scan not a friend with a microscopic glass...

✝️George ☮️Forever 🕉 🌼🌿🌞all things must pass🌞🌿🌼

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George sings All My Loving

makes my heart scream

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Twist and Shout! Paul McCartney on stage at the ABC Theater in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, November 29, 1963 during The Beatles first UK tour, by Paul Berriff, OBE

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Photo by Ethan Russell.

“I work in music publishing at Apple. Of course I’m a Beatles fan, but I don’t faint each time they walk through the door. Just being a fan isn’t enough to be employed at ‘Apple.’ There is a lot to do here and you do need know-how. But in return, we are paid well and have the world’s most beautiful bosses. My favorite boss is George. He is the absolutely most beautiful to me. But I can’t make goo-goo eyes at him — he would be annoyed.” - Linda Bristow (publishing assistant at Apple), translated from BRAVO no. 13, 1969 “I had the great pleasure of working for George and the rest of the Beatles in the late ‘60s, just before their split. George was one of the sweetest and gentlest people I have ever met. He lived for his philosophy of loving one another, as I'm sure all who met him would agree.” - Jeni, BBC Your Tributes, 2001 (x)

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Photo from the Nancy Lee Andrews Archives, via Meet the Beatles for Real.

“George was quiet but had this intensity when he talked to you. [...] Ringo and I went to visit him and Olivia at Friar Park in 1979. They were so happy. Olivia cooked a delicious dinner, he played the guitar and we wandered around that huge mansion while he told us its history. He opened a door, I think it was in the kitchen and handed us candles and told us to follow him. I thought, Oh, we're going to the spooky cellar but the stairs kept going down and down and finally we landed on a flat surface. I looked, and couldn't believe what I saw... it was a cave complete with stylolites. Walkways through a cavern. There was even a stream running through it! I had my camera with me and we had a hilarious time shooting with and without the flash. I have so many incredible pictures of us in that cave.” - interview with Nancy Lee Andrews for beatlesite blogspot com, via BeatleLinks, February 2009 (x)

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Photo by Don Nix.

Happy birthday to Klaus Voormann! “[T]here was a certain spiritual kinship between [George] and myself. I felt like he attended to me especially. He always wanted to know everything about me. He registered my shyness and always tried to push me forward. He could look deep into my heart, and if he discovered something that was troubling me, he was already working on eradicating it.” - Klaus Voormann, translated from Warum spielst du Imagine nicht auf dem weißen Klavier, John? (2003) “He would make me presents at Christmas - an Indian carpet with animals on it, a Champ amplifier, a Fender Precision fretless bass, a T-shirt with Crazy Kraut written on it. I loved him. He was a great person. I miss him.” - Klaus Voormann, MOJO, November 2014 “George Harrison was my favorite person, I loved him more than anything.” - Klaus Voormann, Typisch Deutsch, Deutsche Welle, 2009 “We were having a break after a walk, resting in the grass when suddenly he looked at me and said: ‘Do you know that it has taken me many, many years until I realized how special these meadows with their soft grasses are to me? Somehow I feel we have a very close relationship. I just love the seemingly endless meadows with their long and soft grasses and the waves they make when the wind is blowing. It’s like cherishing the wind of life rather than struggling against it all the time. So, Klaus, when I’m gone, all you have to do is stand in a meadow, feel the waving grass and I will be close to you.’” - Klaus Voormann (on his last visit with George in 2001), voormann.com (x)

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geo is so cute

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There’s something so poetic about telling someone they smell like home and always have and George Harrison said it to Paul McCartney

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono at Tittenhurst, 1971, by George Konig.

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From Brian May’s Twitter (the bottom image was photographed at the annual Water Rats Ball, Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, 29 November 1992).

“I hold George in such reverence and I think he’s so underrated by the guitar community; everyone raves about people who play fast, but if you look at the catalogue of stuff he’s produced, it’s colossal.” - Brian May, imdb dot com

“George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.” - Brian May, Guitar Player, March 2002 (x)

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Photo © Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.

