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George Harrison
George Harrison was an English musician who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Known as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison played a significant role in shaping the band's musical direction and established a successful solo career, particularly through his interest in Eastern musical influences.
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entertainment · English musician (1943–2001) · guitarist · singer · songwriter · actor · horticulturist · film producer · composer · singer-songwriter · autobiographer · poet · also George Harrison, Carl Harrison, Spike Wilbury, Nelson Wilbury, George O'Hara, George O'Hara Smith
Born 25 February 1943 · Died 29 November 2001 · Q2643
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2026· 8 entries
“I just know that whatever we”
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“Every Sunday she tuned in to mystical sounds evoked by sitars and tablas, hoping that the exotic music would bring peace and calm to the baby in the womb.”
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Published video “Behind the song: "I Dig Love" from ‘All Things Must Pass’ (1970).”.
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Published video “Celebrating George’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)”, which was released on May 7th, 1973.”.
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Published video “George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Official Documentary]”.
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Published video “Remembering George on his birthday.”.
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The Guardian: George Harrison’s old house has an interesting backstory | Letters
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2025· 11 entries
Published video “George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Behind The Scenes]”.
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Published video ““Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” directed by @finnwolfhard8881”.
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Published video “Aqua”.
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Published video “George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Official Afterparty]”.
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Published video “George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Official Video]”.
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Published video “No Signal”.
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Published video “George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Official Trailer]”.
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Published video “After That”.
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Published video “Privilege”.
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Published video “Remembering George.”.
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The Guardian: Guitar dealer to the stars Norman Harris on George Harrison, Marty McFly’s lost Gibson and his secret stash
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2024· 8 entries
Published video “The Day the World Gets 'Round (Take 22)”.
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Published video “Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond)”.
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Published video “Living in the Material World (Take 31)”.
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Published video “That Is All (Take 24)”.
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Published video “The Day the World Gets 'Round (2024 Mix)”.
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Published video “The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord) (2024 Mix)”.
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The Guardian: George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool gets blue plaque
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The Guardian: ‘Am I a poor lover, am I ugly?’ Eric Clapton letters reveal details of George Harrison love triangle
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “50th Anniversary Collection: 1970”.
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Released album “Comin’ Home”.
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Released album “The Albums 1970–2002”.
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2018· 3 entries
Released album “Fear of Flying: Acoustic Songs (1971–1982)”.
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Released album “Acoustic Versions (1969–1970)”.
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Released album “Cheer Down (1989)”.
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “1992-04-06: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK”.
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Benton unveiled a commemorative mural along southbound I-57, painted and donated by artist John Cerney
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “The Magic Is Here Again”.
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “With The Beatles and Without”.
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Released album “Building the Material World”.
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2014· 4 entries
Released album “The Apple Years 1968–75”.
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Released ep “4”.
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Released album “Georgeous”.
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Released album “Left Alone With My Heart”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Last Live Show”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Early Takes, Volume 1”.
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Released album “The Gold Collection”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Pirate Songs (Remastered Edition)”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “Collaborations”.
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Released album “Cloud Nine Rough Cuts”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Hari + Splinter’s Dark Horse”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Rarities”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2004).
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Harrison was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist by his former bandmates Lynne and Petty, and into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame in 2006 for the Concert for Bangladesh
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Phasing Phun With Your Clothes On”.
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Released album “4th Night Revisited: The Lost Tapes”.
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Released album “Undercover Volume 1 (The Lost Tapes)”.
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2002· 13 entries
Released album “Brainwashed”.
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Released album “East & West, Yin & Yang”.
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Abram said: "If I could turn back the clock, I would give anything not to have done what I did in attacking George Harrison, but looking back on it now, I have come to understand that I was at the time not in control of
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On the first anniversary of his death, the Concert for George was held at the Royal Albert Hall
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Released album “Acoustic Masterpieces”.
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Released album “All Things Must Pass: The Apple Acetates”.
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Released album “Rare Recordings (1986–1989)”.
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Released album “Legend of a Leg End Volume 2”.
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Released album “Legend of a Leg End, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Collected Works 1962-1990”.
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Released album “Anthology”.
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Released album “Through All Those Years”.
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Released album “The Quiet One”.
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2001· 7 entries
Died 2001-11-29.
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“Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.”
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Performed as a guest musician on Jeff Lynne and Electric Light Orchestra's comeback album Zoom, and on the song "Love Letters" for Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
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“I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth .... I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.”
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“It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know?”
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“I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.”
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“Without going out of your door, You can know all things on earth. Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows.”
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2000· 3 entries
Apple Records released a thirtieth-anniversary edition of the album, and Harrison actively participated in its promotion
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Released album “Baton Rouge 1974”.
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Released album “The Dark Horse Anthology, Vol.1”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Through Many Years”.
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Released album “A True Legend”.
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Released album “Beware of ABKCO! / Live in Japan”.
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “The Making Of All Things Must Pass”.
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Released album “12 Arnold Grove”.
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Farrell commented: "It is a mark of Harrison's sincere involvement with Indian music that, nearly thirty years on, the Beatles' 'Indian' songs remain the most imaginative and successful examples of this type of fusion –
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “Fort Worth Express”.
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Released album “Shanghai Surprise (Orange 23)”.
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Harrison recorded "Distance Makes No Difference With Love" with Carl Perkins for the latter's album Go Cat Go
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Released album “Living in the Alternate World”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Real”.
