Log In
Register
8.33pm
Moderators
15 February 2015
Offline
AppleScruffJunior said on the last page
On the 20th day of Georgemas, my true love gave to me:George by water
The Pisces Fish in his natural habitat
The following people thank Beatlebug for this post:
sigh butterfly, Rube([{BRACKETS!}])
New to Forumpool? You can introduce yourself here.
If you love The Beatles Bible, and you have adblock, don't forget to white-list this site! 
11.12pm
11 June 2015
Offline sighB: I’ve recently read every post in the “This is Love: The George Harrison Club for Fiendish Thingies” thread. I believe this is to be the most obscure entry
. I’ve added one of the actual Ride Rajbun episodes titled Bunbury Cricket Club.
AppleScruffJunior said on March 23, 2014
Here is a proper rarity*, ‘Ride Rajbun’, written for a children’s TV show ‘The Bunbury Tails’ about an Indian cricket-playing rabbit (sounds good, right?). Recorded in early ’88, it shows George picking up a sitar again! Nine year old Dhani sings in the chorus as well.
Very cool
All together now:
Ride Rajbun, ride RajbunSeek your fame and speak your fortune
Go on, Rajbun, ride your Raleigh
Cross the mountains, through the valleys.
*So rare I didn’t know of its existence until a couple of minutes ago
And I call myself a Fiendish Thingy 
In case anyone was wondering, I believe this pic of George and Korky to be the most often repeated upload. >^..^<
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Richard, Beatlebug, AppleScruffJunior, Rube, WeepingAtlasCedars, SgtPeppersBulldogYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
9.48am
17 June 2021
Offline The 21st day of Georgemas is also pancake day.
Saipancakes uploaded a video making pancakes of all 4 Beatles with the instrumental version of Something as the background music.
t=75s
Yummy!
The following people thank Rube for this post:
Beatlebug, RichardWinner of Most Hardcore Beatles Bible Fan 2021
4.14pm
11 June 2015
Offline Some Friar Park cave pics I’ve never seen before. They were taken by a photographer named Nancy Andrews. She appears to have been Ringo’s girlfriend (or fiance) at the time of the 1977 visit.
Some other randos…
Watch your head George!!!
Thanks @Rube, that guy has skillet skills 
Here is what I had 4 breakfast.
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Beatlebug, Rube, Richard, SgtPeppersBulldogYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
5.17pm
Moderators
15 February 2015
Offline Let it roll down through the caves – ye long walks of Coole and Shades
Febrooary Day 21!
The following people thank Beatlebug for this post:
Rube, Richard, sigh butterfly, WeepingAtlasCedars([{BRACKETS!}])
New to Forumpool? You can introduce yourself here.
If you love The Beatles Bible, and you have adblock, don't forget to white-list this site!
11.32pm
Reviewers
17 December 2012
Offline Now, this could’ve gone in the news thread, but given it’s been announced for Georgemas, I thought it fitted just as well with the rest of the Georgemas celebrations as we approach what would have been his 80th birthday.
Last year it was announced that BMG Publishing were taking over the administration of George’s music publishing, and in the last few hours they have released a statement about changes in their involvement with the Harrison Estate:
INTL: George Harrison recorded catalogue comes to Dark Horse Records/BMG
George Harrison (c) Harrison FamilyNEW DEAL BRINGS HIS ACCLAIMED SOLO RECORDINGS AND MUSIC PUBLISHING TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME – ENTIRE CATALOGUE AVAILABLE NOW IN DOLBY ATMOS – IN CELEBRATION OF HARRISON’S 80TH BIRTHDAY.
BMG is proud to announce a new catalogue recordings agreement bringing the acclaimed solo recorded works of George Harrison to Dark Horse Records/BMG together with his music publishing catalogue for the first time ever, under one roof, solely at BMG. In celebration of Harrison’s 80th birthday, Dark Horse /BMG have released his entire catalogue in Dolby Atmos surround sound exclusively on Apple Music.
Harrison’s recorded catalogue features 12 studio albums of solo works including his debut Wonderwall Music (soundtrack to the film Wonderwall), the US and UK chart-topping critically acclaimed, 7x Platinum-certified triple album All Things Must Pass featuring the Number One single ‘My Sweet Lord ‘, ‘What Is Life ‘, ‘Isn’t It A Pity ‘, ‘All Things Must Pass ‘; and the US Number One Living In The Material World featuring the Number One single ‘Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)’, through the Platinum-certified Cloud Nine featuring his Number One charting cover of ‘Got My Mind Set On You’, to his final studio album Brainwashed featuring the Grammy award-winning ‘Marwa Blues’.
