George Harrison
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Born 1943-02-25
Died 2001-11-29
Liverpool, England, UK
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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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The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
Top of the Pops
Doctor Who
The Dick Cavett Show
Wogan
Champs-Elysées
Omnibus
Film '72
Classic Albums
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Ed Sullivan Show
Timewatch
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Morecambe & Wise
Sherwood
History 101
Yesterday
Disco
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
This Is Pop
The Beatles Anthology
The Beatles: Get Back
A Hard Day's Night
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
Across the Universe
Man on the Run
Yellow Submarine
The Beatles
Ringo
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
The Movie Orgy
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Television: The First Fifty Years
Help!
Frost on Sunday
My Generation
The Beach Boys
Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
How the Beatles Changed the World
Beatles '64
David Frost Vs
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
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Let It Be
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Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Wonderwall
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Life of Brian
Time Bandits
Withnail & I
The Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
Nuns on the Run
Five Corners
The Missionary
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
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