George Harrison 1943 - 2001
Street art outside St. Georges Theatre promoting The George Harrison Project, a live music celebration of George Harrison's best loved hits from his early Beatles songs, his solo career and The Traveling Wilburys.
George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool on 25th. February 1943. He was the youngest of the four children of Harold Hargreaves Harrison and his wife Louise (née French. Harold was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line and Louise was a shop assistant of Irish Catholic descent. He had one sister, Louise and two brothers, Harold and Peter.
George attended Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1954 to 1959 which is where he first met Paul McCartney
in 1956, his father bought George a Dutch Egmond flat-top acoustic guitar, which according to Harold, cost £3.10s.
McCartney and his friend John Lennon were in a skiffle group called the Quarrymen. George began socialising with the group, filling in on guitar as needed and then became accepted as a member. In 1960 the band were calling themselves the Beatles.
After working in Hamburg, Brian Epstein became their manager in December 1961, he polished up their image and later secured them a recording contract with EMI.[ The group's first single, 'Love Me Do', peaked at number 17 on the Record Retailer chart, and by the time their debut album, 'Please Please Me', was released in early 1963, Beatlemania had arrived.
Often serious and focused while on stage with the band, George was known as 'the quiet Beatle', he embraced Indian culture and incorporated Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality into the Beatles' work.
George's last recording session with the Beatles was on 4th. January 1970, when he, McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded his song 'I Me Mine' for the 'Let It Be' album.
After the band's break-up in 1970, George released the triple album 'All Things Must Pass', a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, 'My Sweet Lord', and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. In 1988, he co-founded the platinum selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time'. He is a two time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and posthumously for his solo career in 2004.
Georges first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. The following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani.
On 30th. December 1999 George surviving an attack by
Michael Abram, a 34 year-old man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, who broke into his Friar Park. mansion at Henley-on-Thames and attacked him with a kitchen knife, puncturing a lung and causing head injuries before Olivia Harrison incapacitated the assailant by striking him repeatedly with a fireplace poker and a lamp. Following the attack, George was hospitalised with more than 40 stab wounds, and part of his punctured lung was removed.
In May 2001, it was revealed that George had undergone an operation to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs, and in July, it was reported that he was being treated for a brain tumour at a clinic in Switzerland
On 29th. November 2001, George died from lung cancer at a property belonging to Paul McCartney, on Heather Road in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, he was 58 years old. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. He left an estate of almost £100 million.
George's final album, 'Brainwashed' was released posthumously in 2002 after it was completed by his son Dhani and Jeff Lynne.
George Harrison 1943 - 2001
Street art outside St. Georges Theatre promoting The George Harrison Project, a live music celebration of George Harrison's best loved hits from his early Beatles songs, his solo career and The Traveling Wilburys.
George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool on 25th. February 1943. He was the youngest of the four children of Harold Hargreaves Harrison and his wife Louise (née French. Harold was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line and Louise was a shop assistant of Irish Catholic descent. He had one sister, Louise and two brothers, Harold and Peter.
George attended Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1954 to 1959 which is where he first met Paul McCartney
in 1956, his father bought George a Dutch Egmond flat-top acoustic guitar, which according to Harold, cost £3.10s.
McCartney and his friend John Lennon were in a skiffle group called the Quarrymen. George began socialising with the group, filling in on guitar as needed and then became accepted as a member. In 1960 the band were calling themselves the Beatles.
After working in Hamburg, Brian Epstein became their manager in December 1961, he polished up their image and later secured them a recording contract with EMI.[ The group's first single, 'Love Me Do', peaked at number 17 on the Record Retailer chart, and by the time their debut album, 'Please Please Me', was released in early 1963, Beatlemania had arrived.
Often serious and focused while on stage with the band, George was known as 'the quiet Beatle', he embraced Indian culture and incorporated Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality into the Beatles' work.
George's last recording session with the Beatles was on 4th. January 1970, when he, McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded his song 'I Me Mine' for the 'Let It Be' album.
After the band's break-up in 1970, George released the triple album 'All Things Must Pass', a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, 'My Sweet Lord', and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. In 1988, he co-founded the platinum selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time'. He is a two time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and posthumously for his solo career in 2004.
Georges first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. The following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani.
On 30th. December 1999 George surviving an attack by
Michael Abram, a 34 year-old man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, who broke into his Friar Park. mansion at Henley-on-Thames and attacked him with a kitchen knife, puncturing a lung and causing head injuries before Olivia Harrison incapacitated the assailant by striking him repeatedly with a fireplace poker and a lamp. Following the attack, George was hospitalised with more than 40 stab wounds, and part of his punctured lung was removed.
In May 2001, it was revealed that George had undergone an operation to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs, and in July, it was reported that he was being treated for a brain tumour at a clinic in Switzerland
On 29th. November 2001, George died from lung cancer at a property belonging to Paul McCartney, on Heather Road in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, he was 58 years old. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. He left an estate of almost £100 million.
George's final album, 'Brainwashed' was released posthumously in 2002 after it was completed by his son Dhani and Jeff Lynne.