Artist: George Harrison Genre(s):
Other
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock & Roll
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
London Radha-Krishna Temple / Chant And Be Happy Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Cloud Nine Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Somewhere In England Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
All Things Must Pass (CD 2) Remaster Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
All Things Must Pass (CD 1) Remaster Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Through Many Years Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
12 Arnold Grove Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
A True Legend Year: 1999
Tracks: 26
Electronic Sound Year: 1996
Tracks: 2
Pirate Songs Year: 1995
Tracks: 19
Live In Japan (Remastered 2004) Year: 1992
Tracks: 2
Live In Japan (CD 2) Year: 1992
Tracks: 9
Live In Japan (CD 1) Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Hari and The Hijack Band (CD 1) Year: 1992
Tracks: 15
The Rock Legends Tour (CD 2) (& Clapton) Year: 1991
Tracks: 13
The Rock Legends Tour (CD 1) Year: 1991
Tracks: 14
When We Was Fab (3'' CD Single) Year: 1988
Tracks: 4
When we was fab Year: 1988
Tracks: 4
Traveling Wilburys - Volume 3 Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
Cloud Nine (Remastered 2004) Year: 1987
Tracks: 13
Cloud 9 - Rough Mixes Year: 1987
Tracks: 7
Gone Troppo (Remastered 2004) Year: 1982
Tracks: 11
Gone Troppo Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Somewhere In England (Remastered 2004) Year: 1981
Tracks: 11
George Harrison (remastered 2004) Year: 1979
Tracks: 11
Thrity Three Year: 1976
Tracks: 10
Thirty Three and 1/3 (Remaster.. Year: 1976
Tracks: 11
Thirty Three and 1-3 Year: 1976
Tracks: 10
Thirty Three Year: 1976
Tracks: 10
The Best Of Year: 1976
Tracks: 13
Extra TextureGone Troppo Year: 1975
Tracks: 10
Extra Texture - Read All About It Year: 1975
Tracks: 10
Live Washington '74 Year: 1974
Tracks: 13
Baton Rouge (CD 2) Year: 1974
Tracks: 7
Baton Rouge (CD 1) Year: 1974
Tracks: 8
Living In The Material World Year: 1973
Tracks: 12
Living In A Material World Year: 1973
Tracks: 11
Concert for Bangla Desh Complete (CD 3) Year: 1971
Tracks: 11
Concert for Bangla Desh Complete (CD 2) Year: 1971
Tracks: 9
Concert for Bangla Desh Complete (CD 1) Year: 1971
Tracks: 15
All Things Must Pass (Remastered 2001) Year: 1970
Tracks: 28
All Things Must Pass CD1 Year: 1970
Tracks: 18
Wonderwall Music Year: 1968
Tracks: 19
The Concert For Bangla Desh Year:
Tracks: 18
George Harrison Year:
Tracks: 10
Extra Texture Year:
Tracks: 10
Concert for Bangladesh (CD 2) Year:
Tracks: 9
Concert for Bangladesh (CD 1) Year:
Tracks: 9
All Things Must Pass CD1 Year:
Tracks: 9
33 1_3 Music Dialogue Year:
Tracks: 9
As lead guitar player for the Beatles, George Harrison provided the band with a lyrical style of playing in which every musical note mattered. Harrison was unitary of millions of youth Britons divine to ingest up the guitar by British skiffle king Lonnie Donegan's transcription of "Rock Island Line." But he had more than dedication than most, and with the boost of a slightly old schooling quaker -- Paul McCartney -- he forward-looking quickly in his technique and command of the instrumental role. Harrison highly-developed his style and technique lento and painstakingly over the several years, scholarship everything he could from the records of Carl Perkins, Duane Eddy, Chet Atkins, Buddy Holly, and Eddie Cochran. By eld 15, he was allowed to sit in with the Quarry Men, the Liverpool group founded by John Lennon, of which McCartney was a member; by 16, he was a fully fledged member of the group.
