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George Harrison
One of the four members of The Beatles, George Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
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Where did George Harrison meet the rest of the Beatles?
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Paul met John at a church social where John was playing a gig; John asked him to join shortly afterwards. George met Paul on the bus, going to the same school, and he joined the band in 1958. He lived in the same neighborhood as John and Paul, and Paul and him had similar interests in Skiffle, American rock, as well as going to Liverpool institute together. Ringo belonged to a local band called Rory and the Hurricanes, and joined when the Beatles were looking for a new drummer.
When did George Harrison get his first guitar?
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He was fifteen years old, and had been pleading for a guitar since Elvis Presley's music and image had reached England. His mother Julia bought him one by mail order, with a GUARANTEED NOT TO SPLIT label. Lennon kept it at her house at first (he lived with her sister Mimi), and learned tenor banjo chords from Julia, leaving the bass strings slack.
Lennon later brought the guitar home to Mimi's house (Mendips, on Menlove Avenue in Woolton), and learned proper guitar chords from Paul McCartney, and later George Harrison. Mimi banished him from the house when he wanted to play it, and he would lean against the patio's brickwork. Mimi later took credit for buying her nephew his first guitar.
When he was fifteen, and not long after Elvis Presley's music reached England, in 1956. His mother bought him his first guitar, through a mail-order company.
Which songs did george harrison play keyboards on?
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He wrote 22 that were released as singles or on studio albums. They are: Don't Bother Me, I Need You, You Like Me Too Much, Think For Yourself, If I Needed Someone, Taxman, Love You To, I Want To Tell You, Within You Without You, Blue Jay Way, Long, Long, Long, Piggies, Savoy Truffle, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, It's All Too Much, Only A Northern Song, I Me Mine, For You Blue, Something, Here Comes The Sun, Old Brown Shoe and The Inner Light
Which Beatles hit song was written by George Harrison?
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The songs that Harrison wrote for the Beatles are:
Blue Jay Way . . . Magical Mystery Tour
Cry For a Shadow . . . Anthology 1
Don't Bother Me . . . Meet the Beatles
Flying . . . Magical Mystery Tour
For You Blue . . . Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun . . . Abbey Road
I Me Mine . . . Let It Be
I Need You . . . Help
I Want to Tell You . . . Revolver
If I Needed Someone . . . Rubber Soul
It's All Too Much . . . Yellow Submarine
Long, Long, Long . . . The Beatles
Love You To . . . Revolver
Not Guilty . . . Anthology 3
Old Brown Shoe . . . Hey Jude
Only A Northern Song . . . Yellow Submarine
Piggies . . . 'White Album'
Savoy Truffle . . . 'White Album'
Something . . . Abbey Road
Taxman . . . Revolver
The Inner Light . . . Past Masters, Vol. 2
Think For Yourself . . . Rubber Soul
While My Guitar Gently Weeps . . . 'White Album'
Within You, Without You . . . Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
You Know What to Do . . . Anthology 1
You Like Me Too Much . . . Help!
You decide which were hits.
His best-known song, Something because a #1 in 1969.
Here Comes The Sun was also a huge hit for him, but it was never a top song. It came from the same album as Something--Abbey Road--and was also released in 1969.
Was George Harrison a good guitar player?
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He was the lead guitarist for the Beatles. However, John Lennon also played guitar, sometimes lead as did Paul McCartney. Ringo Starr played drums and percussion.
What instrument did George Harrison play in the Beatles?
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The late Beatle's main instrument was the guitar. He was known as the lead guitarist for The Beatles.
He was a guitar collector and would buy new guitars often. Some of the brands he collected included Rickenbacker, Guild, Fender and Gibson.
Aside from the guitar, he also played the ukulele and sitar, amongst other instruments.
What year did George Harrison graduate from UConn?
