In September 1963 a British woman living in rural Illinois persuaded a pair of teenage girls to interview her younger brother, George, who was visiting on holiday.
“Mr Harrison is from Liverpool, England,” Marilyn Lewis wrote in the Echo, the Benton Community High School newspaper. “He likes smallish blondes, driving, television, sleeping, Chet Atkins, eggs and chips, Eartha Kitt and Alfred Hitchcock movies. He thinks American music is great, and the people around here are friendly.”
Now a retired teacher in Ohio, Ms Lewis had no idea that the rather “pitiful” young man was soon to be one of the world’s most famous pop stars. She did the interview “mainly as a favour” to his sister, Louise.
Marcia Raubach, then 17, was similarly underwhelmed.
