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| Mark Oliver
Friday November 30, 2001
February 1942
Born in Wavertree, Liverpool
1950s
Passes his 11-plus and wins a place at the Liverpool Institute, one of
the city's leading grammar schools where he meets Paul McCartney, who
lived nearby
1958
McCartney invites Harrison to join his skiffle group, and after some
resistance from John Lennon, he joins the band after impressing the
others with his guitar playing
1959
Leaves the Liverpool Institute with only one exam pass, in art, because he was so into his music
1962
The Beatles had signed their recording contract with EMI. Harrison
writes such songs as I Need You, Taxman, While My Guitar Gently Weeps,
and Here Comes the Sun
1965
Meets and becomes a pupil of Ravi Shankar, the celebrated Indian sitar player and composer
1967-8
Harrison's interest in Indian music leads to the Beatles' famous
entanglement with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. By 1968, the Beatles were
drifting apart. Both Lennon and McCartney antagonise Harrison who walks
off the set of the film Let it Be after an argument
1970
Harrison is the first Beatle to start a successful solo career, selling
3m copies worldwide with his first album, All Things Must Pass
1971
Organises a benefit concert in New York following the floods in
Bangladesh. The event sets a precedent for other big benefit concerts
which would follow
1973
Releases the hit solo album Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
1974
Tours the US with Ravi Shankar. Throughout the 1970s his interest grew in horticulture, rare books, writing, and car racing
1979
Harrison focuses on a new career as a film producer, and forms the
company Handmade Films with Dennis O'Brien. The first success was Monty
Python's The Life of Brian
1980
Lennon's death inspires Harrison to write the tribute song All Those Years Ago which he records with Paul and Ringo
1980s
Handmade create the acclaimed movies The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits, A Private Function, Mona Lisa, and Withnail and I
1986
Handmade's Madonna vehicle Shanghai Surprise flops and heralds a
downturn in the company's fortunes - it is wound up in acrimonious
circumstances with Harrison winning a $11m lawsuit against his former
business partner
1987
Harrison returns to recording music. Harrision and Jeff Lyne of the
Electric Light Orchestra co-produce the album Cloud Nine, which has two
hit singles, Got My Mind Set On You (a US no 1), and When We Was Fab
Harrison also put together a new rock group, the Travelling Wilburys, with Bob Dylan, Jeff Lyne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty
1990s
Keeps a low public profile during the 1990s, living quietly in the
lovingly restored 19th century mansion in Friars Park,
Henley-on-Thames, with his second wife Olivia Arias and their
24-year-old son, Dhani 1998
Harrison, previously a heavy smoker, reveals he has undergone treatment for throat cancer
December 1999
Schizophrenic Beatles fan Michael Abram breaks into Harrison's home in
Friars Park and badly injures him. Abram is detailed indefinitely at a
secure psychiatric hospital
November 2001
Aged 58, he loses his fight against cancer, and the tributes pour in from all over the world | | |
| I've most obviously neglected this site for a LONG time. I'm really
sorry. It's kind of ironic, because I always hate it when people have
the screennames to things for the heck of it, and they never use them.
Oh well.
Anyways, back to the point. I'm going to start posting this on here
much more frequently, per say a few times a week. I want feedback from
you all on what you want to see on this site! So let me know, okay?!
Rest In Peace John Lennon, 25 years and 2 days. We will miss you dearly.
-A devoted fan
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George Harrison was born February 25, 1943, making him the youngest
Beatle. The only Beatle who's childhood was not marred by divorce or
death, he had two brothers, Harold Jr. and Peter, and a sister, Louise.
His father, Harold, was a bus driver, and his mother a housewife, who
all the kids in the neighborhood knew and liked.
George attended Dovedale
Primary school, two forms behind John Lennon, and then Liverpool Institute,
one form below Paul McCartney. He showed his independant nature at
an early age, defying his school's age-old dress code by wearing jeans
and growing long hair. His strict parents did not condone his
disrespectful attitude and George soon learned to tone down his rebellion.
When the skiffle craze hit Liverpool, George and his brother Peter
formed a Skiffle band, but because they were so young, they had to sneak
out of the house to play their first engagement.
George and Paul took the same bus to school, and soon found they had
music and guitars in common. They spent many hours together at
each other's homes practicing guitar. In 1956, Paul introduced the
skinny and pimple-faced George to the Quarrymen. George was only 14 at the
time. Not old enough to join the group, George hung around with the boys,
and came to idolize John, doing everything he could to emulate him. George
stood in the back of the room at all their shows with his guitar. A few
times he filled in for the regular guitarist who didn't show up, and the
boys were also welcomed in George's house by his mother to practice and
for an occasional "jam buttie", encouragement which infuriated John's
Aunt Mimi. Gradually, George became a member of the group, which by then
had come to be called Johnny and the Moondogs.
From the very start of the Beatles' popularity, George was as major
a vocalist as John and Paul. As the songwriting of Lennon and McCartney
became world-known, George started to concentrate more on writing songs
as well, although many of the early songs written while with the Beatles
went unrecorded. The first Beatles song written by George was Don't
Bother Me. George became a very serious musician who worked
dilgently to perfect his playing. His concentration to his playing was
apparent while on stage, especially compared to the wild antics of John
and Paul.
George almost missed the Beatles' biggest appearance in America, the
Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964, because of a sore throat. He met
teenage model Patty Boyd while filming A Hard Day's Night and
they got married on January 21, 1966.
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