Jon Lord and friends (including George Harrison, Joe Brown, Gary Moore, and Jim Capaldi) at the wedding of Roger Glover and Lesley Edmunds, Henley-on-Thames, July 1989. Photo from All Those Years Ago, the photo biography, via JonLord.org/Twitter.

“[T]he Henley Music Mafia — a collection of neighbors including Dave Edmunds, Deep Purple’s Ian Paice and Jon Lord, Alvin Lee, Mick Ralphs, Joe Brown, Dave Gilmour and Gary Moore — with whom [George] occasionally convenes for the unpolished playing of ‘old 12 bars, Everly Brothers and the odd bit of Django Reinhardt.’” - Q, 1988

“The first time I really heard George play a solo I realized how gifted he was. It was kind of hard when you’re just strumming along to things, but when he came out with this… kind of beautiful little masterpieces of solos. He could kind of think of something to play in eight bars that nobody in the whole world except him would have thought of. You realized there was a kind of a genius at work there. And to me he was a great melodic influence personally as a guitarist. He was very strong on melody. And if he hadn’t started to play at the time I did I don’t think I would have as melodic a background as I have now, and have that kind of sense of melody if it wasn’t for George.” - Gary Moore, BBC Radio 2, 2009

“I’m just a skiffler, you know. Now I do ‘posh skiffle.’ That’s all it is. That’s why I’ve always been so embarrassed at the idea of being in Guitar Player Magazine. It’s just posh skiffle.” - George Harrison, Guitar Player, November 1987 (x)