Happy 91st Birthday Louise! Thanks for all you did for your brother, George, The Beatles and all of the Beatles fans around the world. Many happy returns of the day!
Heart warming. So good to be reminded that George Harrison wasn't any different than everyone else. He loved his family and enjoyed including them in his success.
The King's Hall the first time and I think it was at the ABC cinema the second. That's where I also saw The Stones. Jagger was incredible in the flesh.
I got to know Lou through the years via charity events, One of her passion's was to advocate to keep music classes in public schools. Louise "Lou" is so proper in her diction, I assume because of her British upbringing. I've not talked with her in several years. I think she is about 91 years old. Lou is the sweetest woman. Im blessed to know her.
I met her in St. Louis she promoted stuff at a Beatles tribute concert and she was very nice. "It don t come easy". She wants to promote not smoking. Very cool woman.
@@juliogomez1981 we lived in Mackets Lane Woolton ,they were all new houses built ,Me and my older post sister called at his house ,l was only about 12 or 13 ,my sister made me knock on the door ,l knocked George’s brother came out ,l sheepishly asked if George was in ,He went in George came out ,l asked for his autograph ,as he was writing he was eying my sister up she was standing by the gate ,She was about 18 looking pretty ,We went back later and a crowd had gathered, he came out put his suitcase in the boot of his car ,,He must’ve felt stupid all us lot looking at him ,
During my teens in the 60s she would provide a regular Beatle's report over my favorite rock station in Canada as Louise Harrison Caldwell. Needless to say, it was very popular
I was a 6 year old kid living in Queens, NY when the Beatles flew in for the Ed Sullivan show. I'll never forget watching my next door neighbor jumping up and down, screaming, thats them, they're here, pointing skyward. I looked up, and what I remember vividly to this day, the Pan Am logo on the tail of plane carrying the Beatles, coming in for a landing at Kennedy Intl. Airport!
I've played in bands since I was 14 (1964). I've played in Folk Bands, Rock Bands, Jam Bands, Jazz Bands and Bar Bands. But nothing compares to the 7 years I spent playing bass in a Beatles Tribute Band. We didn't play that many gigs (we were all working regular jobs at the time), but, there is one thing that every gig had in common --- the audience smiled.
@@catholiccowboy8545 Group was fond of Larry Williams (who, like his buddy Little Richard, recorded for Specialty); they covered Bad Boy, Slow Down, and Dizzy Miss Lizzie.
HISTORY LESSON FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION: I was about to graduate primary school when the Beatles music first hit the USA (1963). I recall that their first big hit HERE was 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' though the big hit in Great Britain at the time was 'She Loves You'. What young people today would have a hard time getting their heads around is that back then we didn't have any way of hearing new music other than the radio. Transistor radios were still a new thing. (I still have mine - it cost $5 which was a LOT of money in those days). The very idea of being able to hear the radio without an electric cord attached to it was unbelievable. (I TOLD you you wouldn't be able to get your head around it. ~LOL~) Of course you could buy the 45 vinyl records, but the Beatles music was so new that there weren't any records for sale yet in most of the cities; plus, we didn't have the money (as kids) to buy them anyway. The cost of a 45 record was a significant reduction from your allowance (if you even GOT an allowance). So we would sit patiently listening to the top 20 cycling through the radio till our favorite songs showed up in the cue. When those first three notes of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' came on the radio time stopped and we'd be glued to every word and note of the song. I remember Louise's reports on the radio very well. The rock station in my city used to air these real time reports which came in as phone calls from her each day as the Beatles were gaining popularity. They were little tidbits of information - something funny one of them said, or some experience they had that was unknown to the public. These radio reports were gold because we wanted to know EVERYTHING about these guys and Louise was sort of like a spy we had "on the inside". I can't really describe, nor do I think would young people today even begin to comprehend the hype surrounding this group. It was bigger than Elvis and Michael Jackson put together - bigger than any performer or group in history, before or since. The encyclopedia even coined a new word - "Beatlemania" - to describe it. I watched all three of the consecutive shows live on the Ed Sullivan TV program (mentioned in the video) featuring the Beatles when they were aired, on our black and white TV. My sister, who was much older than me, married, with a son only three years younger than me, thought they were lame: an opinion solely based upon things she had heard about them. They were visiting us when the first show aired and only she and I were watching it as others were mingling around the house. When they came on and were singing I said something and she "shushed" me in no uncertain terms. By the end of that performance she was a total convert. That's the type of effect they had on you. Another thing young people would NEVER understand is how viciously their long hair was vilified by the older generation - older defined as beginning with 30 somethings. They thought there was something almost unholy about the long hair. I mean, these guys were wearing perfectly tailored suits, white shirts and ties, but the long hair made them unacceptable to the older generation - they were going to corrupt the youth of the world ~LOL~ .... imagine if those same people could see what came later with other groups. I remember one British critic who defended them by saying, "Their hair may be long and shaggy but it is well brushed." meaning that they were clean (morally) and respectable in every other way. EVERYTHING started with the Beatles. They wore boots instead of shoes. Polished boots. These boots became sort of like what we'd call a "meme" today. So Nancy Sinatra sang a song called "These Boots Were Meant For Walking'. As a result boots became a new women's fashion statement which went viral. To accentuate the long boots the mini-skirt was invented and became hugely popular. The Beatles very presence ran in tiny rivulets which affected everything around them. Their long litany of exceptionally fine song writing and presentation will never be equaled. They were a phenomena, there's no other word to describe them. The world now is a much different place and two of them are gone, but their effect on the world, in my opinion, has changed history. Their attitude of independence to criticism started a movement among youth of standing up for what they believed in and acting upon it which I think helped to end the Vietnam war. Their music changed the entire direction of pop music and how it was both written and performed. The very clothes they wore affected fashions for years to come. And I was there at the beginning. It was a hell of a ride!
