Of all the Beatles, it is George Harrison and his songs that have meant the most to me for the longest time, especially his final album, "Brainwashed," released in 2002. R gave me the triple album "All Things Must Pass" for Christmas a few weeks after he returned from Vietnam in 1970. R first heard the album while he was still in Vietnam. It was R who called me from California in November 2001 with the sad news that George Harrison had died.
Today when George Harrison would have been 78 years old, I am remembering him in his role as one of the Traveling Wilburys. In this song, his presence, his voice, and his guitar work are particularly distinctive and heartening to me:
2 comments:
The concert for Bangladesh was my favourite George Harrison moment.
George has always been my favorite Beatle, too.
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