February
25, 2012 -- Conan O'Brien
Dhani Harrison Presents The George Harrison Guitar App on Conan
O'Brien
February 25,
2012 -- GeorgeHarrison.com
The Guitar Collection: George Harrison iPad app, celebrating the
guitarist and his historical guitar collection.
The app, available
now, is selling for $9.99 at the iTunes App Store.
You can find the app in the iTunes Store here, or visit GeorgeHarrison.com to view the trailer.
The Guitar Collection: George Harrison brings the musician's private guitar collection to life through photographs, detailed descriptions, audio, and video footage. For the first time, with the help of unique 360° imaging by photographer Steven Sebring, fans can see the scratches, dings, and worn threads on the guitars. The history of each guitar is laid out in great detail, including the origin of the guitar, when and how it became part of Harrison's collection, modifications he made to it and why each was so important in creating his distinctive sound. Accompanying audio and recordings from Harrison himself as he introduces many of the guitars and plays sections of songs, allow the user to appreciate the personalities of each instrument.
The app features
a number of Harrison's best known guitars, including:
* the Gretsch
G6128 Duo Jet
* the Gibson J-160E
* the Rickenbacker 360/12
* the Fender Stratocaster named 'Rocky'
* the Ramirez Classical, the Fender Rosewood Telecaster
* the Zemaitis Lotus 12-String
* Additional guitars will be added to the app in the future.
Also featured
is video with Ben Harper, Josh Homme, Mike Campbell, and Dhani
Harrison, each playing and showcasing the guitars and exploring
their feel and tone. Conan O'Brien and Dhani discuss what make these guitars so exceptional,
and guitar great Gary Moore shares his views on what made George
Harrison such a distinctive and influential guitar player. The
Guitar Collection: George Harrison app comes via BANDWDTH Publishing
and the George Harrison Estate, and is available here in the iTunes
App Store.
February
1, 2012 -- Mbl.is
Dhani Harrison to wed Iceland deCODE Chief's daughter
Dhani Harrison, the son of late Beatle George Harrison and his wife Olivia, is set to marry Sólveig Káradóttir, the daughter of Icelandic neurologist Kári Stefánsson, chief and co-founder of deCODE Genetics, in June.
The couple have been involved for a while and live together in Los Angeles, mbl.is reports.
Sólveig
is a psychologist and has worked as a model since she was a teenager.
Harrison is a musician and member of the band thenewno2.
December
8, 2010 -- NBC
Houston Beatles fan pays over $485,000 for George Harrison's Aston
Martin
An Aston Martin
once owned by George Harrison sold for $485,000 (310,000 pounds)
at auction Wednesday, according to NBC News, citing British Press
Association reports
An auction
staff member polishes an Aston Martin DB5 that belonged to the
late Beatle
George Harrison.
The car fetched over $480,000 at the Coys' True Greats Auciton
on Wednesday at the Royal Horticultural Hall in London.
The former Beatle ordered
the platinum silver DB5, which had a black Connolly leather interior,
in 1965.
He packed the car with top-of-the-range extras, including chrome wire wheels with Avon tires, a heated rear windscreen, a radio and Britax safety belts.
Harrison's former wife, model Pattie Boyd, was recently photographed with the car when it was shown at the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London.
It was sold to a Beatle and Aston Martin fan from Houston, Texas, who wished to remain anonymous.
The lot was part of auctioneer Coys' True Greats Auction at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster, central London.
Auctioneers said the car had just over 22,000 miles, ran well and showed no sign of "major mechanical maladies."
Chris Routledge, managing director of Coys, said: "There was a battle royal for this car which went for some 50,000 pounds ($78,000) over its estimate."
The sale price does not include a 15 percent buyer's premium.
One decade ago, George Harrison, "the quiet Beatle," died.
Harrison died at age 58 of cancer, and many critics thought he got the short shrift in the Beatles' story. Though he wrote a few of the Beatles' hits, his work was often overlooked in favor of his more outspoken bandmates, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Once Harrison died, talk immediately turned to his songwriting. Ten years later, his legacy is still being debated.
According to his Post obituary, by Adam Bernstein, Harrison was an impulsive songwriter: "Mainly the object has been to get something out of my system, as opposed to 'being a songwriter.' "
Harrison's songs, which included "Within You, Without You," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something," were "among the gentlest and most meditative of the Beatles' output," Bernstein wrote.
"Here Comes the Sun,"
for example, was written on a beautiful spring day in 1969 when
Harrison left the Beatles business office feeling frustrated by
nitty-gritty accounting details. He walked over to his friend
Eric Clapton's house and strolled around the garden with a guitar.
The result was one of the most buoyantly joyful of his songs:
"Little darling, it's been a long, cold, lonely winter/Little
darling it feels like years since it's been here/Here comes the
sun. Here comes the sun/And I say ... It's alright."
