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George Harrison et al: The Concert For Bangla Desh
Film/DVD/TV Review by John Pidgeon, New Musical Express, 15 July 1972
THE CONCERT for Bangla Desh, an Apple/Twentieth Century-Fox release, produced by George Harrison and Allen Klein and directed by Saul Swimmer, opens at the Rialto, ...
My Walk-On in the Life of George
Memoir by David Dalton, Gadfly, 12 March 2002
"FIRST OF ALL," my friend Richard said, "he was a Beatle, how could he die?" They were immortal, weren't they? Gods, even if flawed. A ...
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Teledate: Sylvia Stephen talking to George Harrison
Interview by Sylvia Stephen, Fabulous, 13 June 1964
Y'KNOW, I'D like to adopt George Harrison. (Sit down those girls who yelled "So would we.") I don't have a favourite Beatle, they're all FAB, ...
Report and Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 19 June 1965
...that's Liddypool, home of so many greats in the pop world, and from the streets where they lived Fab's SYLVIA STEPHEN reports... ...
Hollies' Graham Nash Blasts back at George
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 17 December 1965
GEORGE HARRISON is probably the friendliest and most easy-going member of the Beatles. But something he said in the NME last week has brought him ...
Wedding Belles: George Pities Paul
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 28 January 1966
"I PITY Paul," said George Harrison, with a wry grin, "'cos now he's the only Beatle left, you lot will hound him all over the ...
Report by Dawn James, Rave, March 1966
She was the model bride. He was the model husband. Why was it that they were meant for each other? ...
How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison — Avocado With Everything…
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 March 1966
GEORGE HARRISON is 23, the youngest Beatle and the least well-known. He isn't one of the two who sing and he isn't Ringo; indeed some ...
Pop Eye: Ravi and the Teenie Satori
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 5 January 1967
THEY ARE waiting for him in the glass-enclosed library of Asia House, over coffee, cream, and croissants. All the regulars are there: the lady reporter ...
The Way Out is In: A George Harrison Interview
Interview by Miles, International Times, 19 May 1967
GH: If you could just say a word and it would tell people something straight to the point, then you take all the words that ...
George Harrison: A Different Face, New Life
Profile by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 29 July 1967
HE'S A member of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band resplendent in an orange braided uniform and flowing hair, with a mustache that somehow grows ...
Ravi Shankar: 'My Music Not For Addicts'
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 29 July 1967
"THE MESSAGE I'm trying to get through is that our music is very sacred to us and is not meant for people who are alcoholic, ...
Harrison Arrives Stateside; Explains Controversial Ad
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 27 August 1967
LOS ANGELES — Beatle George Harrison arrived at the Los Angeles International Airport for what he described as a "little bit of business and pleasure." ...
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 2 September 1967
"You may think this interview is of no importance to me," said George Harrison across a table in NEM's Enterprises Mayfair offices. "But you'd be ...
The George Harrison Interview (part 2)
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 9 September 1967
George Harrison, Beatle, human being and musical innovator, spoke of God, LSD, the Hippies and Haight Ashbury last week in the first of these two ...
Beatle George And Where He's At
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 16 December 1967
For many people, the Beatles have long passed the stage where they are merely a pop group. The first indication of this development was probably ...
Beatle George And Where He's At (Part 2)
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 30 December 1967
WE WERE talking about how meditation and yoga leads to self realization. ...
Beatles by Barrow: Beatle Who's Changed The Most
Profile by Tony Barrow, Melody Maker, 17 February 1968
TONY BARROW, the Beatles press representative, writes about the Beatles for the first time in five years. Naturally, he chose Melody Maker. Barrow has been ...
Beatle Wife Pattie Sets Up Shop...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
PATTIE BOYD, a regular customer of the Chelsea Antique Market, changed sides of the counter last week when she opened her own stall there. ...
George Harrison: Electronic Sound (Zapple)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 8 August 1969
THIS ALBUM... phlurp phlurp phlurp... is on Zapple (grauughh! *'&'%%!) the Beatles personal label /--perhaps no other company wapwapwapwapwapwap uuuhwweeoques—would record it-++++++++++++ ...
