More leftover from my Brückenau days: book reviews. One of the books in question I’d browsed through before but hadn’t read it properly, the other two were new to me. What the three have in common is, aren’t you surprised, a Beatles connection; otherwise they’re widely different, though each struggling with the opening sentence ofDavid
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ETA: also, re: Pattie's book, you know there is something weird about you when your first thought upon reading Sgt. Pilcher telling his dog "Yogi, find the drugs" is "zomg, that's Martha's arch nemesis!"
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Yes, that was my impression as well. They were both young and immature when they married, and George realised at some point (i.e. India or shortly after) that he didn't want to be married anymore, but as opposed to John he wasn't the bridge-burning type and wanted to keep Pattie in his life, just not as his wife.
I’d honestly be curious to hear Jane’s thoughts on Pattie. I bet she probably thought Pattie was lovely enough but probably didn’t relate to her on an intellectual level.
I'd be honestly curious to know Jane's thoughts on everyone (me and all of fandom, I know; we all admire and curse Jane for her impeccable discretion, I suppose), but yes, my guess is ( ... )
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George can go off and have as many women as he pleases, but if Pattie even looks at another man than she's some kind of tart.
*nods* Yes, that's Tony's double standard exactly, and it comes across loud and clear in his book. Not just in regards to George and Pattie, of course, but pretty flagrantly there.
He makes it sound as if Pattie 'tortured' George when in truth George didn't seem so tortured having as many woman as he did.Quite. It's especially glaring if you compare his complaints about Pattie the heartless flirt torturing "my mate George" by going clubbing with everyone else's accounts of George doing the rock star and groupies thing on tour and, post-India, at home. I haven't read Chris O'Dell's book yet but I did see the excerpt where a woman drapes herself all over George right in front of Pattie and he allows ( ... )
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Not only now and again. You have to consider that in an interview the interviewer selects what he or she wants to print/broadcast, what they're interested in. Now George was as I said Klaus' favourite Beatle (he even lived with him for a while), John his second favourite, and he recorded with both of them repeatedly (as he points out, why would Paul need a bass guitarist? So they didn't record until the last decade when he asked Paul to play with him on his cd "A sideman's journey"), so it's not surprising he has more stories about the two of them. But that doesn't mean he doesn't like Paul, either as a person or a musician; he sounds very affectionate about him throughout the book. (Like ( ... )
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