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| George at the moment he answers the journalist, Montreal 2000. |
George Harrison had been fascinated with motorsports since the 1955 British Grand Prix held near his hometown in Aintree as a boy.
Taking a break from music in 1977 and travelling with the Formula One World Championship inspired Harrison to write ‘Faster’, honouring the drivers he hung out with, including Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Niki Lauda.
Caught by an eager journalist at the 2000 Montreal Grand Prix, Harrison gave an unusual answer to the question of his favourite driving song. And he said: “Hoagy Carmichael, ‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ from 1929.”
An American drinking song from the turn of the turn of the century and loosely based on the San Francisco sailor and Gold Rush miner William Bernard, Carmichael cut one of the ditty’s earliest recordings, featuring what many fans consider one of Bix Beiderbecke’s finest cornet solos.
‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ would prove popular, inspiring numerous Betty Boop and Popeye shorts from the Fleischer animation house, and its rollicking theme was used to accompany the titular sailor’s arch-nemesis Bluto in the early cartoons.
Clearly enjoying himself, when asked what he liked about Quebec’s largest city, Harrison quipped “the croissants” before whisking himself away.
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