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George Harrison at the fan club screening of Magical Mystery Tour on December 17, 1967.

“We felt obviously that Vietnam was wrong — I think any war is wrong, for that matter — and in some of our lyrics we expressed those feelings and tried to be the counter-culture, to try and wake up as many people as we could to the fact that you don’t have to fight. You can call a halt to war and you can have a laugh and dress up silly and that’s what that period was all about: get your hair long, and grow a mustache, and paint your house psychedelic, and write songs. It was all part of our retaliation against the evil that was taking place and still is taking place.” - George Harrison, It was twenty years ago today by Derek Taylor (1987)

“Trying to influence people and doing things like painting the Apple shop was all just part of the the Teddy boy in us, the Teddy-boy theme of ‘We’ll show them.’ We thought, ‘We’ll paint the building one night, and the next morning people will come up the street and the whole bloody building’s going to be psychedelic.’ That was what it was all about — I think we would have been pirates in a different life.“ - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology (2000) (x)

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Robert Whitaker and George Harrison_May 20th 1966_Chiswick House: Paperback Writer/Rain

Photo: Robert Whitaker

Source: National Portrait Gallery

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Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison jamming in Liverpool in late 1959 while they were still the Quarrymen.

John Hanrahan: Do you keep in contact with Paul and Ringo?

George Harrison: Yeah, yeah. I've seen them both a lot, and they're well. You know, I think with our age as well [we've] mellowed out. There was a period of time where Paul and I didn't get on very well, but we're great friends now, and I think time slips away, and we realise that. It sort of comes back around, the cycle. I mean I was -- I met Paul when I was 13 years old or 12 years old, you know, at school. So there's much more fun and good experiences that we've shared than the bad ones.

Hanrahan: Is there ever any chance that you might come back and do a record together in some form? I mean everybody would like it obviously.

George: Well the first stage seems to have happened inasmuch as Paul and I are good friends now. The next stage is if we can pick up a couple of guitars and sing a few old Buddy Holly tunes together. Who knows? We may be able to knock out a tune or two, and if we can get that far then what's to stop us getting in the studio together for one reason or another, but it would never -- it would never be anything like some great big reunion album or concert. I think we're passed that stage. We're just thankful to be able to be friendly, and if we can actually produce a tune or something you know, that's a nice little song, that would be enough.

Hanrahan: Why the ghost of Buddy Holly? Why would he --

George: Well it's just that when we were kids and got our guitars, we were into all those early Elvis, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and I mean that's the kind of thing where if we were to get in a room, picked up a guitar, we're more likely to sing uh, Peggy Sue than we are to sing Yesterday.

- John Hanrahan interviews George Harrison (1986)

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George Harrison in Copenhagen with Delaney and Bonnie, 1969 by Jan Persson, my edit of original via George’s twitter.

He’s playing the ‘61 Fender Stratocaster known as “Rocky”, originally in Sonic Blue (he and John had matching models!) that George repainted. “During ’67, everybody started painting everything,” Harrison says, “and I decided to paint it. I got some Day-Glo paint, which was quite a new invention in them days, and just sat up late one night and did it.” He also used some of Patti’s nail polish to paint the headstock! More here.