All You Need Is Ears : The inside personal story of the genius who created The Beatles Book Quotations George

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Burns, George

Book Quotations for George

58 references to George in this book:

1.	on Page 11:
	"... that infernal ringing, and reaching for the phone I whispered a sleepy and dubious `Hallo' in its general direction. `George, I'm sorry to wake you, but I just had to tell you the news.' Brian Epstein's voice sounded very excited, ..."
2.	on Page 12:
	"... was particularly irritated that they hadn't had the guts to speak to me themselves. I raced back to the Hbtel Georges Cinq, where they had an extravagant suite, and burst in on them in their drawing-room. The scene was straight ..."
3.	on Page 13:
	"... table sat John, Paul, George, Ringo, Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans, his assistant. In the centre, pouring tea, was Jane Asher, a beautiful Alice with ..."
4.	on Page 16:
	"... that gift came from, I don't know. There were certainly no professional musicians anywhere in the family. They just assumed `George is the musical one ... let him get on with it'. Not that I was in a musical desert. At ..."
5.	on Page 17:
	"... in both of them there was the feeling that they wanted me to do better than they had, an `Our George is going places' mixture of parental pride and ambition. But I was mad about aircraft, and what I, and a ..."
6.	on Page 37:
	"... if he knew anyone, Sidney had replied: `There's a young man who's just finished at the Guildhall. His name is George Martin.' So Victor, a fascinating man who was a great friend of Gigli, and who did all EMI's operatic work, ..."
7.	on Page 42:
	"... as possible. Then, after a while, he started to ease me into doing things on my own. He might say: `George, I might not be in on the dot tomorrow. You start the session off, will you?' And I would be ..."
8.	on Page 43:
	"... first walks to the crease at Lord's. `Good morning, Mr Torch,' I squeaked in a piping voice. `My name is George Martin, and I'm Oscar's assistant, so I'll be starting the session.' I was almost wetting myself with fright at the ..."
9.	on Page 45:
	"... morning, and after an hour and a half or so they would say sorrowfully: `We're working up a terrible thirst, George. Let's have a wee drop.' So we would leave everything and proceed to the bar on the corner (it being ..."
10.	on Page 51:
	"... keep copies of the songs. It was great fun, like the old music hall, and was in the tradition of George Gershwin, who had done the same thing when he had been a song-plugger - not like the highly polished demo-tapes ..."