Hello and welcome again devoted readers of the LEGENDS threads to the fifth installment of the series this time the legend I have chosen is none other than George Harrison guitarist of The Beatles and a great solo artist not too shabby on the old six string . So read enjoy and learn :smile:

NOTE: The reason I am posting this so early is because im busy later so i probabaly won't have time to come on sorry if posting earlier is of any inconveniance to anyone .



Biography

Guitarist George Harrison was born on February 25, 1943 to a working-class family in Liverpool, England. As a teenager Harrison took up guitar, and in 1958 joined an established local skiffle band called the Quarrymen, which included his older schoolmate Paul McCartney. By 1961, the Quarrymen had become the Beatles, with Harrison on lead guitar. Though McCartney and John Lennon initially wrote nearly all of the Beatles' material, by 1966 Harrison was contributing a song or two per album, including hits like "Taxman," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun." Harrison also became fascinated with sitar music (inspired by his interest in Hinduism), and later received instruction from acclaimed sitar composer Ravi Shankar, whose music he helped to popularize in the West. Harrison contributed some sitar-based songs to the 1968 film soundtrack Wonderwall Music, the first solo outing by a Beatles member.

By the time the Beatles recorded The Beatles (aka The White Album) in 1968, Harrison was often at odds with McCartney and Lennon over whose songs would be developed and recorded by the band. The guitarist's personal life was also troubled: he and close friend Eric Clapton both loved the same woman, Patti Boyd, who was married to Harrison yet spent much of her time with Clapton. Boyd later switched husbands, but the three remained eerily close. Following the release of Abbey Road in the fall of 1969, Harrison traveled to Europe to perform with Delaney and Bonnie and Friends,a group which included his old friend, keyboardist Billy Preston. Within months the Beatles were no more.

Harrison's first post-Beatles album was All Things Must Pass, released in late 1970. Recorded with Phil Spector and featuring appearances by old friends Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Ringo Starr, the triple album became a No. 1 hit, spawning the No. 1 single "My Sweet Lord." Unfortunately for Harrison, "My Sweet Lord" bore a strong resemblance to the Chiffons 1962 hit "He's So Fine," and the Chiffons' publishing company filed suit seeking damages for the alleged plagiarism. After protracted negotiations failed, a court finally heard the case in 1976, and quickly ruled that Harrison had "subconsciously" borrowed from "He's So Fine" and owed $1.6 million in damages. Due to complicated business and legal issues involving Apple Music (the Beatles' label, which also released Harrison's early solo albums), the Chiffons' publisher, and former Beatles manager Allen Klein, the case was not settled until the 1990s.

Harrison took a break from recording in 1971, producing an album for Badfinger (the first band signed to Apple Records), contributing to John Lennon's Imagine, and performing at a landmark 1971 benefit for the troubled Asian nation of Bangladesh (later commemorated in a triple live album). Harrison returned to solo work with his 1973 album Living in the Material World, featuring the No. 1 hit "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)." The hastily recorded 1974 album Dark Horse was followed by Harrison's first North American solo tour, yet his following was already beginning to diminish. 1975's Extra Texture was a flop, and ended his career with EMI, the Beatles' old label. Harrison rebounded by forming Dark Horse Records, his own imprint, which was affiliated with A&M Records. He released 33 & 1/3, his most praised album since All Things Must Pass. Unfortunately this comeback was short-lived: his 1979 eponymous album was another artistic disaster. Harrison's next album, Somewhere In England, was rejected by Warner Bros. (Dark Horse's new distributor), but following John Lennon's 1980 assassination, the album was reworked to capitalize on a resurgence of Beatles nostalgia. The new Somewhere in England contained the hit song "All Those Years Ago," featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and quickly rose in the charts.

Though Harrison's solo albums were often of disputed artistic quality, throughout the 1970s they sold acceptably. This came to an end in 1982 with Gone Troppo, a complete commercial failure. Harrison wisely decided to take time off from his musical career to concentrate on producing movies and racing his large collection of sports cars. He founded HandMade Films in 1978, and used the company to produce such classics as Monty Python's Life of Brian and the 1980 adventure Time Bandits.Though he contributed a few songs to the 1985 Porky's Revenge soundtrack, Harrison's serious return to music was 1987's Cloud Nine, the biggest selling album of his solo career. Produced by former ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, Cloud Nine was Harrison's most slick, pop-oriented album yet; its cover of the Rudy Clark song "I Got My Mind Set On You" became a No. 1 radio hit. The following year, along with Lynne, Harrison formed the Traveling Wilburys with rock star pals Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. The supergroup released two platinum-selling albums, 1988's Traveling Wilburys and 1990's Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3 [sic] before going on hiatus.

Harrison returned to solo touring in 1991, accompanied by his old friend Eric Clapton; the world tour was commemorated in the 1992 album Live in Japan. Returning to England, Harrison quickly signed on to a planned BBC Beatles documentary, which eventually led to two "new" Beatles songs ("Free as a Bird" and "Real Love") created by matching new music performed by Harrison, McCartney and Starr to late '70s Lennon home demos.

