Posts tagged: Harrison
“The Guitar Collection: George Harrison” iPad app from Bandwidth Publishing will be released through iTunes on February 23, two days before George’s birthday.
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All Those Years ago : The story of John and George’s
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George Harrison: 10th anniversary of ‘quiet Beatle’s’ death
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And finally…The tenth anniversary of George Harrison’s passing
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Rolling Stone greatest guitarists lists squeaks Beatles out of the top 10
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The Beatle’s widow to discuss and sign copies of George Harrison book Friday
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George Harrison
Known first as “The Quiet Beatle,” George Harrison was a great songwriter who had the misfortune to be surrounded by two stone cold geniuses whose work often obscured his talents. Yet Harrison compositions such as “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” are as good as anything the Beatles ever recorded.
And with his solo debut All Things Must Pass, he stepped completely out of the shadows of his Beatle band mates to reveal himself a powerfully spiritual songwriter with an expansive sense of melody. Harrison was also a gifted, fluid guitarist and hugely influential in introducing the Beatles — and, by extension, the entire Sixties generation – to Eastern religion and musical influences. His devotion to Hinduism was expressed publicly through rock and roll’s first massive charity event, the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh.
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