I am a big fan of George, and his is my favorite work from any solo Beatle. Ok your turn, please tell us why you choose what you do. Yes I like Wonderwall & GH 1979, but I'll stick by those 4 choices as his masterworks I offer a little grace for 2-3 weaker songs, cause he was dying, this more than the first 3 is based on my own opinion & critical opinion. All Things Must Pass based mostly on strength of the material & critical & commercial success.Ĥ. Pick any album whether it's live, non pop, whatever you think is right.ġ. Quality of songs, we know Something is a classic, but how good is the material on given album.Ĥ performance singing, playing, production & arrangementsħ. Critics, peers of Harrison, art & music community, did they rate it highly.ģ. Reception, commercial success, was it a hit, did it influence society, public response.Ģ. Your personal feelings about an album are important, but please consider the other factors as well.ġ. Here is the criteria to consider, please consider all criteria. When was George Harrison album of high art. He left an estate of almost £100 million.I use the term masterpiece, slightly loosely, perhaps we should use a term like A+ or top shelf albums. His remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. Harrison died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his Friar Park home. The following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani. He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004.Harrison's first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". A prolific recording artist, he was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Tom Petty, among others. In 1988, he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer.
In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, "My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. Having initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences. His songs for the group included "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something". Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
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