I always find it fascinating how a person can hold such enlightened spirituality, or insight into the world and those who inhabit it, while also being so incredibly flawed and. My son read it a few years ago and savored it also, finding its depth of information useful prior to his interview as a Beatles historian. The content of his previous album, Somewhere in England, had been the subject of scrutiny by Warner Bros.

Harrison still comes off as prickly and resentful (and not a great husband), but it did highlight the ways in which he succeeded in a career post-Beatles. As close as we will get to an autobiography of the Beatle, featuring George Harrison in conversation with Derek Taylor. This drawback weakens the results, but as the fourth installment in his commendable life’s work on The Beatles collectively and individually, his mastery of the subject resounds to recommend this to anyone listening to the Quiet One. Gerard was Ringo Starr's business manager from the early 1970s and a director of the Beatles Apple Corps Ltd. Among the changes carried out when Harrison revisited "Flying Hour" in 1987, the track has a longer running time than the 1980 mix, partly through the reinstating of a 20-second instrumental break late in the song, and Harrison's slide guitar features less prominently.On my end, my favorite was George whose solo album, All Things Must Pass touched parts of my heart that I had long ago bricked away so nobody could ever hurt me again. Harrison provided text commenting on the story behind some of the songs, along with facsimiles of his original lyric sheets. The assailant Michael Abram, Harrison said, “certainly wasn’t auditioning for the Traveling Wilburys”. It was published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by Genesis Publications, with a mixture of printed text and multi-colour facsimiles of Harrison's handwritten song lyrics.

It was a long, slow grind to the top for the Beatles, and their extreme poverty and horrid living conditions for many years while they toured and tried to make a name for themselves would have broken most people.A subversive streak saw him mortgage his country pile to provide last-minute finance to the imperilled production of Monty Python’s Life of Brian. I was easily able to contact Steve Abbott through a friend in the film business, but Abbott had never met the louder whistleblower, John Reiss, and had no idea where to find him. I believe George was a gifted, if not genius, guitarist with a very kind and elevated heart through his religious quest. A supportive (and often uncredited) role in Ringo Starr’s post-Beatles solo career didn’t prevent Harrison from making a move on the drummer’s wife, Maureen, an incursion described by Norman as having mined “the depths of disloyalty”. However, he couldn't seem to bring himself to be nice to his first wife, Pattie Boyd, who famously goes on to marry his best friend, Eric Clapton.