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The Lovin’ Spoonful with George Harrison and John Lennon (possibly at the Marquee Club on 18 April 1966)
Mike Stax: So the [Marquee] show went well?
John Sebastian: Yeah. It went very well, and during this show a wonderful publicity man that was working for us at that time explained to my manager that, “You need to immediately call the hotel and rent some kind of space for a party”. Well, it was a very fortuitous thing because that party really had everybody from the press and various bands. Unfortunately, Zally started to get drunker as there got to be more and more important people and more and more heavy scrutiny.
He was great in kind of a moderate crowd, but there was a point where he’d kind of get the willies to get out there or do something. Anyway, he ended up lobbing black olives at John Lennon, going [bad Liverpool accent], “Hey luv! How are you, luv, tonight?” God, Zally! What are you doing? [laughs] I think he and Keith [
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George Harrison
English musician and member of the Beatles (1943–2001)
This article is about the musician. For other people named George Harrison, see George Harrison (disambiguation).
George Harrison[nb 1] (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)[nb 2] was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work.
Although most of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group include "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun". Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Djang
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John [Winston Ono] Lennon, MBE (b. John Winston Lennon, October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980) was an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. As a member of the group, Lennon was one of the lead vocalists and co-wrote the majority of the band's songs with bassist Paul McCartney.
In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Give Peace a Chance," "Imagine," and "Instant Karma!"
Lennon had two sons: Julian Lennon, with his first wife Cynthia Lennon, and Sean Ono Lennon, with his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. After a self-imposed retirement from 1976 to 1980, Lennon reemerged with a comeback album, but was murdered one month later in New York City on December 8, 1980.
John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred (Alf, or Freddie) Lennon, during the cou