Our World Press Call At Abbey Road Studios, June 24 1967

George Harrison & John Lennon at Dromoland Castle in Ireland | 27 March 1964 (II)

George Harrison at Friar Park

George Harrison & John Lennon | 1971

"I think that one of the things that I developed just by being in The Beatles was being bold and I think John had a lot to do with that. Because John Lennon, if he felt something strongly, he just did it. I picked up a lot of that by being a friend of John’s. Just that attitude of, 'Well, just go for it, just do it.'" ~ George Harrison

GUYS GUYS I NEED MORE MOOTS PLS PLS IF YOU LIKE THE MONKEES, TEH BEATLES, DYLARRISON/hj OR THE MUPPETS PLS YALL PLS I NEED MORE FRIENDS

hi babe :) any chance we could get touch starved john who thinks he’s clingy & just wants held? you’re the sweetest, thank you doll <3

hello my dear ! i hope it’s okay that i used lennison for this ! i couldn’t resist !!! <3

Needy

Request: hi babe:) any chance we could get touch starved john who thinks he’s clingy & just wants held?

Pairing: Lennison

Warnings: Some suggestive language

“George,” John whines from the couch.

George can only roll his eyes, this is the fourth time in the past five minutes that John has called out for his boyfriend.

He knows exactly what John wants.

“Geo—“ John starts but is immediately interrupted by George.

“John—Please be quiet for just one moment,” he takes a deep breath, “I’m trying to focus on something.”

“Writing songs can wait, George. I can’t believe you would let the love of your life sit over here and waste away without so much as a kiss or a hug?” John asks incredulously.

George picks his head up from his guitar, “You are far from attention deprived, John. And even if you were, I think you would survive.”

John lets out another whine, “But George,” he pauses for a moment to attract his lover’s eye contact, “I could just drop dead right now and you’d just have to live with the fact that you wouldn’t give me any affection.”

George sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, “You are insufferable,” he states plainly as he sets his guitar down and closes his notebook.

John grins as George’s figure appears in view, “Well hello there handsome,” John purrs as George settles beside him.

George rolls his eyes once again as John climbs into his lap and places his arms around George’s neck.

“Oh don’t act so unamused,” John teases, “I know you are just as needy as I am.”

George fights the urge to roll his eyes for a third time as his hands settle at John’s waist, “Y’know, John, I love you. I really do, but sometimes I’d like to just shut that pretty little mouth of yours.”

John lets out a gasp of (fake) surprise, “You love me? I had no idea!”

This time George does roll his eyes for a third time before pulling John forward to press a kiss to his lips.

“I like you better when you shut your mouth,” George whispers as they pull away.

John’s smugness can be seen from a mile away, “I always knew you did.”

Okay I’m curious, what exactly is the story of George Harrison at Woodstock?

I will try to be brief.

Ok, so in 1968, right after the white album was released, George was invited to go to woodstock for the thanksgiving. As he said on I Me Mine; "I was invited there by The Band. It was Thanksgiving time and I'd just finished producing a Jackie Lomax album, directly after the Beatles 'White' Album."

He also mentions in an interview — I think it's for Musician, in 1987? — that he thinks he was invited there by Robbie Robertson.

Robbie mentions the visit in his memoir, Testimony, and he says that he had to convince Albert Grossman to let George stay at his house, and also that "Bob [Dylan] was keeping a very low profile, and when I asked him if he wanted to see George while he was in town, he too was a little iffy at first."

It's a very known fact that George was a big fan of Bob Dylan — he mentioned that in a lot of interviews, and everyone around him mentioned that too, besides the fact that he was always quoting Bob —, and during that time in Woodstock, he wrote two songs with Bob.

The first one is I'd have you anytime:

I have a post about the unused lyrics for that song that might be interesting for now.

George mentions in I Me Mine that "He [Bob] seemed very nervous, and I felt a little uncomfortable — it seemed strange, especially as he was in his own house.", and he also says that the song was written in the third day there. Later, Olivia mentioned that, when George wrote the lines 'Let me in here, I know I've been here, Let me into your heart', he was "directly talking to Bob".

The second song that they wrote together was...

One thing about this song: it wasn't finished. There are only demos of it. But it still is a very interesting song... in the lyrics on I Me Mine, there is this unused part:

That was substituted with "I get tired of being Beatle Jeff" / "I get tired of being Beatle Ted".

One fun fact about that song is that it had different names through the years. This was mentioned the George Harrison website: "Nowhere To Go was a collaboration between George and Dylan from their 1968 Thanksgiving visit that also yielded ‘I’d Have You Anytime’. It was first called ‘Thingymubob’, then ‘When Everybody Comes to Town’. ‘I Get Tired’ was also a working title and finally, by the time of the All Things Must Pass sessions, it is titled ‘Nowhere To Go’."

George mentioned the song using the title 'Thingymubob' in a letter to Bob, where he wrote the chords of the song.

