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This is Love: The George Harrison Club for Fiendish Thingies
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AppleScruffJunior yapped

Keeping with the ‘George’ ‘uke’ theme, a good name for a ukulele would be Keoki, the Hawaiian version of George (Dhani also has a tattoo of it on his arm).

Duly noted! 

And it’s only *mental maths* 77 days till my birthday! Hey, a Georgey number ahdn_george_08 

My uke is named already a-hard-days-night-paul-7

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I found this lovely little bit and wanted to share it. You can see how much everyone loved George… what a lovely man he is ahdn_george_06 

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24/25 DAYS!!!!! beatlemaniacs_02_gif  

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Does George have 2 birthdays?

https://youtu.be/52nwiTs7bk8

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Kind of… a-hard-days-night-paul-10

I think the official explanation is that he was born shortly after midnight on the twenty-fifth, but as it was wartime they had daylight savings, so it was by real time shortly before midnight on the twenty-fourth. Olivia said that sometimes if you wished him a happy birthday on the twenty-fourth he’d say you were early, and if you mentioned it the next day he’d tell you you’re late, because he was silly like that. a-hard-days-night-george-10

Confusing, eh? a-hard-days-night-paul-3

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This is why DST is bad.

 

If it was DST and he was born before midnight, then he was born on the 24th.

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This is interesting 

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 Wow, that is interesting. Any idea who he had in mind when he wrote this? I mean, I’ve got an idea, but is it known?

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Silly Girl said
I found this lovely little bit and wanted to share it. You can see how much everyone loved George… what a lovely man he is ahdn_george_06 

Every time I see images like these, I have to do a double-take. I can’t get over how much Dhani looks like George! Especially when he had his hair like that. It’s almost eerie…

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a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 Enough to make you post in a FIENDISH THINGIES thread?!!?!?!!!!!!!!!!! a-hard-days-night-ringo-6 You made me do a double take when I saw ‘This Is Love – Last Post JPM-Fangirl’.  a-hard-days-night-john-2a-hard-days-night-john-3 a-hard-days-night-john-7  a-hard-days-night-ringo-6 

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 Wow, that is interesting. Any idea who he had in mind when he wrote this? I mean, I’ve got an idea, but is it known?

I think it’s safe to assume he was fairly pissed at somebody when he wrote it. Otherwise I haven’t the foggiest. I just found that image whilst trawling the ‘nets in search of a nice Georgepic (I think during the same search that brought up the picture I just drew). 

Somebody who knows more about George than I do (yes it’s possible) may be able to help more. 

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Awww, come on @Beatlebug! I may be a Paulette, but I love Georgie-Porgie too, you know!heart

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After a little search I found some information about that poem/lyrics on this blog (which is great, btw). According to Hunter Davies it was written when he was a teenager and it may be about John.

I sent a copy to Pattie Boyd, who was married to George at the time. She agreed it was George’s handwriting, and sounded like him, but she had no knowledge of it. I also sent it to Olivia, his widow, and to Paul McCartney , but neither had seen it before. I said in the book that I thought it sounded like typical teenage angst, written perhaps when George was in his late teens or early 20s, after some girl done him wrong. It’s interesting now, after all these years, as it shows that George was writing away creatively, if privately, from an early age, long before he was allowed, or had enough confidence, to contribute his own songs to Beatles albums.

Last week, I handed it over to the British Library, where it has joined the 10 or so other handwritten lyrics by John and Paul on display in the manuscript room, next to Magna Carta, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Wordsworth, Austen. It’s not there on any great poetic or musical merits, but because it is the only example the BL has of a manuscript in George’s hand. I presumed, as people studied it in the BL, or read the words in the book, that eventually some late-middle-aged woman would come forward and say “It was me, I’m the girl in George’s poem”. But I’ve now had second thoughts. I’ve decided that it’s not about a girl, but a boy. And that boy was John Lennon .

When George first joined the Quarrymen – the precursor of the Beatles – in 1958, he was just 15, possibly only 14 (no one knows the exact date), the youngest and least mature member of the skiffle group. He idolised John. John was the macho, dominant, strutting leader. George the callow boy. We all know John could be cruel, as he boasted later about his awful behaviour, making fun of cripples, drawing sick cartoons, saying horrible things. He clearly caused pain to many people who loved him – girls especially, but presumably also to George and perhaps even to Paul, his so-called best friends.

George had been invited into the group and eventually became greatly admired. Despite his tender years, he was an excellent guitarist, far better than John, who was probably quite jealous of his instrumental skills as well as his hard work and determination to improve them – something John could not always be bothered with.

The first six lines of George’s poem can therefore be read as referring to John. As for the last two lines, this could be George thinking, as many people did at the time, that John, for all his obvious originality, wouldn’t get anywhere in life – he’d muck around, end up dossing like his father Fred had done. John himself feared he hadn’t a hope of getting a normal job or earning a living. If, however, my revised interpretation of the poem is correct, then George was one person who did have faith in John.” – Hunter Davies

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George Harrison gave it to Hunter Davies for his book but never used it in a song. Davies speculates that it may have been written a few years earlier because “it reads a bit like teenage angst” although he isn’t certain. He never put it in the book because George afterwards gave him the lyrics to Blue Jay Way which he thought were more relevant for the book (as the song had been released). It’s now in the British Library alongside some other Beatles handwritten lyrics.

Edit: Ah, Merch beat me to it.

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Oh, man, wow. Thanks @Merch. You’re really making your point-zero-something PPD count. 

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 @Mademoiselle Kitty >^..^< said

Every time I see images like these, I have to do a double-take. I can’t get over how much Dhani looks like George! Especially when he had his hair like that. It’s almost eerie…

I can. a-hard-days-night-george-4 

Of course, I’ve looked at Dhani a lot. 

More Georgefest thingies, a very nice cover of I Me Mine (with a lefty bassist so that makes everything right): 

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No idea if its been mentioned so will do. 

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Must say its a great photo of George; he looks fabulous with the hair over his eyes causing them to peep thru.

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meanmistermustard said
No idea if its been mentioned so will do. 

ASJ mentioned it… last year a-hard-days-night-john-6 

If there was a ‘Most informed poster on current Harrison (both of ’em) news’ award ASJ would get it, I think. 

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Must say its a great photo of George; he looks fabulous with the hair over his eyes causing them to peep thru.

I agree. I have that photo in my Let It Be remaster CD case. 
 

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Silly Girl said

meanmistermustard said
No idea if its been mentioned so will do. 

ASJ mentioned it… last year a-hard-days-night-john-6 
 

Oh. Cool.

I cannot remember what was posted last week never mind last year.

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 @Evangeline, you mentioned in another thread that you felt George is the best Beatle (which is, of course, absolutely correcta-hard-days-night-george-10). I thought you might like to join us here in fangirling over the wonderful man known as George Harrison heartheartheart 

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George the boss a-hard-days-night-george-4

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