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RE: Can anyone remember my post from many years ago?
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@njr said in Can anyone remember my post from many years ago?:
@fast-city-line I’ve only been around here since 2011 (the site has been here since 2002) but I remember someone somewhere, either here or on FB comparing Paul to Angela Lansbury. I may have even seen the Craig Ferguson (not Kilborn) show. Found this with quick Google search:
Apr 30, 2009 — On the Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Shirley Manson simply can't get out of her head that Paul McCartney looks like Angela Lansbury.
And this:
Oct 12, 2022 — "Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney" (Craig Ferguson's long-running joke about Angela Lansbury)
Yeah, Ferguson did it also, but Kilborn as far as I know started that comparison (he preceded Ferguson as host of that same show).
Oh! I didn’t realize Ferguson took over for Kilborn.
Yeah, Kilborn "retired" early. On his last show in 2004, he opened a $1,000 bottle of whiskey and shared it with his last guest (whom I can't remember and can't find online)
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
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@njr Thanks anyway!
After short Google search, I found this!
Thanks, it looks promising, but they won't preview the only part I need -- the last page!
Ya want something bad enough, ya gotta pay for it!
Yeah, but in this case it's like buying a car from a salesman who won't let you look at the engine!
I know this is probably just another one of your jokes, but the guy would hardly publish the entire thing if he’s trying to sell it! What would be the point of that?
True; but there could be a compromise. He could answer my question "do you include those chords at the very end where the song spins out into an electric guitar solo?" At that point I'd still have to trust his word, but at least I'd have more to go by. In the meantime, I've found 3 different versions of those end chords and will do a comparison soon.
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RE: Can anyone remember my post from many years ago?
@njr said in Can anyone remember my post from many years ago?:
@fast-city-line I’ve only been around here since 2011 (the site has been here since 2002) but I remember someone somewhere, either here or on FB comparing Paul to Angela Lansbury. I may have even seen the Craig Ferguson (not Kilborn) show. Found this with quick Google search:
Apr 30, 2009 — On the Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Shirley Manson simply can't get out of her head that Paul McCartney looks like Angela Lansbury.
And this:
Oct 12, 2022 — "Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney" (Craig Ferguson's long-running joke about Angela Lansbury)
Yeah, Ferguson did it also, but Kilborn as far as I know started that comparison (he preceded Ferguson as host of that same show).
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Can anyone remember my post from many years ago?
I actually joined this website (I think) a long time ago, but only for 15 minutes just to post one thing and then I never came back until just a couple of months ago.
I'm trying to ascertain how long ago that was. I can't even pinpoint it. It could have been 2005 or 2010, I really have no idea. I wonder if any veteran macca members who have been here since the beginning might remember my post. It was a new idea at the time and I may have gotten it from talk show host Craig Kilborn (he hosted the Late Late Show between 1999 and 2004). Anyway he did this thing where he compared Paul McCartney to Angela Lansbury, and he would put up photos of the two of them side by side. Even by then which is some 20 years ago, Paul was already beginning to look like her. So my post was just doing the same thing -- I put up photos of both of them as a lark. Does anyone remember that? And if you do can you pinpoint the year? Thanks
P.S.: Or was there another "Macca" site ~20 years ago?
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr Thanks anyway!
After short Google search, I found this!
Thanks, it looks promising, but they won't preview the only part I need -- the last page!
Ya want something bad enough, ya gotta pay for it!
Yeah, but in this case it's like buying a car from a salesman who won't let you look at the engine!
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr Thanks anyway!
After short Google search, I found this!
wow I think I may have found it, but I'll have to test it out (tomorrow)
see the "Coda"
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr Thanks anyway!
After short Google search, I found this!
Thanks, it looks promising, but they won't preview the only part I need -- the last page!
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RE: It's A Bit Late But...
@wandy
I sat in my chair determined NOT to tap my foot -- but my foot wouldn't cooperate!
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
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I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
A bit of both I think!
Was this letter a one-off? Or did he write more letters like this to Mrs Harrison? If this was a one-off, I wonder how she took it? "Oh that little Johnny boy, such a character!"
IIRC, John used to write to Mrs. Harrison a lot because she was such a “fan” of theirs and always welcomed them into the house to practice, unlike his stern Aunt Mimi. Both he & Paul’s mums were dead and Ringo didn’t join until Aug. 1962, so Mrs. Harrison was the only one to write to (like a mum) 1960-1962.