@@Nowhere_Man_1953 Totally and absolutely Arnold. I can’t forget them because I don’t want to forget them. We were the lucky ones. The kids of today only read about the 60s, we lived them and I’m so happy I did!
@@Nowhere_Man_1953 Yeah man. The Beatles could never make it without all four members being there together. It would have been a disaster and an insult to only have two or three of them in the line-up and try to get away with being The Beatles. Stay safe too man and more importantly stay happy.
Wow a well written thoughtful message at last... I had to book the day off to read it tho lol only kidding nice one mate all the best to ya.. Pete Wolverhampton
@@petejones879 Hello Pete!!! You know, I was the baby of our family and because I was so much younger most of the people I knew in that era who I was closest to have either migrated to other destinations or are deceased. I now find myself all alone and have learned that no one wants to listen to the ramblings of an old man. I'm happy to learn that you enjoyed my post. Thank you for your comment.
I have seen the Beatles "Rain" show and it was totally excellent. Closest thing to seeing the real Beatles live. Grown women were screaming and crying as they relived Beatlemania. It was hilarious but also quite amazing to realize how huge the Fab Four were. So if Liverpool Legends show can top "Rain", it must be a really wonderful experience.
Around the time of George's passing, Louise told the story on CNN of him visiting her in Illinois in 1963. They went to the VFW hall, and George picked up a guitar and played with the house band. She said it was like a bolt of electricity shot through the place. Even before the Ed Sullivan Show, she knew her brother George had made it. I visited the family home in Liverpool - quite humble.
@@maureentopper3741 I guess I wasn't paying attention. I have always thought that when the Beatles arrived in NY in early February 1964, America was brand new to all of them, and that made it all the more exciting for everyone. I wonder if that detail about George's trip was suppressed?
Had the honor of talking to her many times at the LA Beatlefest. Sweet lady. Last I heard was that she was not doing very well. Seen numerous tribute bands. Attended 19 Beatlefests
I was an American Beatles fan from the beginning in 1964. In our rural Upstate New York home, we only got NBC TV, so I didn't see the Ed Sullivan shows on CBS. But I heard their music on WABC radio in NYC, which seemed to promote them heavily and be the first to play their new releases. I wouldn't go to see a tribute band, The Beatles meant that much to me that I wouldn't want to see and hear them imitated. But after they broke up, I didn't care any more about their separate careers, but I did hear their music on the radio. Younger generations need to understand that President Kennedy's murder on November 22, 1963 caused heartbreak among younger, idealistic people, so when the British Invasion came along just a few months later, it was thrilling and new and took our minds off the heartbreak, to a large extent.
I was fourteen when I heard "I want to hold your hand" . I remember the assassination of JFK, the nuns at my school asked us to pray for our president. My eyes are filled with tears as I write this....a profound moment in American history . Thank God for the Beatles , and the spirit of our generation. Long live the "freaks"of every generation !
@@marvymarier8988 We understand each other. I turned 16 in April 1964. There was a flood of good music that year, both British and American. It must have been December 1963, and on the NBC nightly news with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, toward the end of the show, they showed a brief clip of this British phenomenon group called The Beatles. They were performing in a darkened concert hall and you could hardly hear the music from the screaming. That was the first I heard of them, and I was an avid rock and roll fan, relying on WABC radio. Very shortly after that the music must have come over. It was thrilling.
.. Me i was 16, i wired a old iron bed base on the roof of our garage so i could get NBC, CBS, ABC. I didn't miss Saturday pm hockey on CBS or NBC. It worked but the picture was snowy ... Better than zip. Beatles had nothing to do with J. Kennedy. I recall the music was boring and all the same and there's was a lack of guitar, i mean too much sax. Beatles were "tough" rock.
I'm with you there. Nothing against tribute bands (well I might be in some cases). Getting dressed up in early 60's Beatles suits or Sgt. Pepper's uniforms gives a limited picture of the Beatles image to kids who want to know more about who they were,..and playing the same songs, usually the same singles, that again might give the impression that the Beatles only had 20-30 great songs in their armoury. John Lennon commented that radio only played their singles, the same 15-20 over an over. I quite liked the 'Fab Faux' who didn't dress up in any kind of Beatles uniform yet did some great versions of the songs the Beatles would have had difficulty in playing live, such as 'I am the Walrus'. George Martin could have certainly helped his young charges there. How about a Beatles tribute band in Hamburg leather suits playing the rockers of the day as well as the odd Lennon-McCartney song like 'I Saw Her Standing There' or the Harrison-Lennon' instrumental 'Cry for a Shadow' with hollering. I might pay good money to see a band like that, the 'Peedles'?
