THE BEAT GOES ON
At the press reception in a Chicago hotel a healthylooking Harrison answered questions serenely—nay, earnestly. One writer barked to another: "Did you ask him about...it?" "Nah," the other one replied. "He brought up the reunion himself."
THE BEAT GOES ON
It's The Quiet Ones You Have to Watch
CHICAGO—The presence of a motley bunch of fools passing for journalists was requested recently by Warner Brothers prez Mo Ostin, to meet new Warner Brothers artiste and ex-Fab George Harrison. George, you'll recall, has had a lousy year; besides being sued for plagiarism by the writers of "He's So Fine", who thought he'd duplicated one too many riffs in "My Sweet Lord" (the judge finally ruled that he had "subconsciously" plagiarized the old Chiffons hit), A&M Records slapped him with a ten million dollar lawsuit, claiming non-delivery of an albu m. George asserts that they actually regretted giving him such a generous deal and that it was just a ploy to get rid of him. It worked; he bought out his contract and switched distribution for his Dark Horse Records to Warner Brothers wheri he made the jump to Mr. Ostin's company himself.