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 1 November 1969
1969 WILL END up being George Harrison's year. He's waited a long time for real recognition, has George, but his composition 'Something' is released as ...
George And Eric Inspire Each Other
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 December 1969
Friendship and a mutual love of music brought George Harrison and Eric Clapton together for the recent Delaney and Bonnie tour. At a stopover In ...
Harrison Assesses the Beatles' Past, Present, Future
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1969
LONDON — George Harrison, long reputed to be the most "normal" member of the Beatles, was sitting in a spacious armchair at Apple headquarters, writing ...
Question Time With George Harrison
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 December 1969
Roy Carr concludes his exclusive Question-time with George Harrison, taped in the lounge of a Liverpool hotel during a break in the recent Delaney and ...
Eric Clapton: God is a Guitarist
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1970
GEORGE HARRISON sat with a painfully thin fellow in a motorway restaurant, a graveyard of the digestion outside London. ...
George Harrison: Why Is George In New York?
Report and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Rolling Stone, 11 June 1970
Sunrise doesn't last all morning The cloudburst doesn't last all day Seems my love is up and has left with no warning But it's not ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (Apple)
Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 5 December 1970
Loads of talent, and yet... ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (Apple)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 6 December 1970
Old Un-Fancy George Returns ...
Ringo Stars: Geoffrey Cannon on the Beatles' Solo Albums
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 19 December 1970
Ringo Starr: Beaucoups of Blues; Paul McCartney: McCartney; John Lennon: John Lennon Plastic Ono Band; George Harrison: All Things Must Pass ...
The Beatles: It's Open Warfare
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 March 1971
Why Beatles ended in a sordid mudbath.It isn't coincidence that these solo singles have just been released, says Alan Smith ...
Ronnie — the voice that brought Spector back
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1 May 1971
BACK in 1963, the Ronettes were three highly-coiffeured teenage girls who swept up the charts on a furious wave of Spector sound. Their lead singer, ...
George Harrison et al: Concert for Bangla Desh, Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 2 August 1971
Raga and Rock Link 2 Cultures ...
Live Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 7 August 1971
GEORGE CREATES GREATEST ROCK SPECTACLE OF DECADE ...
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1 January 1972
If you buy only one LP in 1972, make it this one ...
George Harrison & Friends: The Concert for Bangladesh (Apple)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 4 January 1972
Update, 2019: The first time I met George Harrison was in the late 1960s, when he was still a Beatle. I quite often went to ...
Concert for Bangla Desh (Dir. Saul Swimmer; 20th Century Fox)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 1 April 1972
BANGLA FILM RELEASED ...
The Concert for Bangla Desh (Apple/Twentieth Century-Fox)
Film/DVD/TV Review by John Pidgeon, New Musical Express, 15 July 1972
A SPECIAL PREVIEW BY JOHN PIDGEON ...
Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, July 1973
AS THE DUKE of American Rock Critics, I am afforded privileges and favors undreamed of by others in my profession. ...
George Harrison On Tour – Press Conference Q&A
Report and Interview by Anne Moore, Valley Advocate, 13 November 1974
YOU ARE invited to a George Harrison press conference! Well, that's what the invitation said. A press conference to discuss Dark Horse Records and Harrison's ...
George Harrison: The Niceman Cometh
Report by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 21 November 1974
LOS ANGELES — Somewhere in the city, inside the trailer of a tractor-trailer rig, hammers, saws and measuring rules bang and whine toward conversion of ...
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 21 December 1974
THERE'S NOTHING more disappointing than finding one's teenage heroes crumbling ineluctably into middle-aged mediocrity. Hari Georgeson (as he often refers to himself) is on a ...
George's Tour Winds Down in New York, and Mr. Harrison Goes to Washington
Report and Interview by Larry Sloman, Rolling Stone, 30 January 1975
NEW YORK — George Harrison scream sings 'Sue Me, Sue You Blues', a song born and bred in this city, to a nearly packed Madison ...
George Harrison: How Dark Horse Whipped Up A Winning Tour
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, March 1975
AS GEORGE HARRISON'S tour began to cross America late in 1974, reports filtered back to New York City that all was not right. Though the ...
