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George Harrison‘s son, Dhani Harrison, didn’t initially want to follow in his father’s footsteps, but somehow he did. However, he’s mostly put his music career on the back burner since George died in 2001. Dhani’s first project was finishing his father’s last album, Brainwashed, for which he earned a Grammy.
In between gigging with his band thenewno2 and making movie scores, Dhani’s full-time career for the past 17 or so years has been remastering George’s impressive catalog and safeguarding his legacy.
Dhani is finally focusing on his own career, though, and it’s not disappointing.
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George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" has been a beloved pop hymn for 50 years.
If someone were to ask which member of the Beatles was first to chart a No. 1 hit on the charts after the band's break-up, would you guess George Harrison? He was, with his song "My Sweet Lord" from his 1970 album "All Things Must Pass." It would be his biggest hit as a solo artist.
The song is a pop hymn of sorts, with two mantras from different religious traditions—"Hallelujah" from Christianity and "Hare Krishna" from Hinduism—alternating throughout. According to songfacts.com, Harrison wanted to convey that the two phrases were essentially the same, both calling out to God.
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When looking back at the discographies of deceased musicians, it's oftentimes interesting to listen to — or learn more — about the very last songs or albums they recorded. That's especially true when it comes to legendary artists who died at a young age, such as John Lennon, who was only 40 years old when he was murdered by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980.There's hardly any need to provide ample introduction to Lennon and his accomplishments with the Beatles — with Paul McCartney always sharing the credits regardless of his involvement (or lack thereof) in the songwriting process, he wrote some of the most memorable songs in popular music history. And just like the rest of the Fab Four following their 1970 breakup, Lennon kept on going as a solo artist, as songs such as "Imagine," "Jealous Guy," and "Instant Karma!" are still fondly remembered to this day.
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Paul McCartney knew he had to marry Linda Eastman after she bought him a white rabbit after one of their first dates. He loved the furry animal, and he found he was slowly falling in love with Eastman too. Paul McCartney met Linda Eastman in a London club in 1967.
In 1967, Paul and The Beatles were on top of the world. Meanwhile, Linda had just become a freelance photographer, steadily making friends in the British rock scene. It was only a matter of time before they officially met.
After celebrating the completion of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at a party hosted by The Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, Paul, and some friends headed down to the famous Soho club, Bag O’Nails.
On that May evening, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were playing, and Paul sat at his own table. Coincidentally, Bag O’Nails was also Linda’s destination that night. She arrived at the club with her friends, The Animals. She was in London to shoot photos for a book called Rock and Other Four-Letter Words (per Ultimate Classic Rock).
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The new Super Deluxe edition of The Beatles’ final album Let It Be kicks off a bonanza of unseen and unheard material, including a new stereo mix of the original album, 27 previously unreleased session recordings, a four-track Let It Be EP, and the never released 14-track Get Back mix by engineer Glyn Johns from May 1969.
Alongside this treasure trove comes the three-part documentary The Beatles: Get Back, directed by Peter Jackson, and a tie-in hardback book.
Here, we pick 10 great previously unreleased moments from the box set that shed new light on the guitar music of the greatest band of all time.
1. Can You Dig It? (Jam)
On the original Let It Be album, we got a 51-second snippet of a Beatles jam called Dig It, more of an audio link than a song. This had been cut from a 15-minute improvisation which the band revisited later, presumably intending to develop it into something more.
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THE BEATLES grew up listening to Elvis Presley and adored his music in their youth, but when they kickstarted their own careers they were quick to criticise the King of Rock and Roll, with many of them pointing out they "didn't like" the star's new style.
In the early-1960s The Beatles had begun their worldwide takeover. By 1963 the band had released their debut album Please Please Me, catapulting them to the number one spot in the UK. Once their fame had made them a household name, they began making appearances on television shows, and on December 7, 1963, The Beatles featured on Juke Box Jury, a show that had stars giving their verdicts on new music. And this particular week Elvis Presley was in the crosshairs.
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George Harrison was spiritual his whole life, not just after working closely with his friend Ravi Shankar. While he was still in The Beatles, George wrote “The Art of Dying” in 1966. It’s about George’s ultimate goal. The ex-Beatle wanted to scrub away all the loose ends in his life and to leave his body peacefully. He didn’t want his soul reincarnated and forced to walk the Earth to perform the tasks he’d left behind.
George had been working the art of dying his whole life, and the results paid off. His wife, Olivia, said he lit up the room when his soul left the material world.
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Peter Jackson has said he would have “lost it” with The Beatles if he had filmed the Let It Be documentary himself.
