Harrison Archive
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“…that was how I was able to let a wonderfully sweet man named George know how much he meant to me.” - fan Marilyn Blake, Goldmine (January 25, 2002)
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November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“…that was how I was able to let a wonderfully sweet man named George know how much he meant to me.” - fan Marilyn Blake, Goldmine (January 25, 2002)
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“[George] knew: This was bad, I’ve got to get back. And maybe that was the Catholic guilt he was always trying to leave behind. Maybe he never did. Maybe that was the tilt mechanism, I don’t know.” - Olivia Harrison, NYT (2011)
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November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“[George] knew: This was bad, I’ve got to get back. And maybe that was the Catholic guilt he was always trying to leave behind. Maybe he never did. Maybe that was the tilt mechanism, I don’t know.” - Olivia Harrison, NYT (2011)
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“I don’t see it like I’m making a comeback; I’ve always laughed at that — making a comeback. […] [W]e continue to exist whether we’re cool and groovy or not.” - George Harrison, Guitar Player Magazine (Nov. 1987)
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November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“I don’t see it like I’m making a comeback; I’ve always laughed at that — making a comeback. […] [W]e continue to exist whether we’re cool and groovy or not.” - George Harrison, Guitar Player Magazine (Nov. 1987)
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“[George] was just a wonderful person and whenever I was in trouble, like with money and things, he was always looking after me. […] I just miss him terribly because he was like a little guardian angel for me.” - Astrid Kirchherr
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November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“[George] was just a wonderful person and whenever I was in trouble, like with money and things, he was always looking after me. […] I just miss him terribly because he was like a little guardian angel for me.” - Astrid Kirchherr
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“Olivia came into the picture at just the right time, a crazy, dark time. […] [W]ithout her things would have got worse.” - Jim Keltner, MOJO (Nov. 2014)
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November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Olivia came into the picture at just the right time, a crazy, dark time. […] [W]ithout her things would have got worse.” - Jim Keltner, MOJO (Nov. 2014)
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Q: “Was it love at first sight?”
Olivia Harrison: “Pretty much. We felt it in our hearts from before we met. Even on the phone, we seemed to have some understanding, like you do when you meet the right person. And he was a charmer, such a charmer!”
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Olivia Harrison: “Pretty much. We felt it in our hearts from before we met. Even on the phone, we seemed to have some understanding, like you do when you meet the right person. And he was a charmer, such a charmer!”
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November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Q: “Was it love at first sight?”
Olivia Harrison: “Pretty much. We felt it in our hearts from before we met. Even on the phone, we seemed to have some understanding, like you do when you meet the right person. And he was a charmer, such a charmer!”
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Olivia Harrison: “Pretty much. We felt it in our hearts from before we met. Even on the phone, we seemed to have some understanding, like you do when you meet the right person. And he was a charmer, such a charmer!”
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“The lyrics are just, if you listen to them, talking about everyone’s self-realization. You know, get in there and take them apart, listen to them and get them in your head because they’re only gonna be good for you.” - Dhani Harrison on Brainwashed
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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“The lyrics are just, if you listen to them, talking about everyone’s self-realization. You know, get in there and take them apart, listen to them and get them in your head because they’re only gonna be good for you.” - Dhani Harrison on Brainwashed
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“They called him ‘the quiet Beatle,’ but he wasn’t particularly quiet; he simply didn’t demand to be heard.” - Paul Simon, Rolling Stone (2002)
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, another clip from George’s appearance on Saturday Night Live with Paul Simon, Nov. 1976.
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, another clip from George’s appearance on Saturday Night Live with Paul Simon, Nov. 1976.
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“They called him ‘the quiet Beatle,’ but he wasn’t particularly quiet; he simply didn’t demand to be heard.” - Paul Simon, Rolling Stone (2002)
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, another clip from George’s appearance on Saturday Night Live with Paul Simon, Nov. 1976.
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, another clip from George’s appearance on Saturday Night Live with Paul Simon, Nov. 1976.
George’s appearance with Paul Simon on Saturday Night Live was taped on November 18, 1976.
“The harmonies are just about perfect.” - Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone (December 30, 1976)
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“The harmonies are just about perfect.” - Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone (December 30, 1976)
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November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
George’s appearance with Paul Simon on Saturday Night Live was taped on November 18, 1976.
“The harmonies are just about perfect.” - Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone (December 30, 1976)
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“The harmonies are just about perfect.” - Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone (December 30, 1976)
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Tom Petty: “I’ve got four ukuleles at my house just for emergencies, you know.”
Ringo Starr: “In case George gets withdrawal.” - Interview Magazine (June 1992)
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Clip from Living In The Material World.
Ringo Starr: “In case George gets withdrawal.” - Interview Magazine (June 1992)
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Clip from Living In The Material World.
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Tom Petty: “I’ve got four ukuleles at my house just for emergencies, you know.”
Ringo Starr: “In case George gets withdrawal.” - Interview Magazine (June 1992)
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Clip from Living In The Material World.
Ringo Starr: “In case George gets withdrawal.” - Interview Magazine (June 1992)
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Clip from Living In The Material World.
