Harry at office 68

Young Harry, summer 68 with flowers in his hair.

Harry and his good old desk. Harry at the piano when comes inspiration.

Very rare photos of Harry at the office in Los Angeles not long after release of Aerial Ballet album. We can see the cover of the LP behind him on the first photo. Also can be seen a woman smoking in front of the desk on the second one.

Do you know 

this book?

Relaxing. Float up stream.

At the piano, playing his last composition from the new album Aerial Ballet.

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

Two can be as bad as one

it's the loneliest number since the number one

No is the saddest experience you'll ever know

Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know

'Cause one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

One is the loneliest number, whoa-oh, worse than two

What about

Aerial Ballet?

John and Paul held the press conference in New York in May 1968 (11th of May) to present their new label Apple Corp. That's where they had (mostly John and repeated by Paul) their famous quote as a joke "Nilsson is our favorite group".

Aerial Ballet was not yet released, Harry was invited to meet them (the Beatles) in London. That was during White album session circa June 1968 I guess, a few weeks after that press conference in NY.

So we can easily guess that these photos were taken AFTER Harry met John and Paul in London. After release of Aerial Ballet in July 1968.

Quote : Not long after they returned from New York, Derek Taylor, The Beatles’ press officer at Apple, made a call to Harry.

‘Derek says: “The lads, the boys, the Fabs would like you to come over and join them at a session,”’ Nilsson remembered. ‘“They’re recording at Abbey Road. They’re dying to see you.”’

Within a few days, Nilsson was sitting on a plane crossing the Atlantic.

Arriving at Heathrow, he found that Ringo had kindly left his Daimler limousine at the airport for him.

Suddenly famous, having been endorsed by the world’s biggest band, Nilsson went straight to a reception for his own record, where the other three Beatles were the stars of a guest list that included everybody who was anybody in swinging London.

That afternoon, another limo arrived to take Harry out to Lennon’s home in the Surrey commuter belt.

Nilsson was greeted warmly by Lennon, and a single look between them was the start of a lifelong friendship.‘We spent the entire night talking until dawn,’ said Nilsson.

‘Yoko ended up like a kitten at John’s feet, curled up. And John and I are on about marriage, life, death, divorce, women. And I’m thinking, “This is it! This is truthful. This is good. This is honest. This is exciting. It’s inspirational.”’

John gave Nilsson an Indian gold braided jacket with fur trim lining he had worn in Magical Mystery Tour.

The following day Paul announced he was coming over to Nilsson’s hotel, and he ran through rough versions of several of his newly written songs.

Nilsson sent down for a bottle or two of the best wine on the hotel’s room service list, and they carried on singing songs for one another into the small hours. 

The evening ended with Paul driving Nilsson around London in his Aston Martin.