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The birth of George Harrison
George Harrison was born in Liverpool England. He was a musician, composer, singer and guitarist of the beatles band.The Beatles became the biggest rock band in the world, and Harrison's diverse musical interests took them in many directions. -
Early Life
The youngest of Harold and Louise French Harrison's four children, George played lead guitar and sometimes sang lead vocals for the Beatles.Like his future bandmates, Harrison was not born into wealth. Louise was largely a stay-at-home mom (who also taught ballroom dancing), while her husband Harold drove a school bus for the Liverpool Institute, an acclaimed grammar school that George attended and where he first met Paul McCartney -
The Quarrymen
Paul Mccartney and John Lennon introduced george to the band "The Quarrymen" -
Forming the Beatles
Impressed with his younger friend's talents, Paul McCartney, who had recently joined up with another Liverpool teenager, John Lennon, in a skiffle group known as the Quarrymen, invited Harrison to see the band perform.
By 1960 Harrison's music career was in full swing. Lennon had renamed the band the Beatles.Before the end of 1962, Harrison and the Beatles recorded a top 20 U.K. -
"The Quiet Beatle"
From the start, the Beatles were a Lennon-McCartney driven band and brand. But while the two took up much of the group's songwriting responsibilities, Harrison had shown an early interest in contributing his own work. In the summer of 1963 he spearheaded his first song, "Don't Bother Me," -
The film "Let it Be"
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 -
The Beatle Alone
Harrison is the first Beatle to start a successful solo career, selling 3m copies worldwide with his first album, All Things Must Pass -
His Album
Releases the hit solo album Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) -
Movie Director
Harrison focuses on a new career as a film producer, and forms the company Handmade Films with Dennis O'Brien -
Lennon's death
Lennon's death inspires Harrison to write the tribute song All Those Years Ago -
New Band
Harrison also put together a new rock group, the Travelling Wilburys, with Bob Dylan, Jeff Lyne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty -
George's death
Aged 58, he loses his fight against cancer, and the tributes pour in from all over the world