P.S. Mrs. Harrison would answer fans letters too. I wrote to her and Maureen Starkey in 1968 after Hunter Davies revealed that they both wrote to fans - I received a letter from Maureen, but not Mrs. H.Wow, so cool that you got that letter!
I'd like to see the other correspondence between John and Mrs. HarrisonNot sure if any more of it was preserved. Could be in either Hunter Davies bio or Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In. Do you have those?
No, I've never read any book about the Beatles. I'm quite the fledgling Beatles fan, hardly have spent any time digging around. I probably know more about Santana and Chicago, two other bands I like a lot, than I do the Beatles. I even read half of Carlos Santana's autobiography (I quit reading it because it was getting kind of tedious with details I wasn't interested in, and instead of finishing it I just dove into the index and picked out entries I wanted to read).
Well, I’m quite the opposite! Since 1964 I have accumulated and read over 150 Beatles-related books!
Did a Google search and couldn’t find any others from John to Mrs. Harrison, but here’s a cute one to George in 1974: (you can open it in Chrome - see bottom of page)https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/rz7zj1/john_lennon_letters_to_cynthia_and_george_in_1974/
Thanks that was interesting. It led in the comments to other links, one to a Lennon letter to Paul and Linda that was pretty rough. "So get that into your petty little perversion of a mind, Mrs. McCartney" -- wow!
Yeah, I’ve read that nasty letter.
Even though some say that people exaggerate the infighting and contention among The Beatles, it does seem like there was some deep-seated acrimony, particularly relating to Paul, something about the way he was that got under the skin of the others, perhaps especially John. Close friends can do that to each other, no doubt. But there's still usually a reason for it, and I don't think it's always the case that "nobody is at fault" or "everybody is at fault". Sometimes it could just be that one of the two is more guilty than the other in terms of some context or some habit.
If I may speculate a little, I think there were two things about Paul that might have rubbed the others the wrong way -- one of them is the way he handled the business end of things. The other was his musical perfectionism, that seemed to be on an extreme OCD level. Since I'm a Paul fan myself, I don't mind his perfectionism because I think he's probably usually right about whatever details he wants. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't annoy friends and musical partners around him. On the business angle, I noticed a subtle detail that to me indicates Paul's attitude. Many years ago I purchased the song book for the first Ringo solo album. It's a cool song book with a lot of drawings by Klaus Voormann. Now in that album, you have a song written by each of the other three Beatles -- Photograph by George Harrison (co-written by Ringo), I'm The Greatest by John Lennon, and Six O'Clock by Paul McCartney. The interesting detail is that in that song book the only song NOT included is Paul's song. I can't think of any other reason than purely business calculations, which evidently the other two Beatles didn't care about -- to their credit.
Wow! That really is odd they would exclude Paul’s song!
There was another incident that happened in the summer of 1968 after John left Cyn & Julian (they lived in the house in Weybridge for awhile) and John & Yoko moved in with Paul when he had Francie Schwartz shacked up there. This is a bit long, but read it. If true, it’s a good reason for John to be pissed at Paul:(and just an fyi, that was not his 1st solo album. You forgot Beaucoups of Blues and Sentimental Journey)
Thanks. That's interesting. Even though that guy writing that article doubts Francie, I don't see why one should doubt her. Just because the principals don't mention the incident later I don't think is a good enough reason to say she's lying. And the details that she provides sound realistic and not made up, like it was typed and with no signature, etc. If we're speculating, it's possible that a few years later into the 70s maybe Paul finally apologized but they kept it between them.
Yes, I just realized there were two Ringo albums before that one. I defer to the Beatlemaniac Expert! By the way that song Six O'Clock, even though it's not in the Ringo songbook as it should be, is in the Paul McCartney songbook on Red Rose Speedway which I own also -- even though that song is not on Red RoseSpeedway! But I'm glad I found it somewhere back in the day before the internet, because I'm not good at figuring out chords by ear and back then it was very difficult to find music scores especially for an obscure song like that.
Thanks for the acknowledgment!
