The fans call Paul the handsome one, and he knows it. The others in the group call Paul "The Star." He does most of the singing and most of the wiggling, trying to swing his hips after the fashion of Elvis Presley, one of his boyhood idols. In the British equivalent of high school, Paul was mostly in the upper ranks scholastically, unlike the other Beatles. "He was like, you know, a goody-goody in school," remembers one of Paul's boyhood friends. He also, as another former classmate remembers him, was a "tubby little kid" who avoided girlish rejections by avoiding girls. ... Paul, who plays bass guitar, wears the same tight pants that are part of the uniform of the Beatles, although he often distinguishes himself by a vest. "Paul," says one member of the troupe, "is the only one of the boys who's had it go to his head." Sometimes, talking with the other Beatles, he finds himself using accents much more high-toned than the working-class slang of Liverpool, where he grew up. When he does, John Lennon mockingly mimics him.
- Al Aronowitz, ‘The Beatles: Music's Gold Bugs’, Saturday Evening Post, (March 1964)
So guys… I was looking up musicians speaking in German and I found this!
Omg his Scouse accent in German sounds so cute honestly… here’s a translation of what he’s saying! (Done by me!)
Hello dear BRAVO friends! George Harrison speaking here. We Beatles were very excited and thankful that you guys have nominated us as the most popular beat band! We are very proud of our BRAVO Otto and that we have so many friends in Germany. Especially because we have so many great and fond memories about Good Old Germany. John, Paul, and Ringo asked me to let you know their names as well. Thank you very very much. From my whole heart thank you! And we wish all of our fans here the best, and especially all the BRAVO readers!
Your George Harrison
(Context: BRAVO is the oldest and most famous German youth magazine, and the BRAVO Otto is its award!)
George Harrison in The Beatles: Get Back (sneak peek)
“I dream about him.”
my roman empire will always be Noel Gallagher in Teotihuacán, México, 1998 🇲🇽
If I fell
THE FOOL ON THE HILL . recorded: September 25-27 / October 20, 1967 filmed: October 31, 1967, in Nice
PAUL: I used to know Marijke [member of “The Fool”, the Dutch design collective and band], she was a quite striking-looking girl. She used to read my fortune in Tarot cards, which was something I wasn’t too keen on because I didn’t want to draw the death card one day. I still don’t like that kind of stuff because I know my mind will dwell on it. I always steered a bit clear of all that shit, but in fact it always used to come out as the Fool. And I used to say, ‘Oh, dear!’ and she used to say, ‘No no no. The Fool’s a very good card. On the surface it looks stupid, the Fool, but in fact it’s one of the best cards, because it’s the innocent, it’s the child, it’s that reading of fool.’ So I began to like the word ‘fool’, because I began to see through the surface meaning. I wrote ‘The Fool on the Hill’ out of that experience of seeing Tarot cards. (…) I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle he wasn’t taken too seriously. It was this idea of a fool on the hill, a guru in a cave, I was attracted to. I remember once hearing about a hermit who missed the Second World War because he’d been in a cave in Italy, and that always appealed to me. I was sitting at the piano in at my father’s house in Liverpool hitting a D 6th chord and I made up ‘Fool on the Hill’. There were some good words in it, ‘perfectly still’, I liked that, and the idea that everyone thinks he’s stupid appealed to me, because they still do. Saviours or gurus are generally spat upon, so I thought for my generation I’d suggest that they weren’t as stupid as they looked. [myfn]
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PAUL: It was during that time, A-levels time, I remember thinking, in many ways I wish I was a lorry driver, a Catholic lorry driver. Very very simple life, a firm faith and a place to go in my lorry, in my nice lorry. I realised I was more complex than that and I slightly envied that life. I envied the innocence. [myfn]
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Hes so cute