George Harrison

GEORGE
HARRISON

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Dec 5, 2022: Liverpool Echo: Each Beatles' favourite album that the band made
In their lifespan as a band, The Beatles released 12 studio albums.
Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles for Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be. At various different points in their lives, the Fab Four revealed their individual personal favourites of the dozen. And here is what George Harrison said: - Rubber Soul

Nov 27, 2022: UDiscoverMusic: ‘All Things Must Pass’: George Harrison’s Spiritual Journey
“Classic album” is a term that’s used far too often when describing records from the golden era of rock music. The truth is, one person’s classic album is another’s long-forgotten record. But we think that without fear of contradiction George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass is a classic album.

Nov 4, 2022: Far Out Magazine: The feud between George Harrison and The Hollies
In December 1965, New Musical Express writer Alan Smith accompanied The Beatles on one of their final tours of the UK. During the circuit, he asked Harrison about the Hollies’ version of ‘If I Needed Someone’. He reported: “George was getting ready for the first house performance, and I asked him about songwriting. ‘I see you’ve written one for the Hollies.’ George turned sharply away from the mirror. ‘Tell people that I didn’t write it for the Hollies,’ he said bluntly. ‘It’s called ‘If I Needed Someone’ and they’ve done it as their new single, but their version is not my kind of music. I think it’s rubbish the way they’ve done it! They’ve spoilt it. The Hollies are all right musically, but the way they do their records, they sound like session men who’ve just got together in a studio without ever seeing each other before. Technically good, yes. But that’s all.’”

April 19, 2022: Dirt: You Can Now Spend the Night in George Harrison’s Childhood Home
Real estate has certainly become a hot commodity in the world of pop culture memorabilia as of late, with enterprising individuals snapping up famous houses and transforming them into vacation rentals. Fans can currently live out all their big and small screen fantasies at such famed properties as the mansion from “The Bachelor,” the farm that inspired “The Conjuring” and the St. Helens home from the original “Twilight.” And now Beatles aficionados can gear up for the ultimate Fab Four experience across the pond as George Harrison’s childhood home has just hit the short-term rental market!

April 13, 2022: New York Post: Superfan turns George Harrison’s childhood home into Airbnb and house museum
In November, George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool, England, went up for auction for the first time in nearly a decade. Two weeks later, it landed a buyer from the other side of the pond — superfan Ken Lambert, who is now turning the iconic home into an Airbnb rental and house museum.
Lambert, 48, who hails from New Hampshire, never dreamed he would one day own a piece of Beatles history, until he put in an offer for £171,000 (which equates to $250,000) and no one else bid any higher

Nov 29, 2021: NME: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr pay tribute to George Harrison on 20th anniversary of late Beatle’s death
McCartney took to Twitter to share an old image of himself and Harrison in the studio with a caption reading: “Hard to believe that we lost George 20 years ago. I miss my friend so much. Love Paul.”

Nov 8, 2021: CNN: George Harrison's childhood home, where the Beatles rehearsed, is up for auction
The childhood home of late Beatles guitarist George Harrison is set to be auctioned off.
Harrison, the youngest of four children, moved with his family to 25 Upton Green in the Speke area of Liverpool, England in 1950 when he was six years old and remained there until 1962.

Oct 12, 2013: The Arts desk: Extract: George Harrison - Behind the Locked Door

Oct 6, 2013: Gigwise: George Harrison 'hated being pushed around by Paul McCartney'

Oct 5, 2013: Daily mail: The madness of king George: The Beatle who feared being shot and hated being 'pushed around' by Paul McCartney

Oct 2, 2013: The Telegraph: Joe Brown on ukuleles and George Harrison

Sept 26, 2013: Twenty Four Bit: Dhani Harrison Covers George Harrison’s ‘For You Blue’

Sept 21, 2013: The Southern: George Harrison remains forever fab

Sept 19, 2013: Slate: Before the British Invasion, a Beatle Comes to America

Jan 14, 2013: The Guardian: George Harrison statue campaign halted in favour of community project

