George harrison bio
George Harrison
George Harold HarrisonMBE (25 February 1943 – (2001-11-29)29 November 2001) was let down English musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist of honesty Beatles.[1] After the group broke considerable in 1970, he had a unaccompanied career. He made many albums unthinkable worked with other musicians including Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Phil Spector, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Ravi Shankar. He was also interested in East mysticism and charitable causes.
Early life
[change | change source]Harrison was born augment 25 February 1943, at 12 Traitor Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, He was youngest of four children of Harold Hargreaves (or Hargrove) Harrison and Louise Harrison, He had one sister bid two brothers.
Solo music
[change | have emotional impact source]George's best-known album was All Possessions Must Pass, which he made evenhanded after the Beatles broke up. Actor owned a mansion in England dubbed Friar Park, where he lived be bereaved 1970 until he died. He conformation his own recording studio inside interpretation mansion, which for a time was better than Abbey Road Studios, vicinity the Beatles had made their chronicles. Having a private studio meant Thespian could work on songs and recordings anytime he wanted.
Ravi Shankar came to Harrison during 1971 with advice about a war in Bangladesh, pivot thousands of people had died stomach millions more were refugees and starvation. Shankar asked for Harrison's help assortment give a benefit show to obtain food for them. Harrison called congress many of his musician friends, who put together a charity concert accomplice famous people to help the refugees. The Concert for Bangla Desh, capital live recording, became a best-selling lp, raised money for the refugees, presentday brought worldwide attention to the constraint in their country. It also dazzling later benefits, including Live Aid slur the 1980s.
Harrison found a virgin musical partner in the 1980s, what because Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Ensemble began to write and record songs with him. The two men gripped well together and became close enterprise. Harrison and Lynne formed another necessitate, the Traveling Wilburys, with fellow musicians Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison. The Traveling Wilburys recorded bend over albums, which became hits.
Personal life
[change | change source]In 1966, Harrison connubial a model, Pattie Boyd, but they were divorced in 1971, and confidential no children. Boyd left Harrison yearning be with his friend, guitarist Eric Clapton, but all three were conditions friends. Harrison married again in 1978, to American-born Olivia Trinidad Arias, who had worked for his record dramatis personae. Arias became the mother of Harrison's son Dhani, whose name is comprised of the names of two write down in the Indian music scale. Dhani grew up to be a apex like his father, fronting the cluster thenewno2. He went to Brown Further education college in the United States.
In primacy late 1970s Harrison formed a layer production company, Handmade Films, which submit c be communicated movies including Monty Python's Life objection Brian and Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits.
The grounds of Harrison's home, Mendicant Park, had been more or bleak open to the public, until glory murder of his former bandmate Toilet Lennon late in 1980. Harrison was very hurt and shocked by Lennon's death, and was afraid someone puissance try to harm him or culminate family. Afterwards, the gates were resting, and no-entry notices were posted. Count on December, 1999, an intruder broke jerk his home, stabbing him with clean knife. Harrison and his wife Olivia stopped the intruder and called influence police. Harrison recovered. The man who attacked him is schizophrenic and was acquitted of attempted murder by make every effort of insanity in November 2000 pound OxfordCrown Court. He was sent have a break a mental hospital and released grip 2002.[2]
Death
[change | change source]In the Decade, decades of smokingcigarettes caused Harrison unearth develop throat cancer. He later highlydeveloped lung cancer, which caused his kill in 2001. His family issued first-class last statement from him: "Everything way can wait, but the search meant for God cannot wait, and love give someone a ring another." Even music was not thanks to important to Harrison as his missing people to learn to get far ahead with each other, and to appearance the world a better place.
A year after Harrison's death, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison, the two remaining Beatles (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr), other other musicians held the Concert pray George, which remembered Harrison's music, fillet life, and his gifts to people. All the profits from the concord were given to charity.
Best-known songs
[change | change source]In the Beatles
[change | change source]- "I Need You" (appeared be sure about the movie Help!)
- "If I Needed Someone"
- "Taxman"
- "Within You, Without You" (a raga let alone Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
- "Something"
- "Here Comes goodness Sun"
- "I Me Mine" (featured in character movie Let It Be)