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5 unusual facts about George Harrison


Joe Massot

Joe Massot (1933 – April 4, 2002) was a writer and director who was most notable for the film Wonderwall (1968) which featured George Harrison's first soundtrack, and the Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains The Same (1976).

Mayapur

The International Society of Krishna Consciousness is also planning to construct a garden in memory of George Harrison.

Sobrance

Perhaps the most valuable guitar is a Resonet Grazioso/Futurama from early in the career of George Harrison.

The Heart Gently Weeps

It features guest appearances from three other musicians: R&B singer Erykah Badu sings the song's chorus; Dhani Harrison, son of Beatles member George Harrison, plays acoustic guitar; and John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is featured on lead guitar.

Tom Fleischman

In addition to his work in feature films he has also done work in television, winning four Emmy Awards in 1986 for ABC Afterschool Specials: Can A Guy Say No, in 2006 for Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, in 2013 for History of the Eagles, Boardwalk Empire: The Milkmaid's Lot and also garnered Emmy nominations for Scorsese's George Harrison: Living in the Material World, and the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire.


Barry Feinstein

He accompanied Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour of England and shot the cover photos of numerous albums, including from Janis Joplin, George Harrison, and the Rolling Stones.

Beatles-Platz

Surrounding the place are five statues, representing The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe, George Harrison, and a hybrid of drummers Pete Best and Ringo Starr each of whom played with The Beatles at times during their Hamburg engagements.

Brian Day

Day attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, during the era in which Paul McCartney and George Harrison were also there.

Bruce Driscoll

He started playing piano and drums at an early age then picked up the guitar when he was fifteen, inspired by the sound of Johnny Marr and George Harrison.

Caxton Hall

It was also used as a central London register office until 1979, many famous people being married there including Donald Campbell (two marriages), Harrison Marks, Billy Butlin, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Roger Moore, Orson Welles, Joan Collins, Yehudi Menuhin, Adam Faith, Robin Nedwell, Barry Gibb, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Christian Schwartz

Many of Schwartz’s typefaces have been proprietary designs for corporations such as Bosch and Deutsche Bahn, both with noted designer Erik Spiekermann, and EMI, for the marketing of George Harrison’s posthumous final album.

Colin Hanton

Hanton was in an early line-up of the band from c Summer 1956 along with John Lennon, Eric Griffiths, Pete Shotton and Rod Davis, and stayed with the band through several line-up changes until January 1959 (by which time the band consisted of Lennon, Hanton, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lowe).

Danny Kortchmar

Kortchmar recorded two albums as part of the band Attitudes, with Jim Keltner, David Foster and Paul Stallworth, for George Harrison's Dark Horse record label.

David E. Smith

These benefit concerts, organized by Smith and Bill Graham in the early years of the Clinic, included bands such as Big Brother and the Holding Company, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, The Charlatans, Blue Cheer, and Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Go Cat Go!

The album includes recordings from all four ex-Beatles, with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr recording new material, while John Lennon's version of "Blue Suede Shoes" comes from his album Live Peace in Toronto 1969; Jimi Hendrix's version of the same song is also an archive recording.

Jim Berkenstadt

Berkenstadt, previously an attorney of many years, has consulted on a number of audio, video, and online projects for George Harrison, as well as for The Beatles' company Apple Corps and many others in the music industry.

Jules Maidoff

Many of his works are in the collections of important museums (Riverside museum, Brandeis University Museum, New York University Museum) and by many famous personalities such as Robert Joffrey, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Mick Jagger, (Elizabeth Sackler) and many more.

Kári Stefánsson

In June 2012 his daughter, Sólveig "Sóla" Káradóttir, married Dhani Harrison, son of the late George Harrison and his wife, Olivia Harrison.

Kenny Buttrey

He also worked with Joe Simon playing on Simon hits: "The Choking Kind", "Farther On Down The Road" and "Moonwalk", J.J. Cale, Bob Seger, Gordon Lightfoot, Elvis Presley, Mickey Newbury, Donovan, George Harrison, Joan Baez, Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson, Dan Fogelberg and Kris Kristofferson.

Lakshmi Shankar

Late that same year, she toured North America with Shankar and George Harrison, who produced the Shankar Family & Friends album (1974), including the pop single "I Am Missing You" with vocals by Lakshmi.

Leela Floyd

During her time at the Academy, she met her first husband, the composer John Barham, through whom she met several important figures including George Harrison of the Beatles, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan and others.

Les Chadwick

The line-up comprised Gerry Marsden, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Les Maguire, Pete Best, Freddy Marsden, plus vocalist Karl Terry from the Cruisers with Chadwick on bass guitar.

Lord Woodbine

He was in favour of adding percussion to their four-guitar band and Pete Best joined John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe in August 1960.

