“Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” — George Harrison
The other day I was writing about Ringo Starr and it occurred to me later that I mentioned George Harrison nearly as often as I mentioned Ringo in that article. So I figured George Harrison deserved an article all of his own.
George Harrison was somewhat overshadowed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon during his time in the Beatles. For sure, he achieved global fame and great fortune as part of the Fab Four, but his light was kept very firmly under a bushel in those days.
George was a talented guitar player and possibly the most accomplished musician in the Beatles. He greatly influenced the Beatles sound over the years, most publicly through his adoption of the sitar and his interest in Eastern music which so influenced the Beatles’ later recordings.
In any band other than the Beatles, we’d remember George Harrison for his songwriting talents too. He was the genius behind the bright-eyed awakening of “Here Comes The Sun”, the unbelievably romantic “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”…a song which always makes me cry because it’s so beautiful and heartfelt.
After the Beatles, George Harrison was the first of the Fab Four out the gate with a solo career, scoring two Billboard Number One hits in the early 1970s. His 1970 triple album “All Things Must Pass” was…