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Paul McCartney was the only Beatle to graduate high school. George Harrison failed his O-level exams by a wide margin. He was encouraged to repeat his final year and re-take them, but he decided not to bother, after meeting his new classmates.
Is there going to be a george Harrison movie?
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Yes. A movie about John Lennon is being made and has already been released in some parts of Europe. It's called "Nowhere Boy". It isn't so much about his life as a beatle, it's more about his life leading up to becoming a beatle and how he was remembered.
What band did george harrison play after he left the beatles?
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1971 - Recorded Imagine in England, then moved to New York with Yoko Ono. Was interviewed by Rolling Stone, and told his side of the Beatles breakup.
1972 - Campaigned against Richard Nixon with radicals Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, and got into trouble with Nixon's administration.
1973 - Fought a deportation case against him, attended the Watergate hearings as a spectator, separated from Ono, lived in Los Angeles with May Pang, recorded with Phil Spector, and drank too much.
1974 - Kept fighting deportation, recorded with Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr and Elton John, and had his first solo #1 hit with "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night". Also appeared with Elton John onstage over Thanksgiving; it was his last public performance.
1975 - Reconciled with Yoko Ono (who bore their son Sean), recorded with David Bowie, won his deportation case, settled the dissolution of the Beatles' partnership, and rode out his recording contract with EMI. Also settled a lawsuit by music publisher Morris Levy.
1976 to 1980 - Lived privately at the Dakota with Ono and Sean, and traveled around the world with them. Rested up from fifteen years in the public eye. Also tinkered with songs for a musical about his life with Ono.
1980 - Sailed to Bermuda (nearly dying in a squall), and began writing new songs, which he demoed there. Recorded Double Fantasy as a comeback album with Ono, back in New York. You know the rest.
When did George Harrison leave the Beatles?
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He quit for a couple weeks, during the White Albumsessions in 1968, but was persuaded to come back. (Paul and George covered his drums with flowers and welcome-back messages.) He attended the last overdub sessions for Let It Be, playing drums to help the strings and singers keep time. So he was arguably the last to go.
What were The Beatles hit songs?
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Number one hits from all over the world:
# 1962 "Love Me Do" U.S. (once Beatlemania hit in 1964)
# 1963 "Please Please Me" Italy and also UK in most recognised charts
# 1963 "From Me to You" United Kingdom, Ireland
# 1963 "Twist and Shout" Finland
# 1963 "She Loves You" UK, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, U.S.
# 1963 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" UK, Australia (NS Wales), Sweden, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, U.S., Canada
# 1964 "I Saw Her Standing There" Australia (NS Wales)
# 1964 "All My Loving" Sweden, Canada, Australia (NS Wales) (EP), Finland
# 1964 "Can't Buy Me Love" Sweden, UK, Holland, U.S., Ireland, Australia (NS Wales)
# 1964 "Ain't She Sweet" Sweden
# 1964 Long Tall Sally EP Holland
# 1964 "A Hard Day's Night" U.S., Canada, Australia (NS Wales), UK, Holland, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Argentina, Czechoslovakia
# 1964 "I Should Have Known Better" Canada, Holland, Australia (NS Wales), Norway, Sweden, Denmark
# 1964 "If I Fell" Norway
# 1964 "I Feel Fine" Canada, Australia (NS Wales), UK, Holland, Sweden, U.S., Rhodesia, Ireland, Norway, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Denmark
# 1965 "Rock and Roll Music" / "No Reply" Norway, Sweden, Holland, Rhodesia, Finland, Denmark, Australia (NS Wales), Hong Kong, Luxembourg
# 1965 "Eight Days a Week" Canada, Uruguay, U.S., Hong