#crackerbox palace

[imnotsorryilovethebeatlesmore]

Awww what a cute baby! He was so young when he was born…

[eggieeggsta]

it’s twue it’s twue..

[jammbutties]

We've been expecting you...

[ask-oldergeorgeharrison]

do you think you lost fans after you left the beatles?

I don’t really know. All I know is that while with the lads, specifically Paul and John, I was kinda held back, after we broke up I was more free. Maybe people liked my music more when I was more free with my writing. Maybe they didn’t.

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Do you think George gained fans after the break up or lost them?

Gained

Around the same

Lost

Voting ended onApr 13

[renfieldrenrat]

Crackerbox Palace 🌺

Look at this silly dawg

[cariedentaire]

Crackerbox Palace

[harrisonarchive]

“I was down at that MIDEM music publishing convention in France in 1975. And I was stuck at some boring dinner when I saw Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman. I went over to him and he was with this fella George Greif, who was himself a manager. We got talking and I said to Greif, ‘I don’t know if this is a compliment or an insult, but you remind me of Lord Buckley.’ He said, ‘I managed him for eighteen years!’ I couldn’t believe it, so we spent a few hours talking and he said that Buckley lived in this little shack he called Crackerbox Palace. I wrote that down on my cigarette packet and, again, like Devil’s Radio, it was a good phrase for a song. Near the end of the single there’s a line in it in direct relation to Lord Buckley: ‘I met a Mr. Greif/and he said/I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace/was not expecting you/let’s tap and tap at Crackerbox Palace/know that the Lord is well and inside of you.’ I made the raw input into a story about getting born and living in the world, but again, everybody thought I was taking about the other Lord.” - George Harrison, Musician, November 1987

“Well, just as the lyrics say… first of all the idea of Crackerbox Palace was as in the lyrics of the third verse of the song, it says: ‘Some times are good, some times are bad, that’s all a part of life, and standing in between them all I met a Mr. Greif.’ Now Mr. Greif isn’t just to rhyme with life as people will think. He was, and is, a real person. [chuckles] Good evening, Mr. Greif. I met Mr. Greif at MIDEM, and he’s the manager of Barry White and all these people, he’s a manager. I met this guy and I was talking to him, and the way he was talking I just said, ‘Hey, you really remind me of somebody, you remind me of — I don’t know if this is an insult or a compliment — but you remind me of Lord Buckley, who’s my, he’s my favorite comedian,’ this guy who’s now dead but he was like the first of the real hip comics. And I said, ‘You remind me of Lord Buckley,’ and this guy nearly fell over: ‘I managed him for 18 years.’ [laughs] Far out—far out man. [laughs] So, so as we were talking he was talking about Lord Buckley and he said how he lived in this little shack which he called Crackerbox Palace. Because Lord Buckley was like everything, my lords, ladies and gentleman of the royal court, everything was beautiful and up and everybody was royal with Buckley. And so he lived in this little place called Crackerbox Palace, and I just wrote on the back of my cigarette packet, Crackerbox Palace. I loved it, just the way it sounded, you know, the whole idea. So I wrote this song and turned it into, it could be both a place where you live, but I turned it more into the world, the physical world: ‘I was so young where I was born, my eyes could not yet see, but by the time of my first dawn, somebody holding me, they said—I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace, we’ve been expecting you.’ The world is a very serious and at times very sad place, but at the same time it’s such a joke. [laughs] So it’s all Crackerbox Palace.” - George Harrison, A Personal Music Dialogue with George Harrison at 33 & 1/3, 1976

“In 1975, [George] Greif was in France at a dinner party for former Beatle George Harrison. ‘Somebody mentioned to George that I was Buckley’s manager. We went up to my room and stayed up and talked about Buckley all night. Harrison even did some Buckley routines for me, and I told him about the Crackerbox Palace. It was a little house that looked like a crackerbox. Something about the story must have struck George.’” - The San Francisco Examiner, September 6, 1992

[carveyournumberonmywall]

Guys I’m in Henley-on-Thames literally right now we are going to go and walk by the river a little bit and then go see the outside of Friar Park in the least intrusive way we can and pop into the Row Barge and I’m concerned that it’s very cringe to be on this pilgrimage but not concerned enough not to be on it (especially when it was arguably a reasonable stop on my drive home from Cirencester…)

Pictured are the most congruent items I found in Oxfam Books. I came so close to buying the Hawaiian guitar book but realistically I would not use it. But it felt profoundly George-coded! Like he’s around here still…