In October, Martin Scorcese released his documentary, "George
Harrison: Living in the Material World." Though the long-awaited
examination of Harrison gave the slighted artist his due, it may
have been too kind, says TV critic Hank Stuever:
Certainly no one is clamoring for a George Harrison movie that seeks dirt or shakes the Beatle firmament. But we do like organization and clarity, even if the subject was prone to such nonlinear acts as running off with a maharishi. Strangely, on the matter of Harrison's spiritual quests, the movie becomes less inquisitive.
For his reputation as a maker of unflinchingly tough feature films about dark-hearted men, Scorsese makes documentaries as one would pet a kitty.
As for Harrison's nickname? Although Harrison might have been less outspoken than his bandmates, he was hardly quiet, his sister Louise revealed in an interview.
"The weekend they flew into New York to do 'Ed Sullivan,' George was very sick. They were staying at the Plaza Hotel, and we got him to see the hotel doctor, Dr. Gordon. Dr. Gordon said, 'This is a very sick kid. He's got a 104-degree temperature and has strep throat.'
"He was given some shots
and vaporizer treatments, and I was in charge of watching over
him. George was told to use his voice as little as possible. That's
why at all the press conferences he was so
Today, Liverpool celebrates Harrison's legacy with two concerts,
and Hollywood will light candles in his honor (in another, less-auspicious
tribute, the musician's amp is being auctioned off for as much
as $109,000). Fans are also invited to a ceremony at Liverpool
Anglican Cathedral and are invited to bring a paper flower or
dove, or another symbol of peace, which would have suited Harrison.
He wrote in his autobiography, "I, Me, Mine": "I
don't want to be in the business full-time, because I'm a gardener.
I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and
partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow."
George Harrison's sister Louise is to break her silence for the first time by releasing a tell-all book about life with The Beatles legend.
The late guitarist, who died 10 years ago on Tuesday (Nov. 29), was one of four siblings, and for years Louise has been urged to pen a tome detailing her experiences growing up with the star.
Now she has finally relented and put together a book featuring her memories of the rocker, letters, and never-before-seen photographs from her family album.
And she's adamant her work, due for release in 2012 or 2013, will go some way to dispelling the "myths and fantasies" surrounding the story of the Fab Four.
Louise, who lives in Branson, Missouri, tells the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, "So much garbage has been written about George and the Beatles. Half of the stuff has been written by people who spent maybe an hour on a plane with the Beatles. Now I think it's my duty to get the truth out.
"There's been all kinds
of myths and fantasies written about them. At least I have some
facts to go on, because I was there - from even before they were
the Beatles."
Drawing on
George Harrison's
personal archive
of photographs, letters, diaries, and memorabilia, Olivia Harrison reveals the arc of his
life, from his guitar-obsessed boyhood in Liverpool, to the astonishment
of the Beatles years, to his days as an independent musician and
bohemian squire.
Here too is the record of Harrison's lifelong commitment to Indian
music, and his adventures as a movie producer, Traveling Wilbury,
and Formula One racing fan. The book is filled with stories and
reminiscences from Harrison's friends, including Eric Clapton,
Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and many, many others. Among its previously
unpublished riches are photographs taken by Harrison himself beginning
in the mid-1960s. It is a rich tribute to a man who died far too
young, but who touched the lives of millions.
Olivia Harrison is a producer and philanthropist. She has received
a Grammy Award for her video of the 2002 Concert for George, which
she organized to benefit the Material World Charitable Foundation
in memory of her husband, George Harrison; and a UNICEF Spirit
of Compassion Award in recognition of her family's assistance
to the children of Bangladesh. Mark Holborn is a distinguished
editor of illustrated books, who has worked with numerous photographers
and artists, from Annie Leibovitz to Lucian Freud.
November 3, 2011 -- RTTNews
George Harrison's Death To Be Marked With Two Liverpool Concerts
The 10th anniversary
of the death of George
Harrison is
being celebrated by two concerts in Liverpool.
The concerts, set to take place in Harrison's home city at St. George's Hall and the Cavern Club, will feature a wealth of bands he signed to The Beatles' Apple Label, including Brute Force and The Radha Krishna Temple, The Mersey Beatles, Singh Strings, Andre Barreau from The Bootleg Beatles and The Dovedale School Choir.
The St. George's Hall concert will be free and visitors from the Radha Krishna Temple will feed all the performers and audiences at both concerts free of charge, reports BBC News.
Harrison passed
away November 29, 2001 at the age of 58 from lung cancer.
November 3, 2011 -- George Harrison Newsletter
The George Harrison Museum Exhibition Opening
The George
Harrison: Living In The Material World Exhibition opened at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles
on October 11, and runs through February 12, 2012. The Los Angeles Times
reports, "[The exhibition] offers an unusually intimate look
into the public and private lives of one of the most intensely
public and private people in pop music history."