The Get Back director reflected on the “incredible” footage he inherited from Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who produced the 1970 documentary of the 1969 ‘Let It Be’ recording sessions.
“The poor guy was herding cats the whole time and I was just feeling so many times that I would have lost it!” Jackson said at a Q&A as part of the IMAX release of The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert, according to Metro.
“I mean as much as I love the Beatles, I would have raised my voice at them a couple of times and read them the riot act because they would have driven me crazy, and Michael’s just so calm.”
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After releasing McCartney on the heels of The Beatles’ split, followed by Ram, Paul McCartney formed Wings in 1971. Wings was Paul’s first band since leaving one of the biggest groups in the world. So, there was no pressure. He had to soar, literally.
He couldn’t think like a Beatle anymore, but he did have his influences, including Bob Dylan. If Dylan could record an album fast, Paul wanted to do the same. However, looking back, Paul probably shouldn’t have rushed an album that became his first critical and commercial failure.
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THE BEATLES wrote only a few tracks that were considered true "rock" music, and their most influential came in 1968 with a song Ringo Starr that gave him blisters on his fingers, and he described as "total madness".
Just a few short years before The Beatles all went their separate ways in 1970, they released The White Album. The band's ninth album was released in 1968 and was a massive hit that included such timeless tracks as Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Happiness is a Warm Gun. One of their most standout hits followed a strike of inspiration from listening to The Who, however.
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At the height of their fame in the mid-60s, three quarters of The Beatles escaped the daily madness of being chased by fans across central London by moving to new homes in north Surrey.
George Harrison departed to Esher, and John Lennon and Ringo Starr 10 minutes up the road on the exclusive St George's Hill estate at Weybridge.
Two decades later, schoolboy Howard Bowden discovered the Fab Four via author Philip Norman's acclaimed 80s biography Shout!: The True Story of The Beatles. It set him off as a life-long fan to seek out many of the places they made famous: from Abbey Road studios in London and venues where it all started in Liverpool, to legendary Beatles landmarks across the US.
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Sir Paul McCartney has said he finds it emotional listening to a song he wrote which he says was him “talking to John (Lennon) after we’d had all the sort of disputes about The Beatles break up”.
The 79-year-old was reflecting on the track Dear Friend, which featured on Wild Life, the debut album from Paul McCartney and Wings, formed in 1971 after the Fab Four had parted ways.
The band, also known by their original name Wings, had a founding line-up which included Sir Paul’s late wife Linda on keyboards, drummer Denny Seiwell and The Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.
Outtake from the Wild Life album cover shoot at Osterley Park, London, 1971 (MPL Communications Ltd/Photographer Barry Lategan)
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John Lennon’s son, Julian, is turning items from his personal collection of Beatles memorabilia into NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, that are being sold at auction.
The items, which are each one of a kind, include the coat John Lennon wore in the “Magical Mystery Tour” film and three Gibson guitars the music legend gifted his son.
The centerpiece of the “Lennon Connection” auction are notes written by Paul McCartney for the song “Hey Jude,” which was originally titled “Hey Jules” as a letter to a 5-year-old Julian when John and his first wife, Cynthia, Julian’s mother, divorced. Experts predict the “Hey Jude” notes could fetch more than $60,000.
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George Harrison‘s wife Olivia once said that George and Bob Dylan “had a soul connection.” However, it wasn’t always so. George had to coax Dylan into opening up to him and letting him in during one of the first times they hung out.
What loosened everything up and got Dylan to take down the protective walls around his heart in the otherwise awkward meeting was music, of course. And a song called “I’d Have You Anytime.”
In his 1980 memoir, I Me Mine, George wrote about the origin story of his song “I’d Have You Anytime.” He wrote it with Dylan when he visited him in America for Thanksgiving in 1968. However, it wasn’t easy getting Dylan to relax around him.
“‘I’d Have You Anytime’ was started in America, in Woodstock—I was invited there by the Band,” George explained. “It was Thanksgiving time and I’d just finished producing a Jackie Lomax album, directly after the Beatles ‘White’ album.
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George Harrison was close with many people, but one of his best friends was Electric Light Orchestra frontman, Jeff Lynne. For a while, though, it didn’t seem like they’d ever become close. George thought Lynne was just another Beatles copycat.
However, that all changed after George realized Lynne was the only person who understood him as a musician. Since Lynne was such a big fan, he was the only person George could think of to help him record his album Cloud Nine.
Their friendship might have had unconventional beginnings, but George and Lynne loved each other. They got to share a beautiful yet heartbreaking last moment together shortly before George died.
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