The Beatles in conclusion fused about Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and drummer Ringo Starr in 1962, with Harrison effected on lead guitar. The Beatlemania days, from 1963 through 1966, were a motley blessing for Harrison. The Beatles' studio sound was broadly speaking characterized by identical spectacular musical rhythm guitar parts, and on many of the Beatles' early songs, Harrison's lead guitar was buried below the chiming chords of Lennon's musical instrument. Additionally, he was frustrated as a songster by the presence of Lennon and McCartney; the caliber and proliferation of their end product left very short room on the group's albums for songs by anyone else. Despite these problems, Harrison grew markedly as a musician between 1963 and 1966, writing a handful of ripe songs and unitary classical ("If I Needed Someone"), and also fashioning his showtime acquaintance of the sitar, an Indian musical instrument whose sound spell-bound him.
In 1966, Harrison in conclusion seemed to incur his articulation with deuce of his songs on the
Revolver album, "Tax collector" and "Love You Too." In the waken of the group's decision to hitch touring, Harrison's playacting and songwriting grew exponentially. The period from 1968 onward was Harrison's richest with the Beatles. He displayed a suave, elegant slide guitar technique that showed up on their concluding trine albums; and he contributed deuce classical songs, "Piece My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun," along with "Something," which became the first Harrison song on the A-side of a Beatles single.
Although never known as a firm singer, Harrison's vocals were invariably distinctive, especially when placed in the correct setting; for his start solo record next the group's 1970 detachment,
All Things Must Pass, Harrison collaborated with producer Phil Spector, whose so-called "Wall of Sound" proficiency altered well to Harrison's voice.
All Things Must Pass and the resultant single "My Sweet Lord" had the preeminence of being the showtime solo recordings by any of the Beatles to top the charts following their dissolution. Unfortunately, Harrison was later successfully sued by the publisher of the 1962 Chiffons hit "He's So Fine," which eagre a hitting resemblance to "My Sweet Lord."
Harrison followed
All Things Must Pass with rock's low gear major charity event,
The Concert for Bangladesh, which was arranged as two shows at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1971 to help raise money for aid to that famine-ravaged country. The minute of the two all-star shows was released as a pic and a resilient triple album. Harrison's next studio album,
Living in the Material World, initially sold well, only its leaner, less luxurious production lacked the imperial force-out of
All Things Must Pass, and it lacked the in the beginning album's mass appeal. Subsequent Harrison albums from the 1970s into the '80s always had an audience, but -- exclude for
Somewhere in England (1981), released in the wake of the polish off of John Lennon with the remembrance song "All Those Years Ago" -- none seemed awful well-crafted or executed. During this same period, Harrison embarked on a successful vocation as a movie producer with the institution of Handmade Films.
In 1987, Harrison made a bring back to the round top of the charts with his album
Cloud Nine, which featured his most elysian work in days, most notably a hide of an old Rudy Clark gospel number called "Got My Mind Set on You," which reached phone number one on the charts. In 1988, Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison formed the Traveling Wilburys, world Health Organization released two selfsame successful albums. It was besides about this time that Harrison appeared with his early bandmate Ringo Starr, Dave Edmunds, Rosanne Cash, and the Stray Cats' Lee Rocker (world Health Organization was born the class the Beatles made their first recordings) in a superb Harrison's sometime graven image Carl Perkins; which was subsequently released on video cassette and laser disk. All of this achiever heralded a transitory re-emergence for the musician extinct of private life, resulting in a 1991 tour of Japan that yielded a live album (
Live in Japan). Harrison had despised concertizing since the agonising days of the Beatles' external calling, and had done one ailing received concert tour in the mid-'70s; he seemed more than comfortable in 1991, and the album performed middling advantageously, impelled by the comportment of his then-recent hits.
He withdrew into private life subsequently that, devoting himself to his life with his second married woman and their son, and only re-emerged before the public when necessary, such as defending the Beatles' copyrights in court cases.
In 1999, Harrison was assaulted in his family and earnestly injured by a half-crazed winnow, only he recovered and in 2000 he began exploit on remastering and expanding his definitive
All Things Must Pass album. The reissue of that album at the first of 2001 heralded an unusually world publicity campaign by Harrison, world Health Organization accompanied its re-release with an interview record that anticipated the eventual reissue of the rest of his catalogue. Harrison had been treated for throat cancer the Crab in the late '90s, just in 2001 it was revealed that he was suffering from an inoperable shape of brainiac cancer. At the time of his destruction on November 29, 2001,
The Concert for Bangladesh album had been announced for upgraded reissue in January of 2002, and a DVD of the movie was in acquittance internationally.