On display are several of George's guitars, including his 1957
Gretsch Duo Jet and 1961 Fender Stratocaster known as "Rocky,"
as well as a new groundbreaking interactive app showing each guitar
on display with the guitar's history, facts and playlists. Other
priceless artifacts available to view up-close and in-person in
the magnificent exhibition include handwritten lyrics, outfits,
postcards, sketch books and diaries - covering George's early
school years, his days of Beatlemania, through his solo career
and the Wilburys recording sessions.
To find out
more visit
www.grammymuseum.org
November 3, 2011 -- GQ.com
The GQ&A: Dhani Harrison
The late Beatle George Harrison's son talks about his father,
the HBO documentary Martin Scorsese made about him, and his unexpected
friendship with the RZA
The Beatles are transparent-an institutional
landmark of pop culture's last half-century. Hell, even that spray-tanned
chick in your building who thinks she's Snooki, knows her Paul's from her Pauli's and her Ringo's from her Ron Ron's. But then there's George-the mysterious maestro of guitar; the
bearded bastion of Buddha. For all his talent, influence, and
ability to push the world's most famous rock 'n' roll crew into
tripped-out, Maharishi hemispheres, the youngest Beatle always
seemed to float in the shadows. Perhaps this is why Martin Scorsese
took on the challenge of crafting what would become a two-part,
four-hour documentary, exploring the man many called "the
quiet one."
George Harrison: Living In The Material World, features an avalanche of interviews with the musicians and close friends who knew the guitarist best. None are as revealing as those with his wife, Olivia, who also served as producer, and his only son, Dhani. Now 33 and an accomplished musician in his own right-he fronts the thenewno2, whose new EP, EP002, was released in September-George's spitting image son was born almost a full decade after the Beatles's dissolution. Naturally, Dhani knew a different George. We chatted with Dhani about the documentary, getting validation from his idols, and his old pal, Wu-Tang Clan's the RZA.
GQ: This film
has your father's diehard fans feeling quite validated. How did
it get off the ground?
Dhani Harrison: The way it first started
was my mother thinking about doing a documentary. One of her friends
had dinner with Scorsese and the conversation over dinner was,
"I'm done doing documentaries." He was like "What?
What are you talking about? You're Martin Scorsese. Why don't
you make some more?" He said "No, no. The only thing
that I'd be interested in doing would be a George Harrison documentary."
And my mom's friend said, "Well, that's funny 'cause I was
just speaking with Olivia Harrison and she wants to do a documentary."
It literally came together just like that. [Martin and my mom]
spoke on the phone and it was on.
GQ: I've read
that you and your mother were quite inspired by Scorsese's Bob
Dylan documentary, No Direction Home.
Dhani Harrison: We love that documentary.
You know that thing when Bob is standing there and is like [Editor's
note: at this point Harrison makes his best effort to recite a
scene in the film where Dylan, reading a store sign, mumbles jibberish.]
"I need someone to cut my clips, wash my clothes, wash my
dog, deliver me back to the cigarettes, animal my soul."
That's classic.
GQ: Good memory.
I can only imagine you knew what you were getting into when you
signed on to work with Scorsese. He's legendarily obsessive about
his projects.
Dhani Harrison: I mean, he's Martin Scorsese.
Him and David Tedeschi, the editor [who also cut No Direction
Home], both went and started meditating as a way to try and get
to the core of the subject. They stuck with that. I think it's
beneficial for everyone.
[Dhani interrupts the conversation to attend his dog Edison.]
Sorry my dog's got a squeaky toy that's really annoying. [To the
dog] No squeaky toy for this interview, Edison.
GQ: No worries.
So you were talking about working with Scorsese.
Dhani Harrison: So, I got to know him
a little bit. He keeps it very true. He's a stickler. He's completely
obsessive-compulsive. And you can see that. My mom's completely
obsessive-compulsive. So they got on like a house on fire. A bunch
of OCD people who are extremely talented doing this extreme job
of archiving all the footage and everything.
GQ: How did
he uncover all of the outstanding, previously unseen footage that
appears in the film?
Dhani Harrison: We had a really great
friend of mine who did all the archiving for the Harrison estate.
This guy called Richard Brandford. He worked with a bunch of people
from Marty's people who found footage that no one had ever seen
before. They came out with all the great stuff. It's been about
five years of just looking, speaking. Scorsese interviewed everyone
three times. He interviewed me twice for about two hours each
time. Then only used, what, 10 seconds. He's very thorough. He
gets to the core of things. I think he's an incredible person.
GQ: It must
be bizarre to watch home movies become a three and a half documentary.
Dhani Harrison: That's the bit that people
really haven't seen. Everyone's seen the Beatles. There's no comparison
to any form of documentaries that have been out before. It's totally
different.
GQ: Is it like
reliving the past?
Dhani Harrison: I was there for everything
obviously from when I was born onward. I lived the life once with
my dad. And then it's like watching your own life back through
the eyes of Martin Scorsese...which is totally weird.
