February 25, 2013 Up until 1992, George Harrison took for granted that he was born on this day in 1943 February 25th. In 1992 he learned that his birth date was off by one calendar day by about a half hour. So in fact, George's birthday was really yesterday, February 24th. But we still celebrate the occasion today. George would have been 70.
The third part of the equation that would become the Beatles fell into place on Feb. 6, 1958. George Harrison joined the Quarry Men, the John Lennon-led group that Paul McCartney had joined as a second guitarist and singer the previous summer.
“They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did," George Harrison said in the Beatles' 1995 'Anthology' documentary. "And then blamed it on us.” But even he could never suspect that, four years later, those words would ring true again when, on Dec. 30, 1999, a mad man attacked Harrison in his own house, nearly killing him.
The widow of the late Beatle George Harrison, Olivia Harrison, joined friends and family to pay respects to Ravi Shankar on Thursday (Dec. 20). Over 1,000 people gathered at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Encinitas, Calif., including Shankar's daughter Norah Jones and jazz great Herbie Hancock.
November 29, 2012 George Harrison the quiet Beatle died eleven years ago today. George was a great musician, a film producer , loved race cars, playing his ukelele. Keith Richards nickname for his friend was "Farmer" because George loved to work in the garden. But of course he's best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. George had a spirit and appreciation for the gift of life.
For most of the '80s, George Harrison seemed content to let Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr represent the surviving Beatles on the pop charts -- but that changed in a big way with the release of his 10th studio album, 'Cloud Nine.'
The two guitarists you hear on While My Guitar Gentle Weeps will be featured today on a track they did almost 20 years later. George Harrison's hit album from 1987 Cloud Nine featured a track with his old friend Eric Clapton again sharing lead guitar work. Although the big hit Got My Mind Set On You got most of
Dhani Harrison, the son of the late Beatle George Harrison, wed his longtime girlfriend Solveig Karadottir at Friar Park, in a secret ceremony at the Harrison family’s estate in in Henley-on-Thames 40 miles outside London. The news was reported in the Henley Standard.
Today we dreamed of winning a prize pack of the new George Harrison DVD + CD, learned something interesting about Steven Tyler and that Wolfgang Van Halen has pretty big ambitions for the band.
March 30, 2012 Martin Scorsese's documentary on George Harrison, "Living In The Material World," will be released in multiple formats in North America on May 1st.
Awaiting On You All is a track from George Harrison's All Things Must Pass album that at one time, got just as much attention as My Sweet Lord. Upon the album's release in 1971, radio played it qui