I know what you mean. Seeing a tribute band would leave an image in my mind that I don't want. I want to remember John, Paul, George, and Ringo the way I grew up with them. Even today, it's hard to listen to Paul McCartney give his one-sided memories of the Beatles so I just tune him out.
Wow love some of the messages .my mum n dad would talk all the time about growing up .back in them times ,beatles always playing .at home .such a sweet warm women .bless her heart .thanks for stories great stuff❤
It took them years to become an overnight success. They worked their arses off. 12 hours a night in Hamburg, seven days a week for weeks at a time. Tells you a lot about their dedication.
I believe Ringo missed the Hamburg days, is that right? I think he was recruited just before recording Please Please Me. In any case, he was as seasoned as any of them.
@@yolhanson No, that's not right. Ringo was there playing in his group Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. He liked to hang out and listen to the Beatles when he wasn't playing with his band and got to know them and sometimes played with the Beatles when Pete Best wasn't around for whatever reason. Pete was fired just before their first recording and Ringo was actually asked to join the band then but didn't actually play on their first released recording. A studio drummer actually played on their first release which was "Love Me Do", not "Please Please me"
Brian Fitzpatrick ....yeah I'm from Liverpool and lived in the north and south ends of the city....and yeah there is a slight difference in the Scouse accent.....Hi from Liverpool...👍🏻
I read that when George came to the US to visit Louise he went to every record store around and asked for Beatle records. Nobody knew who he was talking about. He went home pretty discouraged, I guess. Thinking,”We’ll never make it over there.” The good fortune of Louise’s research and Ed Sullivan in a London airport changed that dreaded future for them. It was fate. It was all meant to be. Louise was a lovely lady. I wonder what her husband did for work? Canada. South America. Then the United States.
Moss Brothers and sisters don’t get along that was nice that you were close to your brother your brother was my favorite beetle and he always will be I like Paul and Ringo to some of John was OK but George was my favorite hats off to him he died too young 👍🎸☮️😀
imitators imitate , innovators innovate . you can learn to play beatles songs all you want, or anybody's songs for that matter . it's CREATING that level of music that nobody will ever be able to imitate .
Elvis made an ok living at just singing as did Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby even Mario Lanza. Yes writing is a great talent as is being a great musician but w/o charisma & showman ship you end up maybe in recording sessions.
We don’t really know the specifics of the situation, nor is it any of our business. It does appear to be shitty from our perspective, but so what? Maybe the decision was consensual.
Sounds like the time when it is alleged that Yoko wanted all the houses back that John Lennon had bought his friends and relatives. Does sound a bit mean but was it Georges last Will and Testament that his Sister should no longer get that allowance?
So from reading the comments she was 79 to 80 when this interview was done.. She was amazingly sharp and on the ball so to speak.. And very eloquent.. I'm amazed she hasn't picked up an American or Canadian accent along the way with hef time living at these places. She's very English with a very slight twang of liverpudlian to her voice.. But it is very slight
I met George's dog Tammy in 1993, a brown eyed golden retriever with a soft Birkenhead brogue. She was in a vase on a mantelpiece at the time but her spirit shone through. Lovely pooch.
Louise to Marty Scott (upon meeting Gavin Pring): "Marty, we need to talk...please have a seat, luv...now, there's something I must tell you..." (you get the picture ;-)).
@@thomascoon5355 Well I am stunned and amazed. I would think any wealthy person would help out their own family. Family always comes first before any donations to any tax deductible charity.
It wasn’t George who stopped the payments to Louise, it was the manager of his estate who cut her off about after his death. I wonder what George would have thought about that.
@@aliciarobertson4979 I’m sure George would have stipulated in his Will who and what got from his Estate? I remember a story that his Sister had once opened up a Hotel or some kind of Bed & Breakfast in the hight of Beatlemania and named the Hotel, "A Hard Days Night”. Apparently George wasn’t best pleased feeling that his Sister was taking advantage of is Fame? Maybe the memories run deep?
She was jealous and mean to him When he was a kid Bullied him around took his lunch money So he got use to it and just kept giving For the lack of embarrassment.
She was 12 yrs older than George and was long gone by his playing days. She actually sounds like an American now. Now I heard they patched things up before he died but there was a very embittered fall out between George and his sister and it was just THIS type of shit here that pissed him off. George and Paul do NOT like it when people try to exploit the Beatles' name. She wanted to open a B&B called "A Hard Days Night" with George's blessing and he said "Absolutely NOT". This was in the mid-1980's and they didn't talk again until George was dying. Apparently George came around and said to her "I could have helped you more". But she would, over the yrs, nickle & dime him constantly and I don't think he left her anything. George always did things for his brothers but they worked for him for decades at Friar Park. George's dad lived there too after George's mom died in 1970. He went with George on his 1974 tour and had grown shoulder-length hair to match George's lol.
George had a lawsuit against her, she was selling items of his In Illinois. This was a few years before he died. Anyone that can help me with truth I would appreciate it.
Especially easy to see family resemblance in John and Georges' womens' faces to myself. John's mother and aunt's maiden names are Stanley, as my last. Louise looks a lot like my great grandmother Hannah Mariah Harrison Stanley .
astonishing that they were just 4 people in a band so you think you could come up with people to imitate them possibly better but it never happens. nothing comes close.
