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JAY LENO: Who was the best cuddler?
RINGO: Ohhh. Georgie loved a hug.
“We’d walk down Lilly Lane which was like a lovers’ lane and kiss and cuddle.” - Iris Caldwell
“He was just standing there. Little George, all lost. I gave him a big bag of sweets and some apples. He threw his arms around me and Stu, which was the sort of demonstrative thing they never did.’" - Astrid Kirchherr
“George giving me a bear hugggg. My first time in London and…what a welcome!!! ‘It’s Klaus!’ George Harrison called, setting his guitar aside and walking toward me to give me a firm hug.” - Klaus Voormann
“I was surprised to see how affectionate he was with Olivia, holding hands, heads touching as they talked, snuggling up next to her at every opportunity…” - Chris O’Dell
“Olivia was in the room and asked Madeleine her name. The next thing [Madeleine] knew, George was walking across the room directly to her, and as if they were old friends, put his arms around her! She was so overwhelmed and she automatically put her arms around him and hugged him back.” - A fan
“Even hugging George was a psychedelic experience, what a gem of a man. Love him forever.” - Dave Stewart
“George was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.” - Tom Petty
“Just a few months after his death, I was in Bungalow 8, a New York club that Paul Shaffer dragged me to, when I noticed a skinny fellow who was the spitting image of George - only young George - coming right toward me. Before I could say anything this young man embraced me in a tender hug and then pulled back to explain himself. ‘I’m Dhani Harrison,’ he said. ‘One of the last things my father told me was that if I ever come across people who were important to him, I should give them a hug.’” - Martin Short
" we sort of conned my way out of hospital so i didn't have to be there for my 15th birthday. we went down to romford, where my stepdad's family lived. his dad was great, and he knew london like the back of his hand. we went walking all over london and saw the sights, the british museum and the searchlight tattoo.
it was a great day out, but it was a bit long for someone who'd just come out of hospital. "
- ringo starr, PHOTOGRAPH (2013)
![INTERVIEWER: It’s Hard, Given His Level Of Fame, To Imagine [George] In Such Fatherly Domesticity.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/057d85f4f4d3ec27783bfc91e83cbf2f/tumblr_nqakezbLd21s9nul2o1_r1_500.jpg)
![INTERVIEWER: It’s Hard, Given His Level Of Fame, To Imagine [George] In Such Fatherly Domesticity.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/298eb1831105a8cba4fb8ace87f5f7a8/tumblr_nqakezbLd21s9nul2o2_400.jpg)
![INTERVIEWER: It’s Hard, Given His Level Of Fame, To Imagine [George] In Such Fatherly Domesticity.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/5d731c551e4768f5866d36364f82f608/tumblr_nqakezbLd21s9nul2o3_500.jpg)
![INTERVIEWER: It’s Hard, Given His Level Of Fame, To Imagine [George] In Such Fatherly Domesticity.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2babac8fb23e8dfd6d3c8cbfd80e2a8b/tumblr_nqakezbLd21s9nul2o4_500.jpg)
INTERVIEWER: It’s hard, given his level of fame, to imagine [George] in such fatherly domesticity.
OLIVIA: You mean doing the school run? He did. He used to be there handing out oranges at half-time. Being a dad was something he loved. He just loved that time. - The Times (2014)
“George never held anything back, even when Dhani was really young, so they were very close, and Dhani had a clear understanding. Some of the things George told him, it was almost like he knew he might not be around later on, so he had to tell him then. So yes, it’s difficult to make your own way, but that’s what it was, and Dhani loved that guy, they were very close.” - Olivia Harrison, The Huffington Post (2014)
“He pulled out a photo of his baby son Dhani, and showed the group. Baby Dhani was dressed in a miniature Gumby suit, thanks to his Uncle Eric [Idle].” - Howard Johnson
“Olivia spends hours each day playing with Dhani, and George talks to him like an adult, and patiently answers his never-ending stream of questions.” - Liane Maxfield, The Australian Women’s Weekly (1982)
“What I saw in the father was great devotion, love, and gentleness. His whole thing was that little boy.” - Eric Estrada, People (1986)
“I’m sure he’d watched every skate film with me anyway because there’s no way he couldn’t have seen from start to finish every single Bones Brigade film. I must have sat him down and watched them all.” - Dhani Harrison
“I can’t even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I’m an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.” - Dhani Harrison, The Times (2002)
I did a little concert for somebody in Hollywood. Paul McCartney was there. I've never met him before, but I'm a fucking fan of The Beatles. I'm in the back smoking, and they're like, "Sir Paul would like to meet you." I'm like, "For real? Hold on," and I put that blunt out. Cuh walk in the room like, "Don't put that down."
