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"A friendship between
Deep Purple and
George Harrison turned into a raucous jam on Dec. 13, 1984, when the former
Beatles star joined them onstage in Sydney, Australia.
Harrison was pals and later neighbors with both Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and the late keyboardist
Jon Lord, and that informality was on display from the first in this once-in-a-lifetime musical collaboration. A vacationing Harrison was introduced to Australian fans as "Arnold Grove from Liverpool" – a reference to George's childhood address. He and Deep Purple proceeded to make an extended run through the
Little Richard hit "Lucille."
"We were very close, I adored him. He was one of the most delightful of men," Lord once told
Rick Wakeman in a rangy talk. "I thought he was an astonishingly good musician. I thought he had a way of looking at harmony that was quite unusual. He's often overshadowed – and people have said that before. It's not an original thought. But he was often overshadowed by
[John] Lennon and
[Paul] McCartney because they were so prolific."
In addition to video (which you can watch below), there's also a
backstage photo commemorating the moment featuring Lord, Harrison and a soaking-wet (and almost naked)
Ian Gillan, who apparently had just taken a shower.
Back then, Lord had recently appeared on Harrison's 1982 album
Gone Troppo, but their relationship traced back to the '60s. Lord has said they first met at the Beatles'
Apple boutique in London, telling Wakeman that a winking Harrison "stood in front of me and said rather quizzically, 'Oh, you look like me!' I looked at him and, because it was George Harrison, I said, 'Well, I'm sorry!' We became friends about a year later, mainly because of him living nearby." Around that time, Lord and Deep Purple were heard doing a cover of the Beatles' “Help!”
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