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George Harrison said he didn’t care if his 1987 album, Cloud Nine, bombed. The former Beatle didn’t release music solely for the fans. He made and released music because he liked doing it. If fans liked it, that was a bonus.
Before starting work on Cloud Nine, George decided he wanted ELO frontman, Jeff Lynne, to help him as co-producer. It was a little ironic, considering George had once called Lynne a Beatles copycat. However, George felt Lynne was perfect for that reason. He wanted someone who knew his music style well.
He invited Lynne over to his home, Friar Park, and then invited him to vacation with him in Australia. George needed to be sure Lynne would be a good songwriting partner. They had to get along, and Lynne passed the test. George then asked Lynne to work with him
on Cloud Nine.
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Paul McCartney and George Harrison met as teenagers and would go on to perform in one of the biggest bands in the world together. McCartney encouraged John Lennon to accept Harrison into his band, The Quarrymen. Harrison looked up to McCartney, but the latter said it was difficult to view his younger bandmate as an adult, even as they aged. This would later create tension in The Beatles.McCartney and Harrison met as students at the Liverpool Institute. Though McCartney was in the grade above Harrison, they rode the bus together as they lived near one another. During the lengthy trips to school, they bonded over their mutual love of music.
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George Harrison said he wasn’t “brilliant” at taking care of his career. Maybe that was because he never considered himself in one his whole life. George never pursued a solo career.
He released All Things Must Pass as a reaction to leaving The Beatles. He had so many songs stockpiled that he had to release them just to move forward. When the triple album did well, he continued making music on his schedule. He didn’t like making music just because the record companies and fans wanted him to.
However, after releasing several albums through the years, George couldn’t deny that he had somewhat of a career and realized he wasn’t good at keeping it afloat.
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If you’re a fan of a particular era of British rock ’n’ roll, this is the right year to be at the Telluride Film Festival. The festival’s opening day brought onetime photographer Anton Corbijn’s “Squaring the Circle,” which looked at the rock design company Hipgnosis through memories from Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, Roger Waters, Noah Gallagher and many others. And it was followed the next afternoon by onetime photographer Mary McCartney’s “If These Walls Could Sing,” which looks at London’s Abbey Road recording studio through memories from, oh, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, Roger Waters, Noah Gallagher and many others.
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John Lennon felt one of The Beatles‘ songs was an early heavy metal record. Paul McCartney felt the song was groundbreaking as well, although for different reasons. Notably, the song became a hit twice in the United Kingdom.
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride.” “It was pretty much a work job that turned out quite well,” he said. “I think the interesting thing was a crazy ending: instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. We picked up one of the lines, ‘My baby don’t care,’ but completely altered the melody.”
In Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul said “Ticket to Ride” was innovative. However, he did not claim it was an early heavy metal song.
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The first person who really got George Harrison interested in guitar wasn’t a rock musician. After hearing their music, George begged his mother, Louise, for a beginner’s guitar. Thankfully, she obliged.
After school every day, George turned on the radio. He listened to tunes from Jimmie Rodgers, Big Bill Broonzy, Slim Whitman, and various English music-hall numbers. However, Rodgers made George interested in guitar.
“And my father had some records, and he used to go away to sea, and he brought back this big wind-up gramophone and Jimmie Rodgers records. ‘Waiting for a Train,’ it was called, and ‘Blue Yodel.’ And so I always remember that from when I was a little kid of about eight or seven.
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George Harrison often discussed his spiritual beliefs.
George Harrison said that political and spiritual leaders hadn’t impressed him.
Ravi Shankar was the first person who impressed George Harrison.
George Harrison had a reputation as the Quiet Beatle, but he wasn’t afraid to share his opinion, even if it was a bit harsh. During a photoshoot that Harrison clearly wasn’t happy to be a part of, he spoke about how difficult he was to impress. He said that being on the cover of a magazine didn’t mean much to him. He also shared that of all the musicians, politicians, and religious leaders he’d met in his life, only one had ever impressed him.
George Harrison often discussed his religious and spiritual beliefs
Harrison rose to global fame as a teenager, and by the time he was in his twenties, he felt weary of his popularity. For him, the antidote to this was spirituality.
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THE BEATLES star George Harrison became extremely nervous about being in public during the band's final few years together. Eventually, it got so bad he was having regular worries about being shot. Soon thereafter, he announced he had quit the band. Hauntingly, this was the exact method of how his bandmate, John Lennon, was murdered.
Harrison, who was the youngest member of the band, was known as the Quiet Beatle because he was less outspoken than the rest of the group.
This didn't mean he didn't stand up for himself in the Fab Four, but he was less likely to make flippant comments to the press - much like John Lennon did in the Philippines. While on tour in the country, Lennon announced that The Beatles were "bigger than Jesus". This controversial statement enraged Christians around the world.
David Acomba, who filmed Harrison's 1974 solo tour, explained this incident was the beginning of the star's fears.
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The three-time Oscar-winning 'Lord of the Rings' helmer received awards for directing and for outstanding documentary.
Peter Jackson won his first Emmys, for directing and for outstanding documentary, for The Beatles: Get Back docuseries, which debuted last year on Disney+.
“A big shout-out to the Beatles,” enthused Jackson. For best documentary, winners also included Paul McCartney, Ring Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison.
Get Back is based on material shot in early 1969 for the Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 feature film Let It Be. Both picture and sound went through a meticulous restoration process, building on techniques developed to restore World War I footage in Jackson’s 2018 documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old. Accepting the directing Emmy, Jackson recognized Lindsay-Hogg’s work.
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Mary McCartney didn’t want her new documentary about Abbey Road Studios to focus too much on her own family—her father, Paul McCartney, and her mother, the late Linda McCartney—their band Wings, or even The Beatles. She wanted If These Walls Could Sing to look beyond what she already knew and explore the countless other artists and iconic recordings connected with that legendary London recording space. But there’s no getting around it: The world knows Abbey Road Studios because The Beatles named their final album after it and because of that record’s famous cover image of John, Ringo, Paul, and George strolling through its adjacent crosswalk.
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