GQ: You mentioned
Scorsese started meditating for this project. I know your father
was certainly high on it, but are you a big proponent of mediation?
Dhani Harrison: That's the one thing
that you have to do. Not for anyone's sake other than your own.
Missing out on that, that's missing out on the real bit of life.
We can all do festivals, interviews, and everything but if you're
missing out on that, then that's a lot to leave on the table.
GQ: Speaking
of festivals, I got a chance to see you join Pearl Jam onstage
at their recent 20th anniversary blowout festival. How do you
know Eddie and the gang?
Dhani Harrison: I met them at the Bob
Dylan festival, the tribute concert back in '92. I was like 14
or something. We were in rehearsals. My dad laid me on them cause
he had to go and do rehearsals. So he left me with Pearl Jam.
They were like my heroes. They were just like "Okay Mr. Harrison"
and looked after me. That was the night that Sinead O'Connor got
booed offstage. Remember that? I watched that whole thing go down
from the wing of the stage with Kris Kristofferson, Mike McCready,
and Eddie Vedder. It was crazy. And then about a year ago I was
in Seattle with Fistful of Mercy [a trio he fronts with Ben Harper
and Joseph Arthur] and we ended up at Eddie's house, cause Ben
Harper is obviously a really good friend of Eddie's. Basically
we ended up over at Eddie's to play a game of Laird Hamilton ax
darts-I'm sure you've heard the stories about the ax darts. We
played ax darts, and I think halfway through the evening, Eddie
looked at me and was kinda like, "Oh my God, you're that
kid! You were that kid from all those years ago, but you grew
up." And it was really funny 'cause he took me over to his
stereo and he showed me that he had a copy of the Fistful of Mercy
record. And I was just so blown away. Getting approval from your
heroes is a very cool thing in life. I highly recommend it to
anyone.
GQ: I noticed
the RZA, of all people, is on your other band, thenewno2's new
EP.
Dhani Harrison: RZA is an old pal. He's
a really, really sweet guy. I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan. ODB is my
guy. I got a bit obsessed with him from the first time I heard
his record. One day I got a call and [Wu-Tang's people] said,
"Can we use your sample?" And I said "Of course
you can. You're the Wu-Tang Clan." So [RZA] returned the
favor by playing on thenewno2.
GQ: One last
thought on the documentary. With so much personal interest vested
in it, what do you hope people take away from the film?
Dhani Harrison: [Long pause] Take from
it what you will. We all know how it ends. It's heavy. [My dad]
was a very interesting guy. I'm still learning from him.
November 3, 2011 -- The Telegraph (UK)
George Harrison: 10 Things You Never Knew About the 'Quiet Beatle'
In his latest musical documentary, film-maker Martin Scorsese dispels the myth that George Harrison was 'The Quiet One' in The Beatles. We've whittled the three-and-a-half-hour movie down to 10 interesting facts you (possibly) never knew
1 George Harrison's
haircut had a name and someone opened a club in its honour...
During the
height of
Beatlemania,
Harrison was asked the particularly irrelevant question: "What
do you call your hairstyle?" With righteous disdain, he replied,
"Arthur". A while later a fan of the band dedicated
his latest venture to George's famous follicles and "Arthur"
the nightclub was born. "I was proud," Harrison said,
"until I saw the nightclub."
2 He should
have had another track on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band..
Far from being
'the shy one', Harrison happily spoke up (usually via the medium
of music) when something pissed him off. One such protest song
never reached its intended destination when Only A Northern Song
was removed from Sgt Pepper's in favour of a reprisal of the title
track. One of George's bitterest songs, it was a dig at the band's
publishing company and the concept of the album (it was intended
to be a collection of 'Northern'-themed tunes). It later showed
up on Yellow Submarine.
3 He nearly
went electric...
Before he
got swept up by the proto-Beatles, The Quarrymen, George had an altogether more sensible
gig as an apprentice electrician at the age of 16. His dad Harry
hoped that his three sons -- the other was a mechanic and another
a groundskeeper -- would all go into business together. Unfortunately
for fans of quality workmanship, it was never to be.
4 He introduced
the sitar to the world of pop...
Famously well
into Indian mysticism and all that palaver, Harrison was the first
musician to introduce the sitar to the pop world when he played
it on Norwegian Wood on Rubber Soul. He beat fellow peaceniks
The Rolling Stones and their sitar-hit Paint It Black by a good
12 months or so.
5 He played
a lot of instruments...
26 in all.
He was a regular player of (deep breath) guitar, sitar, 4-string
guitar, bass guitar, arp bass, violin, tamboura, dobro, swordmandel,
tabla, organ, piano, moog synthesizer, harmonica, autoharp, glockenspiel,
vibraphone, xylophone, claves, African drum, conga drum, tympani,
ukulele, mandolin, marimba, and Jal-Tarang (whatever that is).
6 He was the
first Beatle to make a solo album...
