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The Who’s Pete Townshend allegedly helped Eric Clapton romance George Harrison‘s first wife, Pattie Boyd. George and Boyd married in 1966, but Clapton fell in love with her shortly after. He needed Townshend to distract the former Beatle so he could sweep Boyd off her feet.
In 1964, George met actor and model Pattie Boyd on the set of The Beatles’ first feature film, A Hard Day’s Night. That first day they met, George asked Boyd to marry him. She declined but agreed to a date. They married in 1966. However, their marriage started to crack in 1970, when George discovered that Clapton loved Boyd.
Clapton met Boyd in London and played her a song he wrote for her. It was called “Layla.”
“We met secretly at a flat in South Kensington,” Boyd said (per New York Post). “Eric had asked me to come because he wanted me to listen to a new number he had written. He switched on the tape machine, turned up the volume and played me the most powerful, moving song I had ever heard. It was ‘Layla.'”
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“Did you know,” whispered a pop cognoscente, “that the Beatles invented Scotch and Coke? No one drank it before 1962” A trestle table in the garden of a small chateau, in the hills above Toulon, was appropriately filled with bottles of both – and nothing else. It was just after midnight, the air was thick with the scent of pine, and everyone at the party was being very, very nostalgic. Paul McCartney had not only given his first concert for six years in this obscure and charming place, but actually hadn’t rushed off afterwards, “Ten years …” mused the cognoscente, mixing himself another Beatle Special. McCartney strode jerkily around, shaking hands and looking cheerful, acting as though everything was quite as it always was, that he had not been a hermit from publicity for the last five years (to the extent that rumours swept America that he was dead), and had not been one of the most publicised entertainers in history before that.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married for over a decade, and the former Beatle said he learned everything from her. He explained that they had a teacher and student relationship, a dynamic he said most people didn’t understand. While Lennon designated the roles, Ono noted that they both learned from each other. They both gave insight into their relationship and what they learned from it.Lennon and Ono met in 1966, when he was still married to his first wife, Cynthia. She had an art installation at a gallery that he went to see.“There was a sign that said, Hammer a nail in, so I said, ‘Can I hammer a nail in?’ But Yoko said no, because the show wasn’t opening until the next day,” Lennon told Playboy in 1980. “But the owner came up and whispered to her, ‘Let him hammer a nail in. You know, he’s a millionaire. He might buy it.’ And so there was this little conference, and finally she said, ‘Okay, you can hammer a nail in for five shillings.’”
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From teen heart throb to keeping his own heart throbbing, the former Beatle has a fitness routine that is paying great dividends. Here’s the 80-year old’s secret.
There aren’t too many octogenarians headlining high profile rock concerts but Sir Paul McCartney isn't your average 80-year-old. The rock legend recently took to the stage at Glastonbury Festival, one of the world’s biggest contemporary music festivals, and in so doing, became the oldest solo act to headline the festival.
Hey Jude and Let it Be were just a few of the classics he threw himself into – appearing energetic, full of stamina, and with the posture of much younger rockers. So what’s the secret to his vitality? While Paul attributes much of his good health to his vegetarian diet, he also believes his workout routine plays a big role, which he shared on a 2020 episode of the SmartLess podcast.
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Paul McCartney claimed that after punching a teacher, George Harrison’s father rose to fame at school. Simply because they resembled Teddy Boys, the two teachers of the future Beatles frequently gave them canings. Harold Harrison, however, had some thoughts regarding the way they had hit his son.
George Harrison’s father detested school before he punched his teacher.
George wrote about his experiences with his school in his 1980 memoir, I Me Mine. As soon as he entered grammar school, “the darkness” started.
George wrote, “The whole idea of it was so serious.” “You are not permitted to do this or that, including smiling. You must always take those exams, those eleven-plus exams, or apply for scholarships or GCEs. Be here, stand there, shut up, sit down.
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George Harrison traveled to the capital of love, Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco in 1967. He’d taken LSD two years earlier and wanted to see what the hallucinogen had done for the people there. George expected the hippies to be God-conscious or at least charming artistic beings. He found the opposite. In Here Comes The Sun: The Spiritual And Musical Journey Of George Harrison, Joshua M. Greene wrote, “According to astrological calculation, by 1967 Earth was supposed to be emerging from a thousand years of confusion under the sign of Pisces—two fish swimming in opposite directions—and entering a golden age under the sign of Aquarius.
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An empty tricycle trailed by a row of small yellow galoshes sits on the concrete floor.
Along the wall, the massive hands of a Blue Meanie hang next to a skirt of mannequin legs.
Round a corner and behold a half-pipe fitted with measuring sticks at the top, guides for roller-skating acrobats to practice their airborne maneuvers.
They’re all part of the glorious mishmash of props stashed backstage at “The Beatles Love by Cirque du Soleil,” a valentine to the Fab Four as much as it is a colorful uplift powered by one of the headiest catalogs in music history.
The trippy, sound-intensive production – three speakers are embedded in every seat headrest – recently celebrated its 16th anniversary, and is currently the fourth longest-running Cirque among the Las Vegas offerings.
The show’s cast and production team hope to build on that tenure, despite some anxieties about the future of “Love.”
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When George Harrison met his wife, Olivia, he’d recently split with his first wife, Pattie Boyd. Before that, George had spent 10 exhausting years with The Beatles, released his mega triple album, All Things Must Pass, planned the first benefit concert, the Concert for Bangladesh, and started his record label. That’s how George met Olivia.
She worked at George’s record label, A&M Records, and often spoke with him over the phone. When George started Dark Horse Records, Olivia transferred over. They met in person and started seeing each other. He invited her to come on his 1974 American tour.
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George Harrison hated aspects of the material world, including politics, etc. His widow, Olivia, thinks the current state of the world would mortify him. George wouldn’t have gotten too involved. However, he would’ve written songs to be a part of the solution and hoped that politicians would become God-conscious.
It’s been 20 years since George died. One can’t help but wonder what he’d think of everything that’s gone on in the world since his death. In a recent interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Olivia said George would be mortified.
“He would be mortified,” she said. “Dhani and I talk about that a lot: ‘Oh, boy, if Dad was here, he’d just be outraged!'”
However, Olivia can’t deny that George might not have done anything to help but write songs. “But I think now he just might have just decided, ‘You know what? Let’s not give it energy. Let’s just try and be the positive energy.’ He’d be writing songs about it — just trying to be a part of the solution by being his higher self, as opposed to getting down in the hole.”
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Ringo Starr revealed the incredible last thing George Harrison said to him on his deathbed in a 2011 documentary. Picture: Grove Street/Spitfire Pictures
Ringo Starr recalled the last ever words his great friend and fellow-Beatle George Harrison said to him in his final days at his home in Switzerland, before his death on November 29, 2001.
Ringo Starr revealed the last thing Beatles' star George Harrison said to him on his deathbed, and it's incredibly moving.
In footage taken from the Martin Scorsese documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Ringo Starr reveals what was said on his last visit to the Beatle star's home in Switzerland.
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