The Beatles In Their Suite At The New York Plaza, 7th February 1964

Bye George

Love you, George Harrison

Thank you George Harrison for bringing me and the rest of the world so much joy and peace with your music. It’s impossible to describe how much you have brought to this world. You’ll always be remembered, and always be missed. I know your in heaven at complete peace now. I love you George. ❤️

RINGO STARR lighting PAUL MCCARTNEY’S cigarette, early 60s

Proud fathers

It’s just about a gang of weirdos who love each other singing from the literal rooftops and, for a few minutes, bringing colour to a grey city. It’s about how all good things must come to an end but by simply happening they’re still significant. It’s about the constant battle between art/people/LOVE against forces that want them to conform. It’s about how friendship can literally change the world. It’s about hope. It’s about the power of dreaming. It’s cold and their fingers are going numb and the uniformed police officers, ever-present in the background, are making them unplug their instruments. But they just plug them back in!!! Maybe they can’t finish the concert but they’re finishing the song if it’s the last thing they do and they’ll even crack some jokes while they’re at it. Poetic cinema…

Can we talk about Your School?

Recorded in 1984, never released (except a clip on Oobu Joobu)

We're gonna talk it out someday All that is nearest and dearest I want it, you want it, they want it too And me? I want to love you Come on baby ... what have you've got Tell me that I learned a lot in your school, your school... I never thought [it meant/I'd learn] so much I'm just a poor fool in love, your school... I never felt the gentle touch until ..... I met you Oohhh you better tell me all you know Concerning this situation oohhoohooh I'd like, you'd like it, they always do... Me? I still wanna love you

I can't help but interpret this as Paul desperately wishing for a really deep and public reconciliation with John.

Two lyrics it puts me in mind of:

I never give you my number I only give you my situation And in the middle of investigation I break down

You Never Give Me Your Money

and

You must have learned something in all those years

How Do You Sleep

George you will be always a legend

Anthology George, you will always be famous

✽ 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 

Cynthia & John Lennon during a fishing trip on Star Island in Miami Beach, FL | 15 February 1964

56 years ago today (April 27, 1965) // The Beatles film the famous airport scene in Help! where the boys don disguises as they try to escape to the Bahamas. In an ironic twist of fate, Ringo, George, and John all came to resemble their disguises in real life many years later. This was also the first time the world saw John in his iconic “granny” glasses.