Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Winter coats


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  1. is this when they went to talk to the maharishi to set him straight? (beatle55).

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  2. Yes. Sweden, October 1967. To kindly ask him to stop using them as an advertising piece for himself. (MarkZapp)

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    1. A bittersweet memory... I was there, aged 12! Living in Lund, 50 km from the seaside resort Falsterbo and the castle Falsterbohus in the very south of Sweden, I begged my parents to go there. My little sister and I were the youngest of the gathering fans. Not a glimpse of my favourites though, we only managed to see the Maharishi through a window. By the time Paul and George left the magnificent building, I was already back in Lund; my parents were invited by an old colleague for coffee(!). I still see this old lady occasionally in the streets of Lund, and I still kind of hate her.

      If you follow this link to the Swedish site ”Bilder i Syd” (”Pictures in the south”) you’ll see more pictures (for sale) from Paul’s and George’s visit to Malmö and Falsterbo.

      http://bilderisyd.se/portfolio-item/beatles-i-malmo/

      Several of the photos (at least the ones from the restaurant Tunneln, now Mayfair Hotel in the street Adelgatan, where they had coffee and... milk!) were taken by a very young photographer from Sydsvenskan, our local paper. After taking the first shot of them, he approached the table and politely asked if he could take some photos. – You just did, didn’t you, was George’s answer (or was it Paul?).

      There are many anecdotes running about this trip; one is that they, prior to the Tunneln visit, were denied entrance in another restaurant with the words: – Sorry, we have "slipstvĂ„ng" (you'll have to wear ties)!

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  3. I'm pretty sure that's Paul's "Help!" coat from the Austria scenes.

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