Dec 23, 2012: CBS Philly: New Details Emerge About George Harrison And The Beatles

“A charming, lively and seductive book . . . The appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’”—The New York Times Book Review

Crown; 1st Printing edition (May 27, 2008)

An iconic figure of the 1960s and '70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in "Wonderful Tonight," and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast as a schoolgirl in "A Hard Day's Night," Ten days later a smitten George Harrison proposed. For twenty-year-old Pattie Boyd, it was the beginning of an unimaginably rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles inner circle--a circle that included Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and a veritable who's who of rock musicians. She describes the dynamics of the group, the friendships, the tensions, the musicmaking, and the weird and wonderful memories she has of Paul and Linda, Cynthia and John, Ringo and Maureen, and especially the years with her husband, George. It was a sweet, turbulent life, but one that would take an unexpected turn, starting with a simple note that began "dearest l." For the first time Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, a high-profile model whose face epitomized the swinging London scene of the 1960s, a woman who inspired Harrison's song "Something" and Clapton's anthem "Layla," has decided to write a book that is rich and raw, funny and heartbreaking--and totally honest and open and breathtaking. Here is the truth, here is what happened, here is the story you've been waiting for.

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Harrison was born on February 25, 1943, in Liverpool, England. The youngest of Harold and Louise French Harrison's four children.

His father was a steward in the merchant navy before becoming a bus conductor, and his mother was a clerk in a grocery store. Harrison began playing guitar in secondary school. He later met Paul McCartney, who invited Harrison to join the Quarrymen, the rock band he and John Lennon had formed.

The 17-year-old Harrison's music career was in full swing by 1960. Lennon had renamed the band The Beatles and the young group began cutting its rock teeth in the small clubs and bars around Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany. Within two years, the group had a new drummer, Ringo Starr, and a manager, Brian Epstein, a young record store owner who eventually landed the group a record contract with EMI's Parlophone label.

Following the completion of the White Album, and the conclusion of recording sessions in Los Angeles with new Apple signing Jackie Lomax, in late November 1968 George Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd departed for Woodstock in upstate New York. They were heading for Bob Dylan country. Harrison had first fallen for Dylan early in 1964. The Beatles had played his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, over and over again in their rooms in the George V hotel in Paris, and were quickly seduced. On their second trip to America in August of that year they had met him for the first time, smoking grass together in the Hotel Delmonico on Park Avenue.
Less than 12 months later Dylan had already mutated from reluctant folk prophet to harrying electric hipster with the release of “Like a Rolling Stone”. Harrison was paying close attention; the song's “how does it feel?” refrain seemed to capture something of his growing ambivalence to fame as The Beatles dragged themselves around the United States in August 1965 for the second summer in a row.

He’s been called “The Quiet One”, and if George Harrison did portray such an air during his time with The Beatles, he later succeeded, during his solo career, in letting his music do the talking in masterful fashion. George always preferred to be described as a musician, and yet there were many more strings to his bow: producer of music and film; director; as well as an encourager (and enabler) of others. His HandMade Films company made both diverse and brilliant movies, and his Dark Horse label released not just George’s own music, following his move away from Apple Records, but also some excellent records by other artists.

Harrison delivered a series of albums through the ’70s, but largely withdrew after the murder of John Lennon. 1987 marked his return with the Jeff Lynne-produced Cloud Nine, which featured a number 1 single. Lynne and Harrison were joined by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty in the Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup that formed in Dylan’s garage and recorded two albums.

George Harrison, the Beatles’ quiet lead guitarist and spiritual explorer who added both rock ‘n’ roll flash and a touch of the mystic to the band’s timeless magic, died on November 29, 2001. He was 58. Harrison died at a friend’s Los Angeles home following a battle with cancer, longtime friend Gavin De Becker told The Associated Press. Harrison’s wife, Olivia Harrison, and son Dhani, 24, were with him. ”He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God, fearless of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends,” the Harrison family said in a statement. “He often said, Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.”