George Harrison on What Each of The Beatles Was Really Like: Ringo Starr was 'the Party Boy'
In The Beatles‘ heyday, each member was painted as this larger-than-life caricature of a rock star. But what were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr really like? Harrison answers that question in one of his columns for the Daily Express in 1964. Here’s how each of The Beatles acted behind closed doors, and why they put on that famous “blasé” attitude.
“A lot of rubbish has been written about our personalities,” Harrison wrote with the help of Daily Express writer Derek Taylor, as recorded in the book George Harrison on George Harrison. So he went to set the record straight himself.
“John is supposed to be a relaxed, laconic comedian,” he began. “But this isn’t the whole picture or even the right one. John is a little shy, defensive, always aware of people, interested in their motives and not always pleased by what he finds.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
