George Harrison: The Musical Journey of the Quiet Beatle (Jan, 2002)
Master CNN 2007/11/03 15:14JONATHAN MANN, CNN Anchor: All things must pass. George Harrison succumbs to cancer after life of music, mysticism and the legacy of Beatlemania.
PAUL McCARTNEY, Musician: He will be sorely missed. He’s a beautiful man, and the world will miss him.
MANN: George Harrison died Friday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 58. On our program today, George Harrison.
NICHOLAS GLASS, CNN Correspondent: All the Beatles were important but some, as we know, were more important than others.
For a heady eight years, George Harrison was lead guitarist with the biggest band on earth, and for the rest of his life, an ex-Beatle.
Only a select few like Elvis and Mohammed Ali have known such fame, such idolatry.in a moment of hyperbole called the Beatles the biggest event since the Second World War. The story wouldn’t have been quite the same without George.
PHILLIP NORMAN, Beatles’ Biographer: He was essential. He wasn’t a terrifically good guitarist. He wasn’t a marvelous singer. He just gave them something else. There was something in that band for everybody in the world. There was the cheeky one, there was the soulful one, there was the runt of the litter, who was Ringo, and then there was this quiet, rather withdrawn and haunted one, who was George.
GLASS: George Harrison was born in 1943, the third son of a Liverpool bus driver. Here he is aged 13 in 1956, getting a handle on his first guitar. Barely two years later, he joined the Quarrymen.
NORMAN: He was two years younger than John Lennon. He was a year and a bit younger than McCartney, and he was treated like a kid, yes the kid, the new kid, and they wanted him in because he could tune guitars. They couldn’t do it.
He felt often totally eclipsed. He was in the second division within the Beatles and there was no getting away from that. George Martin, their producer, was, has admitted to me he was often, as he put it, beastly to George because he didn’t rate him very highly, but he had to have George at the sessions.
GEORGE MARTIN, Beatles Producer: With tenants like John and Paul who are probably the greatest songwriters of the twentieth century as far as we’re concerned, it’s tough opposition. And they collaborated and kind of also rivaled each other in their writing. George didn’t have anybody. George had to do it by himself, and so he worked away at it and he had tremendous determination and application. He would, he would craft his music meticulously with every little stitch in the, in the canvas, and gradually built up his, his songwriting technique to a point where he became a great writer.
GLASS: There are a handful of Harrison songs in the Beatles’ canon,, , , , and .
And after the Beatles, there was album after album. There was a plagiarism row about his most famous song,. It was resolved by George buying the rights to the tune, by the Chiffons.
“What we did was what we did, but what we are is something different.” That’s how John Lennon summed up the Beatles.
George Harrison was the younger brother, the guy who could tune a guitar, learned to craft a song, the spiritual and intensely private who got to make his own contribution.
PAUL McCARTNEY, Musician: He will be sorely missed. He’s a beautiful man, and the world will miss him.
MANN: George Harrison died Friday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 58. On our program today, George Harrison.
NICHOLAS GLASS, CNN Correspondent: All the Beatles were important but some, as we know, were more important than others.
For a heady eight years, George Harrison was lead guitarist with the biggest band on earth, and for the rest of his life, an ex-Beatle.
Only a select few like Elvis and Mohammed Ali have known such fame, such idolatry.
PHILLIP NORMAN, Beatles’ Biographer: He was essential. He wasn’t a terrifically good guitarist. He wasn’t a marvelous singer. He just gave them something else. There was something in that band for everybody in the world. There was the cheeky one, there was the soulful one, there was the runt of the litter, who was Ringo, and then there was this quiet, rather withdrawn and haunted one, who was George.
GLASS: George Harrison was born in 1943, the third son of a Liverpool bus driver. Here he is aged 13 in 1956, getting a handle on his first guitar. Barely two years later, he joined the Quarrymen.
NORMAN: He was two years younger than John Lennon. He was a year and a bit younger than McCartney, and he was treated like a kid, yes the kid, the new kid, and they wanted him in because he could tune guitars. They couldn’t do it.
He felt often totally eclipsed. He was in the second division within the Beatles and there was no getting away from that. George Martin, their producer, was, has admitted to me he was often, as he put it, beastly to George because he didn’t rate him very highly, but he had to have George at the sessions.
GEORGE MARTIN, Beatles Producer: With tenants like John and Paul who are probably the greatest songwriters of the twentieth century as far as we’re concerned, it’s tough opposition. And they collaborated and kind of also rivaled each other in their writing. George didn’t have anybody. George had to do it by himself, and so he worked away at it and he had tremendous determination and application. He would, he would craft his music meticulously with every little stitch in the, in the canvas, and gradually built up his, his songwriting technique to a point where he became a great writer.
GLASS: There are a handful of Harrison songs in the Beatles’ canon,
And after the Beatles, there was album after album. There was a plagiarism row about his most famous song,
“What we did was what we did, but what we are is something different.” That’s how John Lennon summed up the Beatles.
George Harrison was the younger brother, the guy who could tune a guitar, learned to craft a song, the spiritual and intensely private who got to make his own contribution.
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