Usually the bands have one, maybe two, actors that resemble one of the original members. There's some that have a remarkable likeness to John or Paul and one that has an exact lookalike to George, but none of them have ever had a Ringo that comes close. They always have them too tall or too short and it's difficult to find a left handed playing Paul. If they could select the best imitators from all the many tribute bands and put them in one band AND find a realistic Ringo, you'd really have something
George should have set his sis up with an irrevocable trust funded with a generous annuity. He could have made a condition that sis stay out of all money making activities using his name or the Beatles. This would have given him peace of mind and prevented her use of his name, if that was the root of his problem with her. It would also have kept Olivia and Dhani out of any financial support involving Louise.
George'sister claimed a few years ago that George gave her a monthly pension last years of his life and when he died she didn't get it anymore. She was out of the will and she had money troubles. I don't know why her husband didn't let her not enough money.
Happy 91st Birthday Louise! Thanks for all you did for your brother, George, The Beatles and all of the Beatles fans around the world. Many happy returns of the day!
Heart warming. So good to be reminded that George Harrison wasn't any different than everyone else. He loved his family and enjoyed including them in his success.
I saw The Beatles twice in Belfast. Mania doesn't begin to describe it. Probably thought about The Beatles every day since!
Where in Belfast did they play?
The King's Hall the first time and I think it was at the ABC cinema the second. That's where I also saw The Stones. Jagger was incredible in the flesh.
And besides the IRA and Protestants were going at it back then.
@@kentclark6420 No trouble at that time. Belfast was jumping then.
You saw history!
I met Louise when she was managing the "Liverpool Legends" and got the "Harrison Hug." A very sweet lady.
I met her also, in Illinois. Chatted with her for maybe 20 minutes. Yes, very sweet.
How wonderful!!
I got to know Lou through the years via charity events, One of her passion's was to advocate to keep music classes in public schools. Louise "Lou" is so proper in her diction, I assume because of her British upbringing. I've not talked with her in several years. I think she is about 91 years old. Lou is the sweetest woman. Im blessed to know her.
I have met her in Laredo I was absolutely overwhelmed by her presence , lovely Louise !!!
I met her in St. Louis she promoted stuff at a Beatles tribute concert and she was very nice. "It don t come easy". She wants to promote not smoking. Very cool woman.
George's sister Louise is 90 years old this year (2021) this video being 10 years old.
So there was about a 12 year age difference between the two?
She's now 82 years old.
@@manoftheworld1000 no she was born in 1931
@@ianbentley7276 correct, she'll be 90 in August.
@@leslieseabury4138 cheers
I lived along the road from his parents ,his Mum let us in the house to see George’s 21st birthday presents sent to him from all over the world
Lovely , I’ve visit 12 Arnold Grove not long ago absolutely fantastic , cheers Sandra !!
@@juliogomez1981 we lived in Mackets Lane Woolton ,they were all new houses built ,Me and my older post sister called at his house ,l was only about 12 or 13 ,my sister made me knock on the door ,l knocked George’s brother came out ,l sheepishly asked if George was in ,He went in George came out ,l asked for his autograph ,as he was writing he was eying my sister up she was standing by the gate ,She was about 18 looking pretty ,We went back later and a crowd had gathered, he came out put his suitcase in the boot of his car ,,He must’ve felt stupid all us lot looking at him ,
@@sandraford4235 lovely
A you in Florida right now ?
Nice writing to you cheers !!
Louise is 90 and still alive -- I hope she is well and comfortable, God bless her.
She is dead now
Warmth and joy is what I felt whilst watching this.
During my teens in the 60s she would provide a regular Beatle's report over my favorite rock station in Canada as Louise Harrison Caldwell. Needless to say, it was very popular
Would that have been CHUM-FM?
Those first few pictures of George being so young shows how much his son Dhani looks exactly like him.
Well he would.It’s the Ears you know
George once said "He looks more like me than i do"
very true
I got to meet her in 1995 at The Beatles festival in Chicago, nice lady!
I was a 6 year old kid living in Queens, NY when the Beatles flew in for the Ed Sullivan show. I'll never forget watching my next door neighbor jumping up and down, screaming, thats them, they're here, pointing skyward.
I looked up, and what I remember vividly to this day, the Pan Am logo on the tail of plane carrying the Beatles, coming in for a landing at Kennedy Intl. Airport!
The neighbor girl was dying to go see them,mom said,id like to go throw eggs at them
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Do you remember any other acts that played at the ED SULLIVAN SHOW that night???
What a sweet lady.She seems a very nice person.It couldn't be different.George were like that.
I've played in bands since I was 14 (1964). I've played in Folk Bands, Rock Bands, Jam Bands, Jazz Bands and Bar Bands. But nothing compares to the 7 years I spent playing bass in a Beatles Tribute Band. We didn't play that many gigs (we were all working regular jobs at the time), but, there is one thing that every gig had in common --- the audience smiled.
George was the only group member who had been to the U.S. prior to 1964.
.. true it's on the first book about the Beatles and he brought back in england many LPs, i think they had "Bad Boy" from one of them.