I have a lot of Beatles songbooks and one of McCartney’s called Composer Artist (1981) It’s not in there, but I did find it in The New Songs Of George, Paul & Ringo. There’s no date on the songbook, but I don’t think any song it it is newer than 1974.You're welcome! Could you look at the The New Songs Of George, Paul & Ringo song book when you have a moment and tell me if Too Many People is there, and more importantly, does it have the unusual chords at the very end of the song when the song spins out on an electric guitar solo? I have the official Ram songbook, has lots of cool drawings and photos probably by Linda and Paul, and also has a few notes by Paul inside. However, the musical notation is not complete, and just does not have those final chords in that song. I remember years ago finding those chords notated on a page that seemed to be related to the maccaboard, but I can't find it anymore. It was like a list of McCartney songs showing all their chords. It was the only place in some 40 years that I was able to find those elusive chords. I should have done a screenshot, but that was before I knew how to do that...
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
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I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
A bit of both I think!
Was this letter a one-off? Or did he write more letters like this to Mrs Harrison? If this was a one-off, I wonder how she took it? "Oh that little Johnny boy, such a character!"
IIRC, John used to write to Mrs. Harrison a lot because she was such a “fan” of theirs and always welcomed them into the house to practice, unlike his stern Aunt Mimi. Both he & Paul’s mums were dead and Ringo didn’t join until Aug. 1962, so Mrs. Harrison was the only one to write to (like a mum) 1960-1962.
P.S. Mrs. Harrison would answer fans letters too. I wrote to her and Maureen Starkey in 1968 after Hunter Davies revealed that they both wrote to fans - I received a letter from Maureen, but not Mrs. H.Wow, so cool that you got that letter!
I'd like to see the other correspondence between John and Mrs. HarrisonNot sure if any more of it was preserved. Could be in either Hunter Davies bio or Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In. Do you have those?
No, I've never read any book about the Beatles. I'm quite the fledgling Beatles fan, hardly have spent any time digging around. I probably know more about Santana and Chicago, two other bands I like a lot, than I do the Beatles. I even read half of Carlos Santana's autobiography (I quit reading it because it was getting kind of tedious with details I wasn't interested in, and instead of finishing it I just dove into the index and picked out entries I wanted to read).
Well, I’m quite the opposite! Since 1964 I have accumulated and read over 150 Beatles-related books!
Did a Google search and couldn’t find any others from John to Mrs. Harrison, but here’s a cute one to George in 1974: (you can open it in Chrome - see bottom of page)https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/rz7zj1/john_lennon_letters_to_cynthia_and_george_in_1974/
Thanks that was interesting. It led in the comments to other links, one to a Lennon letter to Paul and Linda that was pretty rough. "So get that into your petty little perversion of a mind, Mrs. McCartney" -- wow!
Yeah, I’ve read that nasty letter.
Even though some say that people exaggerate the infighting and contention among The Beatles, it does seem like there was some deep-seated acrimony, particularly relating to Paul, something about the way he was that got under the skin of the others, perhaps especially John. Close friends can do that to each other, no doubt. But there's still usually a reason for it, and I don't think it's always the case that "nobody is at fault" or "everybody is at fault". Sometimes it could just be that one of the two is more guilty than the other in terms of some context or some habit.
If I may speculate a little, I think there were two things about Paul that might have rubbed the others the wrong way -- one of them is the way he handled the business end of things. The other was his musical perfectionism, that seemed to be on an extreme OCD level. Since I'm a Paul fan myself, I don't mind his perfectionism because I think he's probably usually right about whatever details he wants. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't annoy friends and musical partners around him. On the business angle, I noticed a subtle detail that to me indicates Paul's attitude. Many years ago I purchased the song book for the first Ringo solo album. It's a cool song book with a lot of drawings by Klaus Voormann. Now in that album, you have a song written by each of the other three Beatles -- Photograph by George Harrison (co-written by Ringo), I'm The Greatest by John Lennon, and Six O'Clock by Paul McCartney. The interesting detail is that in that song book the only song NOT included is Paul's song. I can't think of any other reason than purely business calculations, which evidently the other two Beatles didn't care about -- to their credit.
Wow! That really is odd they would exclude Paul’s song!
There was another incident that happened in the summer of 1968 after John left Cyn & Julian (they lived in the house in Weybridge for awhile) and John & Yoko moved in with Paul when he had Francie Schwartz shacked up there. This is a bit long, but read it. If true, it’s a good reason for John to be pissed at Paul:(and just an fyi, that was not his 1st solo album. You forgot Beaucoups of Blues and Sentimental Journey)
Thanks. That's interesting. Even though that guy writing that article doubts Francie, I don't see why one should doubt her. Just because the principals don't mention the incident later I don't think is a good enough reason to say she's lying. And the details that she provides sound realistic and not made up, like it was typed and with no signature, etc. If we're speculating, it's possible that a few years later into the 70s maybe Paul finally apologized but they kept it between them.
