Pattie Remembers George

i feel like out of everyone in john’s life that hes been romantically involved w even if its speculation (yoko, cyn, brian, stu, groupies) he’d always pick paul and thats what makes mclennon mclennon

i mean he did also pick someone over paul. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but he very much did choose someone over paul.

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John Lennon in Stuart Sutcliffe’s studio, 45a Eimsbütteler Strasse, Altona, Hamburg, photographed by Astrid Kirchherr. (May, 1962)

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Why can’t we go for other people to heaven? John asks me that—he said he would go for Stuart to heaven because Stuart was such a marvelous boy and he is nothing.

— Astrid Kirchherr, letter to Millie Sutcliffe. (May 30th, 1962)

the funny thing about paul saying “maybe if i were a girl i could…” in reference to john and yoko is that paul being a girl would not make him and john’s relationship any better

On a cold day in February of 1964, the Beatles made what may have been their only visit together to the National Mall. Fresh off their historic appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Fab Four couldn't fly down from New York City due to eight inches of snow that fell on the nation’s capital and they were forced to take a train to Washington, D.C. Met by enthusiastic fans at Union Station, John, Paul, George, and Ringo made a brief stop on the Mall for a quick photo-op before going to their hotel. Photographer Dennis Brack captured this picture of them near 4th Street. The British rockers played a show that night at the Washington Coliseum - their first ever U.S. concert.

wolf form roier and cellbit:,)?

that’s a biiiiiig puppy

after ringo wrote to george "i think love is about you" ANY other declaration of love completely lost its meaning forever

there’s a lot of bullshit lennon/mccartney quotes out there, misattributed by biases in biographers or straight-up fabrications. but there’s also “if i was a girl”. there’s also “if he had been a woman”. there’s also “is this a self-portrait?” there’s “in bed.” there’s “maybe that would’ve satisfied it”. there’s “nothing to worry about”, and “life begins at 40”, and “it’s only me.” there’s “the emperor of eternity”. “he chose me.” “i’m still in love with you”. there’s “i can always deny that it was ever written about him.” so who cares

trying to find a certain quote and instead I have to find paul calling john the "most loveable crazy dude (he's) ever met" I want to be dead

George Harrison on Let It Be, in an interview for Entertainment Tonight and WEA (taped on 22 September 1987; interview conducted by Laura Gross). No infringement intended, footage is copyrights its respective owner(s).

A look back at how George viewed the movie and The Beatles’ break-up in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; and Dhani on the same subject in November 2021.

“[T]he group had problems long before Yoko came along. Many problems, folks.” - George Harrison, The Dick Cavett Show, 23 November 1971

“When you’re so close, you tend to lock each other up in pigeonholes. Musically, with Ringo and John I had no problem. But with Paul, well, it reached a point when he wouldn’t let me play on sessions. It was part of our splitting up. But at the same time I have a tendency to defend Paul — John and Ringo too — if anyone else said anything without qualification about them. After going through all that together, there must be something good about it. It’s just that around 1968 everyone’s egos started going crazy. Maybe it was just a lack of tact or discretion. Probably the biggest problem of them all was that there was no way Yoko Ono or Linda McCartney was going to be in The Beatles. That really helped put the nail in the coffin. That’s said without any bitterness against Yoko and Linda, because I can really enjoy them as people, but, let’s face it, The Beatles were not with Yoko or Linda. I suppose it was a result of Yoko being an outsider, coming in… and John was pushing her… and she had such a strong ego anyway. Then Paul got Linda to get his own back.” - George Harrison, NME, 11 December 1976

“[Let It Be] was really supposed to be us rehearsing to make a record and they were just filming the rehearsals, and that turned into the movie, you know, Let It Rot (laughs), as The Rutles called it. That, you know, I didn’t like. There’s scenes in it, like on the roof, that was quite good, and there were bits and pieces that’s okay, but most of it just makes me so aggravated that I can’t watch it. Because it was a particularly bad experience that we were having at that time, and… it’s bad enough when you’re having it, let alone having it filmed and recorded so that you’ve got to watch it for the rest of your life. I don’t like it.” - George Harrison, interview for Entertainment Tonight, taped 22 September 1987 (x)

Gerge Harrison: “At that point in time, Paul couldn’t see beyond himself. He was so on a roll — but it was a roll encompassing his own self. And in his mind, everything that was going on around him was just there to accompany him. He wasn’t sensitive to stepping on other people’s egos or feelings. Having said that, when it came time to do the occasional song of mine — although it was difficult to get to that point — Paul would always be really creative with what he’d contribute. For instance, that galloping piano part on While My Guitar Gently Weeps was Paul’s, and it’s brilliant right to this day. On the Live In Japan album, I got our keyboardist to play it note for note. And you just have to listen to the bass line on Something to know that, when he wanted to, Paul could give a lot. But, you know, there was a time there when…” Q: “I think it’s called being human — and young.” GH: “It is… [sighs] It really is.” - interview conducted in 1992; Guitar World, January 2001

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