@@catholiccowboy8545 Group was fond of Larry Williams (who, like his buddy Little Richard, recorded for Specialty); they covered Bad Boy, Slow Down, and Dizzy Miss Lizzie.
great story about how he played with a local band for a couple nights! they wanted him to join-but he said he was already "in another group back home"
@@lamper2 Imagine the story they told their children and grandkids!
Our 'Lou' has the Harrison eyes!!😉👍👍👍👍💖💕💓
HISTORY LESSON FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION: I was about to graduate primary school when the Beatles music first hit the USA (1963). I recall that their first big hit HERE was 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' though the big hit in Great Britain at the time was 'She Loves You'. What young people today would have a hard time getting their heads around is that back then we didn't have any way of hearing new music other than the radio. Transistor radios were still a new thing. (I still have mine - it cost $5 which was a LOT of money in those days). The very idea of being able to hear the radio without an electric cord attached to it was unbelievable. (I TOLD you you wouldn't be able to get your head around it. ~LOL~) Of course you could buy the 45 vinyl records, but the Beatles music was so new that there weren't any records for sale yet in most of the cities; plus, we didn't have the money (as kids) to buy them anyway. The cost of a 45 record was a significant reduction from your allowance (if you even GOT an allowance). So we would sit patiently listening to the top 20 cycling through the radio till our favorite songs showed up in the cue. When those first three notes of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' came on the radio time stopped and we'd be glued to every word and note of the song. I remember Louise's reports on the radio very well. The rock station in my city used to air these real time reports which came in as phone calls from her each day as the Beatles were gaining popularity. They were little tidbits of information - something funny one of them said, or some experience they had that was unknown to the public. These radio reports were gold because we wanted to know EVERYTHING about these guys and Louise was sort of like a spy we had "on the inside". I can't really describe, nor do I think would young people today even begin to comprehend the hype surrounding this group. It was bigger than Elvis and Michael Jackson put together - bigger than any performer or group in history, before or since. The encyclopedia even coined a new word - "Beatlemania" - to describe it. I watched all three of the consecutive shows live on the Ed Sullivan TV program (mentioned in the video) featuring the Beatles when they were aired, on our black and white TV. My sister, who was much older than me, married, with a son only three years younger than me, thought they were lame: an opinion solely based upon things she had heard about them. They were visiting us when the first show aired and only she and I were watching it as others were mingling around the house. When they came on and were singing I said something and she "shushed" me in no uncertain terms. By the end of that performance she was a total convert. That's the type of effect they had on you. Another thing young people would NEVER understand is how viciously their long hair was vilified by the older generation - older defined as beginning with 30 somethings. They thought there was something almost unholy about the long hair. I mean, these guys were wearing perfectly tailored suits, white shirts and ties, but the long hair made them unacceptable to the older generation - they were going to corrupt the youth of the world ~LOL~ .... imagine if those same people could see what came later with other groups. I remember one British critic who defended them by saying, "Their hair may be long and shaggy but it is well brushed." meaning that they were clean (morally) and respectable in every other way. EVERYTHING started with the Beatles. They wore boots instead of shoes. Polished boots. These boots became sort of like what we'd call a "meme" today. So Nancy Sinatra sang a song called "These Boots Were Meant For Walking'. As a result boots became a new women's fashion statement which went viral. To accentuate the long boots the mini-skirt was invented and became hugely popular. The Beatles very presence ran in tiny rivulets which affected everything around them. Their long litany of exceptionally fine song writing and presentation will never be equaled. They were a phenomena, there's no other word to describe them. The world now is a much different place and two of them are gone, but their effect on the world, in my opinion, has changed history. Their attitude of independence to criticism started a movement among youth of standing up for what they believed in and acting upon it which I think helped to end the Vietnam war. Their music changed the entire direction of pop music and how it was both written and performed. The very clothes they wore affected fashions for years to come. And I was there at the beginning. It was a hell of a ride!
@@Nowhere_Man_1953 Totally and absolutely Arnold. I can’t forget them because I don’t want to forget them. We were the lucky ones. The kids of today only read about the 60s, we lived them and I’m so happy I did!
@@Nowhere_Man_1953 Yeah man. The Beatles could never make it without all four members being there together. It would have been a disaster and an insult to only have two or three of them in the line-up and try to get away with being The Beatles. Stay safe too man and more importantly stay happy.
@@Nowhere_Man_1953 Perfectly put in a nutshell, thanks. ;-)
Wow a well written thoughtful message at last... I had to book the day off to read it tho lol only kidding nice one mate all the best to ya.. Pete Wolverhampton
@@petejones879 Hello Pete!!! You know, I was the baby of our family and because I was so much younger most of the people I knew in that era who I was closest to have either migrated to other destinations or are deceased. I now find myself all alone and have learned that no one wants to listen to the ramblings of an old man. I'm happy to learn that you enjoyed my post. Thank you for your comment.
I have seen the Beatles "Rain" show and it was totally excellent. Closest thing to seeing the real Beatles live. Grown women were screaming and crying as they relived Beatlemania. It was hilarious but also quite amazing to realize how huge the Fab Four were. So if Liverpool Legends show can top "Rain", it must be a really wonderful experience.
