#Somewhere in England

[myfckingnameisnuwanda]

Found some Needles-coded shit out in the wild (Ф ▽ Ф)

[marbleman777]

AAAAim super busy with this wip 😪😪

[nedison]

Lay His Head - George Harrison (1981)

Lopped off of the original running order of George's Somewhere In England LP that was rejected by the record company, this track was eventually released on an EP in 1988 and then again as the b-side of Got My Mind Set On You.

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Eli Reichman.

“My dad’s favorite number was 7, and a lot of things that he did were according to the number 7, whether he meant it or not. That was the highest honor I could have given a track on the album [Brainwashed], to put it track 7.” - Dhani Harrison, Brainwashed EPK

Track no. 7 series: “That Which I Have Lost” —

“That Which I Have Lost comes straight out of the Bhagavad Gita, which I was reading at the time and then I turned it into this little country and western tune. The Gita is all about the struggle against the forces of darkness — limitation, falsehood and mortality. It sounds a bit like Star Wars, but life is a battlefield. People think life is all about having fun, and if the fun gets taken away we get upset. But life isn’t fun, it’s like being in prison — ‘I sentence you to life.’ You have to go and fight your battles with duality. And that’s what this song’s about.” - I Me Mine — The Extended Edition (2017)

“If you ask questions like: Why the Beatles? you run into difficulties, because you make it sound like these four people are special agents or something. The simplest explanation for it is to get into a bit of philosophy, the reincarnation theory. We accumulate credit and debit in our life just as we do in our bank, through our own actions. Bob Dylan said it like this: Look out kid, it’s something you did/God knows when, but you’re doing it again. So, whoever Hitler was, he was a nasty bastard. And The Beatles, whoever they were, were the result of what they’d done before. We sentence you to a life imprisonment, but the prison is actually The Beatles. You’ll be famous and rich, but you’ll be imprisoned in that concept, Beatlemania.” - George Harrison, VOX, September 1992 (x)

About the jewelry seen here...

“When I met Heyoka Merrifield in 1975, I was taken by his art and jewelry. The pieces he has made for me have become part of my life and travel with me wherever I go, especially the miniature shrine to Lord Ganesha. Not a gem nor precious metal passes through Heyoka’s hands that is not instilled with a spirit of its own in the process of being transformed into a work of art and beauty." - George Harrison, The Book of Shrines (2013)

"[Heyoka Merrifield] was a lifelong friend of George Harrison of the Beatles, designing [George and Olivia] Harrisons' wedding rings and several traveling altar pieces for meditation and spiritual renewal." - Missoulian, September 16, 2006

"I dedicate Painted Earth Temple to my friend and medicine brother George Harrison, for he joined the world of spirit as the last few chapters were being written. George was a calm center in the hurricane of misplaced archetypal mythic images with which our society seems to resonate. Living in this most difficult environment, he was able to find peace while striving to walk in balance and embracing life as a quest for spiritual understanding. Although our paths on this quest differed, our hearts understood that the path is really only one.
As I write this dedication, an eagle flies past my window toward the mountains, disappearing into the west. In the ancient Earth traditions, this is seen as a gift from the Sacred Powers and it tells me that my friend is close by. May his spirit always soar with the eagles." - Heyoka Merrifield, Painted Earth Temple (2007) (x)

[free-will-is-stressful]

nothing like a little swim in a freezing lake

[musicalthought]

album review; george harrison's somewhere in england (1981)

♡ fav song: unconsciousness rules

♡ least fave song: writing’s on the wall

♡ overall: 10/10

♡ and I thought I wasn’t going to like this album as much as brainwashed! congrats for my first 10/10 album!!!

[feedingmychaoticbrain]

somewhere in England.

it’s probably how my day is going even though I have a million things to do and a thousand that I actually want to do.