Kong, Luxembourg
# 1965 "I'll Follow the Sun" Sweden
# 1965 "Ticket to Ride" Ireland, Canada, Norway, UK, Sweden, Australia (NS Wales), Holland, U.S., Rhodesia, New Zealand
# 1965 "Words of Love" Sweden
# 1965 "Help!" Canada, Australia (NS Wales), UK, Ireland, Holland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, U.S., Rhodesia, Norway, Argentina, Brazil, Italy
# 1965 "Yesterday" Canada, Holland, U.S., Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Hong Kong, Poland, Denmark, South Korea
# 1965 "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper" Canada, Norway, UK, Ireland, Australia (NS Wales), Holland, Sweden, Hong Kong, U.S. (A-side only), Rhodesia, Brazil
# 1966 "Michelle" France, Holland, Sweden, Poland, Belgium, Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, Italy
# 1966 "Nowhere Man" Canada, Australia (NS Wales)
# 1966 "Paperback Writer" Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, U.S., UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark
# 1966 "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby" Canada, UK, Ireland, Norway, France, Holland, Germany, Australia (NS Wales), New Zealand, Belgium, Poland (B-side)
# 1967 "Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever" Canada, Norway, France, Holland, Sweden, U.S. (A-side), New Zealand, Germany, Australia (NS Wales), Denmark, and also UK in most recognised charts
# 1967 "All You Need Is Love" (b/w "Baby You're a Rich Man") Finland, Poland, Canada, UK, Holland, Australia (NS Wales), Norway, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, U.S., New Zealand, Rhodesia, Denmark
# 1967 "With a Little Help from My Friends" Poland
# 1967 "Hello, Goodbye" Canada, UK, France, Holland, Sweden, U.S., Norway, Germany, Australia (NS Sales), New Zealand, Poland, Denmark
# 1968 "Lady Madonna" (b/w "The Inner Light") Canada, UK, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, Australia (NS Wales)
# 1968 "Hey Jude" Canada, UK, Sweden, Norway, Austria, France, Ireland, Holland, Spain, U.S., Switzerland, Rhodesia, New Zealand, Belgium, Australia (NS Wales), Germany, Poland, Denmark
# 1968 "Revolution" New Zealand
# 1968 "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" Malaysia, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, Australia (NS Wales)
# 1969 "Get Back" (b/w "Don't Let Me Down") UK, Canada, Holland, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, New Zealand, Germany, Malaysia, Denmark, Spain, U.S., Rhodesia, Australia (NS Wales)
# 1969 "The Ballad of John and Yoko" UK, Holland, Malaysia, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Australia (NS Wales), Austria, Denmark
# 1969 "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" France
# 1969 "Something" / "Come Together" Canada, U.S., Australia (NS Wales), New Zealand, Germany
# 1970 "Let It Be" Germany, Austria, Holland, Australia (NS Wales), Norway, France, Malaysia, U.S., Switzerland, New Zealand, Italy, Poland, Canada
# 1970 "The Long and Winding Road" Canada, U.S.
# 1976 "Got to Get You Into My Life" Canada LOVE ME DO
The Beatles UK number 1 singles From Me To You - 1963
She Loves You - 1963
I Want To Hold Your Hand - 1963
Can't Buy Me Love - 1964
A Hard Day's Night - 1964
I Feel Fine - 1964
Ticket To Ride - 1965
Help! - 1965
Day Tripper - 1965
Yellow Submarine - 1966
All You Need Is Love - 1967
Hello Goodbye - 1967
Lady Madonna - 1968
Hey Jude - 1968
Get Back - 1969
The Ballad of John and Yoko - 1969 A lot of singles did not quite make it to "Number 1" because the albums they were lifted off were already at "Number 1". Some of them were "double A-sides", but they would be...
1. From Me To You
2. She Loves You
3. I Want To Hold Your Hand
4. Can't Buy Me Love
5. A Hard Day's Night
6. I Feel Fine
7. Ticket To Ride
8. Help!
9. We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper
10. Paperback Writer
11. Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
12. All You Need Is Love
13. Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus
14. Lady Madonna
15. Hey Jude/Revolution
16. Get Back
17. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
Who made George Harrison's sitar?