Harrison remained strangely silent following the massive commercial success of the 1995-6 Beatles Anthology series. Three years later, he was again in the news under unfortunate circumstances when a man broke into his mansion outside of London and attacked him and his wife. Harrison was stabbed several times, though he made a full recovery. The intruder was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.

In 2000, Harrison began work on a new album, slated for release in 2001. The same year, Capitol released a 30th anniversary edition of the landmark All Things Must Pass, which included a re-recorded version of the hit "My Sweet Lord."

Harrison died at the age of 58 on Nov. 29, 2001, following a long battle with cancer. He left behind a wife, Olivia Arias Harrison, and son Dhani.


The Beatles (UK) Discography

22/03/63 - Please Please Me (Mono)
26/04/63 - Please Please Me (Stereo)
22/11/63 - With the Beatles
10/07/64 - A Hard Day's Night
4/12/64 - Beatles For Sale
6/08/65 - Help !
3/12/65 - Rubber Soul
5/08/66 - Revolver
10/12/66 - A Collection of Beatles Oldies
1/06/67 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
22/11/68 - The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album)
17/01/69 - Yellow Submarine
26/09/69 - Abbey Road
8/05/70 - Let it Be (Box Set)
6/11/70 - Let it Be
19/04/73 - 1962-1966 (The "Red" Album)
19/04/73 - 1967-1970 (The "Blue" Album)
19/11/76 - Magical Mystery Tour
6/05/77 - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
2/12/78 - Rarities
11/05/79 - Hey Jude
12/10/79 - Rarities
9/03/88 - Past Masters Vol. 1 Box Set
9/03/88 - Past Masters Vol. 2 Box Set
30/11/94 - Live at the BBC
21/11/95 - Anthology 1
18/03/96 - Anthology 2
28/10/96 - Anthology 3
13/11/00 - 1
17/11/03 - Let It Be... Naked
20/11/06 - Love

George Harrison Discography

1968 Wonderwall Music -
1969 Electronic Sound
1970 All Things Must Pass
1971 The Concert for Bangladesh
1973 Living in the Material World
1974 Dark Horse
1975 Extra Texture (Read All About It)
1976 Thirty Three & 1/3
1976 The Best of George Harrison
1979 George Harrison
1981 Somewhere in England
1982 Gone Troppo
1987 Cloud Nine
1989 Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989
1992 Live in Japan
2002 Brainwashed

The Traveling Wilburys Discography

1988 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
1990 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
2007 The Traveling Wilburys Collection

AH ######!!! soryy guys about all the x's it wasn't supposed to happen ah ###### srry guys but i gotta go im sorry that this legends thread sucks but i only had about 1 hour to do it because i've been really busy this week ill fix it later when i can .

Z :smile:

Well , the text is good :smile:

Another brilliant piece. A good choice as well. When you first started this i had a feeling you would stick to just metal legends because thats what you seem to be into. But i am happy to say, you proved me wrong. keep this up and you will become one of the GTU greats Like dadfad, lousiffer, rupert pupkin, HMB, et al. Well done. Shame about all the red Xs.

I think you should seriously do one about Curt Kirkwood, or let me do it. I can appreciate the time you took to get the information and type it all in and stuff but the guitarists you write about are among the most popular and you can find information about them just about anywhere.

Of course that is a great piece again, but if you could edit and add 'Something' as one of his Beatles contributions then all will be will with the world!

Nice job Angus... Again very well done.

Very, very well done! I love stuff like this, and I really enjoyed your post.

And me!

Good job Angus...keep up the good work

Yeah I Thought i shouldn't limit myself to certain styles of music because i listen to alot of different styles rock/metal/punk/goth/death/blues/ etc but i suppose other people assumes the same thing Rick considering i used to say i was a metal head when the Prik and me started the metahead room threads :smile: And that is a great compliment about being one of the GTU greats i never intended these threads to get such a great response but shows what i know :smile:

Yeah it is a shame about the red X's im in the process of fixing them now :smile:

Z :smile:

Ok there you go folks the majority of the red X's are fixed like i said in the edit at the bottom of my original post if anyone comes across the images for the ones without images PM them to me please i shall give you full credit :smile:

Z :smile:

good stuff

legends 6 - MIKE PATTON

ah you pesky americans with your alternate albums....

wait a sec... youre scottish! how come you've got a loada weird albums on the discography... the ones i knew of went like this

please please me
with the beatles
beatles for sale
hard days night
help
rubber soul
revolver
magical mystery tour
sgt peppers lonely hearts club band
yellow submarine
the beatles
abbey road
let it be

not sure of the order...

I will second that.

This is Curt Kirkwood.

this isn't me

Cris and Curt Kirkwood, early 1960s.

Maybe...:wink:

Z :smile:

Yeah im sorry about that it was a bugger trying to find a decent discography for the beatles i just found what looked like the most reliable one and used that sorry if i am wrong .

