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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · Apr 18
🔥 SO WHERE IS GEORGE MARTIN'S TIE NOW?!🔥

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MIKE PROWSE SPECIAL: I DON'T LIKE YOUR TIE
During a crucial session in June 1962 George Harrison made a joke about George Martin's tie. It gave the EMI man a hint of the cheekily approachable sass which would beguile the world. And now - Marc
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SIR JOSEPH LOCKWOOD: Once George became head of Parlophone I saw much more of him. We had a weekly meeting in the diary and they were pretty much exclusively very happy, cordial occasions. Just one stands out in my memory as a time when I had cause to haul George over the coals somewhat. It must have been early summer 1962. June, probably. It was the silliest thing, really: each member of management had their own parking space outside the building. George’s was next to mine and he always parked his car in such a slapdash fashion, almost diagonally across the space, that when I arrived I sometimes couldn’t park in my own space. As you can imagine this started to become a bit of a bugbear for me. He started off the meeting with the usual stuff – he’d had some band in from Liverpool who he said were ‘very funny’, which I thought was a bit odd, he’d done a string arrangement for Matt Monroe’s new one, and so on. When finished talking the parking thing was still on my mind and I’m afraid I rather let him have it. ‘Inconsiderate, thoughtless behaviour’…’lack of professionalism’…’typical of your conduct over the years’ and so on. At the end of all this I said to him ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Anything you’re not happy with?’ George looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said ‘Yes, I don’t like your tie.’ Then he started laughing. It was quite extraordinary. I don’t know why, but I started laughing too, and we both decided to go down to the canteen for a coffee. After that I had the parking spaces re-painted to make George’s diagonal to the others, which he thought was hilarious.
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SIR JOSEPH LOCKWOOD: Once George became head of Parlophone I saw much more of him. We had a weekly meeting in the diary and they were pretty much exclusively very happy, cordial occasions. Just one stands out in my memory as a time when I had cause to haul George over the coals somewhat. It must have been early summer 1962. June, probably. It was the silliest thing, really: each member of management had their own parking space outside the building. George’s was next to mine and he always parked his car in such a slapdash fashion, almost diagonally across the space, that when I arrived I sometimes couldn’t park in my own space. As you can imagine this started to become a bit of a bugbear for me. He started off the meeting with the usual stuff – he’d had some band in from Liverpool who he said were ‘very funny’, which I thought was a bit odd, he’d done a string arrangement for Matt Monroe’s new one, and so on. When finished talking the parking thing was still on my mind and I’m afraid I rather let him have it. ‘Inconsiderate, thoughtless behaviour’…’lack of professionalism’…’typical of your conduct over the years’ and so on. At the end of all this I said to him ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Anything you’re not happy with?’ George looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said ‘Yes, I don’t like your tie.’ Then he started laughing. It was quite extraordinary. I don’t know why, but I started laughing too, and we both decided to go down to the canteen for a coffee. After that I had the parking spaces re-painted to make George’s diagonal to the others, which he thought was hilarious.
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Its May 1963, Beatles are in the Playhouse Theatre caff readying themselves to record a radio session. Ringo is perusing issue 37 of Private Eye. Exciting times.
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BILLBOARD MAGAZINE 06/08/24 SHOTS FIRED! The ongoing beef between two of rap’s biggest names shows no sign of letting up. Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been trading barbs since the latter took aim on Big Sean’s Control in 2013. From accusations of marital infidelity, to cultural appropriation and underage sex – nothing has been off limits. But Kendrick Lamar has just taken things up a notch with the release of “Knot Like Us”. In the blistering seven-minute track K Dot throws any prospect of a truce out of the window, detailing in a series of vicious bars how he doesn’t like Drake’s tie. The lyrics, which we have decided not to reproduce, include detailed descriptions of the occasions Drizzy has worn the tie, its color, its horse pattern, and its width. Having set out the nature of the tie, Lamar then graphically states that he doesn’t like it. An accompanying video shows Lamar viciously beating a giant tie-shaped piñata with a stick. Appalled commentators and industry figures, many no strangers to incendiary rap rivalries, immediately rallied around Drake, with legendary producer Metro Boomin’ releasing a statement saying: “There is no place for this in the game and our thoughts are with Drizzy at this time. Everyone is with Drake on this. Criticising a fellow rapper’s tie is just…that’s too much.” While threats to kill, allegations of sexual impropriety and references to domestic violence are rife in rap, this is thought to be the first time that a performer has ‘gone there’. Welcoming the decision of prominent rap stations not to play the track, a tearful Drake called a press conference yesterday, stating: “Knockabout references to murder are one thing. But this has absolutely knocked me for six. I’m flabbergasted.” The incident has reminded many rap historians of Tupac Shakur dissing Notorious BIG’s belt on the track “Accessory to Murder”.
