From Gary Wright’s music video for “Don’t Try To Own Me.”
“Although at times he could be reflective and withdrawn, to me he definitely wasn’t the ‘quiet Beatle,’ as the media portrayed him. Once he got on a roll, he didn’t stop talking until he finished his story. At his memorial service, Eric Idle said, ‘We all know that the press called him the “quiet Beatle,” but for those of us who knew him well, we knew different. Once he started talking, he never stopped.’
He also had a great sense of humor. Many times as we were listening to a playback in the control room, he would jump out of his chair and start dancing around like a wild man. At other times, he would make up some moves and play ‘air saxophone,’ as though he was a sax player in Little Richard’s band. But most of all he loved Monty Python and would regularly repeat their hilarious sketches verbatim. It was all part of his personality to laugh and joke around and then pick up a guitar from his incredible collection and launch into a beautiful song that would make you cry.” - Gary Wright, Dream Weaver: Music, Meditation, And My Friendship With George Harrison (2014) (x)
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