Long before
the split that would shake the world, Harrison was the first of
the moptops to make a solo album when he released the soundtrack
album to a 1968 film called Wonderwall. Strictly speaking, by
that time Paul
McCartney had
already composed the score for a film called The Family Way, but
he didn't produce or play on the recordings so the credit goes
to George with his cameo-packed curio.
7 He was a
lover
The twice-married
musician found himself in the corner of a famous love triangle
when fellow guitarist Eric Clapton started vying for the affections
of Harrison's wife Pattie
Boyd. Having
written Layla about her and with his advances spurned, Clapton
turned to drugs. However, in a twist deserving of a daytime soap,
Pattie later felt abandoned by George's obsession with India and
turned to Clapton. The pair later married and Harrison proved
there were no hard feelings when he attended the Claptons' wedding
reception and stated, "I'd rather she was with him than some
dope."
8 And a fighter...
He may have
been a peace sign-flicking hippy but that didn't mean that George
wasn't a hard bastard all the same. In late 1999, an intruder
broke into his Oxfordshire mansion and stabbed Harrison with a
kitchen knife. The attack resulted in seven stab wounds, a punctured
lung and head injuries before George and his wife Olivia fought
back with a fireplace poker and a lamp before somehow incapacitating
the attacker until police arrived. All hail the badass Beatle.
9 Even death
couldn't stop the record breaking
Following his passing in 2001, a re-release of his classic song
My Sweet Lord saw George breaking one final record. When the track
reached number one in the UK charts, replacing Aaliyah's More
Than A Woman, it was the first time that there had been two consecutive
posthumous number one hits. Curiously, My Sweet Lord was the subject
of a plagiarism case when George was accused of copying He's So
Fine by The Chiffons -- Harrison put paid to the whole thing when
he eventually bought the rights to He's So Fine.
10 And finally
George spoke German, but not fluently, he was a very successful
Monopoly player, an anagram of his name is 'Rogering A Horse'
and he remortgaged his house to finance the making of Monty Python's
Life Of Brian -- the success of which saw the creation of the
much-loved production company Handmade Films.
February 25, 2011 -- Look
To The Stars.org
George Harrison's Widow Visits Bangladesh For UNICEF
US Fund for UNICEF president and CEO Caryl Stern was in Bangladesh recently with Olivia Harrison, widow of former Beatle George Harrison.
"We are nearing the end of our second day in Bangladesh and I want to share some of what I am seeing, feeling, experiencing," she wrote in a letter. "George Harrison is beloved here, and traveling with Olivia Harrison is like traveling with a rock star. Our day started at the UNICEF Office. The staff members who are old enough to remember George's Concert for Bangladesh expressed their gratitude to Olivia we all cried.
"As for the children to young to remember George, we take joy in seeing how his legacy continues to affect their young lives. For instance, at a UNICEF-supported center for street children. Kids from age 8 to teenagers come to the center because they are in Dhaka without a home or a safe place to sleep. They learn crafts here as well as music and dance, and they participate as peer educators and activists for children like themselves.
"They sang for us. When they sang, "We Shall Overcome," my eyes filled with tears once again.
"For us, George is a legendary member of the Beatles and a humanitarian who used his talents to benefit others. I have to remember that for Olivia he is the husband she lost, the Dad Dhani lost. It is a bittersweet trip in some ways as we watch Olivia experience it, feel pride, and, I am sure, also feel the absence of George."
George Harrison organized what is considered to be the first large scale, multi-artist benefit concert in 1971, following a massive storm -- Tropical Cyclone Nora -- that hit Bangladesh on the night of November 11. Bangladesh -- then known as East Pakistan and already crippled by the War of Liberation -- was brought to its knees, with over 500,000 people losing their lives in what still reigns as the deadliest tropical cyclone on record and one of the worst natural disasters ever.
The first triple album by a solo artist,
All Things Must Pass remains the best- selling album by a solo
Beatle.
Recorded and released after the break-up of the Fab Four, the original vinyl release featured two records of rock songs, while the third, entitled Apple Jam, was composed of informal jams led by George Harrison.
Received as a masterpiece, All Things Must Pass took many critics by surprise, with Harrison having long been overshadowed by the talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, despite the fact that some of his later period Beatles inclusions (While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, and Here Comes The Sun) were hailed as highlights of their respective albums.
Recorded from May to August 1970 at Abbey Road studios, Harrison enlisted the aid of Phil Spector to co-produce the album.
It features Ringo Starr, members of Badfinger, Eric Clapton and the other members of Derek And The Dominoes, future Yes drummer Alan White, and Billy Preston.
Bob Dylan, a close friend of Harrison's, co-wrote I'd Have You Anytime with him, while Harrison covered Dylan's If Not For You.
All Things Must Pass lead single was My Sweet Lord, an enormously popular recording, topping the charts worldwide.
The album itself reached number one in the UK for eight weeks.
