Eight Days a Week

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

I saw this movie about the beatles on cable TV recently. In almost every group scene, George Harrison was smoking a cigarette. He died in 2001, aged 58, from lung cancer.

Sad really, especially since the Beatles era was at a time when the debate was still raging about whether smoking caused lung cancer.

Overall though, for a 60s music fan like myself, it was a most enjoyable movie/documentary.

[Wavytone]

Sad but looking back I think looking at him, it was evident he had cancer from a far younger age.

At my age (60) - and having known several who have died of various cancers - there's something about the way cancer victims look and it's visible in photographs that they were all quite unwell long before.

Conversely looking at the Rolling Stones I am moderately surprised some of them are still alive, starting with Mick ...

Fingers crossed...

[csb (Craig)]

Maybe that look came from changing to vegetarian diet. John Lennon also appeared to be lacking something - good nutrition?

In films and documentaries the Beatles always appear to be enjoying their lives as music superstars.

[el_draco (Rom)]

When I went to uni for the first time, I was crazy for a beautiful strawberry blonde I met on my first day. When I asked her out on a date, she said, "You expect me to kiss an ash tray"? I took the pack out of my top pocket, crushed it and chucked it in the bin next to her. We were an item for quite a while but eventually split up. I went from 20 a day to zero and never picked up another smoke. That was 35 years ago this year and I am ever in her debt... My skin crawls at the thought of what those things can do to you.

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

I watched a movie called ' Casablanca ' which starred Humphrey Bogart....in 99% of the scenes, I noticed he was smoking a cigarette and drinking.

Guess what .... he died from lung cancer caused by smokes.

so did .... Marlborough Man ( the Man on the Horse ) .... who promoted the ' Marlborough ' Cigarettes.

Col.....

[goober (Doug)]

I caught this in the cinema, which included the concert. Great documentary - they were busy lads. They just didn't stop for about 5 years, not including the years before they broke out.