Yes, I just realized there were two Ringo albums before that one. I defer to the Beatlemaniac Expert! By the way that song Six O'Clock, even though it's not in the Ringo songbook as it should be, is in the Paul McCartney songbook on Red Rose Speedway which I own also -- even though that song is not on Red RoseSpeedway! But I'm glad I found it somewhere back in the day before the internet, because I'm not good at figuring out chords by ear and back then it was very difficult to find music scores especially for an obscure song like that.
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
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I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
A bit of both I think!
Was this letter a one-off? Or did he write more letters like this to Mrs Harrison? If this was a one-off, I wonder how she took it? "Oh that little Johnny boy, such a character!"
IIRC, John used to write to Mrs. Harrison a lot because she was such a “fan” of theirs and always welcomed them into the house to practice, unlike his stern Aunt Mimi. Both he & Paul’s mums were dead and Ringo didn’t join until Aug. 1962, so Mrs. Harrison was the only one to write to (like a mum) 1960-1962.
P.S. Mrs. Harrison would answer fans letters too. I wrote to her and Maureen Starkey in 1968 after Hunter Davies revealed that they both wrote to fans - I received a letter from Maureen, but not Mrs. H.Wow, so cool that you got that letter!
I'd like to see the other correspondence between John and Mrs. HarrisonNot sure if any more of it was preserved. Could be in either Hunter Davies bio or Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In. Do you have those?
No, I've never read any book about the Beatles. I'm quite the fledgling Beatles fan, hardly have spent any time digging around. I probably know more about Santana and Chicago, two other bands I like a lot, than I do the Beatles. I even read half of Carlos Santana's autobiography (I quit reading it because it was getting kind of tedious with details I wasn't interested in, and instead of finishing it I just dove into the index and picked out entries I wanted to read).
Well, I’m quite the opposite! Since 1964 I have accumulated and read over 150 Beatles-related books!
Did a Google search and couldn’t find any others from John to Mrs. Harrison, but here’s a cute one to George in 1974: (you can open it in Chrome - see bottom of page)https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/rz7zj1/john_lennon_letters_to_cynthia_and_george_in_1974/
Thanks that was interesting. It led in the comments to other links, one to a Lennon letter to Paul and Linda that was pretty rough. "So get that into your petty little perversion of a mind, Mrs. McCartney" -- wow!
Yeah, I’ve read that nasty letter.
Even though some say that people exaggerate the infighting and contention among The Beatles, it does seem like there was some deep-seated acrimony, particularly relating to Paul, something about the way he was that got under the skin of the others, perhaps especially John. Close friends can do that to each other, no doubt. But there's still usually a reason for it, and I don't think it's always the case that "nobody is at fault" or "everybody is at fault". Sometimes it could just be that one of the two is more guilty than the other in terms of some context or some habit.
If I may speculate a little, I think there were two things about Paul that might have rubbed the others the wrong way -- one of them is the way he handled the business end of things. The other was his musical perfectionism, that seemed to be on an extreme OCD level. Since I'm a Paul fan myself, I don't mind his perfectionism because I think he's probably usually right about whatever details he wants. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't annoy friends and musical partners around him. On the business angle, I noticed a subtle detail that to me indicates Paul's attitude. Many years ago I purchased the song book for the first Ringo solo album. It's a cool song book with a lot of drawings by Klaus Voormann. Now in that album, you have a song written by each of the other three Beatles -- Photograph by George Harrison (co-written by Ringo), I'm The Greatest by John Lennon, and Six O'Clock by Paul McCartney. The interesting detail is that in that song book the only song NOT included is Paul's song. I can't think of any other reason than purely business calculations, which evidently the other two Beatles didn't care about -- to their credit.
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
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@wandy said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
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I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
A bit of both I think!
Was this letter a one-off? Or did he write more letters like this to Mrs Harrison? If this was a one-off, I wonder how she took it? "Oh that little Johnny boy, such a character!"
IIRC, John used to write to Mrs. Harrison a lot because she was such a “fan” of theirs and always welcomed them into the house to practice, unlike his stern Aunt Mimi. Both he & Paul’s mums were dead and Ringo didn’t join until Aug. 1962, so Mrs. Harrison was the only one to write to (like a mum) 1960-1962.