A remastered edition of All
Things Must Pass, supervised by Harrison, was released in 2001.
LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD WATCHES NOW IN STORE
Now available exclusively to the official George Harrison store - Living In the Material World watches.
There are two models available, one with a round face and the other square faced.
The watches feature the cover
artwork from the album and come with a genuine leather strap,
brass face and are water resistant to 3ATM. They are presented
in a hard plastic case.
Visit the official store for more details.
PODCAST: We have added the second and third chapters of the radio documentary on the Living In The Material World microsite - you can find them in the "Podcast" section of the site.
You can access the Living In The Material World microsite via the link here.
STORE: In the online store, we are now offering exclusive T-shirts featuring the album artwork.
The album artwork is an image of George's hand using Kirlian photography. The vividly coloured patterns of energy were photographed under the guidance of Dr. Thelma Moss, the research scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles who developed Kirlian photography.
The T-shirts are available in two colours, black and cream, both featuring the iconic cover artwork in full colour and black and white respectively.
You can access the store here.
Thank you,
www.georgeharrison.com
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An iconic figure of the 1960s and '70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year
silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how
she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous
musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most
famous muse in the history of rock and roll.
She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast as a schoolgirl in A Hard Day's Night. Ten days later a smitten George Harrison proposed. For twenty-year-old Pattie Boyd, it was the beginning of an unimaginably rich and complex life as she was welcomed into the Beatles inner circle-a circle that included Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and a veritable who's who of rock musicians. She describes the dynamics of the group, the friendships, the tensions, the musicmaking, and the weird and wonderful memories she has of Paul and Linda, Cynthia and John, Ringo and Maureen, and especially the years with her husband, George.
It was a sweet, turbulent life, but one that would take an unexpected turn, starting with a simple note that began "dearest l."
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I read it quickly and assumed that it was from some weirdo; I did get fan mail from time to time.... I thought no more about it until that evening when the phone rang. It was Eric [Clapton]. "Did you get my letter?"... And then the penny dropped. "Was that from you?" I said....It was the most passionate letter anyone had ever written me.
For the first time Pattie Boyd,
former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, a high-profile
model whose face epitomized the swinging London scene of the 1960s,
a woman who inspired Harrison's song "Something" and
Clapton's anthem "Layla," has decided to write a book
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Author and film producer Greene focuses on the metaphysical in
his examination of George
Harrison, choosing to document
the Beatle's relationship with Hindu philosophy and Krishna devotees
over his more complex-though admittedly well-covered-relationship
with his bandmates. The resulting portrait is at times flat, as
Harrison gets along with just about everyone on his spiritual
path, and Greene is reluctant to cast his subject in a negative
light. That's a shame, as the highlights of the book feature a
conflicted and embattled Harrison dealing with disappointment,
frustration and loss, of which there is plenty in the Beatles'
shared history.
A friend of George Harrison offers informed reflections on the
late musician's spiritual quest.
Out of the insanity, claustrophobia and estrangement that came
with being a member of the Beatles, Harrison emerged an affected
man, in search of God and peace. Filmmaker/biographer Greene (Justice
at Dachau, 2003, etc.) portrays his friend as introspective and
modest, inspired by an experience with LSD ("From that moment
on, I wanted to have that depth and clarity of perception,"
Harrison told Rolling Stone.) Harrison reached beyond intoxicants
into the bliss of yoga and cosmic chants, a buzz that took him
"into the astral plane." He wanted others to share his
contact with the mystical and spoke of his spirituality during
concerts, where his comments were met with, at best, indifference.
Though he spent considerable time exploring the Hindu religion,
writes Greene, the musician was a restless quester, always looking
for ways to put his spiritual house in order. Greene writes of
a newfound "levelheaded dispassion" as Harrison moved
into his sixth decade, a sense of liberation from the material
world coupled with an affirmation of nature and a personal recognition
of his place in the scheme of things. Greene presents a man deeply
engaged in the world he longed to transcend.
"THE CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH (Limited Deluxe
Edition)
- GEORGE HARRISON
AND FRIENDS" (DVD)
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LANDMARK BENEFIT CONCERT FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY GEORGE HARRISON, RAVI SHANKAR, BOB DYLAN, ERIC CLAPTON & RINGO STARR
Apple Corps is proud to announce the release of "The Concert For Bangladesh - George Harrison & friends" on DVD and CD.
The Concert for Bangladesh was the first benefit concert of its kind in that it brought together an extraordinary assemblage of major artists collaborating for a common humanitarian cause - setting the precedent that music could be used to serve a higher cause. The concert sold out Madison Square Garden and along with the Grammy Award-winning triple-album boxset, and the feature film, has generated millions of dollars for UNICEF and raised awareness for the organization around the world, as well as among other musicians and their fans. It is therefore acknowledged as the inspiration and forerunner to the major global fundraising events of recent years. To quote the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, "George and his friends were pioneers."
