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George Harrison was called a “brave man” by Paul McCartney and “always serious” by a friend. In a self-interview, this songwriter mentioned his reputation as the “easy-going” Beatle. Here’s what we know about this member of the Beatles.
One half of the Beatles singing group, George Harrison (L) and John Lennon, are shown aboard their plane | Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images
As one member of the Fab Four, Harrison wrote and recorded music with the Beatles. He was known for being “lovely,” with McCartney even calling him a “brave man.”
“He was a lovely guy and a very brave man and had a wonderful sense of humor,” McCartney said, via ABC News, after Harrison’s death. “He is really just my baby brother. We were school friends together, you know. And we joined the Beatles together and went through all of that together.”
Beatles fans got a behind-the-scenes look at the band’s relationship in Disney+’s The Beatles: Get Back. That includes Harrison’s attitude toward songwriting.
When it comes to Harrison’s instruments and songwriting, this artist had a different approach from the other band members. In a 1964 self-interview (via Beatles Interviews), Harrison commented on his reputation as the “most easy-going Beatle.”
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The Beatles went on many worldwide tours where they were greeted by millions of screaming fans. However, the band abruptly stopped touring in 1966, ultimately never touring again as the group disbanded in 1970. In regards to touring, George Harrison said The Beatles stopped after they were “getting no pleasure out of it.”
In 1966, The Beatles went on their third and final tour of North America. The tour was already marked by controversy as John Lennon had to apologize for comparing The Beatles’ popularity to Jesus. The band traveled throughout the U.S., but by the end, they had decided this would be the band’s final tour.
On August 26, 1966, The Beatles performed at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. This would be the end of their touring days and the final paid concert the band would ever perform. According to Rolling Stone, George Harrison said the band had already decided it would be their final concert before they went on stage.
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A new Paul McCartney documentary exploring the musician’s life following the breakup of The Beatles has been announced.
Man On The Run is set to be directed by filmmaker Morgan Neville and will draw on “unprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda’s home videos and photos, as well as new interviews,” to chronicle the time between The Beatles’ breakup snd the rise of Wings in the ‘70s.
According to a press release, Man On The Run will serve as “the definitive document of Paul’s emergence from the dissolution of the world’s biggest band and his triumphant creation of a second decade of musical milestones — a brilliant and prolific stretch.”
“As a lifelong obsessive of all things McCartney, I’ve always felt that the 1970s were the great under-examined part of his story,” said Neville in a statement. “I’m thrilled to have the chance to explore and reappraise this crucial moment in a great artist’s life and work.”
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George Harrison stood in the middle of the fighting that led to The Beatles’ demise. His songs rarely made it on Fab Four albums, and Paul McCartney said Harrison’s songs weren’t any good until the very end of the line. The so-called quiet Beatle got so fed up that he quit the band during the Get Back sessions. But George also helped save the work that eventually became the Let It Be album.Paul and John Lennon wrote most of the songs that put The Beatles on the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. That hierarchy persisted even as George developed as a songwriter. He once said he’d have to make a hundred Beatles albums to release the songs he penned during one particularly prolific year. But his tunes still barely made it on Beatles records.
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When it comes to musical greatness, the Beatles deserve at least as much recognition as Bob Dylan, argues Gareth Calway, while Mike Pender is impressed by some lyrical changes to Dylan’s song Make You Feel My LoveDavid Cantwell’s observation, in Annie Zaleski’s feature, that classic Bob Dylan is “layered irony and hurtling verses” while his later mid-tempo ballads “align more closely to the Great American Songbook’s musical and emotional values” is spot-on (‘It speaks straight from the heart’: Bryan Ferry, Adele and Engelbert Humperdinck on Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love, 31 February). But I hope the Guardian will mark, as generously as Ms Zaleski’s fitting tribute to Dylan, that extraordinary day, 60 years ago, on which the Beatles invaded that musical territory with Please Please Me, a landmark debut LP made in 24 hours. They never yielded that heartland while progressively adding to it all the original lyrical (and in their case musical) subtleties of His Bobness.
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It’s undeniable that the Beatles’ Revolver is a psychedelic rock landmark, a sonic marvel that marked a sea change in music production and culture. And in 2022 it was revisited for the full deluxe reissue treatment.
In 1966, joined by their new recording engineer Geoff Emerick, The Beatles and producer George Martin set about using the recording studio as their sonic workshop, creating sounds never heard before and introducing classical Indian music into Western pop rock.
But, like most pre-1968 Beatles albums, Revolver was recorded to four-track tape, with the result that the main rhythm instruments – usually guitar, bass and drums – were placed together on one track, making it impossible to separate them for stereo mixes.
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Watched by over 400 million people in 25 countries, 'All You Need Is Love' was The Beatles' gift to Our World.
As well as their run of peerless albums, The Beatles dominated the 1960s with a string of non-LP singles.
'She Loves You', 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', 'We Can Work It Out', 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Penny Lane', 'Hey Jude' and many more were massive hits for The Beatles, as was the classic 'All You Need Is Love'.
'All You Need Is Love' was a Beatles single like no other.
A Flower Power anthem beamed to the world which was maybe the crowning moment of what was later known as Summer of Love.
Do you know who wrote the song, which famous faces lent their voices to the recording and what snippets of other music appear in the track? Read on for everything you ever wanted to know about 'All You Need is Love'
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After The Beatles broke up in 1970, many wondered if John Lennon and Paul McCartney would ever team up again. The pair had a few opportunities, including a possible reunion on Saturday Night Live, but they were rarely seen in public together again. The pair almost went on a dinner date in New York, but Lennon’s reunion with Yoko Ono sidetracked that evening.
Lennon and Ono briefly separated between 1973 and 1975. During this period, Lennon began an affair with their assistant, May Pang. The couple went to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where Lennon had a few incidents of public drunkenness that included him getting thrown out of several venues.
In an interview with Variety, Pang spoke about the difficult time period in Lennon’s life, saying that she didn’t have much interest in interfering with their marriage, but Ono was pushing her toward the affair. Pang also confirmed that Ono was having an affair around the same time.
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Peter Jackson's documentary Get Back is a one of a kind look into the process of the world's most famous band, The Beatles. The film was compiled from over 60 hours of footage that was taken back when The Beatles were recording their album Let It Be in 1968. Until now, these sessions were known for causing the split between the group when Yoko Ono allegedly sat on Paul's amp. However, Peter Jackson's eight-hour cut shows audiences an unfiltered look at the band. It shows their ups and downs, and how they manage to find enjoyment working together through difficult times.
Throughout the film, The Beatles are tasked with making an album they can perform live. To achieve this, the group sifts through a wide array of material before figuring out which songs make the cut and which don't. The following list contains songs that were played by the band in the documentary, but not finished for the Let It Be album they are seen working on.
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Former Beatles member, Ringo Starr remains one of the entertainment icons whose career has stood the test of time. Born Richard Starkey, he took up the name Ringo because of his habit of wearing numerous rings. The legend started his career as a drummer with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes before joining the famous Boyband, The Beatles, as a replacement for their former drummer, Peter Best in 1962.
His membership in the group brought him to the limelight and he won nine Grammys out of 27 nominations. The 82-year-old was also presented a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the band. Apart from his successful career, Starr has been married twice and has all three kids from his first wife and two stepchildren from his second wife.
Starr met his first wife, Maureen Cox, at The Cavern Club, Liverpool in 1962 and he proposed to her in 1965. 21 days later, the pair tied the knot on February 11 at London’s Caxton Hall Register Office with The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein serving as the Best Man and fellow bandmate, George Harrison was present as a witness.
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