The catalogue also includes the live double album Live In Japan , featuring Eric Clapton; four compilations Let It Roll – Songs by George Harrison , Early Takes Vol 1, The Apple Years 1968-1975, and The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992.
Previously in 2022, BMG announced it had entered into a global publishing agreement with the George Harrison Estate to administer the Harrisongs catalog comprising more than 200 songs written with the Beatles, the Traveling Wilburys and Harrison’s solo career.
The partnership expands on the relationship with Harrison’s legendary Dark Horse Records as the boutique music company with BMG serving as its global partner and infrastructure across recorded music, music publishing, and merchandise, while developing further areas of business.
Harrisongs Limited, the music publishing entity created by Harrison, contains his nearly two dozen songs written with the Beatles including the band’s most popular song on streaming services, ‘Here Comes The Sun ‘, as well as ‘I Me Mine ‘, ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps ‘, and the US Number One single ‘Something ‘, his songs from the two albums recorded by supergroup The Traveling Wilburys featuring ‘End of the Line’, ‘Handle with Care’, ‘She’s My Baby’, and ‘Inside Out’, as well as the 12 studio albums of solo works.
Dhani Harrison said, “22 years since his passing, for what would have been his 80th birthday, I am overjoyed to announce that we are bringing my father’s music catalogue back home to Dark Horse Records, the company he started back in 1974. We look forward to releasing only the finest of packages and hope the fans join us on the deepest of dives into our archives as we continue to grow his legacy through our partnership with BMG, starting with the release of his entire back catalog in Spatial Audio, for the first time, on Apple Music. We also will be using this opportunity to make all the custom limited vinyl that we can get away with. Happy 80th Dad!!! We love you always.”
BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch said, “This is a banner day for BMG, bringing together for the first time the song and recorded rights of one of the greatest musicians in popular music history under one roof. Only BMG can do this. We look forward to working with the George Harrison Estate and Dark Horse Records to promote George’s peerless music to generations old and new.”
Thomas Scherer, BMG President, Repertoire & Marketing, New York and Los Angeles, said, “For years we have had an amazing partnership with Dhani and David that continues to grow to this day. What began as working with Dhani on his own albums and publishing, to the re-launch and expansion of the Dark Horse Records business, together we believe in providing white glove service for artists, globally, with enormous opportunities to grow. We are proud to bring all of George Harrison ‘s music together, under one roof, and are very grateful for Olivia and Dhani’s trust in BMG.”
In 2020, BMG announced it had entered into a multi-faceted global partnership with Dark Horse Records, which was founded by George Harrison in 1974 as a place for his solo work and a home for supporting other artists, and now led by Dhani Harrison and David Zonshine.
The agreement initially brought catalogue releases from the acclaimed record label and Harrison’s Indian label imprint HariSongs, as well as Joe Strummer’s solo works, including The Mescaleros. Recent Dark Horse Records releases include the newest recordings from Billy Idol Cage, The Roadside and Happy Holidays with upcoming releases including, Benmont Tench’s much-anticipated new studio album, 16 albums from Leon Russell’s recorded catalogue spanning 1984 – 2013, Deep Purple’s Jon Lord, and a global publishing administration deal for Joe Strummer’s solo publishing catalogue featuring hundreds of songs including all three Mescaleros albums, his scoring contributions, as well as the sixth and final Clash album Cut The Crap.
Dark Horse and BMG’s partnership has expanded to include DH Merchandise, a one stop-shop offering creative design through fulfilment, including the launch of new merchandise stores for George Harrison , Joe Strummer, Johnny Ramone, and additional partnerships with Traveling Wilburys, Elizabeth Taylor, Leon Russell and Buddy Holly; as well as the introduction of the Dark Horse Sounds wellness music series.
While Dark Horse Records/BMG administers the music publishing of George Harrison , it will now also serve as his label home.
The following people thank Ron Nasty for this post:
sigh butterfly, Richard, Rube"I only said we were bigger than Rod... and now there's all this!" Ron Nasty
To @ Ron Nasty it's @ mja6758
The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
12.46am
Reviewers
Moderators
1 May 2011
Offline Hopefully
We look forward to releasing only the finest of packages and hope the fans join us on the deepest of dives into our archives as we continue to grow his legacy through our partnership with BMG, starting with the release of his entire back catalog in Spatial Audio, for the first time, on Apple Music.
means we will get to hear outtakes for all of George’s solo albums continuing on from ‘ATMP ‘ and whatever George got up to at home during the quiet years. I’d like to hear ‘Unbrainwashed’, the basic tracks George left before Jeff Lynn and Dhani finished it off; there are many very good songs on the album but the production makes it a very long listen.
