George Harrison:
Like John and Paul, George Harrison had a major part in writing the songs for the Beatles. He was also a talented guitar player that influenced thousands of young people to pick up the guitar and play.
George Harrison was bron on February 25th, 1043 and grew up in a middle class family in Liverpool. At the age of thirteen he started his first band “The Rebels” and through the local music scene, he met Paul McCartney. After playing with McCartney a handful of times, Harrison was introduced to Lennon and his band the Quarrymen. Through line up changes, they became the Silver Beetles and eventually just the Beatles.
Like all the other Beatles, Harrison played a unique and important role to the group’s success. He was not only the lead guitarist, but he also contributed to the vocals of songs. Because of his interest in Middle Eastern culture and music, the Beatles were able to diversify their sound by adding the signature sound of the sitar.
Some of the songs that Harrison wrote were “Here Comes the Sun” “Something” and “While my guitar gently weeps” Outside of a handful of songs, Paul and John wrote a majority of the album tunes and that was one determining factor in the Beatles split.
After the group parted, Harrison began working on his solo career and persuading different avenues. In 1971, he hosted two benefit concerts in Madison Square Garden. It was designated to help the people of Bangladesh. To help generate more money, Harrison included famous guitarist Eric Clapton, song writer Bob Dylan and former band member Ringo Starr.
Over the next decade, Harrison released a couple of hits. One of his biggest accomplishments came in 1974 when he formed his own record company. Darke Horse Records, an associate of Warner Bros., which he utilized for his own songs and records.
Like Lennon, Harrison also took some time off from music and the media. In the early 1980s, Harrison began auto-racing, gardening and film production. In 1979, he published an auto biography entitled “I, Me, and Mine”. Like Starr, and McCartney, Harrison released songs and albums throughout his life.
In 1994, he got together with Ringo and Paul to record “Free as a Bird” for the Beatles Anthology album. It was the first song the surviving members had produced together in three decades.
In 1998, Harrison announced that he had throat cancer. The next year he was stabbed by a heroin addict outside his house in Oxfordshire. After Harrison recovered, he kept recording and producing. On November 29th, 2009, Harrison passed away.
He had two wives during his career. He married early to Pattie Boyd and then again to Olivia Arias the two remained married and they had a son together named Dhani. Right before his death, Harrison and his son were working on an album together.