George Harrison
Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music. He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Lennon-McCartney Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004. He died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58.
About George Harrison in brief
George Harrison MBE was an English musician, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer. He was the lead guitarist and occasional lead vocalist of the Beatles. Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music. He died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his Friar Park home. He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Lennon-McCartney Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004. He left an estate of almost £100 million. Harrison’s first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. The following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani. Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer. In 1988, he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Tom Petty, among others. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the \”100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\”. Harrison’s earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt; Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences. His remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India.
He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. Harrison lived the first four years of his life in a terraced house on a cul-de-sac in Wavertree, Liverpool. At 12 years old, he was offered a house and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke. He passed the Dovedale Primary School exam and attended Liverpool Institute for Boys from 1959 to 1959. He felt the absence of guitars, and felt the school felt like being frightened into being frightened. In 1949, the family moved to Speke, where he passed the eleven-plus exam and moved into a house at 25 Green. He lived in an outdoor toilet and its only heat came from an outdoor heaters. In 1948, he moved to a house in Upton Green and moved into a council house. At 13, he lived in a house on Upton Green with his mother and two brothers, Harold and Peter. At 14, he went to a school for boys in Liverpool and passed the 11 plus exam and went on to attend Liverpool High School for Boys. At 15, he joined the Army and went to the Royal College of Music. At 16, he studied at the University of Liverpool and studied music at the London School of Music and Drama. At 17, he became a teacher. At 18, he travelled around the world with his wife and had two children.
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