When the early Beatles — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best, and Stuart Sutcliffe — were first beginning to see success as performers, they nearly destroyed it. Lennon and McCartney took an impromptu hitchhiking trip together. The rest of the band was so upset to have been left behind that they began looking for other groups to join.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney took a hitchhiking trip without their bandmates
After playing shows in Hamburg, Germany, The Beatles returned to Liverpool triumphant. While they were not yet mainstream successes, they were on their way to fame. This all almost fell apart, though.
Lennon invited McCartney on a hitchhiking trip through France and Spain using his birthday money. To go, they ditched several Beatles gigs and seriously angered their bandmates.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon | William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images
“Accordingly the two just took off together, wearing matching bowler hats — the Nerk twins reincarnated,...
John Lennon and Paul McCartney took a hitchhiking trip without their bandmates
After playing shows in Hamburg, Germany, The Beatles returned to Liverpool triumphant. While they were not yet mainstream successes, they were on their way to fame. This all almost fell apart, though.
Lennon invited McCartney on a hitchhiking trip through France and Spain using his birthday money. To go, they ditched several Beatles gigs and seriously angered their bandmates.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon | William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images
“Accordingly the two just took off together, wearing matching bowler hats — the Nerk twins reincarnated,...
- 11/12/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney were the primary songwriters for The Beatles. Lennon and McCartney wrote most of the songs and, at least in the first half of the 1960s, wrote them together. While many of them became massive hits for the band, Harrison didn’t find them all that impressive.
George Harrison wasn’t thrilled by the songs John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote together
Harrison’s sister, Louise, described her brother as a people pleaser.
“George was always the one who tried to please,” she told the Saturday Evening Post in 1964 (via The Guardian). “When the fire needed more coal, he would always say, ‘Mummy, I’ll do it. Let me get the shovel.’ Or, when we’d be going to church, George would polish everyone’s boots.”
He didn’t extend the same treatment to his bandmates, though. Harrison offered a lukewarm assessment of Lennon and McCartney’s writing.
George Harrison wasn’t thrilled by the songs John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote together
Harrison’s sister, Louise, described her brother as a people pleaser.
“George was always the one who tried to please,” she told the Saturday Evening Post in 1964 (via The Guardian). “When the fire needed more coal, he would always say, ‘Mummy, I’ll do it. Let me get the shovel.’ Or, when we’d be going to church, George would polish everyone’s boots.”
He didn’t extend the same treatment to his bandmates, though. Harrison offered a lukewarm assessment of Lennon and McCartney’s writing.
- 8/5/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
George Harrison met John Lennon through Paul McCartney. McCartney suggested Harrison join their band, the Quarrymen, and Lennon reluctantly agreed. He believed Harrison was too young and would ruin their band’s image. Eventually, though, he grew to respect his younger bandmate. Harrison said this happened after he kissed a girl who looked like Brigitte Bardot.
George Harrison shared the moment he felt he gained John Lennon’s respect
Harrison looked up to Lennon, but Lennon didn’t give him the same respect. That is, until Harrison kissed a girl who looked like Bardot. Lennon had long harbored a crush on the French actor, to the point that he asked his girlfriends to try to look more like her.
“Of course, as a teenager, my sexual fantasies were full of Anita Ekberg and the usual giant Nordic goddesses,” Lennon said in The Beatles Anthology. “That is, until Brigitte Bardot became...
George Harrison shared the moment he felt he gained John Lennon’s respect
Harrison looked up to Lennon, but Lennon didn’t give him the same respect. That is, until Harrison kissed a girl who looked like Bardot. Lennon had long harbored a crush on the French actor, to the point that he asked his girlfriends to try to look more like her.
“Of course, as a teenager, my sexual fantasies were full of Anita Ekberg and the usual giant Nordic goddesses,” Lennon said in The Beatles Anthology. “That is, until Brigitte Bardot became...
- 7/28/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
A former Apple employee and friend claimed that George Harrison thought he was Indian in a past life. The former Beatle fell in love with the country’s culture in the mid-1960s. He loved that the old traditions remained and that spirituality ruled.
George Harrison, Mike Love, and John Lennon | Bettmann/Getty Images A former Apple employee said George Harrison believed he was Indian in a past life
In George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door, Graeme Thomson wrote that “physically, spiritually and emotionally,” George found very little of himself in his home city of Liverpool. After finding spirituality in the mid-1960s, George had little ties to much else. His real home wasn’t Liverpool, but anywhere he could connect with God.
Thomson wrote that George’s “eternal spirit, born and reborn over and over again, simply re-entered ‘a body’ at that particular place and that time.”
“It was...
George Harrison, Mike Love, and John Lennon | Bettmann/Getty Images A former Apple employee said George Harrison believed he was Indian in a past life
In George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door, Graeme Thomson wrote that “physically, spiritually and emotionally,” George found very little of himself in his home city of Liverpool. After finding spirituality in the mid-1960s, George had little ties to much else. His real home wasn’t Liverpool, but anywhere he could connect with God.
Thomson wrote that George’s “eternal spirit, born and reborn over and over again, simply re-entered ‘a body’ at that particular place and that time.”
“It was...
- 2/19/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
Proof that neither film nor music are the preserve of the young came from readers' responses last week to three pieces that celebrated the work of two dead musicians and one elderly film director who suffered a stroke. The love displayed for Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Ken Russell was touching, and a reminder that some flashes are best left in the pan. Alexis Petridis's review of a collection of Orbison's singles stirred this memory from kmund: "I bought every 45 of the Big O and – great victory – persuaded my father to take me to see Orbison in his pomp, probably in 1962, headlining a pop star package tour. The man did not move one inch throughout the whole show, other than his hands playing the guitar and his mouth opening and shutting to sing – yet he was utterly mesmerising.
Proof that neither film nor music are the preserve of the young came from readers' responses last week to three pieces that celebrated the work of two dead musicians and one elderly film director who suffered a stroke. The love displayed for Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Ken Russell was touching, and a reminder that some flashes are best left in the pan. Alexis Petridis's review of a collection of Orbison's singles stirred this memory from kmund: "I bought every 45 of the Big O and – great victory – persuaded my father to take me to see Orbison in his pomp, probably in 1962, headlining a pop star package tour. The man did not move one inch throughout the whole show, other than his hands playing the guitar and his mouth opening and shutting to sing – yet he was utterly mesmerising.
- 5/5/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Killing time with a few good songs
It's evident from I Shot A Man in Reno that author Graeme Thomson possesses an undying obsession with songs of mortality. To pursue the subject through such terrain as murder ballads, gangsta rap and '50s teen schmaltz, and to make it a topic of conversation with musicians ranging from Ron Sexsmith to Ice T, one almost has to. Though at times it comes off as a magazine think piece that's vastly outgrown its 3,000-word slot, the book becomes increasingly compelling with each grim avenue it explores.
It's evident from I Shot A Man in Reno that author Graeme Thomson possesses an undying obsession with songs of mortality. To pursue the subject through such terrain as murder ballads, gangsta rap and '50s teen schmaltz, and to make it a topic of conversation with musicians ranging from Ron Sexsmith to Ice T, one almost has to. Though at times it comes off as a magazine think piece that's vastly outgrown its 3,000-word slot, the book becomes increasingly compelling with each grim avenue it explores.
- 11/3/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
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