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George Harrison’s Widow on ‘Living in the Material World’ Deluxe

    George Harrison’s Widow on ‘Living in the Material World’ Deluxe

In her office at the Friar Park estate where she and George Harrison lived, Olivia Harrison grabs a piece of correspondence she only recently saw: a handwritten letter from her

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The one Beatles collaborator George Harrison called a “disaster”

    The one Beatles collaborator George Harrison called a “disaster”

There are plenty of stories about the positive collaborations that shaped the world of The Beatles. The impact of George Martin was so influential that they deemed him the fifth

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Paul McCartney Shared Final Moments With George Harrison

    Paul McCartney Shared Final Moments With George Harrison

When the Beatles hit the music scene in the early 1960s, they changed the world as we knew it. Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Ringo Starr were trailblazers

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The one artist who missed out on joining The Traveling Wilburys

    The one artist who missed out on joining The Traveling Wilburys

Sometimes, the Traveling Wilburys seem like a fever dream. If you took a blow to the head and started telling your friend about a band that consisted of Bob Dylan,

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“It was a bit of a number for me to have to dare to tell George Harrison not to play guitar. It was like an insult”: Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison’s proposed guitar parts for Hey Jude | Guitar World

    “It was a bit of a number for me to have to dare to tell George Harrison not to play guitar. It was like an insult”: Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison’s proposed guitar parts for Hey Jude | Guitar World

Even in the Beatles’ ever-ubiquitous catalog, Hey Jude occupies a special place.Written by Paul McCartney as a pick-me-up for John

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How George Harrison and Bob Dylan saved John Fogerty’s career

    How George Harrison and Bob Dylan saved John Fogerty’s career

Looking through the pantheon of 20th-century music, it is easy to see a heavy conglomerate of stars from the 1960s.

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The Paul McCartney song that George Harrison hated with a passion

    The Paul McCartney song that George Harrison hated with a passion

It’s no secret that one of the most strained relationships within The Beatles was between Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

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The George Harrison song that took five years to release

    The George Harrison song that took five years to release

For any songwriter, a tune usually never arrives fully formed. Even if a song ends up birthing itself out of

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The first sign George Harrison wanted to leave The Beatles

    The first sign George Harrison wanted to leave The Beatles

George Harrison was never meant to stay in The Beatles by the end of the 1960s. He had developed into

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The Beatles track created like “like a million other songs”

    The Beatles track created like “like a million other songs”

The story of how some songs were created is thrilling. The perfect coming together of inspiration and happenstance, an artist finds themselves at exactly the right place at exactly the

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