Around the time of George's passing, Louise told the story on CNN of him visiting her in Illinois in 1963. They went to the VFW hall, and George picked up a guitar and played with the house band. She said it was like a bolt of electricity shot through the place. Even before the Ed Sullivan Show, she knew her brother George had made it. I visited the family home in Liverpool - quite humble.
The Beatles did not come to the U.S. until February 1964. What is this Illinois in 1963?
@@stephenvanwoert2447 George came to the U.S. alone in 1963, to visit his sister, who lived in Illinois.
@@MDavidG1 That is a big surprise to me. Thanks.
@@stephenvanwoert2447 She talked about the 1963 visit in the interview.
@@maureentopper3741 I guess I wasn't paying attention. I have always thought that when the Beatles arrived in NY in early February 1964, America was brand new to all of them, and that made it all the more exciting for everyone. I wonder if that detail about George's trip was suppressed?
Ravi Shankar lived in my hometown Encinitas Ca. George would come to Encinitas to visit Ravi
Had the honor of talking to her many times at the LA Beatlefest. Sweet lady. Last I heard was that she was not doing very well. Seen numerous tribute bands. Attended 19 Beatlefests
What a fab interview big thumbs up 👍👍🇬🇧
I was an American Beatles fan from the beginning in 1964. In our rural Upstate New York home, we only got NBC TV, so I didn't see the Ed Sullivan shows on CBS. But I heard their music on WABC radio in NYC, which seemed to promote them heavily and be the first to play their new releases. I wouldn't go to see a tribute band, The Beatles meant that much to me that I wouldn't want to see and hear them imitated. But after they broke up, I didn't care any more about their separate careers, but I did hear their music on the radio.
Younger generations need to understand that President Kennedy's murder on November 22, 1963 caused heartbreak among younger, idealistic people, so when the British Invasion came along just a few months later, it was thrilling and new and took our minds off the heartbreak, to a large extent.
I was fourteen when I heard "I want to hold your hand" . I remember the assassination of JFK, the nuns at my
school asked us to pray for our president. My eyes are filled with tears as I write this....a profound moment in American history .
Thank God for the Beatles , and the spirit of our generation.
Long live the "freaks"of every generation !
@@marvymarier8988 We understand each other. I turned 16 in April 1964. There was a flood of good music that year, both British and American.
It must have been December 1963, and on the NBC nightly news with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, toward the end of the show, they showed a brief clip of this British phenomenon group called The Beatles. They were performing in a darkened concert hall and you could hardly hear the music from the screaming. That was the first I heard of them, and I was an avid rock and roll fan, relying on WABC radio. Very shortly after that the music must have come over. It was thrilling.
.. Me i was 16, i wired a old iron bed base on the roof of our garage so i could get NBC, CBS, ABC. I didn't miss Saturday pm hockey on CBS or NBC. It worked but the picture was snowy ... Better than zip. Beatles had nothing to do with J. Kennedy. I recall the music was boring and all the same and there's was a lack of guitar, i mean too much sax. Beatles were "tough" rock.
I'm with you there. Nothing against tribute bands (well I might be in some cases). Getting dressed up in early 60's Beatles suits or Sgt. Pepper's uniforms gives a limited picture of the Beatles image to kids who want to know more about who they were,..and playing the same songs, usually the same singles, that again might give the impression that the Beatles only had 20-30 great songs in their armoury. John Lennon commented that radio only played their singles, the same 15-20 over an over.
I quite liked the 'Fab Faux' who didn't dress up in any kind of Beatles uniform yet did some great versions of the songs the Beatles would have had difficulty in playing live, such as 'I am the Walrus'. George Martin could have certainly helped his young charges there.
How about a Beatles tribute band in Hamburg leather suits playing the rockers of the day as well as the odd Lennon-McCartney song like 'I Saw Her Standing There' or the Harrison-Lennon' instrumental 'Cry for a Shadow' with hollering. I might pay good money to see a band like that, the 'Peedles'?
I know what you mean. Seeing a tribute band would leave an image in my mind that I don't want. I want to remember John, Paul, George, and Ringo the way I grew up with them. Even today, it's hard to listen to Paul McCartney give his one-sided memories of the Beatles so I just tune him out.
Incredible! Thanks a lot, by the way George is alive - for me and my heart.
Just love anything to do with my childhood heroes The Beatles
Oh, the eyebrows are the same. This is some surprising background info. "Get them on Ed Sullivan." She got that right.
She's a nice one. I've met her a few times in Branson Mo.
She seems just lovely. I can see how she and George would have had fun, both of them having good senses of humor.
She does seem very grounded
She has the same sense of humour as George.
I met her at the Ocean Manor Hotel inside bar in the 1980s. She hasn’t changed much!
I saw Louise Harrison at The Fest For Beatles Fans in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I liked her; she was very nice to everyone who approached her.
Wow love some of the messages .my mum n dad would talk all the time about growing up .back in them times ,beatles always playing .at home .such a sweet warm women .bless her heart .thanks for stories great stuff❤
It took them years to become an overnight success. They worked their arses off. 12 hours a night in Hamburg, seven days a week for weeks at a time. Tells you a lot about their dedication.
I believe Ringo missed the Hamburg days, is that right? I think he was recruited just before recording Please Please Me. In any case, he was as seasoned as any of them.