There could be a contest to see if releasing George’s catalogue could beat Paul’s despite having a 12 year handicap – tho I think me learning the history of music, getting a record contract, releasing 14 albums, waiting a couple of decades, having a holiday then some lunch would be faster than Paul’s.
The following people thank meanmistermustard for this post:
Beatlebug, sigh butterfly, Rube"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
2.01am
Reviewers
17 December 2012
Offline That’s certainly something to be hoped for. George’s back catalogue has probably been the least explored in terms of outtakes and unreleased material.
I have to admit that I was a little disheartened by Dhani’s next line, “We also will be using this opportunity to make all the custom limited vinyl that we can get away with.” Hopefully a little tongue-in-cheek, but could be also be a “Let’s see how much money we can milk from those that buy everything!”.
The following people thank Ron Nasty for this post:
sigh butterfly, Beatlebug, Rube"I only said we were bigger than Rod... and now there's all this!" Ron Nasty
To @ Ron Nasty it's @ mja6758
The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
2.19am
11 June 2015
Offline Thanks @Ron Nasty, that is exciting news. I laughed out loud when I read Dhani’s quote, but we’ve all seen how things can go.
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Beatlebug, RubeYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
2.25am
11 June 2015
Offline Beatlebug said
Let it roll down through the caves – ye long walks of Coole and ShadesFebrooary Day 21!
Thanks @Beatlebug Your drawing made my “deep dive into the caves” day!
Band in the caves on George Harrison ’s Friar Park estate.
“This shows the playful side of George. He said to [Beatles aide] Mal [Evans], ‘Okay Mal, take the guys to their rooms.’ Mal said, ‘Follow me, boys.’ This place had a subterranean cave network underneath, so we followed Mal down into this cave, thinking ‘The guy’s a Beatle, but this is still a little weird.’ Eventually in the middle of this labyrinth of caves George jumped out and tried to scare us: ‘Woohooohoo.’ Well, it didn’t really scare us much. So that was his introduction.”
– Bobby Keys, recalling the first time he arrived at Friar Park.
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Richard, Beatlebug, Rube, WeepingAtlasCedarsYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
3.26am
Moderators
15 February 2015
Offline Ron Nasty said
I have to admit that I was a little disheartened by Dhani’s next line, “We also will be using this opportunity to make all the custom limited vinyl that we can get away with.” Hopefully a little tongue-in-cheek, but could be also be a “Let’s see how much money we can milk from those that buy everything!”.
Honestly it was a rather George thing to say. 
The following people thank Beatlebug for this post:
Rube, ewe2, sigh butterfly([{BRACKETS!}])
New to Forumpool? You can introduce yourself here.
If you love The Beatles Bible, and you have adblock, don't forget to white-list this site!
9.41am
8 January 2015
Offline I bought a bass guitar the other day, it’s a 40 year old Cardinal CSB-380 Aria Pro II, black. I decided to call him George. The Cardinals are SG-shaped, that might have been partly the idea. So please consider this glamour shot of George my small contribution to the birthday festivities:
(originally I thought I’d missed the date but I cannot read as well as remember dates so this post has been edited to reflect my lack of read and datedness).
The following people thank ewe2 for this post:
Rube, sigh butterfly, RichardI'm like Necko only I'm a bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin and also everyone. Or is everyone me? Now I'm a confused bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin everyone who is definitely not @Joe. This has been true for 2016 & 2017 
but I may have to get more specific in the future.
9.38pm
11 June 2015
Offline sb: On the 22nd day of Georgemas, my thoughts turn to this week 80 years ago and the world George is about to enter…
I Remember Arnold
12 Arnold Grove
Wavertree
Liverpool,
L15 8HP
I was born in 12 Arnold Grove, Liverpool, in February 1943. My dad had been a seaman, but by then he was driving a bus. My mother was from an Irish family called French, and she had lots of brothers and sisters. My mother was Catholic. My father wasn’t and, although they always say people who weren’t Catholics were Church of England, he didn’t appear to be anything. (George Harrison )
On Thursday 25 February 1943 George Harrison was born in the front upstairs bedroom of 12 Arnold Grove at ten minutes past midnight, entering a world he later described as “deep in the Second World War, deep in Liverpool, and deep in winter”. He was overdue and weighed a massive 10 ½ pounds with eyelashes, long hair, full finger nails and brown hair.
In those days Dads were not permitted in the room during the birth. The midwife informed Harry he had a new son and he would later remember tiptoeing up the stairs to meet him. He was shocked by what he found, “a miniature version of me’’. He couldn’t believe how alike they looked.
