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My favourite Beatle
Here's an excerpt from George Harrison's obituary published in The Guardian: For the Beatles, he designed breaks and riffs. But for himself, he lacked—or rarely took—the opportunity to cut loose in the rockabilly style of his American hero, Carl Perkins. And with, and without, the Beatles, he was also an underrated songwriter. Something (1969) was a great song - even the Beatles's antithesis, Frank Sinatra, picked up on it - and My Sweet Lord (1970), while unconsciously plagiarised from Lonnie Mack's He's So Fine, justifiably sold in its millions. ¶ In 1971 came his New York concert for Bangladesh. That new country had been devastated by war and floods, and the event launched the vogue for celebrity rock fund-raising. It also resulted in a three-volume album, featuring Harrison with Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Ravi Shankar, and put the stamp on Harrison's relationship with the Indian sub-continent that had begun when he effectively introduced the sitar to the Beatles in the mid-1960s. |