[danielemarigold]

george harrison’s discography rated by me [part 3/4]

7) thirty three & 1/3 - 1976

melodic tunes. sweet and happy george. i have mixed feelings about this record. first half will cheer you up/second half will calm you down.

⭐⭐⭐/5

8) george harrison - 1979

like the previous album, it’s mix themed. perfect to listen to on a raining morning. mature. george having a stable life. 

⭐⭐⭐/5

9) somewhere in england - 1981

not a favorite of mine. there aren’t memorable songs here, with the only exception being obviously “all those years ago”.

⭐⭐/5

[givemeasword-callmequeen]

Queen Charlotte: I know that Lady Whistlesdown is in this room & I demand that she reveals herself now!

Penelope: I.. I am Lady Whistlesdown

Colin: that's not true it's me. I am Lady Whistlesdown.

Eloise: don't be fooled. I am Lady Whistlesdown.

Benedict *confused*: I am Lady Whistlesdown.

Kathony: We are Lady Whistlesdown

Francesca: I am Lady Whistlesdown.

Hyacinth: I am - *gets stopped by her mother*

Violett: I am Lady Whistlesdown

*everyone looks to Gregory*

Gregory: oh its definitely not me. I don't know enough fancy words to be her.

[elodieunderglass]

Time for our regular reminder to people from New England that our native dialect’s charming slang for a small liquor store is a racial slur in the rest of the English speaking world.

Yes I know we don’t mean it that way. Yes I know we have no idea. Yes I know that people from Pakistan hardly ever visit New England let alone settle there, and it is 💯 innocently meant in New England.

It is extraordinarily unfair that the racial connotations of keeping a small corner shop means that it unintentionally doubles the impact of the slur.

It’s wicked uncool but there you go and now you know.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

L O N D O N

[rookflower]

i will say im a windclan moor >>> windclan prairie truther in my heart but i also think looking at "warrior cats is set in the new forest/england/the uk" and going "no it's not. it's actually set wherever i live" is awesome so whatever. whatever you think is right and whatever i think is right. 10 billion creative and inspired by personal experience warrior cats settings forever

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Denny Laine, and George Martin during the "All Those Years Ago" recording session, F.P.S.H.O.T., 1981; photos by Linda McCartney.

“I originally wrote ‘All Those Years Ago’ for Ringo. He was doing an album at the time, and I wrote it with slightly different words. It had the same chorus, but it was more of an uptight kind of lyric. You know, ‘You did this, and you did that... blah, blah.’ I don’t think Ringo did the recording sessions. Or maybe I never finished the song. Then, with what happened to John, straight away I changed it. I made it more of a song about John, specifically about him.” - George Harrison, I Me Mine

Q: “Did you start writing ‘All Those Years Ago’ before John was killed?” GH: “Yeah, I did.” Q: “The lyric — where you jump from Lennon being ‘weird’ to God and the reason we exist — always puzzled me.” GH: “It is a strange choice of words. The way I saw it was, I’m talking all about God and he’s the only reason we exist — now that’s something I believe to be true.” Q: “Were you saying you were weirder than John?” GH: “No, no, no. What I was saying is there’s all these weird people who don’t actually believe in God and who go around murdering everybody, and yet, in the broad sweep, it’s like they were the ones pointing fingers at Lennon, saying he’s a weirdo. Sometimes my lyrics get a bit abstract in place — I get so many thoughts coming from different angles, I’m not sure if they come across right. But I think that’s what I was trying to say.” - Creem, December 1987/January 1988

“Well George was writing that song right in the days when John died. He wanted it to say something about John but didn’t want it to be too sad. I mean it’s not a dirge but he certainly was clear about how he felt about John.” - Olivia Harrison, Billboard, 3 April 2017 (x)

[free-will-is-stressful]

[greenycrimson]

aurora borealis!

[adhd-languages]

Hey do people realise the “bri ish” jokes are really just mocking a predominantly lower class accent for a linguistic feature that has already been mocked for being “lazy speaking” relentlessly in the UK?