Snoop Dogg on meeting Paul McCartney
Stella shocked us across the generation gap when she pointed to our blue Beatles' 10th Anniversary t-shirt, "That's Ringo!" she exclaimed, pointing both to the likeness of Mr Starkey and the man joking with her father a few feet away. "And that's daddy, but who's that?" she asked, pointing to the picture of John Lennon
Paul Gambaccini, 1975
Beatles 1960s Letter To Cinthia From John Lennon in Hamburg Germany Twitter Reblogged
Wikipedia Cynthia Powell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Lennon
TAG of BEATLES in my Tumblr https://kichisaburo3.tumblr.com/tagged/BEATLES
それでも付き合いたての蜜月期はハンブルクからジョンは度々手紙を送り、それは目にしたミミが卑猥だと激怒するほど明け透けにラブラブなものだった。その手紙や、ジョンと愛し合ったという事実は永遠にシンシアだけのもの。ジョンの妻という重責、それでもそれはかけがえのない日々だったろうな pic.twitter.com/XWB9VftkVW
— Emmie Bead (@emmie_bead) September 10, 2024
11 SEP 2024 Wednesday
Drawings by Paul McCartney of John Lennon and George Harrison | 1967
You can immediately spot John Lennon’s sideburns and glasses, as well as George Harrison’s distinctive hair and eyebrows. The artist of the exquisite pen sketch? Their bandmate Paul McCartney.
It was 55 years ago today (or thereabouts) when the Beatle was asked by the journalist Hunter Davies how Lennon and Harrison had looked when they played in their previous incarnation, the Quarrymen. Rather than answer the question, McCartney grabbed a notebook and drew them.
Beatles’ biographer donates his magical mystery hoard The Sunday Times | 25 September 2022
what if I just jump off a bridge
A style selection, 1956-1969.
A continuation of sorts from this post.
“[George’s] idea, which he ordered [in Liverpool in the 1950s], was a four-button jacket with cloth-covered buttons. Two breast pockets which were slitted (jetted) and in the shape of a bird in flight, the two side pockets corresponded. The cuffs had to be folded back with a cloth-covered button. His trousers had no pleats in the front, not normal in those days, and he was by far the very first person to have two slits at the bottom side seam of the trouser and he wanted them folded back with cloth covered buttons to match the cuffs on his jacket. The workshop queried the order when they received thinking we had gone bonkers. George got his suit and was pleased with the outcome. Later lots of guys were walking about town with cut back cuffs and side seams on their trousers, but George was the first.” - Rollo Torpey, The Beatles and Me (2015)
“At Iris’s 14th birthday party, I remember George turned up in a brand-new, Italian-style stuff with covered buttons. He looked very grown-up.” - Violet Caldwell (mother of Iris, and Alan, a.k.a. Rory Storm), The Beatles Monthly September 1965
“[George’s mother Louise] took an unusually benign view of George’s luminous pink shirts, yellow waistcoat, and drainpipe trousers.” - Pete Shotton, The Beatles, Lennon, And Me (1984)
“Going in for flash clothes, or at least trying to be a bit different, as I hadn’t any money, was part of the rebelling. I never cared for authority. They can’t teach you experience; you’ve got to go through it, by trial and error.” - George Harrison, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968)
“At the Institute, George was known from the beginning as a way-out dresser. Michael McCartney, Paul’s brother, was a year below him. He remembers George always having long hair — years before anybody else did. […] ‘George used to go to school with his school cap sitting high on top of his hair,‘ says Mrs. Harrison. ‘And very tight trousers. Unknown to me, he’d run them up on my machine to make them even tighter. I bought him a brand-new pair once and the first thing he did was tighten them. When his dad found out, he told him to unpick them at once. “I can’t, Dad,” he said. “I’ve cut the pieces off.”’” - The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968)
“I’d started to develop my own version of the school uniform. I had some cast-offs from my brother. One was a dog-toothed check-patterned sports coat, which I’d dyed black to use as my school blazer. The color hadn’t quite taken, so it still had a slight check design to it. I had a shirt I’d bought in Lime Street, that I thought was so cool. It was white with pleats down the front. and it had embroidery along the corners of the pleats. I had a waistcoat that John had given me, which he’d got from his ‘uncle’ Dykins (his mother’s boyfriend), Mr. Twitchy Dykins. It was like an evening-suit waistcoat — black, double-breasted, with lapels. The trousers John also gave me, soon after we first met — powder-blue drainpipes with turn-ups. I dyed them black as well. And I had black suede shoes from my brother. […] That outfit of mine was very risky, and it felt like all day, every day, for the last couple of years I was going to get busted. In those days we used Vaseline on our hair to get the rock n’ roll greased-back hairstyle. Also, you were supposed to wear a cap and a tie, and a badge on your blazer. I didn’t have my badge stitched on, I had it loose. It was held in place by a pen clipped over it in my top pocket, so I could remove it easily, and the tie.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology (2000)
