every family has a
george’s cute boots
This specific genre of photos of them
So guys… I was looking up musicians speaking in German and I found this!
Omg his Scouse accent in German sounds so cute honestly… here’s a translation of what he’s saying! (Done by me!)
Hello dear BRAVO friends! George Harrison speaking here. We Beatles were very excited and thankful that you guys have nominated us as the most popular beat band! We are very proud of our BRAVO Otto and that we have so many friends in Germany. Especially because we have so many great and fond memories about Good Old Germany. John, Paul, and Ringo asked me to let you know their names as well. Thank you very very much. From my whole heart thank you! And we wish all of our fans here the best, and especially all the BRAVO readers!
Your George Harrison
(Context: BRAVO is the oldest and most famous German youth magazine, and the BRAVO Otto is its award!)
THE FOOL ON THE HILL . recorded: September 25-27 / October 20, 1967 filmed: October 31, 1967, in Nice
PAUL: I used to know Marijke [member of “The Fool”, the Dutch design collective and band], she was a quite striking-looking girl. She used to read my fortune in Tarot cards, which was something I wasn’t too keen on because I didn’t want to draw the death card one day. I still don’t like that kind of stuff because I know my mind will dwell on it. I always steered a bit clear of all that shit, but in fact it always used to come out as the Fool. And I used to say, ‘Oh, dear!’ and she used to say, ‘No no no. The Fool’s a very good card. On the surface it looks stupid, the Fool, but in fact it’s one of the best cards, because it’s the innocent, it’s the child, it’s that reading of fool.’ So I began to like the word ‘fool’, because I began to see through the surface meaning. I wrote ‘The Fool on the Hill’ out of that experience of seeing Tarot cards. (…) I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle he wasn’t taken too seriously. It was this idea of a fool on the hill, a guru in a cave, I was attracted to. I remember once hearing about a hermit who missed the Second World War because he’d been in a cave in Italy, and that always appealed to me. I was sitting at the piano in at my father’s house in Liverpool hitting a D 6th chord and I made up ‘Fool on the Hill’. There were some good words in it, ‘perfectly still’, I liked that, and the idea that everyone thinks he’s stupid appealed to me, because they still do. Saviours or gurus are generally spat upon, so I thought for my generation I’d suggest that they weren’t as stupid as they looked. [myfn]
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PAUL: It was during that time, A-levels time, I remember thinking, in many ways I wish I was a lorry driver, a Catholic lorry driver. Very very simple life, a firm faith and a place to go in my lorry, in my nice lorry. I realised I was more complex than that and I slightly envied that life. I envied the innocence. [myfn]
theres just so much going on here...
White Album Sessions October 8, 1968 All photos by Linda McCartney
GEORGE HARRISON’S OUTFITS: DAY THREE – JANUARY 6, 1969 The Beatles: Get Back (2021) dir. Peter Jackson
He keeps getting cut off. Can someone just let him speak about Paul’s album and the absence of printed lyrics so he can get it out of his system.