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[64] I met a traveller from an antique band, Who said – “One long and shapeless strip of silk Hangs in the studio… Near it, by the desk, Half cut, a famed producer lies, whose shirt, And trouser crease and finely parted hair, Betray his sense of hurt sartorial pride. His ‘50s style, and fashionable report, Now savaged by this youngest Beatle, George. And on the session tape these words appear: “My name is George H Martin, King of Kings; Look on my Works ye Mighty and despair!” Around him, albums lie. Those records spake: Jim Dale. The Temperance Seven. Bernard Cribbins. Charlie Drake. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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PAUL McCARTNEY: In the early days I used to treat George a bit like a kid brother. ‘Pipe down son, the grown-ups are talking’, y’know? That all changed when George made his famous joke about George Martin’s tie. That moment was just like…’Wow’, y’know? To take such a tense situation, at the end of a session which maybe hadn’t been great in all honesty and turn it around like that? I saw George in a new light after that, and I know John did too. For years after, whenever he got on my nerves a bit or wanted to do something I wasn’t keen on, a voice inside me would say ‘If George was right about the tie joke, what else might he be right about?’ It’s like, I wasn’t all that keen on putting Isn’t It A Pity on Revolver at first, but then that voice kicked in: ‘He knows what he’s doing.’ So on it went, closing track, and was a great success. A few years later I had this song, Hey Jude. I thought it was great but George wasn’t convinced so we ditched it. Things were getting towards the end by then of course. I still think that final album All Things Must Pass holds up pretty well – I was pleased to get a couple of songs on there alongside George’s; Teddy Boy’s always been a great favourite of mine.
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PAUL McCARTNEY: In the early days I used to treat George a bit like a kid brother. ‘Pipe down son, the grown-ups are talking’, y’know? That all changed when George made his famous joke about George Martin’s tie. That moment was just like…’Wow’, y’know? To take such a tense situation, at the end of a session which maybe hadn’t been great in all honesty and turn it around like that? I saw George in a new light after that, and I know John did too. For years after, whenever he got on my nerves a bit or wanted to do something I wasn’t keen on, a voice inside me would say ‘If George was right about the tie joke, what else might he be right about?’ It’s like, I wasn’t all that keen on putting Isn’t It A Pity on Revolver at first, but then that voice kicked in: ‘He knows what he’s doing.’ So on it went, closing track, and was a great success. A few years later I had this song, Hey Jude. I thought it was great but George wasn’t convinced so we ditched it. Things were getting towards the end by then of course. I still think that final album All Things Must Pass holds up pretty well – I was pleased to get a couple of songs on there alongside George’s; Teddy Boy’s always been a great favourite of mine.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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JOHN LENNON: I always remember Pepper as a good time, you know. For most of that period I was staying with Paul at Cavendish Avenue; we’d be in and out of the studio at all hours. It felt like now we were off the treadmill of touring and all the rest of it we could really work on making good records, you know? There was just one evening I remember when things went a bit off. We were a few months into the sessions, must’ve been end of February, early March. I’d brought in a song based on a drawing Julian had done of some kid in his class – you’ll have heard the story a thousand times. Anyway, I’m running through it and I get to the last verse and George puts his hand up. I’m so surprised I stop playing. I mean, we didn’t do this, you know? “Yes George, what is it?” He looks at me. “I don’t like ‘looking-glass ties’.” I wonder if he thought that having pitched in on She Said, She Said on the last album it was open season or something. So just to be nice I say ‘Perhaps I’ll take that out.’ But then Paul jumps in ‘You won’t, you know – that’s the best line in it.’ I never forgot that.