@@yolhanson No, that's not right. Ringo was there playing in his group Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. He liked to hang out and listen to the Beatles when he wasn't playing with his band and got to know them and sometimes played with the Beatles when Pete Best wasn't around for whatever reason. Pete was fired just before their first recording and Ringo was actually asked to join the band then but didn't actually play on their first released recording. A studio drummer actually played on their first release which was "Love Me Do", not "Please Please me"
I can hear the soft south Liverpool accent in her voice.
Well, she's been in America/Canada for 50+ years so her accent has faded out.
There’s a difference between south n north Liverpool accent?
Brian Fitzpatrick ....yeah I'm from Liverpool and lived in the north and south ends of the city....and yeah there is a slight difference in the Scouse accent.....Hi from Liverpool...👍🏻
@frankhornby6873 yes. South liverpool sounds more like a wirral accent.
This seems so wholesome and nostalgic compared to 2021 MSM.
George will always and FOREVER be my favorite Beatle. ❤
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Priceless, sister ❤
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I read that when George came to the US to visit Louise he went to every record store around and asked for Beatle records.
Nobody knew who he was talking about. He went home pretty discouraged, I guess. Thinking,”We’ll never make it over there.”
The good fortune of Louise’s research and Ed Sullivan in a London airport changed that dreaded future for them.
It was fate. It was all meant to be.
Louise was a lovely lady. I wonder what her husband did for work?
Canada. South America. Then the United States.
He was in management for a mining company.
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Stealing Diamonds ?
@@keithclark486 "been reported."
Awesome...a new generaton can see the Beatles live; better than a wax museum exhibition of the Beatles.
My mum worked with hers and George's mum in Liverpool....Eric Bemrose Printers...
Lovely Such A Sweet Lady ❤️❤️
wonderful that Louise also testifies to the greatness and legend of the Fab Four!
Got a letter from this lady once, still got it..
Moss Brothers and sisters don’t get along that was nice that you were close to your brother your brother was my favorite beetle and he always will be I like Paul and Ringo to some of John was OK but George was my favorite hats off to him he died too young 👍🎸☮️😀
NEVER EVER BEETLES IT MUST BE BEATLES ALWAYS
No one knows the Moss brothers and sisters.FFS you can’t even spell the bands name correctly
What a beautiful lady and great 👍 sister
Thank you for posting.
I saw the Liverpool Legends twice in Branson, Mo. I met Louise, also.
4:24 there’s some honesty, and honestly, I was wondering.
imitators imitate , innovators innovate . you can learn to play beatles songs all you want, or anybody's songs for that matter . it's CREATING that level of music that nobody will ever be able to imitate .
And stick-in-the-mud's rain on people's parades.
@@InfoArtistJKatTheGoodInfoCafe He’s right though.
Elvis made an ok living at just singing as did Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby even Mario Lanza. Yes writing is a great talent as is being a great musician but w/o charisma & showman ship you end up maybe in recording sessions.
Sweet down to earth lady.
Don't understand cutting her off $2000 a month!! That's only $24000 a year! That would be nothing to the estate!!
Very sad decision by Olivia who was a lowly paid receptionist when George met her. Money changes people. It was a disgraceful act on her behalf.
@@regaltip8A that's disappointing, I thought Olivia seemed alright but that's pretty shitty.
We don’t really know the specifics of the situation, nor is it any of our business. It does appear to be shitty from our perspective, but so what? Maybe the decision was consensual.
Sounds like the time when it is alleged that Yoko wanted all the houses back that John Lennon had bought his friends and relatives. Does sound a bit mean but was it Georges last Will and Testament that his Sister should no longer get that allowance?
@@stormbringercoming8105 The decision proves Olivia is a tight arsed bitch.
I saw her in 1996 in Atlanta and have signed photograph
Her Liverpudlian ( Scouse) accent comes through in certain words..
So from reading the comments she was 79 to 80 when this interview was done.. She was amazingly sharp and on the ball so to speak.. And very eloquent.. I'm amazed she hasn't picked up an American or Canadian accent along the way with hef time living at these places. She's very English with a very slight twang of liverpudlian to her voice.. But it is very slight
so nice sister love her.........
I met George's dog Tammy in 1993, a brown eyed golden retriever with a soft Birkenhead brogue. She was in a vase on a mantelpiece at the time but her spirit shone through. Lovely pooch.
Wtf?!
What a lovely lady 🇬🇧
Just like aunt Mimi..may God rest her kind and wonderful soul!
can hear the scouse accent mixed in with the american accent.
I felt the same. She does not have a strong “spouse” accent, to my surprise.
Yes and to my ears, the combination sounds better than both.
@@victormark2205 scouse not spouse.
I love it!
Louise needs to hear "The Fab Four".
Louise to Marty Scott (upon meeting Gavin Pring): "Marty, we need to talk...please have a seat, luv...now, there's something I must tell you..." (you get the picture ;-)).
She has a look of george
i mean they’re siblings hahah, but they have similar smiles tho
Funny that innit...
A wonderful woman.
I didn't know! Interesting stuff. Well done.
I love the Beatles. .
Lovely Lady, very like George.
wow...the resemblance.
I will hope that Louise Harrison is doing this out of love, not money. Surely George and the band took good care of their respective families.
