He just wrote it like that

“Photos and commentary by George Harrison as told to Dan Forte Knowing that the interview for Guitar Player was to take place in Los Angeles, George was thoughtful enough to take time, before leaving England, to load his camera and take snapshots of some guitars he thought ‘would be of interest’ to other guitarists. Here, then, is a rare glimpse into the Harrison guitar collection — with photos and captions by George himself.” Dan Forte: “In the past few years, when you were concentrating more on filmmaking, did you see yourself primarily as a guitarist still, as a songwriter, a filmmaker, or what?” George Harrison: “I don’t really see myself as a songwriter or a guitarist or a singer or a lyricist or even a film producer. All of those are me, in a way — just like I like gardening, digging holes and sticking trees in. But I’m not really a gardener, just like I’m not really a guitarist — but I am. If I plant 500 coconut trees, I’m sort of a gardener, aren’t I? And if I play on records and stuff, then I’m a guitarist. But not in the sense like, say, B.B. King or Eric Clapton, who play constantly and keep their chops together and are really fluid. You have to play all the time to be good, and in that respect… you know, I’m not trying to put myself down, but the reality is I’m okay. I mean, I’ve sat with people and showed them some chords and a few things — and I realized I do know quite a lot about guitar; I’ve absorbed quite a lot over the years. But I’ve never really felt like I was a proper guitar player. You see all these guys with their chops together. with charts showing how they did it. In the sense of being a guitarist who works and plays, and who could just pop in on anybody’s session and come up with the goods, I’m not that kind of player. I’m just a jungle musician, really.” - Guitar Player (November 1987) “[George] was a genuinely lovely man — sincere, witty, down-to-earth, and quite talkative for being ‘the quiet Beatle.’ He looked right into your eyes when he spoke (or listened) and gave you his full concentration. He also had a remarkable memory for details, and when talking about early heroes like Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran still had the enthusiasm of a young fan.” - Dan Forte, Cosmik Debris (December 2001)

whiteboardry

then follow my ass who draw both

4. John Lennon (would have hated dylarrison so much)

Roy’s morning

“I hadn’t written a tune in a while, and ‘Blow Away’ [released on George’s 1979 eponymous album]… I was just sitting in the garden with the pouring rain, it was freezing cold, so I wrote that song. Like any given day will have the morning, and then you’ll have the day, and then the nighttime, and in the Indian philosophy they call this triguna, it means the three basic elements: creation, preservation, and destruction. But they’re all part and parcel of each other. You know, you have the nighttime which is like this negative kind of dark… but it’s — you need that in order to have the freshness again of the new morning. So the song was like that: it started out where everything was… the house was leaking, and the pouring rain, it’s miserable and I’m just about the lose it when I just remember, ‘No, wait a minute, all I’ve got to do is cheer up a little.’ In the second verse, the sun comes out, by the last verse everything’s cool again.” - George Harrison, In The Studio With Redbeard (1992) “A lot of people don’t realize that ‘Blow Away’ used the rebuilding of Friar Park, the broken-down nunnery that he restored as his family home, as a metaphor for how he had to rebuild his life after the Beatles broke up and his marriage to Patti[e] ended. The song has a brilliant lyric and musical structure. George also brought both a very confident spiritual dimension and a knowledge of world music to pop music that it had never had previously. Things like that take guts and an inner will.” - Russ Titelman, Billboard (June 22, 1996) “It’s important to remember that while everything else around you changes, the soul within remains the same; you have to constantly remember that and fight for the right to be happy.” - George Harrison, Rolling Stone (April 19, 1979)

"[Extra Texture] was a grubby album in a way. The product left a lot to be desired, as did my performance. I was in a real down place. Some songs I like, but in retrospect I wasn’t very happy about it. ‘Grey Cloudy Lies’ described clouds of gloom that used to come down on me. A difficulty I had. I’ve found over the years that I’m more able to keep them away, and am quite a happy person now." - George Harrison, Musician (November 1987) "Three tracks on Extra Texture cover the same lyrical terrain as ‘Simply Shady’ on the previous album Dark Horse. ‘Grey Cloudy Lies,’ George confided, ‘was in the naughty period, 1973-74. It’s one of those depressing four o’clock in the morning songs.’ ‘World Of Stone’ speaks for itself: ‘Wise men you won’t be, To follow the likes of me.’ ‘He was being very hard on himself at that time,’ Olivia reflects. ‘“Tired Of Midnight Blue” — he talked about that particular night we went out. He said, “You go into the back stage area and then there’s another room — the back, back room… and then you wish you’d stayed home.” But I like that song. Leon Russell came to play the piano part and it was great. They played it all night long and I think I was asleep in the couch in the studio. At the end of the night, Leon said, “I knew you were going to use the first take.”’" - Extra Texture 2014 remaster sleeve notes "[George] was a very private person; it was difficult to talk to him about feelings. But when he wrote a song, it all came out. I used to tell him: ‘I don’t know how you can write something like that.’ He was like an open door — and like a door that’s locked." - Olivia Harrison, translated from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2011)

Bob Spitz the beatles biography

John Lennon, George Harrison filming Help!, Bahamas (1965) Photographer: Henry Grossman

George Harrison at the Beatles Press Conference in Cleveland, OH, 1964

if it is the same person i think that person has some insane sleep problems, but honestly maybe it could be 🤔🤔

Lynnarrison clothes sharing woohoo

Paul McCartney, George Harrison performing at Cow Palace, San Francisco (1965)