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“Well, he was actually born just after midnight, but it was wartime, and so because of the blackout, the clocks were set ahead yet another hour. […] And so, really, when — if you’re into astrology as we were and are, then the real time was before midnight, so really it was on the 24th. And so sometimes he would — you know, sometimes if you said happy birthday on the 24th, he’d say, ‘It’s not my birthday.’ If you said it on the 25th, he’d say, ‘You missed it.’” - Olivia Harrison, Breakfast With The Beatles, February 25, 2007 On George’s 21st birthday in 1964, he and the other Beatles were busy recording, so, as his mother recalled… “I telephoned him to wish him a happy birthday soon after midnight, at the hour at which he was born, and he was very pleased. We sang to each other and had a good laugh.” - Louise Harrison, Grimsby Evening Herald, February 25, 1964