You would think so, but no. Payments to Louise stopped about a year after George died. She has to make money somehow.
@@thomascoon5355 Well I am stunned and amazed. I would think any wealthy person would help out their own family. Family always comes first before any donations to any tax deductible charity.
It wasn’t George who stopped the payments to Louise, it was the manager of his estate who cut her off about after his death. I wonder what George would have thought about that.
@@aliciarobertson4979 Olivia Harrison??
@@aliciarobertson4979 I’m sure George would have stipulated in his Will who and what got from his Estate? I remember a story that his Sister had once opened up a Hotel or some kind of Bed & Breakfast in the hight of Beatlemania and named the Hotel, "A Hard Days Night”. Apparently George wasn’t best pleased feeling that his Sister was taking advantage of is Fame? Maybe the memories run deep?
Almost a year to the day after George died the pension she was given by him was stopped by his estate.
She was jealous and mean to him When he was a kid Bullied him around took his lunch money So he got use to it and just kept giving For the lack of embarrassment.
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Yes it was
But that's life.
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"Thank You Girl" comes to mind?
@@keithclark486 "she was his sister and they might have
problems but what siblings don't."-🤔📻🌐..
Bullshit Edgar, where did you drag that diatribe from. Fuck off back under your rock
The Beatles did an album from Hamburg, Germany. Some said it was like gunge before that name got coined.
Grunge? More like punk really. You can hear that performance on RUclips by the way.
She was 12 yrs older than George and was long gone by his playing days. She actually sounds like an American now. Now I heard they patched things up before he died but there was a very embittered fall out between George and his sister and it was just THIS type of shit here that pissed him off. George and Paul do NOT like it when people try to exploit the Beatles' name. She wanted to open a B&B called "A Hard Days Night" with George's blessing and he said "Absolutely NOT". This was in the mid-1980's and they didn't talk again until George was dying. Apparently George came around and said to her "I could have helped you more". But she would, over the yrs, nickle & dime him constantly and I don't think he left her anything. George always did things for his brothers but they worked for him for decades at Friar Park. George's dad lived there too after George's mom died in 1970. He went with George on his 1974 tour and had grown shoulder-length hair to match George's lol.
Wonderful story, thank you for sharing 😊
A down to earth optimistic woman. What is it about fame that makes people die young? Even if it is from "natural" causes?
George had a lawsuit against her, she was selling items of his
In Illinois. This was a few years before he died. Anyone that can help me with truth I would appreciate it.
Me and my mate was only people on strawberry field Liverpool the day night George died.. We got news early hrs.. In Blackpool 🇬🇧
Very much alike.
Nice lady. I met her at a Beatlefest.
I met Louise.
did you show her your magnum.
@@christopherfarrington9270 "have been reported."
brilliant
Awe
Louise
Bet she had passed away too
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She's still alive. (I wondered and looked her up. LOL) She'll be 90 in August. She seems like a lovely woman.
She lost most of her accent while living in the states for so long.
still she has her cup a tea 6 times a day.
the Liverpool accent is cool ! 😎😎😎😎
Especially easy to see family resemblance in John and Georges' womens' faces to myself. John's mother and aunt's maiden names are Stanley, as my last. Louise looks a lot like my great grandmother Hannah Mariah Harrison Stanley
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George Harrison the "Remarkable Beatle"
I got to see Liverpool Legends a couple of years ago in New Orleans ( right outside of New Orleans). Really good show.
astonishing that they were just 4 people in a band so you think you could come up with people to imitate them possibly better but it never happens. nothing comes close.
Usually the bands have one, maybe two, actors that resemble one of the original members. There's some that have a remarkable likeness to John or Paul and one that has an exact lookalike to George, but none of them have ever had a Ringo that comes close. They always have them too tall or too short and it's difficult to find a left handed playing Paul. If they could select the best imitators from all the many tribute bands and put them in one band AND find a realistic Ringo, you'd really have something
Anyone notice that they get the _"cause when I get you alone"_ harmony wrong in the hard day's night clip.
George should have set his sis up with an irrevocable trust funded with a generous annuity. He could have made a condition that sis stay out of all money making activities using his name or the Beatles. This would have given him peace of mind and prevented her use of his name, if that was the root of his problem with her. It would also have kept Olivia and Dhani out of any financial support involving Louise.
Where's the talk of life in Liverpool??
I met her in Florida .And Georges niece
She's got the lopsided smile of her Dad and George.
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You can see the family resemblance.
I wonder if his 2 brothers are still living
I heard 1 if his brothers passed. I don't know about the 2nd brother.
What's interesting is that George employed his brothers as gardeners/groundskeepers at his Friar Park estate home.
just wish that someone could have helped George stop smoking... it hurts to lose him.
My cousin met her said she was really nice wish I would have known I would have went
George'sister claimed a few years ago that George gave her a monthly pension last years of his life and when he died she didn't get it anymore. She was out of the will and she had money troubles. I don't know why her husband didn't let her not enough money.
Ah yes, the quiet Beatle. P
@Yoko Ono You can’t even spell their name right “Yoko”
George hated that she did that. They were estranged many years because of it.
She's still got a slight affection in her accent but it's mostly gone now
I see the resemblance.