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That's hard to say. He bought his first one at a London store called India Craft; he got a better one coming back from the Far East in 1965, when they had a layover in India. Ravi Shankar gave him lessons, but let him gradually know that he'd probably never achieve his ambitions with it; he'd started way too late.
Harrison largely abandoned Indian music after the Wonderwall soundtrack... but the time he'd put in on scales and exercises gave him a different musical sensibility, and when he started playing slide guitar (after the Beatles broke up), it all paid off.
What killed george Harrison?
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George Harrison was diagnosed with throat, lung, and brain cancer but it is said that the brain cancer was the finishing point.
George harrison play bass for any beatles song?
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He played bass on some of the songs on Abbey Road like Golden Slumbers and Carry that Weight. I think he played on a few other songs too.
he played bass on the songs Birthday, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight, and i believe A Day in the Life as well
What did George Harrison do in The Beatles?
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"I play lead guitar, and I sing a couple of songs, and I sing a couple of bits on songs that most people don't think I sing on." - George Harrison, 1964
What guitar did George Harrison play on Nowhere Man?
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The recorded song of Nowhere Man was done with Fender Stratocasters that George and John each got from Mal Evans, and Brian Epstein would only pay for if they were the same color so they got them in sonic blue. The solo is both John and George playing on their strats
As confirmed in the book, Beatle Gear.
Who stole George Harrison's wife?
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Eric Clapton didn't steal George Harrison's wife(Patty Boyd) but he got her after she left George for his excessive interest in spirituality and getting known of George's affair with Krissie Wood .
On what Beatles song did George Harrison first play sitar?
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"Norwegian Wood" was the first. Harrison had had no lessons or practice with the instrument, which he'd bought in a London music store, and simply "found the notes", to add something to the song. (He got a better sitar later, when they were on tour and laid over in India.) Once Harrison started getting more into his psychedelic stage he improved on his playing tremendously and was given a very unique hand crafted sitar that had a swan carved on the top of the neck. The story behind the swan is as follows:
The Rigvedic hymns dedicated to Saraswati mention her as a mighty river; symbolizing fertility and prosperity. In the post-Vedic age, she became increasingly associated with literature, arts, and music. Her name literally means "the one who flows", which reflects not just the flow of water, but of thoughts, and words. The Goddess Saraswati is often depicted as a, white-skinned woman having four arms. Her arms represent mind, intellect, alertness, and ego. Alternatively, these four arms also represent her children, the 4 Vedas, the primary sacred books for Hindus. A white swan is often located next to her feet. The swan symbolizes the ability to discriminate between good and bad, or the eternal and the evanescent. Sometimes a peacock is shown representing arrogance and pride over its beauty. The association with a peacock reminds us not to be concerned with external appearance and to be wise regarding the eternal truth.
Harrison later went on to write "within you, without you" a popular song of the time and one that would lead many to transcendental meditation.
Was Beatles George Harrison a US citizen?
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When he received his green card (permanent resident alien registration) in 1976, he was informed that he would be eligible to apply for US citizenship in 1981. He unfortunately didn't live long enough to apply.
George harrison wrote a song about that lawsuit?
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"My Sweet Lord" is melodically similar to "He's So Fine", recorded by the Chiffons. A judge determined that Harrison did not consciously plagiarize "He's So Fine", but likely unconsciously copied the melody. (His later song "This Song" took a tongue-in-cheek look at the case.)
The lawsuit went on for years, with Harrison's manager Allen Klein actually changing sides after he bought the publishing company that owned "He's So Fine". It counted against Klein in the long run, and Harrison ultimately ended up owning both songs.
Did George Harrison give up a child for adoption?
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No, it's just a rumor. George only had one son, Dhani, who he kept and raised.
How tall was George Formby?
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Unfortunately, none of George Formby's online biographies state how tall he was. George was a famous English actor and singer who lived from 1904 to 1961.