Besides George himself the concert features some of his friends, including: Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell and Billy Preston. Performances include 'Here Comes The Sun', 'Something', 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', 'My Sweet Lord', 'Just Like A Woman', 'Blowin' In The Wind' and 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'.
During the struggle for independence from Pakistan millions of refugees fled to neighboring India to escape hunger, disease and bloodshed. The crisis was deepened when massive floods hit the region. Alerted to the scale of the suffering by his friend Ravi Shankar, George Harrison organized The Concert For Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden on August 1st, 1971 with the proceeds going to UNICEF.
The DVD is a 2-disc package, including the original 99-minute film restored and remixed in 5.1, as well as 72-minutes of extras. The extras feature a 45-minute documentary "The Concert For Bangladesh Revisited with George Harrison & friends", about the background to the two shows with exclusive interviews and contributions from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Sir Bob Geldof. There is also previously unseen footage: "If Not For You", featuring George and Bob Dylan from rehearsals, "Come On In My Kitchen" featuring George, Eric Clapton and Leon Russell at the sound check and a Bob Dylan performance from the afternoon show of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", not included in the original film.
Apple Corps/WMG will also simultaneously release a special deluxe version (limited to 50,000 copies worldwide) that will feature a 64-page book and other collectibles.
The album of the concert has been remixed and repackaged as a 2-disc set, and is released in the US on October 25th, 2005 by Capitol Records and on October 24th in the rest of the world, by Sony BMG Entertainment. This will contain an additional track - the Bob Dylan performance of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit".
All artists' royalties from
the sales of the DVD and the CD will continue to go to UNICEF.
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Completed by George
Harrison's son Dhani and Jeff
Lynne (Traveling Wilburys, Cloud Nine) after the ex-Beatle succumbed
to a long illness in November 2001, Brainwashed is a bittersweet
reminder of the myriad contradictions that made Harrison such
a compelling figure. One of the most warm, melodically rich albums
in a career pockmarked by personal frankness and professional
indifference in its latter years, Harrison finds rewarding ways
here to reconcile bitter assessments of the material world (the
title track) with more fleshy concerns, as his jaunty take on
the Arlen-Koehler chestnut "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
ably demonstrates. Pushing the singer's distinctive dry voice
to the forefront, and with Harrison's trademark slide guitar riffs
as sinewy as ever, Lynne's showcase production is mostly spot-on
and refreshingly restrained, while Dhani brings his own fresh,
touchingly personal insights to the record. He double-tracked
his own voice onto an old recording of his father chanting the
traditional "Namah Parvati" and appended it as the album's
spiritual benediction, a touching reminder that while musicians
come and go, music can truly embody their spirit forever. This
limited edition comes in a special collectors box and includes
a bonus DVD, The Making of Brainwashed, a poster, and a George
Harrison guitar pick.
The Traveling
Wilburys were one of the few supergroups that lived up to their
promise, because they didn't try to. Things started inauspiciously
when George Harrison, needing a B-side for a 1988 single, called
in friends Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison for
assistance. Two albums later--the second without Orbison, who
had passed away shortly after the first was released--the loose-knit
collective had recorded material that was as durable, and occasionally
eclipsed, the participants' legendary solo work. The Wilburys
succeeded due to a genial and contagious camaraderie that permeates
both discs. What could have been a train wreck of ego clashes
instead resulted in a frothy meeting of the minds. These guys
are having a blast, trading lead vocals and harmonies on energetic
folk-rock, quirky rockabilly, and Beatlesque pop that shimmers
with the respect and esteem the members clearly hold for each
other. Harrison and Lynne's rather slick production polishes off
edges that might better have been left unvarnished, but there's
no denying the loosey-goosey craftsmanship at work in tunes such
as "Handle with Care," "End of the Line,"
and a striking Orbison performance on "Not Alone Anymore"
that ranks with any of his finest. Both albums were million-sellers,
but oddly went out of print for about a decade until Rhino resurrected
them, adding two rare tracks per disc as well as a DVD of music
videos and a band documentary. The resulting package is a comprehensive
overview of a once--well, twice--in-a-lifetime project that, especially
after Harrison's passing, will never be repeated. --Hal Horowitz
Product Description
Featuring classics like "Handle With Care," "End
Of The Line," and "Heading For The Light," super-group
Traveling Wilbury's Collection highlights all of the band's music
and previously unreleased bonus tracks through this re-mastered
double album. The DVD features behind the scenes footage of the
band writing and recording, along with their 5 video clips. Limited
edition Deluxe package includes 40-page booklet and other exclusive
extras.
