You are insane if you invite Paul McCartney to your wedding
“thanks for making me your best man, Geo! now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go cuckold you, get black out drunk, and then shoot an arrow through the window of a car ☺️”
Scan - George Harrison, Liverpool, c. 1958/1959, photographed by Paul McCartney; scanned from Remember by Mike McCartney.
Photo: Paul McCartney
“A young George Harrison with his Tony Curtis haircut, bright fluorescent green wasitcoat (under the towel), and skintight jeans. He’s carrying flippers, so he must be off to the swimming pool or the sea. This would be around 1958 or ‘59, when George, Paul, and John were in the Quarrymen skiffle group. I though I’d taken this photograph, but Paul rang up to complain, ‘Hey you bugger lugs! I took that one!’” - Mike McCartney
From Mike McCartney’s Early Liverpool: “At the bottom of the reel on the right there are a couple of photos of Paul’s bashed-up face, which he got when he came off his moped with Tara ‘Guinness’ Browne at Christmas in 1965. Paul insisted I took his picture so that he would have a record of how he looked after the accident. I was reticent, but took these images and printed off two copies, one for him and one for me. Unfortunately, he had a dodgy housekeeper and chauffeur living in his London home; they did a moonlight flit to Europe taking Paul’s photo with them and sold it to the newspapers as ‘proof’ of “Beatle Paul’s Drunken Drug Parties”!
I remember a young man once, looking in through Mum’s net curtains. Our kid said “I’ve just met this bloke and we’re working together. He’s my new mate, called John, he’s coming round.” He looked a bit cool - he had sideburns, ‘sidies’, and skintight jeans, ‘drainies’. Dad wouldn’t let us have drainies, though our kid found a way to get around that! And I thought, “Whoa, it’s gotta be this John bloke.” That was the first time I met Johnny Moondog, here in this room.
Those two boys had an affinity. I always got on with John, like my brother did, because we all had tragedy in our lives at an early time. We had a natural understanding of what it is like to lose someone at that early age, and we had our own way of expressing it.
– Interview with Mike McCartney for National Trust Magazine (Summer 2022)
