McCartney Times

As a member of one of popular music’s most important foundational groups, George Harrison sat at the very centre of the music industry. Over the course of his career, he engaged in numerous collaborations and developed life-long friendships with the likes of Bob Dylan. One of Harrison’s lesser-known friendships was with Hall & Oates member John Oates, who he first met during the 1970s.

George Harrison was an obsessive. His fascination with Indian classical music, for example, found an outlet in his lessons with Ravi Shanker, who taught The Beatles to play the sitar in the 1960s. Harrison was also ever so slightly obsessed with, somewhat counter-intuitively, F1. The race track was a social space for George, who was good friends with revered driver Jackie Stewart. In fact, it was Stewart who introduced Oates to Harrison. “George and I had become friends through our mutual love of Formula One racing,” John told Leo Weekly. “I’m a bit of a fanatic when it comes to cars, and I mostly knew him from that other context.”

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