"John? He was beautiful. Very beautiful. He was a complex guy [but he was also] a very lovable guy, very warm-hearted and a great friend." - Paul McCartney
Ivan Vaughan, the mutual friend who introduced John to Paul on 6th July, 1957, passed away today in 1993 due to pneumonia while suffering from Parkinson's disease. Born on the exact same day as Paul, he was 51. Top photo: 1958, in front of Ivan's Liverpool home at 84 Vale Road, Woolton.
Bottom: 1968, behind Paul's London home at 7 Cavendish Avenue, St. John's Wood.
Following Ivan's death, Paul wrote a poem named after him:
Two doors open On the eighteenth of June Two babies born On the same day In Liverpool One was Ivan The other––me We met in adolescence And did the deeds They dared us do Jive with Ive The ace on the bass He introduced to me At Woolton fete A pal or two And so we did A classic scholar he A rocking roller me As firm as friends could be Cranlock naval Cranlock pie A tear is rolling Down my eye On the sixteenth of August Nineteen ninety-three One door closed Bye bye Ivy
"When you are kids you make up silly things, and what’s great about it is you and your friends all know those silly things," Paul would subsequently explain. "So, they don’t have to mean anything! We had a few words and phrases that, if one of us said it, would amuse the others because it was like a secret code. So ‘cranlock naval, cranlock pie’ doesn’t actually mean anything. But I suppose at lot of this came from The Goon Show, a comedy show on the radio. "Peter Sellers was in it, along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine. They got laughs from saying things like, 'Netty, oh Jim boy!' And other nonsense, so ‘cranlock naval, cranlock pie’ fitted in with that era. We just used to say absolutely silly little things. [Cranlock pie] was something that our friend Ivan would say. He’d be imitating stuff that John would say and then everyone would just make up things together."
На стене в числе индийских гуру Иисус Христос. Насколько понимаю, католичество родителей продолжало жить в душе Джорджа Харрисона, несмотря на принятый кришнаизм.
Re: George Harrison at Friar Park home studio F.P.S.H.O.T. in 1978 Автор:adhДата: 18.08.23 20:51:08
“Of all the former ‘Fabs,’ to use his customary term, George Harrison has remained the greatest creative homebody. […] George has rolled out of bed and returned again and again to Friar Park Studios, Henley-on-Thames (or F.P.S.H.O.T., for short) to tinker, compose and do his formal recording. […] Besides 'Cloud Nine,’ George recorded the 'Dark Horse,’ '33 1/3’ and 'George Harrison’ albums in his F.P.S.H.O.T. atelier, located in what was formerly a ballroom of the house. 'The studio was installed round 1971 and there’s been a few updates, cause when I originally put the studio in it was a 16-track. In terms of the monitoring system, after all those years in the Abbey Road EMI Studios, I put in Altec speakers. My experience in Abbey Road was that whenever the Beatles worked there and we thought we had a great sound, we’d play it back on the Altecs and it sounded terrible — ordinary. So they’re very boring in a way — and this must sound strange — but they’re also accurate! See, the Altecs don’t flatter the sound; it’s not easy to get good bass and drum sounds with them. But when I built my studio I didn’t want hype. I wanted what I’m hearing to be what it is. That way, when you play it back anyplace else it sounds fantastic! […] I’ve since made F.P.S.H.O.T. into a 24-track board. […] I’m going to get a few different choice modules made soon, but I don’t really want to go for a brand new SSL board and all that. Automation is nice in some respects, but I got my first skills at Abbey Road, so I prefer the old components, and spending a friendly weekend getting the manual mix you want. Just as I much prefer my ancient Fender Strat.’” - Musician, November 1987 (x)