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The Beatles with Neil Aspinall and Brian Epstein in New Delhi, India by Ringo Starr, 7 July 1966

Paul McCartney said he still talks to former Beatles bandmate George Harrison through a tree the musician gave him.

“George was very into horticulture, a really good gardener,” McCartney told host Mary Louise Kelly. “So he gave me a tree as a present. It’s a big fir tree, and it’s by my gate. As I was leaving my house this morning [December 11], I get out of the car, close the gate and look up at the tree and say, ‘Hi, George.’ There he is, growing strongly.”

McCartney added that he feels Harrison’s spirit present in the tree.

“It’s lovely. He gave it to me, so I just planted it,” McCartney told NPR. “But then, as the years go by, every time I look at it I go, ‘That’s the tree George gave me.’ George has sort of entered that tree for me. I hope he’s happy with that.”

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I drew poster of the new ‘now and then’ song. for the beatles girlies

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Old Paul McCartney being haunted by his younger twink self and the ghost of George stripping is such a mood

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Paul McCartney & John Lennon | August 1966

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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]