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...for all the Americans these days who will never experience one. Cool guitar, too:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4kRFc9MLI8&search=beatles

Cool! Where were the rest of the boys?

That's Ready Steady Go in 1964.
There'reintervews with others in my LD.

Ha! I still have my laser disc player.

Me too!! Endangered species...

George always was the funniest of the Fabs. In fact, it has been scientifically proven that he was funnier than the other three combined!

They were all capable of being very funny, and more importantly they almost always got jokes (I have suspected this was a problem with Pete Best...lack of a sense of humor and inability to change hair styles.) Clearly, anyone who was going to be in that band for any length had to have a sense of humor and it's one thing to so many bands completely lack (Led Zeppelin never would have run around with swords in the fog in their film had they had they realized how inane they looked.) There's no better example of Lennon's humor than when he introduces the band, with a straight face, as Paul McCharmly, Ringo Stone, etc.

Okay, so George was funnier than John, Paul, and Ringo.

But he certainly wasn't funnier than the Three Stooges.

http://www.spotlightcd.com/hallfame/por ... sp?id=1619

Paul McCharmly, Ringo Stone, haha! Where was that?

I thought it was in the Anthology...during a tour of Sweden in '64. If not, I saw it somewhere else. Great clip. They read passages from In His Own Write while tearing pages of the book out. John looks annoyed and totally jet lagged. It's amazing they didn't appear to have a press agent there to control it. In fact, I never saw an interview with the "Bad Boy" Stones where they were half as outrageous (not to mention disrespectful.)

Well, that was the great rock and roll swindle, wasn't it? Those nice boys, the Beatles (even with their long hair) were the in truth speed freak rock and rollers and those supposed street toughs, the Rolling Stones had a singer who was a namby-pamby college boy poofter.

What a wonderful clip. George Harrison was an extremely funny man. As I've mentioned before on these boards I went to school with his son and had the pleasure of meeting him several times and he always made me laugh and not the "giddy it's GH so anything he says is funny" laugh. He always had very funny observations on things, from the campus food at Brown to Dhani's hair care products to the English countryside. Very missed.

I'm afraid Mick is a fraud, Alan. Your description of him reminds me of the very un-p.c. but uproariously funny nickname Lennon had for him in later years.

...George's dry wit was always a winner with me. Great timing....better than the others, I think..