The next day Harry went to register the birth at Wavertree Town Hall without first consulting Louise about a name for the new baby. Walking the short distance along the High Street he decided on George and later reasoned if (the name) was good enough for the King it should be good enough for him.
He was baptized as Georgius Harrison on 14 March 1943 at Our Lady of Good Help . His sister Louise and his aunt Mary (Fox, formerly French) were godmothers but for some reason there was no godfather.
I had two brothers and one sister. My sister was twelve when I was born; she’d just taken her Eleven Plus. I don’t really remember much of her from my childhood because she left home when she was about seventeen. She went to teacher training college and didn’t come back after that.
My grandmother – my mother’s mother – used to live in Albert Grove, next to Arnold Grove; so when I was small I could go out of our back door and around the back entries (they called them ‘jiggers’ in Liverpool) to her house. I would be there when my mother and father were at work.
Arnold Grove was a bit like ‘Coronation Street’, though I don’t remember any of the neighbors now. It was behind the Lamb Hotel in Wavertree. There was a big art-deco cinema there called the Abbey, and the Picton clock tower. Down a little cobbled lane was the slaughterhouse, where they used to shoot horses.
My earliest recollection is of sitting on a pot at the top of the stairs, having a poop – shouting, ‘Finished!’ Another very early memory is as a baby, of a party in the street. There were air-raid shelters and people were sitting around tables and benches. I must have been no more than two. We used to have a photograph of me there, so it’s probably only because I could relive the scene when I was younger, through the photograph, that I remember it.
VE Day Party 8 May 1945 – from right Harry, Peter, Louise, and George aged 2. Note the brick air-raid shelter behind Harry.
Our house was very small. No garden. Two up and two down – step straight in off the pavement, step right out of the back room.
Each room downstairs was about ten feet square (very small) and yet despite the lack of space the front room was never used. It had the posh lino and a three-piece suite, was freezing cold and nobody ever went in it. We’d all be huddled together in the kitchen, where the fire was, with the kettle on, and a little iron cooking stove. (George Harrison )
Like many home of the time, there was no central heating, no bathroom and no indoor toilet. The winters could be freezing. George later remembered that in the winter there used to be ice on the windows and in fact you would have to put a hot water bottle in the bed, then whip your clothes off and leap in. Harrison recalled that he and his brothers dreaded getting up in the morning because it was literally freezing cold and they had to use the outside toilet. The four children shared the back bedroom. In his infancy George had slept in his parents room but he later moved in with his siblings, Louise in one bed, Harry and Peter in another and George in a cot.
Peter and George in the backyard at No. 12
There was a zinc bathtub hanging on the backyard wall which we’d bring in and fill with hot water from pans and boiling kettles. That would be how we had a bath. We didn’t have a bathroom: no Jacuzzis. Good place to wash your hair, Liverpool. Nice soft water.
I had a happy childhood, with lots of relatives around – relatives and absolutes. I was always waking up in the night, coming out of the bedroom, looking down the stairs and seeing lots of people having a party. It was probably only my parents and an uncle or two (I had quite a few uncles with bald heads; they’d say they got them by using them to knock pub doors open), but it always seemed that they were partying without telling me. I don’t remember too much about the music, I don’t know whether they had (anyone performing) music at the parties at all. There was probably a radio on.
There was always music in the house, some of it quite unusual for the times. Louise enjoyed listening to Indian classical music on ‘For the Indian Forces’ every Sunday morning on BBC radio. It’s tempting to think her unborn fourth baby was absorbing all this from the womb.
Harold Harrison with his four children.
George’s brother Harry would later recall: Our little house was just two rooms up and two rooms down, but, except for a short period when our father was away at sea, we always knew the comfort and security of a very close-knit home life. George had similar fond memories of Arnold Grove: It was OK that house, very pleasant being little and it was always sunny in the summer. But then we moved, after about 25 years of waiting on the housing list, we moved.
Excerpted from a blog by Mark Ashwom (2017) The George Harrison quotes are taken from his biography, ‘I Me Mine ’ and interviews given for ‘The Beatles Anthology’. The Books “Thats The Way God Planned It” by Kevin Roach, and “Tune In” by Mark Lewisohn were also of assistance.
