August 28, 1963. Photos by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images.
“We do like the fans and enjoy reading the publicity about us, but sometimes you don’t realize that it’s about yourself. You see your pictures and read articles about George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul and John, but you don’t actually think ‘Oh, that’s me. There I am in the paper.’ It’s funny. It’s just as though it’s a different person.” - George Harrison, The Mersey Sound (1963) “But even in 1963 you see them talking about John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison and you just feel as if it’s somebody else. Throughout all this madness I see it as somebody else. I’m not really Beatle George — sorry to disappoint you. I mean there is much more to me than the Beatle George. And I don’t really go round thinking that I’m in the Beatles.” - George Harrison, Q, 1995 “The Beatles was a big pressure. There’s only a small group of people who have ever had that experience, and theirs was probably the most intense. They had a fantastic time that really only the four of them could ever talk about, but it was odd for him. He’d look at old photos of himself and say, ‘That's Beatle George,’ like it was someone else.” - Olivia Harrison, Herald Scotland, June 18, 2009 (x)