“He was always a pretty snappy dresser, and he did always like that waistcoat look. And he used to wear a V-neck Fair Isle jumper. Sometimes he’d be a little too outrageous, like purple trousers with bright green, but it was fine. Everything seemed to be fine then.” - Pattie Boyd, interview for the British Beatles Fan Club
“The boys are wearing all sorts of fantastic clothes for their film and introduce a very new, unusual gimmick. If they’re wearing corduroy, for example, then they have corduroy boots to match. If they’re seen in velveteen suits, then they’re coupled with velveteen boots. George first thought of the idea two years ago, but when he put the idea to a local bootmaker, he told him it couldn’t be done. Well, that’s one cobbler that’s been proved wrong.” - The Beatles Monthly, June 1965 (x)
“I could draw naked ladies. I could do them on folded paper so that when it was closed up the lady had her clothes on and then when you opened it up…wey-hey! The only trouble was before she did the washing my mum used to go through my pockets for school dinner tickets and, of course, one day she found one of my naked ladies. I came home and my dad said, I want a word with you. Did you do this? It was like death. Anguish. Tears.”
— Paul McCartney on his claim to fame in school, from The Paul McCartney World Tour concert program, 1989 (via theoldpaulband)
"The Beatles wearing makeup (that they put on themselves)" 1963
What then????? Bro he would-
[insert entire Emesis blu plot line here]
Keeper -- a short comic about an angel meeting a robotic lighthouse keeper that doesn't know the world has already ended. Made in about 18 hours for a 24-hour 24-page* black and white comic challenge (that I arrived late to, ha.)
*the actual submission does not include the cover, which was created after the fact for this post.
This was a really great learning experience as someone who's... never really made a completed comic. I ended up really attached to the story by the end of the project (possibly due to all-nighter deliriousness lol) and ultimately am very proud of what I made.There are some things I'd still like to change, particularly text placement, but in keeping with the spirit of the challenge I've elected to leave it as is.
And when everyone’s autistic…no one will be
When the world and I were young, just yesterday... Life was such a simple game, a child could play. It was easy then to tell right from wrong.. easy then to tell weak from strong... When a man should stand and fight, or just go along. But today there is no day or night, today there is no dark or light, today there is no black or white... Only shades of Gray. I remember when the answer seemed so clear, we had never lived with doubt or tasted fear. It was easy then to tell truth from lies, selling out from compromise, who to love and who to hate.. the foolish from the wise. But today is is no day or night, today there is no dark or light, today there is no black or white... Only shades of Gray. ( Instrumental). It was easy then to know what was fair, When to keep and when to share, How much to protect your heart, And how much to care. But today there is no day or night, today there is no dark or light, today there is no black or white... Only shades of Gray.... Only shades of Gray...... That last verse makes my cry every time.
Coming back to tumblr for a second and checking your blog is like being outside in the cold and getting into a warm house with a fireplace aaaa how I missed this! I just gotta say how much I adore your playful and creative compositions, the full whimsy of it all! Your art just brings me such a sense of joy and nostalgia. The flowy and crisp lines and the vibrant colors, even when u do something more black and white, or something dramatic, I love it all! I am so glad to have found your art and be able to enjoy it, all of it but especially when u do Martin and Lewis art! You rock, dude!!!
Be still my HEART 💗 you’re so sweet this has made my entire week! It’s been a rough couple of months lol I really needed to hear smth like this
It’s reassuring to know someone enjoys what I bring to my work as an artist beyond the subject matter so seriously thank you. I don’t think I’ve ever had someone break down my art positively like this before. Kind words from someone as insanely talented as you means so much ^^
I’m grateful for the chance to connect with cool people through my art and I hope my blog can continue being a warm place. I know for me your art is a burst of joy that brightens my day every time I come across it. You are amazing from your art to your edits- i adore it all!
Keep it up and take care 💞
