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George Harrison
Liverpool, England, UK
George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guit…
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George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
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2026
Man on the Run
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2026
Evolver 62
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2025
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
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2025
A Love Letter to the Beatles
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2025
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
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2025
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
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2025
TWST / Things We Said Today
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2025
The Beatles
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2025
David Frost Vs
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2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
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2024
Beatles '64
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2024
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
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2024
The Beatles LOVE
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2024
The Bannfoot Ferry
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2024
The Beach Boys
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2023
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
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2023
The Beatles and the BBC
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2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
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2023
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
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2023
By My Side
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2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
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2023
Louder Than Rock
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2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
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2023
Roy Orbison at the BBC
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2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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2022
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
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2022
If These Walls Could Sing
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2022
Ringo Starr: One of Them
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2022
Sherwood
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2022
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
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2022
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
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2022
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
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2021
The Beatles: Get Back
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2021
The Beatles and India
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2021
McCartney 3, 2, 1
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2021
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
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2021
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
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2021
This Is Pop
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2020
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
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