Lulu Santos

The 1984 album Tudo Azul brought the hits "O último romântico" (whose instrumental arrangement was heavely based on George Harrison's song "Greece", from the 1982 album Gone Troppo), "Certas coisas" and the title track.

Marcelo Camelo

Marcelo is the composer, singer and solo player of the biggest hit of Los Hermanos, the song Anna Julia, which became a world hit with Jim Capaldi's english version, featuring himself in vocals, Deep Purple's Ian Pace in drums, The Jam's Paul Weller in bass and the beatle George Harrison in guitar (playing the solo).

Marko DeSantis

Currently, each member of Sugarcult is involved with other projects: bassist Airin with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and The New No. 2 featuring Dhani Harrison son of Beatles' guitarist George Harrison, Pagnotta produced the major label debut by Neon Trees & co-wrote their hit singles "Animal" and "Everybody Talks" ; drummer Kenny Livingston bikes across America for charity www.kennydoit.org and started Americana band Good Man Down.

Nate Wood

Afterwards, he recorded and played every instrument on his debut album, and in addition to his work with Kneebody, toured and performed with artists such as George Harrison, Chaka Khan, Sting, Wayne Krantz, Donny McCaslin, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders and the Ed Fry Band.

Paradigms of Human Memory

At the end of Jeff's speech, Troy interjects to compare the group to The Traveling Wilburys, a former rock supergroup composed of Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, George Harrison (of The Beatles), Jeff Lynne (of Electric Light Orchestra), and Roy Orbison, with Jim Keltner on drums.

Rubber Soul Project

The album included a sitar George Harrison style track with called "Indian Rope Trick", rock 'n' roll songs "Home", "When I Come To Town", and "Bound By Love", psychedelic "Colliding Circles", "Watching Rainbows", and "Rubber Soul".

Seacombe

The area was immortalised in the title of "Party Seacombe", an instrumental by George Harrison on his Wonderwall Music album.

Terry Disley

While in London, Cannes, and Los Angeles in the 1990s, he recorded with many artists including Bryan Ferry, Bon Jovi, Van Morrison, Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Madness, Sir Mick Jagger, Terry Hall, and Billy Bragg.

The History of the Runestaff

The "terrifying ancient gods of Granbretan... who were said to have ruled the land before the Tragic Millennium" are based on The Beatles: Jhone, Jhorg, Phowl and Rhunga.

The Hurdy Gurdy Man

The rest of The Hurdy Gurdy Man was recorded in April 1968, after he visited Rishikesh, India to study under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; John Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Mia Farrow, Prudence Farrow, and Mike Love were there as well.

Thenewno2

Thenewno2 have been credited with the album design for George Harrison's Brainwashed, Concert for George, The Dark Horse Years Box Set, and the menu design for the Concert for Bangladesh DVD.

Twelve-string guitar

Electric Rickenbacker 12-string users include a range of jangle pop guitarists, ranging from McGuinn (The Byrds), Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, George Harrison and John Lennon (The Beatles), John McNally (The Searchers) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.) to Les Fradkin and Johnny Marr (The Smiths).

Vasant Rai

Vasant Rai taught many Western musicians such as George Harrison, John Coltrane, Collin Walcott and other rock and jazz personalities of that time.

We Love You Beatles

Individual verses also have "We love you (replace with "Ringo", "John", "Paul", and "George", in that order) along with reasons why the group loves that particular Beatle. It also includes al least three different vocal and instrumental quotations from the Beatles' 1963 hit song "She Loves You", suggesting the fact that "We Love You Beatles" was a reply to it.

Who Feels Love?

With the psychedelic and Eastern sound, the song also reminds of George Harrison achievements like "Within You Without You" and also some of his solo work.

With Every Mistake

The title is taken from the Beatles' song, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, by George Harrison: "With every mistake, we must surely be learning."


see also

Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby

George Harrison performed the song with Carl Perkins on the Cinemax cable special Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session in 1985.

Hank Cicalo

He worked with George Harrison at his Friar Park recording studio to make Harrison's Thirty-Three & 1/3, and also worked with Barbra Streisand on her ButterFly album.

Old Brown Shoe

Leslie West covered the song on the 2003 album, Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison.

On Tour with Eric Clapton

George Harrison played slide guitar on the English leg of the tour that followed the Albert Hall performance, as well as in Scandinavia, therefore he doesn't appear on the first disc but does on the other three.

Pantomime horse

The episode also features a pantomime goose and a pantomime dame Princess Margaret, which later appeared in the video for the George Harrison song "Crackerbox Palace".

Wonderwall

Wonderwall Music, George Harrison's soundtrack to the Wonderwall film

Your True Love

Perkins also performed the song on the 1985 HBO/Cinemax concert special Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session with George Harrison, Dave Edmunds, and members of the Stray Cats.