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Richard, Rube, Beatlebug, SgtPeppersBulldogYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
12.05am
Reviewers
17 December 2012
Offline Something occurred to me about the Dark Horse /BMG announcement that I didn’t really take in on first reading it — given it includes all George’s solo work, does that mean George’s Apple and Zapple albums will now be on Dark Horse labels? After all, when it comes to The Beatles (group and solo) “Apple” releases, the Apple/Zapple labels were only really a vanity thing, as they were never actually signed to Apple Records. They owned Apple, but they remained contracted to Parlophone/EMI, and while the labels may have been Apple, the catalogue numbers were Parlophone.
I can’t think of anything contractual that would prevent Dhani from coming to an agreement with Sony to have the Apple vanity label changed to a Dark Horse vanity label on those pre-1976 releases.
Has Dhani just become the first to remove a Beatle’s early solo career from the Apple umbrella? Could the others follow suit?
Anyway, this is described as “Famous Guitarists on George Harrison “; I’d dispute that a bit, it’s more “People Who Play Guitar and Knew or Met Him…”. I mean, first up of the 14 is Dhani, and great as he is, I reckon it’s a stretch to call him a “Famous Guitarist”, and most of what’s said is about George the person rather than George the guitarist, though there is some of that. Anyway, I found it an entertaining watch…
It was meant to be my first Georgemas post, with my sending a certain nameless mod a request for a reminder on the 31st January, and I was told an alarm had been set it, and the reminder never came 
and so it got forgotten until today 
.
The following people thank Ron Nasty for this post:
sigh butterfly, Richard, Rube, Beatlebug"I only said we were bigger than Rod... and now there's all this!" Ron Nasty
To @ Ron Nasty it's @ mja6758
The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
7.05pm
11 June 2015
Offline It’s Febrooary 23rd and Georgemas is almost here Fiendish Thingies.! It appears that I’m not the only one who has injured themselves in the garden.
George Harrison in a wheelchair after injuring his foot at Friar Park in March 1979. The brake wouldn’t work on the small tractor he was riding, so he put his foot down on the path, only for the back wheel of the tractor to run over it. Regardless, George kept his commitment to be interviewed on March 7 at CBS-TV studios in Los Angeles.
A forum member texted me regarding how Egroeg Evoil and AppleScruffJunior chose our club name. I present for your viewing pleasure this preeminent scene from the movie HELP!
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Richard, Rube, Beatlebug, NeelyYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
5.23am
11 June 2015
Offline Do you think George secretly wanted to fly?
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Richard, Rube, Beatlebug, SgtPeppersBulldogYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
9.38pm
Moderators
15 February 2015
Offline sigh butterfly said
Do you think George secretly wanted to fly?
Haven’t we all?
Anyway, it’s Febrooary day 24, Georgemas is almost upon us, and somehow we’ve managed to go this far without posting the infamous (and many-times-posted) “BRACKETS” video… I’m here to fix that 
The following people thank Beatlebug for this post:
Richard, sigh butterfly, sigh butterfly, SgtPeppersBulldog, Rube([{BRACKETS!}])
New to Forumpool? You can introduce yourself here.
If you love The Beatles Bible, and you have adblock, don't forget to white-list this site!
2.11am
11 June 2015
Offline 
Since The George Harrison Club For Fiendish Thingies has an international membership, I hereby declare that the 80th Georgemas has begun.
Let’s begin with a happy jig to dance with you…
The following people thank sigh butterfly for this post:
Richard, ewe2, Rube, SgtPeppersBulldog, AppleScruffJunior, BeatlebugYou and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead
2.40am
2 January 2017
Offline Just popping in to wish George a very happy 80th birthday! We love and miss you!
and to Forumpool…
Thank you @sigh butterfly for curating the thread this year, I’ve read through a few of yours and everyone else’s posts already, but I look forward to going from the start later today!
The following people thank SgtPeppersBulldog for this post:
Richard, sigh butterfly, ewe2, Rube, Rube, AppleScruffJunior, Beatlebug"Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles... "
2017:
8.18am
Moderators
27 November 2016
Offline What a wonderful occasion this is, for it marks 80 years since our very own Georgie boy was born! Some would say on of the most influential guitarists the world has seen, and with a skillset well beyond just that – Mr G Harrison, take your hat off.
If I had any time I’d have recorded a quick cover of something, but instead I’ll leave this absolutely iconic gif here…
I’ll certainly be raising a glass (of water) This Saturday Night…
(and thanks to @sigh butterfly particularly for taking on the honours of Febrooary
)
The following people thank The Hole Got Fixed for this post:
Richard, ewe2, Rube, SgtPeppersBulldog, sigh butterfly, Beatlebug#AppleHoley2024: Make America Great For The First Time
2016 awards: 
2017 awards: 
2018 awards:
2019 awards: 
2020 awards:
2021 awards:
1 Guest(s)