Going back to The Band, Robbie said this, on testimony: "I was very curious about recording techniques the Beatles had discovered. George described their process as extremely experimental and sometimes accidental. I could definitely relate to that. When George inquired about the Band’s recording methods, I could barely keep up with him. For every question I posed to him, he asked me two about [Music From] Big Pink and The Basement Tapes [...]"

He also said this: "But George was one of the most open people I’d ever met, and Pattie was one of the prettiest and sweetest. George spoke incredibly candidly about the problems within the Beatles. John, he said, was far out on a limb, testing his balance. “Kinda crazy,” he laughed. And our dear Ringo was following in the tradition of many a hard-drinking Brit—apparently he had threatened to quit the band at one point. George was quick to admit there were serious tensions between Paul and him. 'Whenever I present a tune, the Lennon and McCartney songwriting team will ignore it as long as they can,' he said. 'Sometimes I even have to fight for my guitar parts. Paul has such a clear idea of how the song should go that he tells me what to play, or he wants to play it himself.'"

Two very interesting things here: the fact that George was talking about the problems in the Beatles, and also the fact that he was very interested in asking about the band records.

From I Me Mine; "When I wrote 'All Things Must Pass', I was trying to do a Robbie Robertson-Band sort of tune and that is what it turned into." He also mentioned that, while writing the song, he always thought about Levon singing it. (I'm not sure about where he mentioned that, tho.)

There are some songs that Bob showed to George on that time and he played later — for example, I threw it all away, a song that was released on Nashville Skyline, was played by George during the get back sessions, in january 1969, even before Bob recorded his version, and also I don't want to do it, that was released by George in 1985 —, and that travel was basically the start of a long collaboration in music, between George and Bob.

Also, George talking about the problems in the Beatles during that travel makes Nowhere to Go have even more sense. And then, when the beatles got together to record an album, it was on the get back/let it be sessions.... when he famously quit the beatles for some days.

Well, i think I've talked a lot, but that's basically the story. George also gave a guitar to Bob, but I'm not sure about when that happened — especially because he used that guitar during the get back/let it be sessions, and then on the abbey road sessions...

Anyway, here are two pictures; in the first, Bob and George, and in the second, Robbie and George.

AND THAT'S IT! i think. Sorry if this wasn't brief at all. It took me one hour and a half to write all this, so i think i probably got lost somewhere and maybe i am forgetting something.

When I say George Harrison is not appreciated enough I mean it in the sense of his massive impact on music and western culture is always ignored or overlooked, if credit is given it is always in a diffused. for eg. the hippie movement would never have happened if it hadn't been for george (or it would have very different imagery and aesthetics if it did) but you never see people say that. some will credit the beatles trip to India as the ideological start of the hippie movement but never credit george directly

george was also the first to make music truly international. Not only in terms of influence but he was willing to learn from and share his platform with artists whose formats were very different from what pop music of the time was used to. george's influence opened up pop music which had been v one dimensional at the time. and as i said while the beatles are credited for it, it's always unilateral when it had always been just george ploughing on with his interest for the most part, inspite of often being ridiculed by his friends and bandmates for it

also concert for Bangladesh! While music had long been political he was the first to use his platform to do something that would have a tangible, real life consequence. The Bangladesh/Pakistan situation wasn't very different from Israel/Palestine today because Pakistan was being backed by the US, and george was warned against it but he still went ahead! Who has the guts to organise a Concert for Palestine today? King of using his privilege and I'd have that any day over the vaguely "political" music of early bob dylan, pete seeger et all with left wing jargon and folk tunes appropriated from poor black ppl.

George Harrison and welsh singer Mary Hopkin - cca 1969

From George’s handwritten lyrics to the Harrisong “All Things Must Pass.”

Q: “You once remarked that you were trying to write a Robbie Robertson kind of song with ‘All Things Must Pass.’” George Harrison: “‘The Weight’ was the one I admired, it had a religious and a country feeling to it, and I wanted that. You absorb, then you interpret, and it comes out nothing like the thing you’re imagining, but it gives you a starting point.” - Musician, November 1987

Q: “Where did the phrase ‘All Things Must Pass’ come from?” George Harrison: “I think I got it from Richard Alpert/Baba Ram Dass, but I’m not sure. When you read of philosophy or spiritual things, it’s a pretty widely used phrase. I wrote it after [the Band’s 1968] ‘Music From Big Pink’ album; when I heard that song in my head I always heard Levon Helm singing it!” - Billboard, 8 January 2001

“‘All Things Must Pass’ just shows the nature of the physical world. Everything is changing all the time. We get born and we die. But we are in this body, and we go through from birth to death. We stay the same — the soul is the same, but the body is changing. It’s the nature of… it’s called duality, and it just keeps changing. But everything passes except the essence of that, which is our soul.” - George Harrison, French TV interview, 26 August 1997 (x)

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