Z :smile:

Ok granted some of the guys(i dont just do guitarists) i do are well known but they are legends that why they are in my Legends Threads i shall look into Curt Kirkwood i don't consider him a legend but i guess others do I might do one on him .

Z :smile:

are you worthy enough tho? :wink:

I've been listening to and playing guitar since the mid-seventies. At least in the world of rock guitar I've seen very few play with the fire and abandon that Curt Kirkwood does. He has all the skill and technique that most of the more well known guitarists do but isn't afraid to take chances or make some noise.
If you want I can do one about Curt Kirkwood. Though you will earn quite a few coolness points if you do it.

talented as George Harrison is, it seems odd to me choosing him a sa "legend" before Lennon and McCartney

Well Lennon and McCartney will be done but they are always done first etc so i thought i woudl do a legends on Harrison first :smile:

Z :smile:

That was nice reading. I think that now it's Lennon's turn.

Patience Is A Virtue My Friend .

Zak

George harrison is my hero

"concert for george" kicks almost as much ass as mxtabs.net. jeff lynne owned that show.

wonderful good work. george was always my favorite guitarist.

it doesn't seem odd i think george was just as good i thought his solo career was the best out of the four. in the beggining he might not have had enough songwriting skills but i think hes better at playing guitar then lennon and definitly mccartney when he plays his guitar.

My favorite Beatles' member. He was the best.

fantastic

aren't you forgetting his solo albums? All thing must pass? dark horse? Brainwashed? cloud 9? sorry I jus tlove my solo Harrison.

George Harrison is totally awesome.... as you all probably know


No one agrees with me, but I believe he is the absolute best.

Thanks George
RIP 1943-2001

How could you, Michael Abrams? :'(

As some of you know, George is a very close friend of Clapton, George is also one of my fave guitarists. I liked his song with ringo, "Photograph".

and clapton. who was the one soloing in 'something'? i dont recognize him.

Patience, is indeed the queen of all Virtues

Dorio

I believe that Harrison was a better writer and lyricist than Lennon or McCartney anyways. He was definitely the best guitarist out of the three as well.

Well that makes you a George Harrison fan rather than a Beatle fan anyway. George was a very good guitarist to begin with but as far as songwriting was concerned he learnt it all from Lennon/McCartney and i'm not that sure that he managed to top them even as a solo artist. And he was the first to admit that....He was also very humble when it came to his guitar playing he considered himself a mediocre guitarist even though we all know better.


Also, Paul McCartney is not a bad guitarist either he can make a Gibson sing laugh and cry too

Well, obviously Lennon and McCartney didn't think he was that good of a song writer because a lot of the materials from All Things Must Pass were stuff he wrote for the Beatles that they passed up. The critics gave him a lot of recognition over the other two's songs when he did get a track on their albums (like While My Guitar Gently Weeps).

...then again, I am a George Harrison fan so maybe the way I get my facts is biased. *laugh*

This thread was dedicated to George and not the Fab Four. But... as i'm an old fan, I prefer Beatle George than solo George. True: with the Beatles he was granted a very small space per album (one or two songs) that's why his first solo album (if we don't take into account the ones he released when the Beatles were still active) was so productive ("All Things Must Pass") but sadly what came after that, has never been has good as "All Things..." We had to wait till '87 and the release of "Cloud Nine" to get something as good as "All Things Must Pass". I'm also a great fan of his work with the Traveling Wilburys super band and those CD's he has produced for Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar...... What was to be admired about his solo career was also his ability to preserve his image of "Quiet Beatle".


Here's to you George

I should make a legend for the Traveling Wilburys.

I've always liked Beatle George rather than solo George (and same with the other Beatles). I do believe that George had the best solo career (not as far as success, but as in material, imo). And as much of a George fan that I am, I must say that I am offended by your comment, Dorio. I am a Beatles fan over all else. As great as the four musicians were individually, they were best together. I just happen to like George the best, and find his talents to be overlooked during the time of the Beatles, and even looking back today. However, I guess I don't have any complaints, because the cards played out pretty damn well anyways.

I now feel that I have a bone to pick with you, Dorio. Nothing personal, of course

Now, that would be cool, even tough there were only three albums... but... what albums!


OK, ok. I just needed some solid PROOF! Now, I believe you


Choose your weapon kkatarn! En garde!

Three? There was only Volume 1 and Volume 3.

Volume II was posthume, because Roy Orbison died during the recording so they decided to not release it, and to call the next album Vol III (in Roy Orbison's memory) But there are also four bootlegs.....and one compilation with alternatives and unreleased tracks and five singles (very hard to find by now)

But in actual albums released, there were two.



Either way, here's to Nelson Wilbury

Yep! It's a fact. To sum it up (even tho' i've heard all kind of wild rumours and stories) volume 3 was in fact volume 2 but when it was released Roy Orbison had joined the greater forces. It's only rocknroll. Here's to Roy