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‘Even Though Subconsciously Accomplished’: How George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet Lord’ Became Music’s Most Famous Lawsuit
“Even Though Subconsciously Accomplished”: How George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” Became Music’s Most Famous Lawsuit In December 1969, George Harrison slipped away from a press conference in Copenhagen, went upstairs to a quiet room, and picked up a guitar. He was on tour as a guest artist with Delaney & Bonnie, still officially a Beatle,…
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George Harrison: The Gardener, the Racer, and the Heart Behind the Quiet Beatle
They called him the quiet Beatle, and he spent the second half of his life proving the nickname was only half true. George Harrison was quiet the way a garden is quiet — full of life, if you knew where to look. Behind the reserve was a man of fierce devotions: to his wives and…
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How George Harrison Created “All Things Must Pass”: The Triple Album That Set a Beatle Free
For most of the 1960s, George Harrison was the most talented songwriter in the world with nowhere to put his songs. The Beatles’ albums had room for two, maybe three Harrison compositions; the rest went into a drawer. By 1970 the drawer was overflowing, the band was finished, and the “quiet Beatle” had something to…
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The Untold Story of George Harrison: The Hit He Copied Without Knowing, the House He Mortgaged for a Laugh, and the Night His Wife Saved His Life
They called him the quiet Beatle, and for years that was a convenient way to overlook him. But George Harrison lived one of the most dramatic lives in rock history: the first Beatle to walk out, the author of a prayer that became a plagiarism landmark, the man who invented the modern benefit concert, a…