“I don’t know. I’m always entering new phases each day as far as trying to enjoy the moment now. Just to experience the experience deeper. That’s the main thing, is just to remember that we’re all here now and that we’re all happy, and if we’re not, to try and be happier. And that’s the most important thing, no matter what you’re doing. I don’t think you get happy by going on tour or by coming off tour. I don’t see it as this phase or that phase. The phase is to try to manifest love in your life. And that’s all - that’s really all I can try to do.” - George Harrison (on whether or not he’s entered a new phase in his music), press conference in Los Angeles, 1979 (x)

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Ringo for GQ Magazine’s March 2024 issue👖

https://www.gq.com/story/23-new-ways-to-wear-denim-in-2024

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what do you mean ‘what happened in india between john and paul?’ THIS is what happened in india between john and paul

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“The garden at Friar Park is part of his legacy, too; he invested a lot of time in our family’s surroundings.” - Olivia Harrison, Observer Monthly Magazine, June 2009 “The gardens [at Friar Park] were a wilderness. They had been unattended for about 40 years. And you know what they say about gardens — for one year they are left it takes three to restore them.” - George Harrison, The Australian Women’s Weekly, April 28, 1982 “One day, for example, we looked out of the window and decided everything in the garden was too green, so we went on a color binge, buying lots of brightly colored flowers. In terms of landscape design, he liked the idea of Capability Brown, so we started calling him Capability George. He thought that everyone, as a matter of course, should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature. He used to say that all unused buildings should be knocked down and gardens put in their place.” - Olivia Harrison, Evening Standard, May 12, 2008

“Our friends would joke, calling him Capability George, you know, like after Capability Brown. […] He’d garden at nighttime. He’d garden until, you know, till midnight.” - Dhani Harrison, Living In The Material World “[George spent] hours and hours [in the garden]. I bought him one of those lights you put on your head. He wasn’t just out in the garden, he was IN the garden. He would walk out the door and come back in with the tiniest little thing and he’d go, ‘Look at that!’ — and he’d hand you the tiniest flower. He’d notice things. We’d walk in the grass and he’d bend over and go, ‘Oh, look at that little guy’ and it would be a bug. I’d say, ‘How did you see that?’ He was just really present.” - Olivia Harrison, The Sun, 2009 (x)

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George with Eric Idle and Stuart Lerner; photo by Carinthia West.

“Oh my God, how he could talk. This was the quiet one! He never shut up. Thank God.” - Eric Idle, The Greedy Bastard Diary “And all the funny stories about him recently about being ‘the quiet Beatle’ — he was the most talkative person I know.” - Jim Keltner, Rolling Stone, January 17, 2002 “George is known as the quiet Beatle — he wasn’t quiet at all.” - Klaus Voormann, translated from Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2009 “I mean, he would talk a lot, George, anyway. I mean [laughs], I always loved that ‘Quiet Beatle’ bit, cos you know, George could talk for England, really.” - Michael Palin, Concert for George bonus features (x)

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John Lennon listening to The White Album, 1968.

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Photo from The Beatles Monthly, © Beat Publications Ltd.

“[H]e will still take a genuine pleasure in stopping short outside a studio entrance or beside his car to talk to fans. So here’s the curious mixture that is George — the hatred of letting Beatlemania live beyond its first three years plus the pleasure of making small-talk conversation that’s far from artificial with a Beatle Person who wants to spend moments in his company. Summing him up, I’d say he’s a bit too honest for today’s plastic world. With relatives, colleagues or casual acquaintances he’ll say what he truly feels at the time.” - Tony Barrow (writing under his pen name Frederick James), The Beatles Monthly, March 1969 (x)

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Photo © Mirrorpix.

“‘He had the most distinctive voice, those funny little vowels. I always have that disconnect where I’m listening as a music lover and then I suddenly go, “Oh, oh, it’s you.”’ Her deep brown eyes — so similar to his — drift to the middle distance and there’s a beat of silence. That recognition is ‘not painful.’ Occasionally she finds herself listening to a song and it does not conjure him up just as he played it to her. “When that happens it doesn’t make me happy,” she laughs. She wants their connection to live whenever she hears his music. ‘Oh, wait, don’t ever let that become just objective, something that you don’t connect to.’ […] The Scorsese documentary, instigated by Olivia, opens with Dhani being asked what he would say to his father if he appeared now. Dhani says he saw his father in a dream and asked him ‘Where’ve you been?’ and his father replied, ‘Here the whole time.’ ‘What Dhani said was really very lovely. He had a lot of numinous dreams.’ She smiles and repeats, ‘Here the whole time.’ I ask Olivia what she would say to George now. She pauses. ‘I hope I told you everything. I hope I told you how wonderful you are.’” - article/interview by Helen Rumbelow, The Sunday Times, September 24, 2014 (x)