P.S. Mrs. Harrison would answer fans letters too. I wrote to her and Maureen Starkey in 1968 after Hunter Davies revealed that they both wrote to fans - I received a letter from Maureen, but not Mrs. H.Wow, so cool that you got that letter!
I'd like to see the other correspondence between John and Mrs. HarrisonNot sure if any more of it was preserved. Could be in either Hunter Davies bio or Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In. Do you have those?
No, I've never read any book about the Beatles. I'm quite the fledgling Beatles fan, hardly have spent any time digging around. I probably know more about Santana and Chicago, two other bands I like a lot, than I do the Beatles. I even read half of Carlos Santana's autobiography (I quit reading it because it was getting kind of tedious with details I wasn't interested in, and instead of finishing it I just dove into the index and picked out entries I wanted to read).
Well, I’m quite the opposite! Since 1964 I have accumulated and read over 150 Beatles-related books!
Did a Google search and couldn’t find any others from John to Mrs. Harrison, but here’s a cute one to George in 1974: (you can open it in Chrome - see bottom of page)https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/rz7zj1/john_lennon_letters_to_cynthia_and_george_in_1974/
Thanks that was interesting. It led in the comments to other links, one to a Lennon letter to Paul and Linda that was pretty rough. "So get that into your petty little perversion of a mind, Mrs. McCartney" -- wow!
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@wandy said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@wandy said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
A bit of both I think!
Was this letter a one-off? Or did he write more letters like this to Mrs Harrison? If this was a one-off, I wonder how she took it? "Oh that little Johnny boy, such a character!"
IIRC, John used to write to Mrs. Harrison a lot because she was such a “fan” of theirs and always welcomed them into the house to practice, unlike his stern Aunt Mimi. Both he & Paul’s mums were dead and Ringo didn’t join until Aug. 1962, so Mrs. Harrison was the only one to write to (like a mum) 1960-1962.
P.S. Mrs. Harrison would answer fans letters too. I wrote to her and Maureen Starkey in 1968 after Hunter Davies revealed that they both wrote to fans - I received a letter from Maureen, but not Mrs. H.Wow, so cool that you got that letter!
I'd like to see the other correspondence between John and Mrs. HarrisonNot sure if any more of it was preserved. Could be in either Hunter Davies bio or Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In. Do you have those?
No, I've never read any book about the Beatles. I'm quite the fledgling Beatles fan, hardly have spent any time digging around. I probably know more about Santana and Chicago, two other bands I like a lot, than I do the Beatles. I even read half of Carlos Santana's autobiography (I quit reading it because it was getting kind of tedious with details I wasn't interested in, and instead of finishing it I just dove into the index and picked out entries I wanted to read).
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@wandy said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@wandy said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
A bit of both I think!
Was this letter a one-off? Or did he write more letters like this to Mrs Harrison? If this was a one-off, I wonder how she took it? "Oh that little Johnny boy, such a character!"
IIRC, John used to write to Mrs. Harrison a lot because she was such a “fan” of theirs and always welcomed them into the house to practice, unlike his stern Aunt Mimi. Both he & Paul’s mums were dead and Ringo didn’t join until Aug. 1962, so Mrs. Harrison was the only one to write to (like a mum) 1960-1962.
P.S. Mrs. Harrison would answer fans letters too. I wrote to her and Maureen Starkey in 1968 after Hunter Davies revealed that they both wrote to fans - I received a letter from Maureen, but not Mrs. H.Wow, so cool that you got that letter!
I'd like to see the other correspondence between John and Mrs. Harrison -
RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
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I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
A bit of both I think!
Was this letter a one-off? Or did he write more letters like this to Mrs Harrison? If this was a one-off, I wonder how she took it? "Oh that little Johnny boy, such a character!"
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RE: Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison
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@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@wandy said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:
I bet even Yoko thought John was weird sometimes and that's saying something!!!
Well, maybe, but Yoko never would have seen this letter. John wrote it when they were in Hamburg performing. He used to write LONG letters to Cynthia too. In later years, his postcards & letters weren’t gibberish like this. He might draw something though.
Yes John just loved words and word play. Genius or looney. Who knows.
My father was an English professor at an American university and his specialty was James Joyce and the nonsense (or seeming nonsense) of Finnegan's Wake. When I visited him in 1984, I noticed he had John Lennon's books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works on his coffee table. And he said "he's not bad -- reminds me of James Joyce." That was significant coming from him because he was quite critical of writers.