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By George! He can make music
Updated On: 25 February, 2022 08:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen
On George Harrison’s 79th birth anniversary, here is a list of insightful books and movies on the ‘Quiet Beatle’, and his best songs
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In his own words
George Harrison on George Harrison is a book that music journalist Ashley Khan launched in 2020, which contains insightful interviews with the musician about his social activism, among other subjects. He reveals how John Lennon helped him envisage Concert for Bangladesh for example, a gig filled with a galaxy of stars that played music to raise funds for the Asian country.
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Credit where it’s due
If it’s Martin Scorsese who’s directing a documentary on Harrison, you know that it’s going to be fabulous stuff. The filmmaker released George Harrison: Living in a Material World in 2011, intimately portraying the musician’s spiritual side, and how Vedic philosophy had deeply influenced him. Scorsese also points out that while Paul McCartney and John Lennon hogged most of the limelight thanks to their pop-influenced tunes, Harrison was somewhat shortchanged because though his tunes weren’t as catchy as theirs, they had their own gravitas and complex nuances.
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