Though he said it took a while to get home, it was on one of these bus rides that he met an upperclassman who also lived in the area and the pair sparked a friendship.
In 1954, though a far bus ride away, Harrison started to attend the Liverpool Institute. According to Barry Miles' book, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Year, in 1949, the family moved to a new home on 25 Upton Green, Speke, a council house (which is a form of public housing in England). Harrison was the youngest of four children to Harold and Louise Harrison. Young Harrison used an outdoor toilet and managed without hot running water indoors. According to Harrison, the home was "OK in its own period." Each room on the downstairs was only 10 feet by 10 feet and during the winter, the home would get terribly cold.
In his 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison described the home he grew up in during the first years of his life. George Harrison was born on Februin Wavertree, Liverpool. Here is the tragic real-life story of George Harrison. His 58 years of life were filled with broken relationships, anxiety about his privacy, and a struggle to prove himself as a solo artist. That being said, not everything George Harrison touched turned to gold. His time as a film producer helped make some of the most influential films of the 1980s. He was a guy who could just add so much."īy the time that the Beatles broke up, Harrison was only 27 years old and spent the next three decades of his life as a successful and innovative solo musician and a member of the supergroup, The Traveling Wilburys, alongside Petty, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison.Īs explained by the National Catholic Reporter, Harrison's fascination with Indian culture brought sitar lines into Western music and Hindu influence into his songwriting and personal life. On Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists, singer/songwriter Tom Petty spoke of Harrison's musicianship: "He just had a way of getting right to the business, of finding the right thing to play. George Harrison may have been "the quiet one," but as lead guitarist for the Beatles and, later on, a hit-making songwriter, his impact on music was profound.
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