On January 1st in 1991, George Harrison invited his former wife, Pattie Boyd, to his Friar Park mansion for a friendly, New Year’s Day visit. Harrison first met Pattie Boyd on the set of the Beatles’ movie, “A Hard Day’s Night,” in 1964. Instantly captivated by her beauty, George pursued Pattie, and their romance blossomed…
At the end of The Beatles’ history, the band’s songs were practically every man for himself, although in general, they were recorded by the four members together.However, there is one song from the group that was recorded only by John Lennon and Paul McCartney together. This song was the last great collaboration between the quartet’s…
I was at my parents house on New Years’ day and we dug out the old family photo albums, as you do, and came across these snaps of some lads my aunt met on holiday in Newquay, Cornwall in 1967… It’s become folklore in our family that my aunt Frances, on Paul’s left arm, and…
Mark Lewisohn (author of The Complete Chronicle of the Beatles): “EMI Studios, Bombay, India. Producer: George Harrison; Engineers: J.P. Sen and S.N. Gupta. Worked on the soundtrack for the film “Wonderwall”.Rita Tushingham (actress): “I left Liverpool just before the Beatles. They were still playing at the Cavern. I knew them because we all went to…
A year earlier at this time, the quiet Beatle had traveled to India, specifically to Bombay, to work on the soundtrack of the film Wonderwall. In 1969, about to start recording Get back, and after enduring the quarrels between Lennon and McCartney, Harrison announced to his bandmates his intention to leave the band. And with…
On January 10, 1969, George Harrison left the “Get Back” sessions at Twickenham Studios. In addition, it had recently become apparent to Apple’s management team, and therefore to the Beatles, that the company was losing money and that the situation was becoming untenable.This Sunday, the four Beatles met at Ringo Starr’s home in Weybridge to…
He is a full and generous person and I cannot think of anyone I admire or like better.’ – Brian Epstein ‘Lennon’s very image, his caustic wit, his attitude and his mentality is what attracted Brian. I know he found him attractive. It was more than a sexual attraction. It was a sort of love…
These January 1963 photos, taken by Les Chadwick, help illustrate just how cramped conditions were when The Beatles performed in The Cavern. Sitting with arms folded next to George in the top image was his girlfriend Bernadette Farrell. “It was no big, raging love affair, but George was my boyfriend,” she’d tell the Liverpool Echo…
“[She Loves You]…It had such an impact on me that I remember exactly where I was when I heard it: I was walking down Witton Road in Aston, I had a blue transistor radio and, when that song came on, I knew from then on what I wanted to do with my life, that song…
January 1981……To complete the song “All Those Years Ago”, Paul, Linda and George Martin visit Friar Park to record backing vocals.George Harrison initially composed the song (with different lyrics) for Ringo Starr to sing, but Starr felt the vocal range was too high for him, and he didn’t like the lyrics. George and Ringo recorded…