While promoting the newBeatlesalbum,Abbey Road, in 1969,John LennondescribedGeorge Harrison’s “Something” as “about the best track on the album” – high praise, indeed. Released as a single in October that year (October 6 in the US and October 31 in the UK), “Something” would be...
The 45-year old musician was heading to a marina south of Los Angeles, where he and girlfriend Yvonne Mayotte hoped to spend the winter. Longtime friend Bill Ellis, who had been Smith’s roadie in Loverboy through the ‘80s, was also on board -- and the trio planned an additional stopo...
Thursday, May 5, 2022 Those words, from Don’t Bother Me, a glum kiss-off to an lover, which appeared on The Beatles’ 1963 album With The Beatles, mark George Harrison’s first recorded entry as a songwriter. It wasn’t of any significant artistic weight that would rattle the axis of...
George Harrison: Now That Guy Knew How to ListenJust like musicians, executives must hear themselves and others at the same time.David Silverman
Harrison had hit it off with drummer Jim Gordon, bassist Carl Radle and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock while sitting in with Delaney & Bonnie during a 1969 tour. He was already friends withEric Clapton, who collaborated with Harrison on the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" andCream's "Bad...
George Harrison once revealed how he wanted people to use his songs. He wanted them to record their own versions. Plenty of artists have covered George’s songs over the years. After The Beatles broke up in 1970, the band fought tremendously. It left the door open for anyone to come in...
Turns out he was ensnared in a difficult legal fight and, once he got free, Fogerty began reeling off music that showed he'd lost none of the roots-rocking gumption associated with his old band. 84: Bachman-Turner Overdrive Michael Ochs Archive, Getty Images 84: Bachman-Turner Overdrive...
George Harrison (1970): Bottled up creatively for years, George Harrison's first proper solo release was a all-encompassing, Wagnerian juggernaut. Every element of his overlooked genius, and outsized vision, is evident here. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs ...
"Jeff had come to the house in Tennessee when I lived there, with thoughts of writing and producing," Orbison recalled during the 1987 interview. "We worked a few days and then didn't get together again, and when I needed to get with Jeff he was with George Harrison ... and [working...
things, but one of the most recent is ‘Brian's life’, the great comedy of theMonty Pythonreleased in 1979. However, it was about not to be, since the mythical comic group was about to not be able to make the film and only the intervention ofGeorge Harrisonallowed the film to go ...