Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer. In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid.
After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, " My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. Having initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use of Indian instruments, such as sitar, on numerous Beatles songs, starting with " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences. His songs for the group include " Taxman", " Within You Without You", " While My Guitar Gently Weeps", " Here Comes the Sun" and " Something". Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. The 16LP The George Harrison Vinyl Collection is out now and can be ordered here.George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
You may know the hits – and there are plenty, ‘My Sweet Lord’ and ‘Got My Mind Set On You’ among them – but there’s a lot more to get to grips with in a richly rewarding, ever impressive body of work that will have you coming back for more, time and again.Ĭlick here to read the George Harrison Album By Album series.
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Taken together, Harrison’s solo work is fascinating and wide-ranging, and uDiscover’s George Harrison Album By Album series takes an in-depth look at his solo outings, including the iconic Concert For Bangladesh and other stand-out efforts such as Living In The Material World and Dark Horse.Įach entry is essential reading for fans of Harrison’s solo music, and also serves as a perfect primer for newcomers looking to dig deeper into his work. It was the fascinating first step in a solo career that’s celebrated in the vinyl box set The George Harrison Vinyl Collection, a lavish 16LP set that collects each of Harrison’s 12 studio albums, along with the 1992 live recording, Live In Japan.
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In reality, Harrison’s first solo album was the Wonderwall Music, a 1968 soundtrack recording for the film Wonderwall, and an album on which Harrison gave free rein to his oft-hidden experimental side.