George Harrison
Biography
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's break-up, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison.
Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh.
Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-02-25
Place of birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Images
Cast
A Hard Day's Night
1964
7.30
The Movie Orgy
1968
6.50
El Rey en Londres
1966
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The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978
6.30
Let It Be
1970
7.56
Roy Orbison At The BBC
2023
6.00
The Society of the Spectacle
1974
6.70
Magical Mystery Tour
1967
6.53
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
6.50
Taj Mahal and Friends
1987
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Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
7.40
Imagine: John Lennon
1988
6.80
Checking Out
1988
4.30
Beatles Stories
2011
7.60
The Day the Music Died
1977
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Help!
1965
6.84
The Beatles: Let It Be
2021
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Things They Said Today
2002
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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
6.00
Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
2016
0.50
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
1978
6.81
Louder Than Rock
2023
4.00
The Making of Sgt. Pepper
1992
7.00
Take Your Pills
2018
6.53
George Harrison - The Quiet one
2002
4.00
The Beatles and India
2021
6.30
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023
9.00
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
1977
7.70
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999
5.80
The Beatles: Help!
2007
6.50
The Beatles Unauthorized
1996
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The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
2004
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The Beatles on Record
2009
6.40
The Concert for Bangladesh
1972
7.88
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
8.10
The Mersey Sound
1963
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The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
2011
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
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Our World
1967
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All My Loving
1968
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
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Good Ol' Freda
2013
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The Beatles Come to Town
1963
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The Beatles: Something
1969
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The Beatles: Revolution
1968
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Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977
4.00
The Beatles Explosion
2007
6.50
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
2018
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The Beatles: Parting Ways
2009
6.50
The Beatles and the BBC
2023
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Beatles - Tokyo, Japan 66
1966
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Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
1996
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The Beatles: A Celebration
1999
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This Is Elvis
1981
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The Movie Life of George
1989
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Life of Brian
1979
7.76
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
2018
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The Beatles: Hey Jude
1968
8.70
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
2003
5.60
Beatles på Sverigeturné
2014
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Reflections on Love
1966
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Genius
2012
5.50
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
6.60
Wingspan
2001
6.90
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
2014
6.80
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
2008
6.00
Raga
1971
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Fun with the Fab Four
1986
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My Sweet Lord in the Far East
1991
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
6.56
Doctor Who: The Chase
1965
6.60
The Beatles 1
2015
6.00
The Beatles - Abbey Road
1969
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The Beatles 1+
2015
8.50
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
1968
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The Beatles: Around the World
2003
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The Beach Boys
2024
6.60
The Bannfoot Ferry
2024
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Water
1985
5.90
Concert for George
2003
8.10
Becoming the Beatles
2012
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Ringo
1978
5.20
British Rock: The First Wave
1985
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The Beatles Sing for Shell
1964
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The Beatles in Australia
1964
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The Compleat Beatles
1982
7.50
Beatles: The Journey
2003
5.00
Free to Rock
2017
6.40
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
2017
7.70
Hagström: Everything in Music
2003
6.00
Night Lunch
1975
5.00
All You Need Is Love
1967
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The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
2007
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14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981–1988
2018
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Tom Petty: Going Home
1994
0.00
Beatles: Big Beat Box
2001
0.00
An Accidental Studio
2019
6.44
Shanghai Surprise
1986
4.23
Doctor Who: Origins
2006
0.00
The Beatles Story
1996
8.00
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
2012
0.00
Imagine
1972
7.00
Die Beatles
1966
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Yellow Submarine
1968
7.20
Around the Beatles
1964
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Pop Gear
1965
7.50
The Beatles: Live in Paris
1965
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Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
6.50
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
0.00
Curves Contours & Body Horns
1993
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The Beatles: Love
2006
10.00
The Winged Beetle
2012
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John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
2018
7.09
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
1974
6.00
ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff
2018
6.80
Monument
1967
0.00
Naqoyqatsi
2002
6.10
The Beatles in Japan 1966
2009
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My Generation
2017
7.10
Beatles Electroniques
1969
8.00
The Beatles: The Complete Story
2010
8.50
Livin’ Thing
2024
0.00
Beatles '64
2024
6.40
The Sparks Brothers
2021
7.38
No Hamburg No Beatles
2024
7.50
Ringo Starr: One of Them
2022
8.00
Året var 1967
2017
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To John With Love
2006
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Året var 1963
2013
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Elvis: King of Entertainment
2002
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Abbey Road
1969
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Palme
2012
7.64
The Beatles - Trilogy
2003
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The Beatles
2025
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