this is. Then I just scratched in that, looked like one of those drawings John used to do. You know his funny little men. So then I called that Johnās room ⦠If Iām gonna see a face in a painting itās highly likely to be his." (@foryouwereinmysong)
"I wish I had sat and just hugged John all the time when we were together.ā (ā¦) Iād just sit around and hug him forever. Thatās the depth of my feeling for him" (@theoldmixer)
āHere Today - a love song to Johnā (@javelinbk, @bluewater9)
"So if you've got someone, you want to tell them you love them, just get it said, don't wait" (@lennon-gal)
And honourable mention for the following stories:
Stalking John all over Liverpool until Ivan officially got them introduced (@only-a-northern-soul)
āHeās been telling himself and the whole world that nobody cared about writing songs and his music before he met John. He knew George Harrison.ā (@greatsaladavenue)
Quitting his job to commit to the band aka explicitly picking John over his father (@adriansfrombrooklyn)
Writing "Here, There, and Everywhere" by John's pool while waiting for him to wake up and write with him alone in his attic (@aint-that-kind-of-blog-bruv)
Taking the one photo of him and john from that night with the cursed pictures with jane and then blowing it up and hanging it in his office at apple (@pauls1967moustache)
Taking LSD so he could join John in his potentially bad trip (@scurator)
The time he vaulted over a table because another man was touching John and Paul had to physically intervene (@scurator)
the tiers of insanity
One night at Cavendish, Paul and I sat and drank scotch and Coke for so long that the first light of dawn started to appear as we were still putting the world to rights. āCome on, Al,ā said Paul. āI need some fresh air. Letās take Martha for a walk.ā We were pretty relaxed but we werenāt drunk. Martha leapt up from the rug by the fire and Paul and I piled into the DB6 and he drove us the half mile or so to the foot of Primrose Hill. We left the car outside London Zoo and went through the fence up the hill. It was very muddy at the bottom and Paul looked at my footwear and laughed, āSo much for the man with the shiny shoes.ā We enjoyed the spectacular view in the first light of dawn. There was a real freshness in the air as Martha hurtled off in all directions in search of sheep or, better still, bones, and Paul and I enjoyed a few stolen moments of the day before the rest of London woke up. At 5.00am there was so little traffic noise that we could hear some early morning noises from the occupants of the zoo. It was chilly in the breeze that rustled the kites stuck up in the trees. Paul and I kept strolling around enjoying the experience and keeping warm. āLook at that dawn,ā said Paul in a whisper. āHow anybody can say that there is no such thing as God, or some power bigger than us. If you stand and look at that sky, you know there must be more to life than we can comprehend ā¦ā We were totally absorbed in the sights and sounds of the universe in front of us, as if we were the only men in an abandoned city. Then, suddenly behind us, a stranger appeared. He was a middle-aged man, very respectably dressed in a belted raincoat and he appeared to have come out of nowhere. One second Paul and I were alone, straining to see which direction Martha would come bounding back from, and the next, this man was there. He said, āGood morning,ā politely. āMy name is John.ā Paul said, āGood morning. Mineās Paul. This is Alistair and thatās Martha the dog,ā as our four-legged friend returned swiftly. John said, āItās lovely to meet you. Isnāt this wonderful?ā and he walked away. Paul and I looked at each other and I said, āGod, that was peculiar.ā I looked round and there was no sign of the man. The stranger had completely disappeared from the top of the hill as if he had just vanished into thin air. There was nowhere for him to go, yet he had just evaporated. Paul and I both felt pretty spooked by this experience. We both thought something special had happened. We sat down rather shakily on the seat and Paul said, āWhat the hell do you make of that? Thatās weird. He was here, wasnāt he? We did speak to him?ā āSure. He was here only seconds ago,ā I said. āLetās go home,ā muttered Paul. Back at Cavendish, we spent the rest of the morning talking about what we had seen and heard and felt. It sounds just like any acid tripperās fantasy to say they had a religious experience on Primrose Hill just before the morning rush hour, but neither of us had taken anything like that. Scotch and Coke was the only thing we had touched all night. We both felt afterwards that we had been through some sort of mystical experience, yet we didnāt care to name, even to each other, what or who we had seen on that hilltop for those few brief seconds.
(Alistair Taylor, With the Beatles, 2003)
John: Whoās the fool on the hill, Paul? Paul: John.
(Get Back sessions, January 14th, 1969, Twickenham Film Studios)
John Lennon at EMI Studios in London, England | 30 March 1967 Ā© Frank Herrmann
Every time I watch Get Back I notice something new, this time it was whatever the fuck John's doing here