“Which Beatle do you like best?” was the question at my school.
George.
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Same here.When I was ten, I was sure he would be my husband. If you want a nice memory of George in your garden, plant this dahlia. He was an avid gardener!
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One of the running schticks my husband and I do to each other is to demand: “Explain the lyrics to MacArthur Park!” I must say, that song is still on my iPod.
Rebecca
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Oh, how beautiful! I knew he was an avid gardener, and I am so glad to learn that there is a dahlia named after him.
Thank you for posting this. I remember that way back in 1964 when the mags and Beatles books were full of Beatle info like “What’s your favourite colour?” etc., that George’s was purple.
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I remember reading in an interview he said that during one Beatles recording period he got so fed up with the infighting that he sagged off one day and went to visit Eric Clapton at Hurtwood Edge. It was a nice day and he went out into the garden and wrote this song –
I love sunflowers. 
and bumblebees.
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Lol a friend of mine does that but was horrified when someone asked her how long her hair had been grey 
My favorite color, too!
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“Someone left the cake out in the rain and
I don’t think I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and
I’ll never have that recipe agaaaaain.”
I think the lyrics to MacArthur Park are pretty clear! More than a little strange, but definitely an angry baker.
What I remember about pop music from when I was 12 was that the burning issue was whether Paul McCartney was dead because if you played Dr. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band backwards, it said that Paul was dead. People had very firm opinions about whether Paul was dead or not.
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Hmmm, I thought it was the White Album. But I won’t swear my memory is accurate.
Rebecca
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You’re right about the White Album having the song (The Onion) that supposedly, if played backwards, said Paul is dead. But the Sgt. Pepper Album cover had Paul facing another way which was (apparently) the origin of the rumor.
Or so says Wikipedia! (Which I consulted after reading your post!).
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IIRC it was that Paul was walking barefoot across Abbey Road on the LP of that name and apparently some religions/cultures bury their dead with no shoes. Paul later said he was barefoot because it was a hot day. I guess hot days in London aren’t as hot as hot days in Atlanta because he wouldn’t have been able to walk barefoot on pavement on a hot Atlanta day.
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@Rackonteur and @Posting_Trot all those points are correct!
My husband and I reenacted the Abbey Road picture (with shoes on) when we were in London. Unfortunately it was raining and no one else was around, so we had to do it one at a time while the other took the picture. It kind of loses its meaning when it’s a pic of one person crossing the road.
Rebecca
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A coworker recently asked me to hack into his computer to reset the password for his remote desktop, which had booted him. He gave me the desktop password, which was a mess of letters and numbers probably twenty characters long. It looked entirely random and unhackable. I asked him how he remembered it and he told me each number or letter represented some formative event in his life and he’d never forgotten it once. Quite the engineer thing to do.
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But how cool to be there to do it! And I imagine shades of other pedestrians were all around y’all in the mist and the rain. London, y’know.
I “met” a “presence” on a pavement in Cambridge years ago.
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