The Beatles Bible - Topic: Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

bewareofchairs on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Sun, 05 May 2013 05:53:45 +0100

A Man With A Truly Big Heart

by Konrad Engbers

The man who founded Engbers Garden Centre has told how George Harrison helped him to establish the business in its early days.

Konrad Engbers recalls how George visited the centre just after he started. “He came in to see me and asked how things were. I told him it was a little slow and he said ‘I’ll give it a little push for you’. He then bought almost every tree I had in stock and first thing the next day a motorcycle courier turned up with payment. “Ever since then he was one of ...

parlance on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:24:21 +0100

bewareofchairs said
“Sometimes, being the Beatles resident Mr Fixit didn’t seem such a great idea. Like the day [in 1964] George sent me a note from America. I’m not sure exactly where it was from, but then neither was he. The address was given as ‘Somewhere in America’ and the date as ‘Sunday the something’. George told me he had seen a great picture of him in the US papers taken in an unguarded moment when he was pulling an angry face and flashing a well-known two-fingered salute. George thought this was the most hilarious photo of him ever ...

fabfouremily on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:23:10 +0100

bewareofchairs said
“On the evening session [February 23, 1962] at the Cavern, people were queuing just after midnight for the show the next day. George Harrison came in his Ford Anglia and asked them how long they had been waiting. He knew that they would be out in the elements all night, and he went to the Pier Head and brought back twenty-five steak-and-kidney pies.” - Joey Shields (blues singer), The Beatles in Liverpool

Bless him. Even when he was just 19, he was a darling

bewareofchairs on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:43:23 +0100

“Sometimes, being the Beatles resident Mr Fixit didn’t seem such a great idea. Like the day [in 1964] George sent me a note from America. I’m not sure exactly where it was from, but then neither was he. The address was given as ‘Somewhere in America’ and the date as ‘Sunday the something’. George told me he had seen a great picture of him in the US papers taken in an unguarded moment when he was pulling an angry face and flashing a well-known two-fingered salute. George thought this was the most hilarious photo of him ever taken. He enclosed ...

bewareofchairs on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:49:16 +0100

A really touching article about George's relationship with Carl Perkins and his sons. I wish this information had been included in Scorsese's documentary.

When he heard George Harrison had died, Greg Perkins, the youngest son of longtime Harrison friend Carl Perkins, sat outside and reminisced about how his favorite Beatle loved gardening. Greg's brother, Stan, was saddened but smiled as he thought of Harrison at his daddy's funeral. As Harrison stood to honor the fallen legend, he reached out and tapped the casket three times to reconnect with his old friend. Jackson musician Wes Henley, who played and toured with rockabilly ...

Egroeg Evoli on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:36:07 +0100

bewareofchairs on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:44:51 +0100

I just found this one, so heartwarming!:

Harrison left Fijians with memories, music

A couple of years ago, George Harrison and his lovely wife, Olivia, visited Lomalagi Resort on Vanua Levu, in Fiji. After a couple of days they asked if they could visit the nearby Fijian village.
The visit was arranged, with much excitement and anticipation by the villagers. When we arrived, they had a big area set up, with mats and cushions for all of us. Tea was served. Then the men put on a Fijian "meke" -- a beautifully choreographed war dance.

Following that performance, the "Lomalagi Band Boys" got ...

AppleScruffJunior on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:45:58 +0000

Quite a short conversation with a big background story but still cute all the same:

A Vacation Surprise

Le Grand Prix de Long Beach 1982

By Patti Murawski and Karen Dyson

I’ve been taking an annual holiday in Los Angeles for many years to visit family and some very dear friends. Each year I make it a point to try to include the Long Beach Grand Prix on my itinerary, F-1 motor sport being one of my passions.

So on the sunny weekend of the Long Beach Grand Prix, as qualifying was taking place on Friday, I was walking along, absorbed in my photography, really ...

Egroeg Evoli on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:36:37 +0000

I love that story! George was so nice to them!

bewareofchairs on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:18:43 +0000

Hello friends,

Last Friday when I heard the sad news about George, all I could bring myself to do was send you a brief message, with profound pain, in which I promised that I would share with everyone our wonderful encounter with him two years ago in Henley-on-Thames, right at the door of his home, Friar Park. My wife Silvia and I had a wonderful conversation with him for almost 20 minutes that was without a doubt the best experience of our lives and which we will never forget. There we confirmed what we had already thought about him--we met an absolutely ...

bewareofchairs on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:35:46 +0000

I'm so glad I finally found this article again. Been looking for it for ages!

In August 2000, Ravi Shankar’s first wife, the reclusive surbahar virtuoso Annapurna Devi, gave Man’s World a rare interview in which she spoke about her torturous marriage and the tragic life of their son Shubho. The interview was a bit bizarre. She invited the writer Aalif Surti to her house, allowed him to wander around, but refused to meet him. She asked him to give a written set of questions and then answered all of them on paper.

In the Hindustani classical music fraternity, Annapurna Devi’s genius is part ...

Dark_Horse on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:02:53 +0000

So beautiful... Thanks for this ....

bewareofchairs on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:22:16 +0000

That was beautiful, parlance. Thanks so much for posting.

This is from Eric Idle's Greedy Bastard Diary and is another one which is heartbreaking:

29/11/03

Today was a bad day for me. The anniversary of George’s death two years ago is on my mind all day. I know I will have to write something about him, and that is a painful thing even to think about. That man, so alive with those amazing eyes, lying so still as I scattered rose petals on him, my shoulders shaking, weeping. Sitting with him. Seeing him so thin, hearing that terrible merciless cough – no, it’s ...

parlance on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:40:57 +0000

Very welcome. I hope it gets translated too.

parlance

mja6758 on Cool/Funny/Lovely Stories About George

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:23:41 +0000

I had tears in my eyes by the end of that. Let's hope Klaus' book gets translated into English. A beautiful man talking with great love about a beautiful man. Thanks for the post Parlance.