Marty Scott (right) who portrays George Harrison in the Liverpool Legends Beatles tribute show, is working on a book with the untold story of how George’s sister Louise (left) was their first promoter in the U.S. before they achieved fame.
August 26, 2026–If you are a Beatles fan, you might think every possible story about the legendary British band has been told. But someone found more stories, buried in boxes.
Marty Scott portrays George Harrison in the Liverpool Legends, a tribute band officially sanctioned by the late Louise Harrison, the real George’s big sister. Scott has come into possession of a treasure trove of unreleased behind-the-scenes trivia that stretches back to before the Beatles became a mania.
“I had met Louise a couple months after George passed and we’ve been really good friends ever since,” Scott explained. “She always used to say, ‘You know, I helped promote the Beatles, and I took their records to radio stations.’ I’d always think, ‘Sure you did.’ I never really believed all her stories.”
Years later, when Scott was helping Louise move her possessions, he noticed one box covered in dust and debris. It also held every airmail letter Louise had received from her mother in England throughout the 1960s.
He was “freaked out.”
“I sat there and I read them all. It was like, oh my God, she was telling the truth.”
Scott found letters where Louise’s mom was upset because Brian Epstein was asking her to have Louise promote his other acts like Gerry and the Pacemakers.
“Louise’s mom started writing her in ’62,” Scott said. “She’s saying random stuff about what’s happening in England and her family, and then it started to be, George’s band is over in Germany right now and I’m really worried about him because he usually sends me 2 pounds a month, and I haven’t heard from him.
“Then the next letters are from 1963, and now the Beatles are starting to get famous, and she’s like, I can’t wait for you to hear George’s group. I’m sending you a copy of their song called From Me to You, and it’s being released here.
Just 6 months before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Beatles manager Brian Epstein was writing to George’s sister for help in getting his bands promoted on U.S. radio stations.
“By late 1963, she is writing, I’m so excited! I got my picture in the paper today, and the guys are playing for the Queen. And then right after that, she’d write, Aunt Betty just got new curtains. It’s the most amazing stuff, just from her mother.”
Later letters follow George and Patty going to India, the band coming over for the Ed Sullivan show, and her Dad’s decision not to join them because he didn’t want to get his shots.
Some of this information was included in Louise Harrison’s book My Kid Brother’s Band, where she told the little-known story of George visiting her Southern Illinois home back in September, 1963. But much of that memoir was about her personal life.
Scott is now writing the book she should have written.
“I have all of her things, including photocopies of all these letters and photos from her family from the ’60s, letters from her mom and dad and George that they were sending her from England, from 1962 all the way through 1970, when her mom died,” he said. “It’s just really cool stuff that isn’t in any of the history books. There are tons of letters that validate her as the Beatles’ first promoter in the U.S. I don’t even think George and Paul knew because they were busy being famous. Dick James and Brian Epstein and George Martin, they were all writing Louise for her help and insight on the U.S. because they couldn’t break into the market.”
While the information will provide fresh fodder for music historians, Scott’s motivation has more to do with his respect for Louise.
“I just feel her story needs to be told. It’s about a housewife in the ’60s whose brother is getting famous in England, and nobody knows him in the U.S. Here is a sister of a Beatle living in rural America and trying to get the records played. She is getting rejected by all the radio stations. They are telling her things like, thank you very much for your brother’s song, but we don’t really think it fits in with what we’re doing. Good luck with your brother’s band. This is just six months before the Ed Sullivan Show. Just cool stuff.”
She deserves her due.
Marty Scott (left) who portrays George Harrison in the Liverpool Legends Beatles tribute show, is working on a book with the untold story of how George’s sister Louise (right) was their first promoter in the U.S. before they achieved fame.
“I want to do this as a tribute to her. Louise never really got credit. Most of the world thinks she’s some old lady that sponged off George’s name. But she never gave a crap about money at all. She was trying to survive most of the time. We’d go to Walmart and there would be T-shirts of her brother on the racks, and she’d be trying to buy butter.”
That love comes through every night the Liverpool Legends perform.
“It is something I’m passionate about. We’re keeping her memory alive.”
Details:
The Liverpool Legends will present two shows in Fredericksburg’s Rockbox Theater on Friday and Saturday, September 4 and 5, 2026. www.rockboxtheater.com