Remembering George

I don't know about all of you other Beatles fans, but for me it is hard to believe that George Harrison has been gone for 8 years now. It just seems like yesterday he was still with us. The one thing that touched me the most after his death was the sympathy cards many family and friends of mine sent me. I know that being a Beatles fan is something that many people on "the outside" don't exactly understand, but when they sent me those cards expressing their sympathies to me, I felt like some of them actually get it. I decided to have a post of some of my favorite George photos.

I met the Walrus (part 2)

Here John is signing Jerry's copy of "Two Virgins"


Here you can see Jerry sitting on the floor with a video camera.



I just love this photo of John!

I located some more photos taken of when 14 year old Jerry met and interviewed John Lennon in 1969. I am including all of the photos from this set.

Interesting

I have always thought that living next to a Beatle would be really amazing and cool. Like if you need to borrow some eggs, you just pop on over to Ringo's house and has Maureen for an egg. You have a BBQ in your backyard and invite George and Pattie over for hot dogs (pre-vegetarian days). I guess I never really thought about how annoying the fans could have been, but still....you live next to one of the Beatles!

A few photos

Are these true fan photo? I don't know. Am I going to post them anyhow. You better believe it.

Not getting George's autograph

Caption: "George (right in 1977) with Elton John's percussionist Ray Cooper when George attended one of Elton's gigs in Paris"

You may have noticed that whenever I see a photo, I like to imagine what is happening in the photograph. This is a great example of that. You see a woman here getting an autograph. However, she is NOT getting the autograph of George Harrison as you would expect. Instead she is getting the autograph of Elton John's percussionist. Hmmm. Here is my guess on this one. She got George to sign for her before the photo was snapped. Then realizing who the person with George was, and not wanting to be rude, she asked Ray Cooper to also sign. Surely she did not leave that opportunity with just Ray Coopers autograph, you think?

Regardless I really like this photo of George. He looks relaxed and happy. I think the mid-1970's were a good time for Mr. Harrison.

Magical Mystery Tour party

I want to thank Susan for emailing me such a lovely letter and the photos of her autographs. The Beatles fan club meetings are so interesting, and it is so kind of you to share your memories of meeting John and George at the time of Magical Mystery tour with me and the readers of this blog.

Here is the email Susan sent....

I was most surprised to be shown a photograph of myself on your website showing John Lennon signing my EP of the Magical Mystery Tour. Thought you might be interested to know that as an Area Secretary of the Beatles Fan Club we were invited to a private screening of the film, which had just been released. The date was Sunday, 17 December 1967 and it was shown at the Film & Art Theatre, Hanover Grand in London.

I took my EP with me in the hope of getting it autographed. John Lennon and George Harrison were the only two of the Beatles there that day and I am the one with the long hair and glasses in the photograph of John Lennon signing the record. The photograph then appeared in the February 1968 copy of the Beatles Monthly magazine.

As an inveterate hoarder I am still in possession of all the correspondence and memorabilia from that time. I still have the invitation, the EP and magazine, which I have photographed together and which I will try to email to you. I was the Area Secretary for Herefordshire to start with and my name then was Susan Ward. The Fan Club had secretaries for each of the British counties and towards the end of the time the Beatles were together I was also responsible for several other counties.

You are obviously a very keen Beatles fan and you have a very impressive library of photographs. I was a teenager when the Beatles first became famous and have remained a fan ever since.

Now we know who took that photo!

Thanks to Sean over at the Kenwood blog for sending me this awesome photo! The post right below this one shows John and Yoko sitting at a table holding hand. I stated that I wasn't sure if a fan took it, but I could imagine someone above the couple calling out their name and snapping a photo when they looked up.

Well....as you can see in this photograph. It does sort of look like a fan who took the photo (see the part that is circled?). So cool!!