Singles from Elton John, David Bowie et al
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975
Elton gets lost ...
Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 March 1976
Flourishing a revolver our weird hero enters his dark, refrigerated room to recount strange tales the likes of which may never before have been heard ...
A&M Sues George Harrison for $10 Million
Report by Sam Sutherland, Record World, 9 October 1976
LOS ANGELES — A&M Records has filed a suit against George Harrison, seeking $10 million in damages and the dissolution of Harrison's Dark Horse label, ...
George Harrison: Thirty-three & 1/3
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 27 November 1976
WHEN I tell you that the first line of the song with the most memorable hook on the album is. "I was so young when ...
George Harrison: The Zoned-Out Beatle Turns 33 1/3
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Swank, 1977
IN NOVEMBER 1974, George Harrison's tour of America ended with a party at the chic New York disco/restaurant, Hippopotamus. It was a sweaty, crowded affair ...
Comment by Robert Duncan, Circus, 14 February 1977
Somewhere Beyond the Sea, At 33⅓, Is God's Greatest Gift to Space Music ...
A Conversation with George Harrison
Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1979
UP FOR THE DAY FROM HIS HOME IN OXFORDSHIRE, some 30 miles from London, George Harrison had spent the morning in the recording studio with ...
George Harrison: Somewhere In England
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, September 1981
"SHE'S A DRAG. A well-known drag. We turn the sound down on her and say rude things." – George Harrison, A Hard Day's Night, 1964. ...
Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, January 1983
THE "MYSTICAL" BEATLE had his first hit in a long time last year with that cloying, simplistic eulogy, ‘All Those Years Ago’. On his latest ...
Report by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 21 May 1986
...and what do you think the press do? After weeks spent camping out at airports, breaking into hotels and getting themselves run over to get ...
Interview by Charles Bermant, unpublished, 17 September 1987
HOW DID YOU pick this time to re-emerge? ...
George Harrison Surfaces With A Cheery Hello
Interview by Charles Bermant, The Globe and Mail, 26 September 1987
GEORGE HARRISON has emerged to call attention to his future, but willingly discusses his past. As a Beatle Harrison was all hair, knees and teeth, physically ...
Fab! Gear! The George Harrison Interview (part 1)
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, December 1987
IN A PLUSH Warner Bros, office, Bill Holdship and I listened to George Harrison's first album in over five years, Cloud Nine. "I wracked my brains ...
Fab! Gear! The George Harrison Interview (part 2)
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, January 1988
DID YOU ever see that show in London: John, Paul, George, Ringo & Bert? ...
Review by Bill Holdship, Creem, March 1988
IN MANY WAYS, George Harrison's kinda had it unfair. Just as Let It Be has probably always been underrated mainly because it was a Beatles ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995
Fifteen years of experience has carried producer JOHN LECKIE from a-song-a-day sessions with John Lennon, to hours spent pouring over the endless noodlings of The ...
Guide by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 29 January 1999
1 Nick Drake Bryter Layter (Island, 1970) ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (Apple)
Review by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 2000
New double-disc remastering of George’s solo debut. Now with out-takes, remixes and a re-recorded version of ‘My Sweet Lord’. ...
Obituary by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages, 1 November 2001
"Friendly. Grouchy. Kind. Grudging. Selfless. Resentful. Materialistic. Unworldy." ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
Comment by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 30 November 2001
For those who grew up in the 60s, George Harrison's death further compounds the feeling that popular culture will never be as good again. ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, The Guardian, 1 December 2001
George Harrison, singer, guitarist, composer and filmproducer: born Liverpool 25 February 1943; MBE 1965; married1966 Pattie Boyd (marriage dissolved 1977), 1978 OliviaArias (one son); died ...
George Harrison: Harrison in the Haight
Retrospective by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 December 2001
IT WOULD BE a stretch to say that George Harrison ever left his heart in San Francisco. ...
George Harrison: And Life Flows On
Obituary by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 3 December 2001
HE COULD HAVE BEEN Charles Dickens' idea of a rock star, a dry-witted gentleman whose faith, and fate, left him isolated but satisfied, living his ...