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Released album “Session at Columbia Studio”.
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Released album “Pirate Songs”.
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “Songs for Patti”.
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Released album “Beware of ABKCO!”.
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Harrison began a collaboration with McCartney, Starr and producer Jeff Lynne for the Beatles Anthology project
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Live in Japan”.
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Released ep “Songs By George Harrison”.
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1991· 4 entries
And was sold three years later to Paragon Entertainment, a Canadian corporation
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Released album “Far East Man: Live Rarities”.
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And served as the honorary president of the George Formby Appreciation Society
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Released album “Chant and Be Happy! Indian Devotional Songs”.
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1990· 5 entries
Released album “Completed Rarities, Vol. 3”.
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Released album “Completed Rarities, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Completed Rarities, Volume 2”.
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Played slide guitar on the title track of Dylan's Under the Red Sky album
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Helped promote his wife Olivia's Romanian Angel Appeal on behalf of the thousands of Romanian orphans left abandoned by the state following the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989”.
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Harrison and Starr appeared in the music video for Petty's song "I Won't Back Down"
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1988· 3 entries
Co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys
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Harrison formed the Traveling Wilburys with Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty
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And posthumously for his solo career in 2004
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Cloud Nine”.
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Released album “Baton Rouge”.
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Released album “Ohnothimagen”.
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1984· 1 entry
Was named after him, as was a variety of Dahlia flower
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Gone Troppo”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Somewhere in England”.
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Played guitar on "Walk a Thin Line", from Mick Fleetwood's The Visitor
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “George Harrison”.
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Harrison released George Harrison, which followed his second marriage and the birth of his son Dhani
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1978· 3 entries
That following Harrison's increased association with the sitar after "Norwegian Wood", he became known as "the maharaja of raga-rock"
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To produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, they formed the film production and distribution company HandMade Films
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Initially to produce the Monty Python troupe's comedy film The Life of Brian (1979)
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1976· 3 entries
Released album “Thirty Three & 1/ॐ”.
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Released album “The Best of George Harrison”.
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Denied deliberately plagiarising the song, but lost the case, as the judge ruled that he had done so subconsciously
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “Extra Texture (Read All About It)”.
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1974· 6 entries
Released album “Dark Horse”.
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Harrison founded Dark Horse Records as an avenue for collaboration with other musicians
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“John Lennon is a saint and he”
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“[McCartney] ruined me as a guitar player”
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Harrison said of his former bandmate: "John Lennon is a saint and he's heavy-duty, and he's great and I love him
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Concert in Fort Worth from Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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1973· 4 entries
Released album “Living in the Material World”.
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Released ep “Un uomo nella vita / Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) / Un’altra età / Can the Can”.
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Peter Sellers introduced Harrison to Denis O'Brien
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Produced the feature film Little Malcolm, but the project was lost amid the litigation surrounding the former Beatles ending their business ties with Klein
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1972· 1 entry
Donated his Letchmore Heath mansion north of London to the devotees
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1971· 4 entries
Released album “The Concert for Bangladesh”.
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score for Let It Be (1971).
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Bright Tunes sued Harrison for copyright infringement over "My Sweet Lord", owing to its similarity to the 1963 Chiffons hit "He's So Fine"
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The Beatles received an Academy Award for the best Original Song Score for the film Let It Be
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “All Things Must Pass”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “Electronic Sound”.
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McCartney told Lennon: "Until this year, our songs have been better than George's
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Wonderwall Music”.
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Travelled with the other Beatles to Rishikesh in northern India to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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1967· 1 entry
Subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement
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1966· 3 entries
And the beginning of the Sgt Pepper recording sessions, he made a pilgrimage to India with his first wife, Pattie Boyd; there, he studied sitar with Ravi Shankar, met several gurus, and visited various holy places
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Harrison contributed innovative musical ideas to Revolver
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Remained a lifelong advocate of the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda – yogis and authors, respectively, of Raja Yoga (1896) and Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
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1965· 4 entries
Awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (1965).
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Harrison used an expression pedal to control his guitar's volume on "I Need You", creating a syncopated flautando effect with the melody resolving its dissonance through tonal displacements
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And first used it during the recording of the Help
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An anonymous Beatles collector paid £350,000 for the vehicle that Harrison had bought new in January 1965.
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1964· 1 entry
During the production of the film A Hard Day's Night, in which the 19-year-old Boyd had been cast as a schoolgirl
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1963· 2 entries
Bought a Rickenbacker 425 Fireglo, and in 1964 he acquired a Rickenbacker 360/12 guitar, which was the second of its kind to be manufactured
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To see his sister, making him the first Beatle to visit the United States
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1961· 2 entries
The Beatles recorded "Cry for a Shadow", a blues-inspired instrumental co-written by Lennon and Harrison, who is credited with composing the song's lead guitar part, building on unusual chord voicings and imitating the s
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And posed with on the album cover for Cloud Nine (1987)
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1960· 2 entries
Harrison used the pseudonym "Carl Harrison", in reference to Carl Perkins
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Promoter Allan Williams arranged for the band, now calling themselves the Beatles, to play at the Indra and Kaiserkeller clubs in Hamburg, both owned by Bruno Koschmider
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1958· 1 entry
His main guitar was a Höfner President Acoustic, which he soon traded for a Höfner Club 40 model
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1948· 1 entry
Harrison enrolled at Dovedale Primary School
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-02-25.
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