Loving All The Real-life Details In The ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ Video

GEORGE HARRISON and PAUL McCARTNEY signing The Beatles dissolution papers at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, December 19 1974.

"Whoever slept with George woke up with him wrapped around them"

-Paul McCartney

"George told me once that I smelt like home. I got all paranoid, you know, thinking I smelt of fish and chip shops or dirty bars or something. But he said no, I just always smelt of home."

-Paul McCartney

"They used to jump on me. George used to wake me up by tickling my feet."

– Paul McCartney

"God, my mate George, isn’t he a good-looking boy!"

- Paul McCartney

"I knew George long before the others. We were good chums despite his tender years as it seemed to me then. We were always together. He lived near me in Upton Green and I lived in Ardwick Road, half a mile away, so we took the same bus to the same school, and then we got guitars at the same time. We went through the Bert Weedon books and learned D and A together and we were quite big buddies then. That was something I’d missed for all those years"

-Paul McCartney

"Thing is, there’s a lot about me and George that the public don’t know about, and I like it better that way. That night was very personal, and very special to me. It’s one of my favourite memories."

-Paul McCartney

"I'll always love him, he's my baby brother."

-Paul McCartney

George was always my favorite Beatle. ❤️

A thought?

The line"If you have to go away,I wont stop you babe"seemed not fit for Yoko or May Pang.Their role in the relationship with John were both the waiting side.The initiative was firmly reserved to John...

Dice & The Beatles in Central Park in New York City, NY | 8 February 1964 (I)

In 1965 [the Byrds] toured England and Paul invited us to his club, the Scotch of St James’s [sic]. He sent a limo to pick us up. He said he had been listening to our music. We were blown away. He took us for a ride through London in his Aston Martin, at great speed. He was really hip, he and John were so tight it was like one person at times. Unlike the Byrds, [where] Crosby would just leave you out to dry, the Beatles all defended each other to the hilt. If you criticised, say, George then they would all respond.

[—Roger McGuinn, in Paul McCartney: Now & Then, Tony Barrow and Robin Bextor]

[John and Paul] sort of had their own way of communicating. Hardly anything was spoken, they just knew what the other wanted or was getting at and they had the most amazing talent. […] Paul was an awesome musical presence. He was, like, ten feet tall with music and it was everything: folk, rock, musical hall, choral, it was all there. He was like a different animal with Lennon. When they were together they became something else, more than just the two of them together. That communication was incredible. It was like two high-speed computers just fizzing between each other.

[—Steve Miller, in Paul McCartney: Now & Then, Tony Barrow and Robin Bextor]

Happy birthday Brackets boy!!!

Because Paul was left handed, John initially found it unexpectedly difficult to follow his chord changes. He finally resorted to restringing his guitar and playing the instrument upside down until he had mastered the chords Paul could teach him — whereupon he proceeded to learn them all over again the other way around.

Pete Shotton - John Lennon: In My Life.

“Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass – You know his faults – Then let his foibles pass.” Old Victorian Proverb. I’m sure there’s enough about me that pisses Paul off, but I think we have now grown old enough to realize… that we’re both pretty damn cute! – George Harrison, 2001 The last time I met him, he was very sick and I held his hand for four hours. As I was doing it I was thinking ‘I’ve never held his hand before, ever. This is not what two Liverpool fellas do, no matter how well you know each other.’ I kept thinking, ‘he’s going to smack me here.’ But he didn’t. He just stroked my hand with his thumb and I thought ‘Ah, this is okay, this is life. It’s tough but it’s lovely. That’s how it is.’ I knew George before I knew any of the others and I loved that man. I’m so proud to have known him. – Paul McCartney, 2003