George Harrison: An Appreciation From a Man Who Peed With The Quiet One
Comment by Bill Holdship, LA New Times, 6 December 2001
GEORGE HARRISON is probably bemused by all the attention his passing received in the material world this past week. Most of the tributes have concentrated ...
Obituary by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2002
'You know, life flows on within you and without you'– George Harrison ...
Obituary by Will Hermes, Spin, February 2002
THE YOUNGEST member of the world's most revered rock group, George Harrison — who died of cancer on November 29 at age 58 — worked ...
George Harrison et al: Concert for Bangla Desh
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, March 2002
The first hi-profile multi-star benefit concert of the post-psychedelic era. Harrison, Dylan and Shankar strut their stuff alongside Clapton, Ringo and Leon Russell. ...
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, December 2002
SO, IT CAME to pass, George Harrison bookended his solo years with his two best albums. Brainwashed is a mature and often profound record, comprising ...
George Harrison: Jolly George – The Unsung Story
Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 12 October 2003
In a rare interview, George Harrison's widow Olivia tells Robert Sandall of his hidden circle of friends and fun, and that attack. ...
Traveling Wilburys: Volume1/Volume 3
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, July 2007
Five Legends Roll Together On Memorable Sidetrip ...
The Inside Story of the Traveling Wilburys… Rock's Greatest Ever Supergroup
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, September 2007
George Harrison hid in the bushes with a video camera. Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne sang harmonies on the porch. And Bob Dylan? ...
Book Review by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 19 September 2007
SHE IS PERHAPS rock's most famous muse: Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton. This lithe, leggy, blonde fashion model directly inspired a troika of classic rock's most ...
George Harrison Visits Haight-Ashbury In Summer 1967
Retrospective by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, Summer 2007
UNCOMMON sightings were downright common in the Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love. But even in that colorful context, the visit of George Harrison to ...
Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, unpublished, 2008
IT WAS A day of unmatched California beauty; a startling and fiery sun perched high above in a crystal blue sky and blazed down promise. ...
By George: Harrison's Post-Beatles Solo Career
Retrospective by Roy Trakin, Capitol Vaults blog, June 2009
MOST PEOPLE THINK of George Harrison as "the Quiet Beatle," the spiritual one, the first to turn the band on to transcendental meditation, but the ...
With a Little Help from His Friends: George Harrison and the Concert for Bangla Desh
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, July 2011
STEVE VAN ZANDT, May 2011, Lillehammer, Norway: "The anti-apartheid Sun City project (single, album, video, documentary, book, teaching guide) was a high point and a ...
George Harrison: Fabbest of the Four?
Retrospective by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2011
Martin Scorsese's new documentary about George Harrison makes a case for him as the equal – or even the superior – of Lennon and McCartney, ...
Overview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, March 2012
Because sometimes the only way musicians can actually talk to each other is by writing songs ...
Ravi and George in the Angel City
Book Excerpt by Kirk Silsbee, 'It Was Fifty Years Ago Today', 2014
GEORGE HARRISON is credited with bringing Indian music and Ravi Shankar to the attention of the larger public, through his sitar playing on 'Norwegian Wood', ...
George Harrison Revisited, Part One: The dark horse bolting out of the gate
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 24 October 2014
PERHAPS HE WAS no more contradictory than any of us, but because of his larger life George Harrison sometimes seemed to be a man of ...
George Harrison: The Vinyl Collection (UMC)
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, March 2017
AH GEORGE, the thinking Beatles fan's favourite. The best haircut. The most endearingly grumpy interviewee. The one you'd bet has a wicked sense of humour ...
George Harrison: The Vinyl Collection
Review by Steve Matteo, Under the Radar, 30 October 2017
GEORGE HARRISON would have turned 74 this year. He died in 2001, and his untimely death at such a relatively young age still haunts his ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass at 50
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Music Connection, 10 November 2020
GEORGE HARRISON'S debut solo album All Things Must Pass was recorded May-October 1970 in London at the Abbey Road, Trident and Apple studios. It was ...
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