Wonderwall

At 10am on 9 January 1968, a long-haired Englishman walked into the Universal Building on Pherozeshah Mehta Road in Fort and bounded up the stairs to the third-floor HMV recording studio ... It was George Harrison, the Beatle, here in Mumbai to record a soundtrack for an avant-garde movie called Wonderwall ... The recording sessions lasted five days, with contributions from some of India's most outstanding classical musicians ... Universal Building remains - as does a weathered HMV sign high on the outside wall - but the recording studio was long ago replaced by an insurance office. Time Out guide.

So this was my task for the day - to find the building and photograph it, to see where the late George Harrison was present, recording music for a film the title of which would inspire Noel Gallagher one day to write his best song. It is indeed now weathered the sign - I wondered if they would sell it to me (!), or the Beatles museum in Liverpool, or at least restore it, but then it's survived this long and hopefully will last a bit longer - as Noel did indeed once say, "this is history".

The rest of the day was spent taking portraits of Mumbaikers, who gleefully posed for some great pictures. They could have easily been blips, but there is plenty more time left for that, and anyway, the George story is much more interesting.

Message to Mrs Blip: All you need is love!