“I have always said, George to me is like all combined, like a son, like a friend, like a brother, everything. And I loved him so much and I miss him so very much I cannot express.” - Ravi Shankar, BBC Radio (2009)
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“I have always said, George to me is like all combined, like a son, like a friend, like a brother, everything. And I loved him so much and I miss him so very much I cannot express.” - Ravi Shankar, BBC Radio (2009)
“[D]eath wasn’t supposed to happen to Uncle George. Not yet. He was younger than my father, like a son to him. And when he died I realized he was like a father to me.” - Anoushka Shankar in the dedication to George in her book Bapi (2002)
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November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“[D]eath wasn’t supposed to happen to Uncle George. Not yet. He was younger than my father, like a son to him. And when he died I realized he was like a father to me.” - Anoushka Shankar in the dedication to George in her book Bapi (2002)
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“I remember as a baby standing on a little leather stool, singing [Josh White’s] ‘One Meatball.’” - George Harrison, I Me Mine (1980)
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📷: George with his brother Peter, in a photo supplied to Mersey Beat by their mother Louise.
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📷: George with his brother Peter, in a photo supplied to Mersey Beat by their mother Louise.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“I remember as a baby standing on a little leather stool, singing [Josh White’s] ‘One Meatball.’” - George Harrison, I Me Mine (1980)
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📷: George with his brother Peter, in a photo supplied to Mersey Beat by their mother Louise.
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📷: George with his brother Peter, in a photo supplied to Mersey Beat by their mother Louise.
“The world is a sadder and poorer place without George. We need good people, and we just lost a shining light. Thank you for all of your music George.” - Mark Cope, CMJ New Music Report (Dec. 2001)
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November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The world is a sadder and poorer place without George. We need good people, and we just lost a shining light. Thank you for all of your music George.” - Mark Cope, CMJ New Music Report (Dec. 2001)
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“Harrison was a total sweetheart, everything you would want a former Beatle to be — charming, warm, personable and hilariously funny.” - Creem editors J. Kordosh & Bill Holdship, New Times LA (December 2001)
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November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“Harrison was a total sweetheart, everything you would want a former Beatle to be — charming, warm, personable and hilariously funny.” - Creem editors J. Kordosh & Bill Holdship, New Times LA (December 2001)
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“Running around atop Popdom's Mount Olympus, I always found George one of the most human, one of the most natural, one of the most unaffected of the superstar gods.” - Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Journalist (2001)
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November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Running around atop Popdom's Mount Olympus, I always found George one of the most human, one of the most natural, one of the most unaffected of the superstar gods.” - Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Journalist (2001)
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“Our son, Dhani, and I, like George’s friends, were spoiled by his rich and loving presence: from the morning wake-up call, […] to the day’s final tune, maybe whistled on his way to bed.” - Olivia
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November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Our son, Dhani, and I, like George’s friends, were spoiled by his rich and loving presence: from the morning wake-up call, […] to the day’s final tune, maybe whistled on his way to bed.” - Olivia
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“You would wake up to ‘Bugle Call Rag’ on the jukebox, that was his way of getting Dhani up for school. You know, loud. [laughs] He probably would have covered ‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ by now, you know, because he had a funny version of that.” - Olivia
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November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“You would wake up to ‘Bugle Call Rag’ on the jukebox, that was his way of getting Dhani up for school. You know, loud. [laughs] He probably would have covered ‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ by now, you know, because he had a funny version of that.” - Olivia
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“[George would] notice things. We’d walk in the grass and he’d bend over and go, ‘Oh, look at that little guy’ and it would be a bug. I’d say, ‘How did you see that?’ He was just really present.” - Olivia Harrison
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November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“[George would] notice things. We’d walk in the grass and he’d bend over and go, ‘Oh, look at that little guy’ and it would be a bug. I’d say, ‘How did you see that?’ He was just really present.” - Olivia Harrison
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“Each Beatle differs so much from the other Beatles that it’s odd they get on so well together. […] They derive strength from being collective.” - Maureen Cleave, Evening Chronicle (Oct. 16, 1963)
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November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“Each Beatle differs so much from the other Beatles that it’s odd they get on so well together. […] They derive strength from being collective.” - Maureen Cleave, Evening Chronicle (Oct. 16, 1963)
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Clip from The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross, filmed on October 16, 1987.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Clip from The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross, filmed on October 16, 1987.
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The full interview — www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkc8...
Clip from Good Morning America, October 1981. Interview conducted by David Hartman.
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Clip from Good Morning America, October 1981. Interview conducted by David Hartman.
“My earliest memory of my dad is probably of him somewhere in a garden covered in dirt, […] just continuously planting trees. I think that’s what I thought he did for the first seven years of my life.” - Dhani, Living In The Material World (2011)
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November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“My earliest memory of my dad is probably of him somewhere in a garden covered in dirt, […] just continuously planting trees. I think that’s what I thought he did for the first seven years of my life.” - Dhani, Living In The Material World (2011)
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“[George] really loved flowers, you know? He’d — I remember we were going by some flower, some plant once, and he said, ‘Tom, look at this, ‘cause I have pictures of these in my wallet.’ [laughs]” - Tom Petty, Sound Opinions (2003)
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November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“[George] really loved flowers, you know? He’d — I remember we were going by some flower, some plant once, and he said, ‘Tom, look at this, ‘cause I have pictures of these in my wallet.’ [laughs]” - Tom Petty, Sound Opinions (2003)
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“You’re on holiday with [George] and every morning he’d say, ‘Oh, come and see the trees.’ ‘Okay, yeah.’ And then the next day, ‘Oh, come and see the trees.’ ‘Yeah, okay.’ And then, ‘Come and see…’ ‘I’ve seen your bloody trees!’” - Ringo Starr, Concert for George microsite
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November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“You’re on holiday with [George] and every morning he’d say, ‘Oh, come and see the trees.’ ‘Okay, yeah.’ And then the next day, ‘Oh, come and see the trees.’ ‘Yeah, okay.’ And then, ‘Come and see…’ ‘I’ve seen your bloody trees!’” - Ringo Starr, Concert for George microsite
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