Enough Credit?

Many people often wonder if George Harrison gets enough credit. I am writing this article to prove that he does and doesn't. George Harrison has written many songs, on his own albums. Such as Cloud Nine. But if you were in a store and you only had enough money to choose an album. Paul's, John's or George's, the majority of people would choose Paul's or John's. Now that, you must be thinking, isn't true. But if you REALLY think about it then you will realize you would buy Paul or John's album, not George's. He knew that he wasn't the most popular Beatle by far. If you think, you hear more about Paul and John in articles, not George. (Even though recently there was an article about throat cancer.) I think that George was as good as the other Beatles, but he deserves more recognition for his contributions! I would love to hear your comments about this article! E-mail me at Essex83 @ aol.com. Respectfully. Eden L. Wadsworth *~*PEACE*~* From: aniota@swbell.net (frank) Dreams I once met Paul and it was in the middle of some muddy farm and it was raining. I kept following him everywhere, because it was Paul of course. But after awhile he got annoyed with me. He took of my shoes so that I wouldn't follow him into the mud. I remember that he was wearing the same outfit as he did in HELP when he was riding the bike. Another Dream: My dad took our whole family on an airplane to meet one of his good friends. Well, that good friend turned out to be Ringo. I was the one in my family who knew most about the Beatles and him, so he respected me, and didn't talk to anyone else but me, not even my dad. At the end when we had to get off the plane he said he'd write me and visit me. 3rd dream: (this is the best) It was 1980 (and you'll see why later) and my aunt, grandma, mom and I were in a hotel. My grandma told me that the Beatles were staying there. So one day we waited by the elevator to see them. They went up to floor two, and we followed. We also followed them to dinner. Their table had about ten people, and so I sat down at the table next to them. For some reason Brian Epstien was still alive. I was trying to talk to them, but they wouldn't say a word to me, they didn't even look in my direction. So the next night I went to dinner again at the same restaurant before they got there, and sat at their table. When Brian came, I said I'd move. He said that I didn't have to because John had been shot that day, so there was an extra seat. No one seemed too upset. I was, but I was glad to sit by them. The whole time I talked to paul and Ringo. It was great! From: Meg6212 Subj: Beatles Publicist Derek Taylor Dies .c The Associated Press By MATT WOLF LONDON (AP) - Derek Taylor, the Beatles' publicist who achieved his own renown during the height of Beatlemania, has died of cancer at age 65. Taylor died Sunday, Apple Corps press officer Zoe Howard said today. Taylor held numerous music industry jobs throughout his life. But inevitably he was best known for his association with the Liverpool four. He served two stints as their press officer and oversaw global publicity for ABC mini-series ``The Beatles Anthology'' in 1995. Sir Paul McCartney paid tribute in a statement, calling Taylor ``a beautiful man. It's time for tears, and words may come later.'' Beatles biographer Philip Howard said it was Taylor's ``unique accomplishment to be a press officer whom journalists pursued because he was ... amiable, sympathetic, polite to a degree which would ultimately seem miraculous.'' In an interview two years ago with The Associated Press, Taylor recognized that his association with the Beatles was meant to last. ``Nobody ever escapes the Beatles,'' he said. ``Unless they behave dishonorably, they never get away. It is for life.'' Born in Cheshire in northeastern England, Taylor was a drama critic for The Daily Express newspaper when he first saw - and reviewed - the Beatles in concert. ``The Liverpool sound came to Manchester last night, and I thought it was magnificent,'' Taylor wrote in 1963. ``The spectacle of these fresh, cheeky, sharp, young entertainers in opposition to the shiny-eyed teenage idolators is as good as a rejuvenating drug for the jaded adult.'' A subsequent profile of Beatles' manager Brian Epstein led to a job as Epstein's assistant, ghostwriting his memoirs, ``A Cellar Full of Noise.'' Taylor also ghosted George Harrison's then-weekly column for The Daily Express. He accompanied the Beatles on their world tour in 1964, but left Apple after eight months to move to Los Angeles as publicist for the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, among others. He returned to England - and the Beatles - in 1968 to find that interest had intensified. ``I knew they were wonderful,'' he told the AP. ``What I didn't know was there were four of them and they could hide away, whereas there was only one of me.'' Home life, he said, consisted of ``phones under cushions and permanently off the hook, and if they weren't off the hook, they rang 24 hours a day. There was no peace.'' In 1970, the Beatles broke up and Taylor left Apple again to spend most of the decade as a record executive, rising to vice president of Warner Bros. records in California. He quit in 1978 in order to help Harrison on his autobiography and write his own books about the era, ``As Time Goes By,'' ``Fifty Years Adrift,'' and ``It Was Twenty Years Ago.'' In the 1980s he resumed working for Apple on an ad hoc basis that became full time during ``The Beatles Anthology.'' ``I always had a romantic view that the thing should, if possible, be able to continue,'' he said of a group that remains among rock's most successful ever. ``There should always be a Beatles.'' Taylor will be buried Sept. 12 near his home in Sudbury, Suffolk, where he died. He is survived by his wife Joan and six children. AP-NY-09-08-97 1239EDT