Above: The Beatles wearing Edwardian bathing suits in Weston-Super-Mare (Dezo Hoffman, 1963), Inbetw

Above: The Beatles wearing Edwardian bathing suits in Weston-Super-Mare (Dezo Hoffman, 1963), Inbetween: George Harrison and Pattie Boyd on honeymoon in Barbados (Curt Gunther, 1966), Below: The Beatles by the pool in Bel-Air (Bob Bonis, 1964)“It was one of those days where it was nice to make plans to do nothing. This was in the ancient days before cell phones, so I called from our house to see what time [George Harrison] and Pattie [Boyd] had decided upon. No one was answering the phone at their house, so we figured they couldn’t hear the phone because they were out by the pool. Anxious to set about doing nothing with them, we decided to grab our swimming suits and drive over and join them. We walked through the gate and saw George and Pattie lying by the pool sunbathing. We yelled our hellos from a slight distance on our way across the large lawn into the pool area. Upon seeing us headed in their direction, George suddenly jumped up and grabbed a long-sleeve shirt from the back of a nearby chaise lounge and quickly put it on. I didn’t think anything of it, figuring it was an act simultaneous to our arrival to cover up from getting sunburn.Later, while George and I were in the kitchen and the wives had gone shopping, Pattie confided to my wife that George was bashful about his slenderness and was embarrassed to be seen without his shirt on. When she told me this, I realized I had never seen him in anything but long pants and primarily long-sleeve shirts before. It all goes to show how we think of celebrities as so invincible, and yet here was a normal person with normal little insecurities like everyone else. If you want to see how slim George was, just check out the Bangla Desh film when he isn’t wearing his coat. Did you ever notice that rock-and-roll guitar players never have any butts?”- Ken Mansfield (former US manager of Apple Records), The White Book  -- source link

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