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JOHN LENNON: I always remember Pepper as a good time, you know. For most of that period I was staying with Paul at Cavendish Avenue; we’d be in and out of the studio at all hours. It felt like now we were off the treadmill of touring and all the rest of it we could really work on making good records, you know? There was just one evening I remember when things went a bit off. We were a few months into the sessions, must’ve been end of February, early March. I’d brought in a song based on a drawing Julian had done of some kid in his class – you’ll have heard the story a thousand times. Anyway, I’m running through it and I get to the last verse and George puts his hand up. I’m so surprised I stop playing. I mean, we didn’t do this, you know? “Yes George, what is it?” He looks at me. “I don’t like ‘looking-glass ties’.” I wonder if he thought that having pitched in on She Said, She Said on the last album it was open season or something. So just to be nice I say ‘Perhaps I’ll take that out.’ But then Paul jumps in ‘You won’t, you know – that’s the best line in it.’ I never forgot that.
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As a child, when it came to art I was top of the class. At eighteen I get an interview at the Slade School of Fine Art. I’m in the tutor’s office and he’s looking through my work. Then I spot it. In the window behind him. A horse. Looking in from Gower Street. The tutor asks what my ambitions are. I start saying I want my art to bring people together, change the world, but all I can see is this horse looking in at me. Completely threw me. I ended up at Tooting College of Design. After that my first job was designing ceramics. At my desk on that first day all I could think of was that interview and how things could have been so different. I ended up working a horse into the design. Long story short, the client didn’t like my work and the agency ‘let me go’. Same thing kept happening. Seat designs for the tube. Wrapping paper for Woolworths. Kiddies wallpaper. Always horses. I wound up doing layout for cheap restaurant menus. Barely design at all. Stuck there almost thirty years. Then in 1954 a miracle; a chap I’d known at Tooting told me he’d just been appointed head of design at a big department store. He offered me a job. I bit his hand off. First day, I’m in the office, just off Regent St, and when I pick up the pencil all I can see is that horse again. But this time I find a way to make it work, interlocking it with another horse head, contrasting colours. It comes out really well. My boss isn’t sure. I say it could work, on a handkerchief or a tie. He’s not sure but says he’ll give it a go. It didn’t work out – they sold a handful over the next couple of months, then discontinued the line. So much for my dreams of changing the world.
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As a child, when it came to art I was top of the class. At eighteen I get an interview at the Slade School of Fine Art. I’m in the tutor’s office and he’s looking through my work. Then I spot it. In the window behind him. A horse. Looking in from Gower Street. The tutor asks what my ambitions are. I start saying I want my art to bring people together, change the world, but all I can see is this horse looking in at me. Completely threw me. I ended up at Tooting College of Design. After that my first job was designing ceramics. At my desk on that first day all I could think of was that interview and how things could have been so different. I ended up working a horse into the design. Long story short, the client didn’t like my work and the agency ‘let me go’. Same thing kept happening. Seat designs for the tube. Wrapping paper for Woolworths. Kiddies wallpaper. Always horses. I wound up doing layout for cheap restaurant menus. Barely design at all. Stuck there almost thirty years. Then in 1954 a miracle; a chap I’d known at Tooting told me he’d just been appointed head of design at a big department store. He offered me a job. I bit his hand off. First day, I’m in the office, just off Regent St, and when I pick up the pencil all I can see is that horse again. But this time I find a way to make it work, interlocking it with another horse head, contrasting colours. It comes out really well. My boss isn’t sure. I say it could work, on a handkerchief or a tie. He’s not sure but says he’ll give it a go. It didn’t work out – they sold a handful over the next couple of months, then discontinued the line. So much for my dreams of changing the world.
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It's John Lennon's birthday. Here he is with The Beatles trying to get the opening of one of his songs right.
