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“He only had that little spotlight in every Beatles song – George Martin telling him what he could or couldn’t play. That’s what helped create that later style”: Dhani Harrison on the making of Living in the Material World – and George’s slide style | Guitar World

    “He only had that little spotlight in every Beatles song – George Martin telling him what he could or couldn’t play. That’s what helped create that later style”: Dhani Harrison on the making of Living in the Material World – and George’s slide style | Guitar World

If you’d been taking bets in 1970 on which former Beatle would be the most successful in the new decade, George Harrison was definitely – to borrow the name of

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George Harrison explains why the Traveling Wilburys succeeded

    George Harrison explains why the Traveling Wilburys succeeded

Let’s be realistic for a second: The Traveling Wilburys were always going to be a success. You can’t put Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison

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The worst guitar track George Harrison ever played

    The worst guitar track George Harrison ever played

Saying that anything that The Beatles is the “worst” thing ever should not be taken lightly. After all, if anyone so much as insinuates that any Fab Four tune not

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“If we had tried to plan it, it would’ve never happened. The thing happened just by magic”: From Beatlemania to All Things Must Pass and beyond – the definitive guitar history of George Harrison’s greatest recorded works | Guitar World

    “If we had tried to plan it, it would’ve never happened. The thing happened just by magic”: From Beatlemania to All Things Must Pass and beyond – the definitive guitar history of George Harrison’s greatest recorded works | Guitar World

This February 23, George Harrison would’ve turned 82. But, as is often the case, the universe had a different plan in mind, and – instead – the former Beatle left

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Did George Harrison and Eric Clapton have a guitar duel?

    Did George Harrison and Eric Clapton have a guitar duel?

Some stories in music history are so absurd they feel too good to be true—stranger than fiction, as artists collide

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The Mick Fleetwood song that featured George Harrison

    The Mick Fleetwood song that featured George Harrison

Fleetwood Mac is one of the most unique entities in music, not just because of their impact, but because each

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The real reason George Harrison laid off from songwriting

    The real reason George Harrison laid off from songwriting

By the time lead guitarist George Harrison sought to pen his first song for The Beatles, the John Lennon and

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The Beatles song John Lennon hated but George Harrison adored

    The Beatles song John Lennon hated but George Harrison adored

One of the best things about The Beatles during their early days was how different they all appeared to be

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When George Harrison’s idea was killed by The Traveling Wilbury’s

    When George Harrison’s idea was killed by The Traveling Wilbury’s

The word supergroup does enough to send a shiver down my spine these days. Laced with commerciality and usually a

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George Harrison on the secret weapon of the Traveling Wilburys

    George Harrison on the secret weapon of the Traveling Wilburys

A band is always much more than the people out front half the time. The frontman and the lead guitarist might be the ones acting as the group’s mouthpiece whenever

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