Harrison
by Editors of Rolling Stone
Book Description: George Harrison was one of the most adored
and accomplished musicians of the rock & roll era. His brilliant, understated
guitar playing helped define the sound of the Beatles, and his songs --
including "Something," "Here Comes the Sun" and "While My Guitar Gently
Weeps" -- are among the group's finest. Harrison's lifelong quest for new
sounds had a profound influence on the Beatles; he introduced the sitar
and other Eastern instruments into the group -- and to rock & roll.
In the late sixties he also led the Beatles to explore Eastern religion
and embarked on a personal spiritual journey that continued for the rest
of his life. In 1970, following the Beatles' breakup, Harrison released
a solo masterpiece, All Things Must Pass, and the next year he pioneered
rock's first large-scale charity event with the Concert for Bangladesh.
Harrison launched a solo tour in 1974 and made a series of wonderful solo
albums and side projects with friends like Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar and
fellow Beatle Ringo Starr. In the late eighties he formed the Traveling
Wilburys with his friends Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne,
but Harrison spent most of that decade and the nineties at home in England
and Hawaii, tending to his garden, playing the ukulele and enjoying a quiet
life with his wife, Olivia, and son, Dhani.
ROLLING STONE featured George Harrison on its cover three times for
his post-Beatles work and eight times as a Beatle. He was also featured
on the cover of a special commemorative issue, as well as on the magazine's
regular edition, following his death from cancer at age fifty-eight, on
November 29, 2001. Now, in a definitive tribute that features a new foreword
by Olivia Harrison, the editors have drawn on their archives and hundreds
of photographs, both the iconographic and the rarely seen, to celebrate
the life and career of one of the most important musicians in rock &
roll history.
Compiled by the editors of ROLLING STONE, Harrison chronicles the guitarist's
life before, during and after the Beatles. Contributing editor Mikal Gilmore
offers an expansive, thoughtful new essay, "The Mystery Inside George."
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner and ROLLING STONE senior editor David Fricke
tells the stories behind Harrison's best-known songs, and offers a guide
to twenty-five essential Harrison recordings. Harrison also features news
stories and interviews with the guitarist from throughout ROLLING STONE's
history -- from his first Q&A with the magazine, in 1968, to his last,
a 1987 interview with ROLLING STONE contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis.
Harrison also collects more than one hundred photographs -- from intimate,
never-before-seen family photos to iconic images of Harrison as a member
of the world's most photographed band. The work of nine renowned photographers
is featured in a stunning sixty-page gallery. Included among them are German
photographers Max Scheler's and Jürgen Vollmer's early photos of the
band's wild days in Hamburg. There is also the deeply personal work of
Astrid Kirchherr, who shot the Beatles' earliest formal portraits in a
Hamburg fairground and became a close friend of George's. P.J. Griffiths
photographed the band for a newspaper article in 1963 on the Liverpool
scene. David Hurn shot the filming of A Hard Day's Night and Help! Curt
Gunther was one of the few photographers allowed to travel with the group
during their 1964 North American tour. And Mark Seliger shot what became
the definitive late-period portrait of Harrison for ROLLING STONE's twenty-fifth
anniversary issue in 1992.
Paperback from Simon & Schuster
Harrison
by Rolling Stone (Editor)
Hardcover: 240 pages
Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0743235819;
I,
Me, Mine
by George Harrison, Olivia Harrison
Hardcover from Chronicle Books
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Before
He Was Fab : George Harrison's First American Visit
by Jim Kirkpatrick
Paperback from Cache River Pr
Special Order
George
Harrison Anthology: 27 Greatest Hits, Including Something-My Sweet Lord-When
We Was Fab
by George Harrison, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Paperback from Hal Leonard
1992
Raga Mala
by George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin
Listeed under Indian Music
Behind
That Locked Door: George Harrison - After the Break-up of the Beatles
by Elliot J. Huntley
Paperback from Xerostar Holdings
Dark
Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison
by Geoffrey Giuliano
Paperback from DaCapo Press
Concert for Bangladesh
George Harrison - VHS tape
Listed under Beatles
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