John and Yoko on John’s monkey bike! Julian actually now has this, and he said out of all the things he bought back this is his favorite! He remembers riding it with his Dad all the time! So cute!
The Beatles loved what they saw in Surrey and, big shots though they were by comparison, instantly chummed up with Jagger and the other two principal Stones, rhythm guitarist Keith Richard and lead guitarist-harmonica player Brian Jones. Jones, who had founded and named the group, was then it’s most magnetic figure, an oversexed blond leprechaun with command of an extraordinary range of instruments, from guitar and bluesman’s “harp” to saxophone, flute, and mirimba. Watching Jones play blues harmonica at the Crawdaddy not only thrilled John, it also, typically, made him feel his own gold-spinning performances on the instrument to have been amateurish, even somehow fraudelent, by comparison. “You really play that thing don’t you?” he said to Jones almost wistfully…”I just blow and suck.
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Philip Norman’s “John Lennon: The Life” pg. 338, Harper-Collins 2008. (Oversexed Blond Leprechaun?!) (via iamthegoldenstone) |