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It was a bright cold day in June and the EMI clock was striking thirteen. George Harrison, chin nuzzled into his breast, whipped by a vile wind, slipped through the glass doors of Victory Studios. The reception smelt of boiled cabbage and magnetic tape. Enormous at the end of the foyer was a poster. It bore that thin, handsome face, hair slicked back, the eyes seemingly following you around the room. And the familiar words: EMI IS WATCHING YOU. On the telescreen, a prim young woman recited the latest record production figures. Harrison’s job was oiling the versificators, ensuring that the steady flow of automatically generated, unremarkable sentimental songs continued through the telescreens. He noticed McCartney in the line for the stairway. They had both attended the same indoctrination centre. Once, Harrison had heard him singing on the stairway. A great, catchy, sweeping melody about a girl. Dangerous. McCartney caught his eye cautiously. They quickly looked away. From the telescreens, a great voice boomed: TIES ARE PEACE. OPEN COLLARS ARE SLAVERY SARTORIAL UNITY IS STRENGTH A cough behind him and George gasped to find himself face to face with Martin. His eyeline filled with a horse-patterned half Windsor, tightly knotted. “Harrison,” Martin said, speaking with a mild, almost regretful irony, “I’m aware that yesterday I gave you some very clear instructions on the maintenance of these versficators. I need your report.. Is there anything you’re not happy with?” At sight of that face, so intelligent, his heart seemed to turn over. He almost stretched out a hand and laid it on Martin's arm. The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether Martin was a friend or an enemy, had come back. Martin was a person who could be talked to. In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates: somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk. O'Brien was looking down at him with a…
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It was a bright cold day in June and the EMI clock was striking thirteen. George Harrison, chin nuzzled into his breast, whipped by a vile wind, slipped through the glass doors of Victory Studios. The reception smelt of boiled cabbage and magnetic tape. Enormous at the end of the foyer was a poster. It bore that thin, handsome face, hair slicked back, the eyes seemingly following you around the room. And the familiar words: EMI IS WATCHING YOU. On the telescreen, a prim young woman recited the latest record production figures. Harrison’s job was oiling the versificators, ensuring that the steady flow of automatically generated, unremarkable sentimental songs continued through the telescreens. He noticed McCartney in the line for the stairway. They had both attended the same indoctrination centre. Once, Harrison had heard him singing on the stairway. A great, catchy, sweeping melody about a girl. Dangerous. McCartney caught his eye cautiously. They quickly looked away. From the telescreens, a great voice boomed: TIES ARE PEACE. OPEN COLLARS ARE SLAVERY SARTORIAL UNITY IS STRENGTH A cough behind him and George gasped to find himself face to face with Martin. His eyeline filled with a horse-patterned half Windsor, tightly knotted. “Harrison,” Martin said, speaking with a mild, almost regretful irony, “I’m aware that yesterday I gave you some very clear instructions on the maintenance of these versficators. I need your report.. Is there anything you’re not happy with?” At sight of that face, so intelligent, his heart seemed to turn over. He almost stretched out a hand and laid it on Martin's arm. The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether Martin was a friend or an enemy, had come back. Martin was a person who could be talked to. In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates: somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk. O'Brien was looking down at him with a…
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NORMAN SMITH: At the end of it all George Martin said to them ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Is there anything you’re not happy with?’ After a pause George Harrison piped up. ‘Yes. I’m the youngest of four children which, while that’s meant I get the perks of being the ‘baby’ of the family, also means often feel ignored or side-lined.’ The other lads looked at each other, a little confused perhaps, but George Martin said ‘Go on?’ ‘My sister moved abroad a few years back’ continued Harrison. ‘I wouldn’t say we were particularly close, but the sudden absence of a sibling during a crucial developmental period…that’s got to have an effect surely?’ By now Harrison was leaning back in his chair, reclining almost. George Martin had started taking notes on his studio notepad. ‘And what about your professional life?’ he asked. ‘That can be a challenge too’ said Harrison. ‘I got deported during our engagement in Germany a while ago and had to come back home by myself.’ ‘So perhaps you felt…separated from your bandmates?’ ‘Yes, but it’s not just that. When we were solely a gigging band, I was one of three frontmen. Now the emphasis is shifting to songwriting, I’m starting to feel shut out.’ George Martin was nodding now. “Anything else coming to the surface?” ‘Yes’ Harrison said ‘I don’t like your tie.’
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