![]() Are good manners and right conduct supposed to unlock the narrower doors of society. Do the schoolma’ams teach that cleanliness is next to godliness? So the Beatles frankly stink. Does mommy say you have to look clean-cut to get on in the world? So the Beatles wore their shags uncut and uncombed. #Ringo starr long hair how to#To a world so anxious to be “in,” the Beatles have demonstrated how to flee so far “out” you become the most “in.” They have reversed all the maxims. On which side of the footlights were the shams? Scriptures have the word for it: “For he has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise.” ![]() They fulfilled in Manila what’s their mission in the world: the exposing of status and pretense. We got the shock treatment-and on that score the Beatles were no flop. The Emperor was dressed, it’s we who were naked. Now we’re all crying aghast that the Emperor had no clothes on. The Grand and Glorious got stolen from the Stars & Stripes by the Union Jack, but the show it stole but was not grand but inglorious.įour boys had us on toast, had us on string we were had. Well, at least, in this year of grace 1966, it wasn’t the Yankees we were telling to go home on the fourth of July. Go, go, snarled the locals-and they meant away, to hell, climb a tree, ’lis jan. Yeh, yeh, cried the four evangelists of beat. The Mersey Sound such a tonic in cans, proved a messy sound when fresh, and locally provoked a no-mercy sound. July 16, 1966-THE SECOND British Invasion was as big a flop as the first. So, George’s visit to our Baltimore community meant everything to us.“I don’t care what they say I won’t stay in a world without love!” 'My family and I have told the story many times of how my father met George Harrison, gave him a ride in our Chevy Covair, and brought him to Mercy High School,’ said Daniel Wildberger, who is also an architect and a principal at Edge Architecture LLC. It marked the only known visit to an American high school by a member of the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania. The founding principal of Mercy High, Sister Michelle Carroll, took him on a 30-minute tour. “Harrison visited the school the day after his performance at the Civic Center. He really was very nice.”’” - Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2002 ( x) 'Not long ago, she said, “You know, I wish I had shaken his hand. 'She refused to shake his hand and with that long hair, thought he was low-class,’ said Monroe Denton, a nephew and Brooklyn, N.Y., resident, laughing. “When the Beatles visited Baltimore as part of their 1964 tour, guitarist George Harrison wanted to visit an American school and was taken to Leith Walk. “George’s passing was announced over the PA during morning announcements on 30 November 2001, with a comment on the fact that George is considered the 'Mercy Beatle’ because of his visit… ”e even have a little plaque over one of the water fountains that reads 'George Harrison drank from this water fountain when he visited Mercy High School.’“ - BeatleLinks Forum, 30 November 2001Īpparently George also visited Baltimore’s Leith Walk Elementary School: “Phyllis Herz Procheska’s '65 account of former Beatle George Harrison’s visit to Mercy is featured in the book First & Forever: The Archdiocese of Baltimore - A People’s History ” - The News, p 12, September 16, 1964Īccording to The Baltimore Sun’s discussion, one girl managed to sneak an autograph (so, if the story is true, not all girls couldn’t believe it was George): ![]() ‘He was sort of out of context to them.’ Harrison visited the school Monday before the Beatles flew off to Pittsburgh after being 'in context’ at the Civic Center Sunday. ‘They probably thought he was just another visitor,’ said the nun. Sister Mary Michelle, principal of Mercy High School, said it was because the girls just couldn’t believe it was George Harrison. “BALTIMORE (AP) - It’s incredible, but a Beatle visited a school for girls and not a soul swooned. One of the myths surrounding The Beatles’ 1964 North American tour is an alleged visit by George Harrison to a typical American school. Photo: Morton Tadder Collection, Maryland Historical Society Library. George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Baltimore Civic Center, 13 September 1964. ![]()
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