Photos by Jürgen Vollmer, and Dave Hogan (?).
Q: “What’s the most popular misconception about you that people have?”
George Harrison: “That I am serious. Pisces are depicted as two fish going in opposite directions. Many people do not see my humorous side.” - MSN web chat, February 15, 2001 (x)
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“As a band, we were tight. that was one thing to be said about us; we were really tight, as friends. We could argue a lot among ourselves, but we were very, very close to each other, and in the company of other people or other situations we'd always stick together." - George Harriso🎸🎸🎸🥁
Via @thebeatles on Instagram⭐️
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George Sand, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert written c. September 1871
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In the 1980s in France, musicologists and archaeologists Iégor Reznikoff and Michel Dauvois used their voices to explore caves with notable Paleolithic wall paintings. By singing simple notes and whistling, they mapped their perceptions of the caves’ acoustics.
They found that paintings were often located in places that were particularly resonant. Animal paintings were common in resonant chambers and in places along the walls that produced strong reverberation.
As they crawled through narrow tunnels, they discovered painted red dots exactly located in the most resonant places. The entrances to these tunnels were also marked with paintings. Resonant recesses in walls were especially heavily ornamented.
In a 2017 study, a dozen acousticians, archaeologists, and musicians measured the sonic qualities of cave interiors in northern Spain. The team, led by acoustic scientist Bruno Fazenda, used speakers, computers, and microphone arrays to measure the behavior of precisely calibrated tones within the cave.
The caves they studied contain wall art spanning much of the Paleolithic, dating from about forty thousand years to fifteen thousand years ago. The art includes handprints, abstract points and lines, and a bestiary of Paleolithic animals including birds, fish, horses, bovids, reindeer, bear, ibex, cetaceans, and humanlike figures.
From hundreds of standardized measurements, the team found that painted red dots and lines, the oldest wall markings, are associated with parts of the cave where low frequencies resonate and sonic clarity is high due to modest reverberation.
These would have been excellent places for speech and more complex forms of music, not muddied by excessive reverberation. Animal paintings and handprints were also likely to be in places where clarity is high and overall reverberation is low but with a good low-frequency response.
These are the qualities that we seek now in modern performance spaces.
Sounds Wild and Broken, David George Haskell
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Number (N)ine: 'Yesterday' Slogan T-Shirt Autumn/Winter 2002
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Photo by Barry Schultz.
Q: “Do you think people have got the wrong impression of you over the years?”
George Harrison: “In that they think I’m serious, yeah. I have serious moments but I’m totally the opposite really. I think with ‘My Sweet Lord’ period and ‘Bangla Desh’ and the late ‘60s it did become political and everybody did get a bit serious but I never lost a sense of humor. That’s why people couldn’t believe I was making Monty Python’s Life of Brian.”
Q: “They thought of you as a spiritual, religious type locked away in the house in Henley.”
GH: “Well my concept of religion and spirituality isn’t Cliff Richard and the Shadows and Billy Graham. It’s very free, you know.” - Q, 1988 (x)
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"My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'" - Dhani Harrison🎸
Credits - Abbey Road Tribute on FB🇬🇧
Via @thebeatles.zone on Instagram🇬🇧🎸
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George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "XVI,"
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