On July 17, 1964, George purchased Kinfauns, a bungalow in Esher, home until early 1970, when Friar Park was purchased. Pictured here are, in photos 1-7, scans from the at home photo session by Leslie Bryce for The Beatles Monthly (on October 7, 1965); photos 8 & 9 show the home turning colorful (photos by Robert Whitaker, scanned from The Apple Years booklet).
Kinfauns also became something of a refuge for other musicians:
“In the mid-Sixties [Brian Jones] used to come out to my house — particularly when he’d got ‘the fear,’ when he’d mixed too many weird things together. I’d hear his voice shouting to me from out in the garden: 'George, George…’ I’d let him in — he was a good mate.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology
“Another session found [David] Redfern at George Harrison’s house in Esher, photographing Donovan to tie in with the release of his single Mellow Yellow [1967]. ‘I think Donovan was going off the rails, and George had taken him in to try and help straighten him out. They were friends. So I took these photos of Donovan in a white suit against a white wall in George’s house. And then after they’d been processed, his people decided that they wanted them to be yellow to tie in with the single, so I had to go back to the lab and dye them…’” - The Beatles: Classic, Rare & Unseen
The poolside mosaic at Kinfauns — featuring artwork by John Lennon — may have been moved to Friar Park:
“[Derek Mann] recalls seeing Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Friar Park, 'They always seemed to get on extremely well,’ he said. […] ‘John Lennon built a mosaic of what looked like an alien in the garden which was surrounded by roses named after Paul McCartney. George had a pet Yorkshire terrier called Winston, John Lennon’s middle name.’” - Henley Standard (December 2001)
Soon, Kinfauns turned colorful:
“During autumn George asked Simon and me to paint a mural around the fireplace in the living room at the ‘Kinfauns’ bungalow in Esher. The mural portrayed George and Pattie as ‘Music Boy’ and ‘Flower Girl,’ as they lovingly called each other then, attended by a Yogi surrounded with an Aura of Light as the focal point to express their interest in Hinduism. We stayed at their lovely place about ten days to complete it.
Inspired, George started decorating the exterior of the house, graffiti style with spray cans […]. George was kind and funny but would also be quiet and pensive at times. […] George also turned us on to Paramahansa Yogananda’s book; ‘Autobiography of a Yogi,’ whose large portrait was watching us from the wall while we were painting the mural.” - Marijke Koger, marijkekogerart dot com (August 11, 2021)
(You can find a photo of the mural in the book Living In The Material World.)
“George grabbed a paintbrush as well, and [we all] set to work on George’s fireplace.” - Klaus Voormann, translated from Warum spielst du Imagine nicht auf dem weißen Klavier, John? (2003)
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