Harrison lived the first four years of his life at 12 Arnold Grove, a terraced house on a cul-de-sac. Harrison's biographer Joshua Greene wrote, 'Every Sunday she tuned in to mystical sounds evoked by sitars and tablas, hoping that the exotic music would bring peace and calm to the baby in the womb.' When Louise was pregnant with George, she often listened to the weekly broadcast Radio India. Īccording to Boyd, Harrison's mother was particularly supportive: 'All she wanted for her children is that they should be happy, and she recognised that nothing made George quite as happy as making music.' Louise was an enthusiastic music fan, and she was known among friends for her loud singing voice, which at times startled visitors by rattling the Harrisons' windows. He had one sister, Louise (16 August 1931 – 29 January 2023), and two brothers, Harold (born 1934) and Peter (20 July 1940 – 1 June 2007). Harold was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line, and Louise was a shop assistant of Irish Catholic descent. He was the youngest of four children of Harold Hargreaves (or Hargrove) Harrison (1909–1978) and Louise (née French 1911–1970). Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool on 25 February 1943.

Harrison's place of birth and first home – 12 Arnold Grove He left an estate of almost £100 million. 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. Harrison died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his home, Friar Park. The following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani. Harrison's first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time'. A prolific recording artist, he 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. In 1988, he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer. In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 he co-founded HandMade Films in 1978, initially to produce the Monty Python troupe's comedy film The Life of Brian (1979).

He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, ' My Sweet Lord', and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. Having initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt subsequent influences were Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry.īy 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use of Indian instruments, such as sitar, which he had become acquainted with on the set of the movie Help! He played the sitar on numerous Beatles songs, starting with ' Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)'. His songs for the group include ' Taxman', ' Within You Without You', ' While My Guitar Gently Weeps', ' Here Comes the Sun' and ' Something'. Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. Sometimes called 'the quiet Beatle', Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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