Disc: 1
1. Handle With Care
2. Dirty World
3. Rattled
4. Last Night
5. Not Alone Any More
6. Congratulations
7. Heading For the Light
8. Margarita
9. Tweeter And the Monkey Man
10. End Of the Line
11. Maxine - (previously unreleased, Bonus Track)
12. Like A Ship - (alternate take, Bonus Track)
Disc: 2
1. She's My Baby
2. Inside Out
3. If You Belonged To Me
4. Devil's Been Busy, The
5. 7 Deadly Sins
6. Poor House
7. Where Were You Last Night?
8. Cool Dry Place
9. New Blue Moon
10. You Took My Breath Away
11. Wilbury Twist
12. Nobody's Child - (Bonus Track)
13. Runaway - (Bonus Track)
Disc: 3
1. The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys [DVD]
2. Music Videos
3. Handle With Care [DVD]
4. End of The Line [DVD]
5. She's My Baby [DVD]
6. Inside Out [DVD]
7. Wilbury Twist (2007 Version) [DVD]
This excerpt is from my interview that
took place in 1987 for an issue of Rolling Stone commemorating
the magazine's twentieth anniversary. I had interviewed Paul McCartney for the same issue the day before. Both
those interviews appear at full length in a section of In "Other
Words" titled "Meet the Beatles,"
which also includes a second interview with McCartney from 2001
and an interview with Phil Spector about producing "Let It
Be" and solo albums by Harrison and John Lennon.
I arrived at Henley-on-Thames, where Harrison lived, by train on a Saturday afternoon in June. His wife Olivia had told me that someone would be picking me up, so I stood on the platform looking for my ride. When everyone else had left, I heard a voice behind me say, "You look like the only person here who might be from New York." I turned around and there, smiling, stood George Harrison.
Moments later, I was lying in the low passenger seat of his black Ferrari 275 GTB as he drove me to his Friar Park estate. As he drove, he glanced over at me. "So, I understand you spoke to Paul yesterday. How is he doing?" So this is what's become of the Beatles, I thought, George Harrison has to ask me how Paul McCartney is doing.
As we drove through the gates at Friar Park, Harrison's spectacular mansion came into view through the trees, looking like something out of a fairytale. As I gaped, Harrison pulled up at one of the guesthouses, which is where we would do our interview. He and I then sat down at a wooden table in the dining room, smoked cigarettes, and talked for two hours, as the late afternoon sky clouded over.
Was there a specific moment when it became clear to you that people were looking at the Beatles as a way of making sense of their lives?
As we began having hits in England, the press were catching on to how we looked, which was changing the image of youth, I suppose. It just gathered momentum. For me, 1966 was the time when the whole world opened up and had a greater meaning. But that was a direct result of LSD.
How did taking LSD affect you?
It was like opening the door, really, and before, you didn't even know there was a door there. It just opened up this whole other consciousness, even if it was down to, like Aldous Huxley said, the wonderful folds in his gray flannel trousers. From that smaller concept to the fact that every blade of grass and every grain of sand is just throbbing and pulsating.
Did it make you feel that your life could be very different from what it was?
Yeah, but that too presented a problem as well, because then the feeling began in me of it's all well and good being popular and being in demand, but, you know, it's ridiculous, really. From then on, I didn't enjoy fame. That's when the novelty disappeared -- around 1966 -- and then it became hard work.
It seems as if that time was incredibly compressed. Did you feel that sense of compression?
That year -- you could say any year from, say, 1965 up to the Seventies -- it was, like, I can't believe we did so much, you know? But those years did seem to be a thousand years long. Time just got elongated. Sometimes I felt like I was a thousand years old.
Was it at that point that your identity as one of the Beatles began to get oppressive for you?
Yeah, absolutely. Again, with the realization that came about after the lysergic. It has a humbling power, that stuff. And the ego -- to be able to deal with these people thinking you were some wonderful thing -- it was difficult to come to terms with. I was feeling like nothing.
Was the decision to stop touring in 1966 part of your reexamining your lives as Beatles?
Well, I wanted to stop touring after about '65, actually, because I was getting very nervous. They kept planning these ticker-tape parades through San Francisco, and I was saying, "I absolutely don't want to do that." There was that movie The Manchurian Candidate [about a war hero who returns home programmed for political assassination]. I think in history you can see that when people get too big, something like that can very easily happen. Although at the time, it was prior to all this terrorism. We used to fly in and out of Beirut and all them places. You would never dream of going on tour now in some of the places we went. Especially with only two road managers: one guy to look after the equipment, which was three little amplifiers, three guitars and a set of drums; and one guy who looked after us and our suits.
Did your interest in transcendental meditation and other spiritual disciplines help you?
All the panic and the pressure? Yeah! Absolutely, I think. Although up until LSD, I never realized that there was anything beyond this state of consciousness. But all the pressure was such that, like the man said, "There must be some way out of here."
For me, it was definitely LSD. The first time I took it, it just blew everything away. I had such an overwhelming feeling of well-being, that there was a God, and I could see him in every blade of grass. It was like gaining hundreds of years of experience within twelve hours. It changed me, and there was no way back to what I was before.
Anthony DeCurtis' collection
of interviews from his new book, "In Other Words".
Jorie Gracen