At a Capitol Tower party honoring George Harrison’s Dark Horse album: Bhaskar Menon, Al Coury,
At a Capitol Tower party honoring George Harrison’s Dark Horse album: Bhaskar Menon, Al Coury, Don Zimmermann, Bruce Wendell, Roy Kohara, Dennis Killeen, Rupert Perry, Bob Buziak, Stu Yahm, Bob Dombrowski, Phil Caston, Patti Wright, Olivia and George Harrison. Photographer unnamed, published in Cashbox, 30 November 1974.“As Olivia Harrison remembers, her future husband, George, drove himself to work on the first day on his new job. It was October 1974, and George Harrison had flown to Los Angeles to visit the offices of the record label he’d just launched [Dark Horse Records]. The only problem was that no one had organized a welcoming party for him, but Olivia — then Olivia Arias, newly hired to work on the project — dashed out to the parking lot to greet him. ‘I thought somebody should,’ she says. ‘He drove onto the lot by himself in this little car, and I thought, “Jeez, this is a big day in his life,” and I went outside and said, “Welcome!” He said, “What’s going on?” He was very excited, but it was just me.’ […] ‘George was very excited, and he loved having that office to go to,’ [Olivia] says. ‘He loved being surrounded by musicians. He designed everything, even the merch. He had beautiful bronze Dark Horse belt buckles and pins. There were dark horses everywhere.’ ‘Jerry Moss [A&M co-founder] put my mom on the Dark Horse project because she was the only person cool enough there,’ adds Dhani. ‘She was a meditator, and they figured she would get on with my dad real well, which evidently she did.’ (The two were married in 1978, the year Dhani was born: ‘I was one of their early releases,’ he says drolly.)” - Rolling Stone, 9 March 2020Q: “Was it love at first sight?” Olivia Harrison: “Pretty much. We felt it in our hearts from before we met. Even on the phone, we seemed to have some understanding, like you do when you meet the right person. And he was a charmer, such a charmer!” - The Sun, 12 June 2009 (x) -- source link
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