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"[86] GEORGE MARTIN: I must say after that first encounter with The Beatles I didn’t think about ties all that much for a good while – things seemed to happen so fast with them. It must have been about 1968 before I had chance to stop, catch my breath as it were, and realise that I’d never once seen George wearing a tie since that day back in June 1962. Then one day in January 1969 I go into the Apple studio on Savile Row and the first thing I see is George, wearing…let me try and describe it: imagine the kind of velvet bow tie you’d see on an eight-year-old at their first violin recital, or a teddy bear in Hamleys. That’s what George was wearing; the most ludicrous, tasteless tie I have ever seen in my life. Where had it come from? Why, after seven years of no ties had he chosen to re-enter the world of the tie with…that? I didn’t say anything but at one point while they were running through For You Blue I made eye contact with George and he grinned at me and winked."
