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That would work better on a live chat site. So responses are instant.

Also if both of you answer all the questions, then it can depend on how many questions the opposite prepared. So if John has 16 questions and Paul answers all 16 questions in one minute then John lose so you both better have a bunch of good questions or else you could lose.

Also in a tie you could count and see whoever got the most questions responded too.

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OLIVIA HARRISON (issued their first statement to the press on behalf of the family through Gavin de Becker): “He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God , fearless of death and at peace, surrounded by family and friends.

“He often said, ‘Everything else can wait but the search for God can’t wait, and love one another’.”

DHANI HARRISON: “We’re truly grateful for the tremendous support we’ve received from friends and from the very many members of the public whom we don’t know personally, but who thought of us and send us good wishes.”

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY (speaking from his St John’s Wood home, north-west London): “I am devastated and very, very sad.

“We knew he’d been ill for a long time. He was a lovely guy and a very brave man and had a wonderful sense of humour.

“He is really just my baby brother.”

RINGO STARR (from Vancouver, Canada): “George was a best friend of mine. I loved him very much and I will miss him greatly.

“Both Barbara and I send our love and light to Olivia and Dhani.

“We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.”

YOKO ONO: “George has given so much to us in his lifetime and continues to do so even after his passing, with his music, his wit and his wisdom.”

“His life was magical and we all felt we had shared a little bit of it by knowing him.

“Thank you, George – it was grand knowing you.”

SIR GEORGE MARTIN: “George was a wonderful musician and a fine human being.

“He was the baby of the Beatles, and unlike Paul and John, he had a hard time developing his songwriting talent and making his music alone.

“But he worked hard, and with enormous patience, building his music meticulously, and he eventually came to write one of the greatest love songs of all time – Something .

“George was a true friend, intensely loyal, caring deeply for those he loved and he inspired much love in return. Now I believe, as he did, that he has entered a higher state. God give him peace.”

NEIL ASPINALL (Head of Apple Records): “This is a very sad day for Apple and for all Beatles fans worldwide.

“It was my privilege to have been a friend of such a very special man – he will be greatly missed by us all.”

PATTIE BOYD (George’s first wife said with tears streaming from her eyes): “I am just so, so sad. Of course, we’ve been expecting it, but when it actually happens it is still a great shock and I’m terribly upset.”

CYNTHIA LENNON: “This is a very sad day for myself and everyone who knew and loved George. He was part of my teenage years, he was part of my marriage to John, in fact, a very important and unforgettable part of my life. He was part of my family.”

JULIAN LENNON: “It is a sad day for all of us, I loved George very much. He was the kindest of men. Our time together, though little, was always memorable. He was a man to be inspired by and he certainly touched my heart and millions of others. He will be missed, but I believe that after all the pain he has endured, he is finally at peace. My heart goes out to Olivia and Dhani, but I know that George is still with them in spirit and will be guarding them every day of their lives until they meet again. George you are beautiful.

Luv Ya Always,
Julian x”

WHAT THE FAMOUS SAID ABOUT GEORGE:

TONY BLAIR, PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN: “He wasn’t just a great musician, an artist, but did a lot of work for charity as well. He’ll be greatly missed around the world.”

GERRY SCOTT, LIVERPOOL’S LORD MAYOR: “He was one of the greatest Liverpudlians. He was a warm, peace-loving man who was much more than a talented musician.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II (a spokesperson, representing the Queen, announced): “The Queen was saddened by the news of George Harrison ‘s death.”

BADRUDDOZA CHOWDHURY, PRESIDENT OF BANGLADESH (on remembering George’s August 1, 1971 “Bangla Desh” benefit concert): “The people of Bangladesh consider Harrison as their beloved man, who felt for them in 1971 during their days of agony and distress.”

KHALEDA ZIA, PRIME MINISTER OF BANGLADESH: “George Harrison will be remembered forever by the people of Bangladesh.”

JEAN CHRETIEN, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA: “He was a great personality. The Beatles were, for a lot of people, extremely important and they made a big impact at that time and it was a great group.”

LIONEL JOSPIN, PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE (declared George as): “…one of the great figures of pop music” and “an impressive and masterful guitarist.”

BOB DYLAN: “He was a giant, a great, great soul, with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common sense of a man and compassion for people. He inspired love and had the strength of a hundred men. He was like the sun, the flowers and the moon and we will miss him enormously. The world is a profoundly emptier place without him.”

MICK JAGGER (of the Rolling Stones): “I am very saddened by George’s death and will miss him enormously. As a guitarist, he invented many classic lines that were much copied by others and he wrote several very beautiful songs that we will always remember.”

ALLAN WILLIAMS (Beatles’ first manager): “He was a loveable person. I would say he was the major cog in The Beatles at that time. He kept them together probably because of the calming effect he had.”

PETE BEST (the Beatles original drummer): “It is a tragic loss of life, a tragic loss of a great musician.”

GERRY MARSDEN (of “Gerry and the Pacemakers” who shared the Cavern spotlight on stage with the Beatles): “This is a black day…he was always trying to find his own way. By the end, he had.”

JAMES BROWN (the “godfather of soul”): “George Harrison was one of the world’s few good men, one of the better people I ever met. I will and the world will miss him. He was truly loved.”

