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Lot Essay
Al Aronowitz was an American rock journalist best known for introducing the Beatles to Bob Dylan - and marihuana. In her 2007 autobiography Wonderful Today, Pattie recalls: On the last leg of their marathon America tour, the Beatles had met Bob Dylan in New York. They had been thrilled - Dylan was their hero and mine - and George couldn’t wait to tell us about him and how he had turned them on to marijuana. A mutual friend, Al Aronowitz, who worked for the Saturday Evening Post, had brought Dylan to their hotel. He had apparently misheard a line in their song “I Want to Hold Your Hand”: where they sang, “I can’t hide,” he had heard, “I get high,” and had assumed they were seasoned drug users. “Right, guys,” he said, as he walked into their suite. “I’ve got some really good grass.” So Dylan had rolled a joint, they had opened a few bottles of wine and had a very jolly party. George was full of it; they had laughed all night.
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Gelatin silver prints on gloss double-weight paper. Condition consistent with age and handling including corner bumps, a couple of dog-ear corners, handling creases with fine emulsion cracks, light surface scratches and abrasions, a few small spots of surface loss to margins, some uneven texture to surface emulsion, one shot of George and Al boating with fine surface crackling and some chemical staining recto, the majority with some chemical staining verso.
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Lot 45Sale 22891
Eight vintage photographs, 1971George Harrison and Pattie BoydEstimate: GBP 1,000 - 1,500
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