Meet the Beatles for Real: 1968

Monday, November 13, 2023

Beatle George Meets Sinatra

November 13, 1968

This is a newspaper article written by none other than the lovely Ivor Davis after George and Pattie met with Frank.

Beatle George Meets Sinatra

Written by Ivor Davis

(Hollywood)

Frank Sinatra, Hollywood's unchallenged king of show business met a Beatle -- and they got along like a couple of old pals.

Actually, they have quite a lot in common. Bobbysoxers swooned and screamed when Sinatra, as a skinny young man, sang some 30 years ago, and The Beatles got the same treatment a generation later.

And Sinatra, who admitted he is also a Beatle fan, reminisced with George about the slogging life of a performer on the road -- Sinatra at his one-night stands with Harry James and the old Tommy Dorsey orchestra, Harrison of his early days with the mop haired quartet in Hamburg and at the Liverpool Cavern.

They got along so well that Harrison promised to write some music for Sinatra's next album (his latest, all ballads is called 'Cycles.') which the singer may record in London.

In fact, Beatle George Harrison admitted he was quite overawed when he sat in at a record happening in Hollywood - a Frank Sinatra session.

With wife, Pattie Harrison sat with the small select group of goggle-eyed admirers as Sinatra polished off his latest album in three days. And these days not much impresses the Liverpool millionare.

Afterwards, Harrison asked the 52-year old veteran of more than 100 albums, "How do you do it? It takes us months just to do one album." Then Harrison and the "Chairman of the Board" as Sinatra is known, went to dinner to Steffanios the singer's favorite Hollywood hangout and they chatted until the early hours of the morning.