My favourite member of my favourite group would be celebrating his 63rd birthday, if he still was among us! I got the cd of the Bangladesh Concert from my dear brother for Christmas, and have been listening to it for the whole morning!
I found The Beatles very early, I must have been around 5 years old. My father had the lp's, and he had recorded them on tapes, I can still remember the cassettes, they were red and a brand called "Ferro", me and bro used to listen to them every day, and very soon we were recording our own versions with the piano and the triangle, sometimes beaten very aggressively.
A few years later we recorded some more, not really knowing the words nor the pronounciation, but we had so much fun.
After that we have traditionally gathered together at my mother's house to play and sing, not just The Beatles but a lot of other stuff as well, mostly written in the 60's though. Last time we met we played "House Of The Rising Sun" at least three times and my throat was all sore and dry the next day, but I can't remember the last time I had felt so happy!!
My favorite songs from George are "Savoy Truffle" (he wrote it with his friend Eric Clapton, they were eating chocolates and stole their names straight to the song, the lyrics are fantastic!!), "Old Brown Shoe", "I Me Mine" (at first I thought of naming this blog after that but Sting won), "Here Comes The Sun" and of course, "Something". I like the fact that he was into the eastern mystical stuff and a fellow Pisces. Takes one to know one!!
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