DENNY LAINE (who played in Paul McCartney ‘s post-Beatles group, Wings): “It was an uncanny feeling….George was a very special person. I know you all loved him. I loved him. God bless you George.”

PHILIP NORMAN (author of Beatles biography “Shout” stated it was an “awful shock”): “There was a certain bitterness about him, but later in life he realized what good fortune he had enjoyed.

“He had a happy marriage and a son and realized there was more to life than being a Beatle.”

JEFF HEALEY (who did a cover version of George’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps “): “I never had occasion to meet the man, unfortunately. I definitely would have loved to.

“George’s work with the Beatles is probably my favourite.

“He was a wonderful writer and a great guitar player as well and he wasn’t given credit enough for that. His general positive attitude towards things will be missed. However, it’s still present in the music that he made.”

MARY HOPKIN (former Apple recording artist and who, until recently, lived near him in Henley-on-Thames, said): “It was not a surprise but was nevertheless tragic news. I hadn’t seen him for some time, not since his illness, and it’s a great loss especially as he had such enormous talent.”

CILLA BLACK (songstress from the Cavern days who later had enormously successful string of hit songs composed by the Beatles, said): “I am deeply saddened and shocked to hear the news about George. My sympathies are with Olivia and Dhani and the rest of the family at this very sad time.”

PETE TOWNSHEND (from “The Who” rock group): “Goodbye sweet man. ATMP .”

BRYAN ADAMS (Canadian singer/guitarist, performed with George in 1998 at the Prince’s Trust charity concerts at Wembley Arena in London): “It’s a sad day, because we don’t need fewer people that make such beautiful music.”

JEFF LYNNE (member of George’s “Traveling Wilburys” and music producer): “You always knew where you stood with George, he was totally honest. I feel blessed to have been so close to him. He was a great friend. He wrote brilliantly original songs, played the greatest slide guitar and had the most amazing sense of humor. He really had the ‘Inner Light’ and always will. Some of the happiest days of my life were spent in the studio with George.”

BRIAN WILSON (from the ’60s rock group “The Beach Boys “): “I am horribly saddened by the death of George Harrison . While we were not personal friends, I think that just like everybody in the world, I have always considered all the Beatles to be my friends. Their arrival in America in 1964 was electrifying, one of the most exciting things that ever happened in my life, and their music has always and will always mean so much to me.”

TONY BARROW (Beatles press officer from 1962-68): “George was certainly the friendliest Beatle from the very beginning.

“He had the reputation for being the quiet one. He hated all of the Beatlemania thing. When I was arranging interviews for George I had to be very selective because sit him down in front of an interviewer who wants to know about his collection of instruments and he would talk all day.

“He was a fastidious musician – before a performance he’d often be putting not only his own guitar in tune but also the instruments of the other lads….He was a fine musician, and if he had not lived under this overbearing shadow of Lennon and McCartney he would have been recognized as a great songwriter rather earlier.

“This is a very sad day.”

BOB WOOLER (The Cavern’s compère who introduced the Beatles on stage): “George had to fight all the way to get the recognition he deserved.

“The others really asserted themselves, and of course, eventually found the winning formula which was Lennon and McCartney.

“But in those early days it would have been wrong to talk in terms of the Mersey Sound, because all the Beatles sang in strict rotation, and mostly cover numbers made famous by other artists.

“This meant that George, who always stood on the left, looking at the stage, sang quite a lot.”

MICHAEL PALIN (former Monty Python comedian): “I was amazed and delighted he was such a Python fan.

“He enabled us to make Life of Brian and other films like A Private Function – none of these would have happened without his enthusiasm.

“George had a great sense of humour – some of the best laughs I’ve had have been with George.”

JOOLS HOLLAND (one of the last musicians to work and record with George): “I’m deeply saddened to hear of the loss of my dear friend George.

“We’ve not only lost one of the most important figures in popular music, but more importantly one of the friendliest, most generous and funniest of people I’ve ever met.”

(Note: It is believed that George’s final recording was on October 1, 2001, at his Swiss home. He cut vocal to the track “Horse to the Water” which is co-written by his son, Dhani. George, knowing the eventual fate of his own mortality, used his dark humour and credited the song to “RIP Ltd 2001.” The album — “Small World Big Band” — contains George’s new composition and made its debut in the final week of November, coming in at 18th spot on the U.K. charts.)

MARTIN LEWIS (Beatle historian): “As a guitar player, he was exemplary. So many musicians talked about how they wanted the George Harrison sound. The group the Byrds, in America, listened to Harrison and said, ‘I want to be like that.’ So many guitar players today emulate Harrison’s guitar playing. You listen to his playing in the ’60s, he doesn’t sound out of date at all. It is as contemporary today as it was then.”

ALLAN KOZINN (Beatle historian and New York Times reporter): “…he served as an anchor for the quartet, leading the others on a spiritual quest toward Eastern philosophy that influenced their music in the latter part of the 1960’s, epitomized for millions of fans by the sitar he played on “Norwegian Wood .”

RAVI SHANKAR (sitar virtuoso): “George was my student. But on the other hand he was a very close friend. His death has been a tremendous shock to me which cannot be expressed in words….I pray to God that his soul to rest in peace.”

KEITH RICHARDS (of the Rolling Stones): “To me, George was, always will be, above all, a real gentleman, in the full meaning of the word…Let’s hope he’s jamming with John.”

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