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George Harrison, MBE (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, author, film producer and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist for The Beatles. Following the band's breakup, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys super group. He was the first Beatle to have a number one solo album (All Things Must Pass). He also co-founded the production company Handmade Films, and in his work as a film producer, collaborated with people as diverse as Madonna and the members of Monty Python. After Harrison embraced Hinduism in the 1960s, his spiritual convictions were often evident in his music and public activities.
Although John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the majority of the Beatles songs, Harrison generally wrote and sang lead on a few songs on each album. His later compositions included hits such as "Here Comes the Sun," "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." After the band's breakup, Harrison became the first ex-Beatle to achieve a #1 single ("My Sweet Lord"). Besides his talents as a singer, songwriter, guitarist and sitarist, he was also a record producer and music innovator, and as Harrison forged his own identity and drifted away from the Beatles he became a world-class songwriter, musical pioneer, and a catalyst for a generation's interest in Indian culture. In 1969, Harrison commented: "I believe that if I'm going to sing songs on record, they might as well be on my own.
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Early years: 1943–1958
Harrison was born in Liverpool, England, on 25 February 1943 to Louise and Harold Harrison, parents of a Roman Catholic family with deep roots in Ireland. His maternal grandparents hailed from County Wexford in Ireland.
As a child, Harrison lived at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool, until 1950, when the family moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke. He first attended school at Dovedale Road Infants & Juniors School, very close to Penny Lane. There he passed his Eleven-plus examination and achieved a place at the Liverpool Institute for Boys (in the building now housing the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), where he attended from 1954 to 1959 and where he met Paul McCartney.
He formed a skiffle group called 'The Rebels' with his brother Peter and a friend, Arthur Kelly.
Personal and family life
Harrison was the youngest of four children; his siblings were sister Louise and brothers Peter and Harry. His father, Harry, had been a sailor until the children came along; he then changed careers, becoming a city bus driver to stay close to home. His mother, Louise French, taught ballroom dancing at home. His maternal grandfather John French, born in 1870, emigrated from County Wexford, Ireland, to Liverpool where he signed on with the city’s police force.
The family always encouraged George; his mother lent him the money for his first guitars and kept him company (sometimes until late hours) as he taught himself to play. Harrison paid his mother back by making deliveries for the local butcher; Lennon's family were among those along his route.
George's father, Harry, wanted him to have a trade, and was disappointed that George had to quit his job at local department store Blacklers to make the first Beatles trip to Hamburg in 1960; but he reasoned that George was young enough to have time to start over if things did not work out for the band. Harrison himself had hopes of working as a musician for a few years, then possibly trying to get into art school.
Harrison married model Pattie Boyd on 21 January 1966, at Leatherhead and Esher registry office, with Paul McCartney as best man. Harrison is reputed to have written the song "Something" for Boyd in 1969, although he himself denied this, saying he was actually thinking about a song to be sung by Ray Charles. In the late 1960s, Eric Clapton fell in love with Boyd, and famously poured out his feelings on the title song of the landmark Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970). Some time after the song's release, Harrison and Boyd divorced, and she and Clapton subsequently married. Despite this, Harrison and Clapton remained close friends, and referred to each other as "husbands-in-law".
Harrison's mother died in 1970 at age 58, of a cancerous brain tumor. His father died in 1978, aged 68, of emphysema. Harrison married for a second time, to Olivia Trinidad Arias (born 18 May 1948), in 1978. The ceremony took place on 2 September. They had one son, Dhani Harrison; at the 2002 Concert for George Paul McCartney remarked on Dhani's strong resemblance to his father, saying: "Olivia told me that it looks like George stayed young and we all got old." After the 1999 stabbing incident in which Olivia subdued Harrison's assailant nearly single-handedly, Harrison received a fax from his close friend Tom Petty that read: "Aren't you glad you married a Mexican girl?"
Harrison was a tremendous fan of Monty Python, forming his Handmade Films company for the purpose of financing the group's film The Life of Brian. It was through his love of the comedy group's work that he met Python member Eric Idle. The two became close friends, with Harrison appearing on Idle's Rutland Weekend Television series and in his Beatles spoof, The Rutles' All You Need Is Cash. Idle also performed at the Concert for George, held to commemorate Harrison. Idle writes at length about his love for and friendship with Harrison, and his fond memories of the singer, in his memoir The Greedy Bastard Diary.
Harrison was also a fan of the comedy satirical rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, which appeared in the Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour and was a close friend of the band's drummer 'Legs' Larry Smith. Among his other close friends were Jon Lord of Deep Purple and Joe Brown. Lord wrote a song commemorating Harrison - "A Smile When I Shook His Hand" - released on his 2004 CD Beyond the Notes, and performed "Here Comes the Sun" on his 2005 tour of Germany.
An accomplished gardener, Harrison restored the English manor house and grounds of Friar Park, which once belonged to Victorian eccentric Sir Frank Crisp. Purchased in 1970, the home is the basis for the song "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)". Several Harrison videos were also filmed on the grounds, including "Crackerbox Palace"; in addition, the grounds served as the background for the cover of All Things Must Pass. Harrison took great solace working in the garden, and dedicates his book "I, Me, Mine" to gardeners everywhere. Harrison also owned homes in Hawaii and Australia where he kept extensive tropical gardens.
