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 Recently, I’ve read a transcription of an interview with Dhani Harrison with the German newspaper ‘Die Welt’. It’s mostly about his new album and the work on Brainwashed, so not really new stuff but there was one part, I found adorable so I translated it for you. (Apologies if you all knew it already):

Ihm selbst sei es als Kind genauso gegangen. Er habe jedoch lange geglaubt, die Beatles seien lediglich Zeichentrickfiguren aus dem Film „Yellow Submarine“. Dass einer davon sein Vater war, habe er lange nicht gewusst. „Wie hätte mein Vater mir damals auch erklären sollen, dass das Vorbild für den bärtigen Typen aus dem Zeichentrickfilm ein realer Mensch war – er selbst“, sagte Harrison der Zeitung, „ich war damals erst vier oder fünf Jahre alt. Das ist schon ein kompliziertes Konzept, um es einem Kind zu vermitteln.“

[…] He had long thought, however, the Beatles were merely characters of the cartoon movie Yellow Submarine . For a long time, he hadn’t known that one of them was actually his father. ‘How could my father possibly have explained to me, that the inspiration for the bearded movie character was a living human being – it was himself.’ Harrison said, ‘I was only four or five years old. It’s a complicated concept to make a child understand.’ 

What a moment this must have been when he realised that his movie hero was none other than his own father. 

Btw, I think In///parallel is a bloody good album. It creates great soundscapes which are punctured by electronic sounds and percussion in an often very haunting way. One time, I listened to it outside in the dark while taking a walk and the music together with the glimmering city lights made me feel as if I had landed on another planet.