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General Expenses:
•George bought an L-shaped house in Esher for £50,000.
Some reports say £40,000. The walls of the exterior, formerly
white, were then painted with designs and flowers (Scaduto).
•On July 12, 1968 George acknowledged receipt of £18
for money he advanced Tony Newman for his work two Jackie Lomax
sessions on July 6.
•George was fined £100 ($200) for assaulting a French
photographer the previous spring. He paid the fine in Jan. 68.
•George's drug bust in March '68 required a £200 bond
each for he and Patti Boyd with an additional £250 in fines
and ten guineas cost. He got to keep his pipe.
•George told Apple to lease a building for Syamasundar to
have a temple. He later donated £2,000 to finish the altar
at the temple of Syamasundar.
•Roger Taverner was known in England as "the swinging
builder" and his construction company had been doing work for
many of England's brightest young pop stars. The Beatles were among
his many clients and he had done work for both Nems and Apple as
well as in the homes of all four Beatles. (Granados, S. Those Were
the Days. p. 136).
•1970 letter to George from A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami: ...I
beg to acknowledge receipt herewith of your contribution of $19,000
for publication of my book, Krsna, now going to the press within
the week.
•George bought Mary Hopkin a guitar. Alistair Taylor: When
Mary opened the case, lying inside was a beautiful Martinez-the
best guitar money can buy, the kind of instrument that top players
queue up to put their names down for at about four hundred pounds
(Taylor, A. p. 137).
General Statements:
•McCabe and Schonfeld: "Eventually, George is ready
to talk business, but not before he's voiced a concern of his own.
He has a complaint about the various groupies sitting outside the
building that houses the ABKCO office. 'Allen, can't you get rid
of those ABKCO scruffs?' he asks politely. 'They're bad for our
image. They don't have the class of Apple scruffs'. Allen Klein
is stumped for words, a very rare occurrence".
•GEORGE 1969 (on being a Beatle): "Being a Beatle is
the same as any job. It's up and down, you know. And maybe for us
it goes up higher... but it comes down lower. Relativity. So if
we have a bad time, it's really bad, and if we have a good time
maybe it's really good. People see showbiz, and all they think of
is, 'Oh, all that money you've got,' but the problems that come
along with that are incredible. And, I tell ya, for every hundred
pounds we've earned, we've gotten a hundred pounds worth of problems
to balance it. It's ironic really. We've all got a big house and
an office, but to actually get the money you've earned is virtually
impossible. It's like it's illegal to keep the money you earn."
(Beatles Ultimate Experience Database).
•Nat Weiss: George keeps telling me how great Klein is because
he's made him all this money. I just told him not trying to bother
to sell Klein to me (McCabe and Schonfeld. Apple to the Core. p.
133).
•"Here Comes the Sun", a song written at Eric
Clapton's house after a particularly trying day of dealing with
business matters. "One day I stayed off from business and went
to Eric Clapton's house because it's nice, with trees and things
(Shapiro, p. 92).
•George also suffered breakins. "They come into the
garden and rush around", said Patti Harrison to an interviewer.
"They got into our bedroom the other day and stole a pair of
my trousers and George's slippers (Mackenzie. Every Little Thing,
p. 78).
Financial Events:
•While looking for a house, George requests Alistair Taylor
to represent the potential buyer to the real estate agents. This
is because if the sellers knew it was a Beatle who was interested
in the property then the price would be artificially inflated. George
would appear as the chauffeur. During one occasion the person showing
Alistair the house inquired if Mr. Harrison out in the car would
like to look around too.
•George had sold his shares of Northern Songs, Ltd. by 1968.
•Patti Harrison was reported to be opening an art shop in
Chelsea in mid 68. By July she and Jenny Boyd had a stall in the
antique market selling art nouveau.
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