Отправлено: 28.05.12 08:55. Заголовок: John Lennon, George ..
John Lennon, George Harrison memorialized in Memorial Day weekend radio series
John Lennon and George Harrison are among a large group of rock 'n' roll stars of the past featured in a weekend radio series available online.
The online shows come from the syndicated rock radio show “In The Studio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands.” as part of their Medium Rare Online Only program series.
Three parts are available now and three more will be added Friday.
Those featured in the series are John Lennon, George Harrison, Brad Delp of Boston, Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell of the Experience, Richard Wright and Barrett of Pink Floyd, Jim Morrison, Roy Orbison and Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who.
Also discussed are Randy Rhoads, Ronnie Van Zant, The Outlaws’ Hughie Thomasson, Jerry Garcia, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Those interviewed include Waters, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Tom Petty, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steve Miller, Henry Paul of The Outlaws, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, and Eric Clapton.
You can hear the first three parts of the special on the program's website. The final three will be posted Friday.
Don't waste your money on 'George Harrison: The Lowdown'
A new CD set about George Harrison called “George Harrison: The Lowdown” popped up on Amazon recently. Without having heard it, we did something we rarely do. We bought it.
We usually know better with these unauthorized sets. Most of them are usually repackages. In this case, that is definitely true. View slideshow: "George Harrison: The Lowdown"
The new packaging hides the fact that both of the discs have been out before.
Half of the set is “Maximum George Harrison,” an CD biography from Chrome Dreams that's been around since at least 2002.
It's so memorable no one has reviewed it on Amazon. The disc, a CD biography with a mini poster, is included fully shrink wrapped.
The other half is called “George Harrison: The Inteview.” It's a single CD with a 74 minute mishmash of various audio clips. The CD carries a copyright date of 2011.
But the disc begins “Welcome to disc 3,” giving away this is a repackage from a past and bigger set.
And it is. It's disc 3 from “The Beatles: As It Happened,” an interview set that's been around for many years and which is advertised in the booklet for “Maximum George Harrison.”
The pictures on the new CD are lousy. On the back side, George looks like he's stoned.
In any event, there's really no 'lowdown' on “George Harrison: The Lowdown” and no reason to waste your money.
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Апрельский номер 2012 года "From Me To You" порадовал отличным интервью Джорджа от 25 августа 1987 года. Частично оно пересекается со старой публикацией в журнале "Ровесник", но полнее и отличается подробностями. Немало слов Джорджа посвящено работе с Джеффом.
Отправлено: 25.06.12 21:56. Заголовок: Petition for George ..
Petition for George Harrison statue in Henley-on-Thames
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A petition calling for a George Harrison statue to be erected in the town where he lived until his death in 2001 has been launched.
James Lambert, 42, from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, started the petition to recognise the former Beatle's links to the town.
He said: "He really is an icon in Henley.
"It seems strange that nothing has been created to acknowledge his presence and the work that he did for the town."
Mr Lambert said he envisaged a statue similar to the one of Roosevelt and Churchill sat on a bench on Bonn Street in London.
Harrison, who wrote the hits Something and My Sweet Lord, moved to the town in the 1970s when he bought a large stately home called Friar Park and saved it from demolition.
"George really got involved in a lot of community matters," Mr Lambert said.
"He helped to try and save the local cinema, he worked with a lot of local businesses and communities to try and raise their profiles... he rescued the local garden centre by buying all the plants."
Town councillor Martin Akehurst said he would support the idea.
"I think there is a price to be paid for fame and yet still he was able to do a lot for the town," he said.
Отправлено: 09.08.12 16:32. Заголовок: Deep Beatles: “I Wa..
Deep Beatles: “I Want to Tell You” (1966)
As the Beatles’ career progressed, George Harrison gradually developed into a first-class songwriter on a par with the formidable John Lennon/Paul McCartney partnership.
One of Harrison’s more unusual compositions, “I Want to Tell You,” fits in perfectly with Revolver’s experimental vibe. The pounding piano, pervasive dissonance, and a subtle reference to Harrison’s increasing interest in Indian music and culture add up to a classic and offbeat track.
In 1980, Harrison described the lyrics as addressing “the avalanche of thoughts that are so hard to write down or say or transmit.” Indeed, the verses paint a picture of someone constantly struggling with language. “My head is filled with things to say,” Harrison sings, but “all those words they seem to slip away.” He fears offending the person he’s having the conversation with, explaining that “if I seem to act unkind, it’s only me, it’s not my mind that is confusing things.” His mind is clear and pure, but the body cannot move as quickly as the mind.
For me, the best lines in the song remain “I feel hung up and I don’t know why; I don’t mind, I could wait forever — I’ve got time.” That sentiment fits in well with other songs on the album, as Lennon also advocates a laid-back lifestyles without worries in tracks like “Tomorrow Never Knows” (“Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream” and “Surrender to the void”) and “I’m Only Sleeping” (“Keeping an eye on the world going by my window … taking my time”). While Harrison’s lyrics are clever, the instrumentation further distinguishes “I Want to Tell You” from other rock songs of the time. The galloping piano accents the rhythm through dissonant harmonies, and Ringo Starr’s drumming easily navigates through some offbeat tempos. According to Allan K. Pollack, author of the “Notes On” series, Starr re-energizes the track with his driving percussion. “If you feel the momentum beginning to sag toward the end of this section, dig how that sudden burst of rapid triplets at the very end of the bridge helps to re-jump-start your momentum for the verse that follows,” writes Pollack. Other percussion can be heard, including tambourine and handclaps.
As usual, the Lennon/McCartney/Harrison vocal harmonies sound tight, often singing entire lines instead of emphasizing certain words. As with many Beatles songs, the group experiments with beginnings and endings. Similar to “Eight Days A Week,” the track gradually fades in, this time over the distinctive guitar riff. Even more interesting, the ending fades out over the repeated phrase “I’ve got time,” and McCartney adds an unusual touch. As the sound fades, McCartney breaks into, as Pollack states, “free Indian-flavored melisma.” In other words, he sang the word “time” while oscillating among various notes. The move adds a touch of sophistication and world-music influence to the rock track. Harrison often found it difficult to title his songs; according to Mark Lewisohn’s seminal work The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, the cut’s working titles included “Granny Smith,” “Laxton’s Superb” (another type of apple, foreshadowing later years) and “I Don’t Know.” On June 2, 1966, the Beatles entered the studio to lay down virtually all the track’s elements; they put the finishing touches on “I Want to Tell You” the following day. Mixing was completed on June 6.
“I Want to Tell You” was never released as a single, and lingered in relative album track obscurity until years later. While touring in Japan with Eric Clapton in 1992, Harrison resurrected the song — to the delight of audiences. That version, which features extended guitar solos, appeared on the Live in Japan album chronicling the brief tour. Appropriately, ELO founder and frequent Harrison collaborator Jeff Lynne performed the track at the Concert for George ten years later. It may have taken over four decades, but “I Want to Tell You” is finally receiving deserved recognition for its sophisticated arrangement and Harrison’s creativity in manipulating language.
Отправлено: 22.08.12 14:42. Заголовок: Rock FM Друзья, з..
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Друзья, завтра на экраны российских кинотеатров выходит документальный фильм Мартина Скорсезе "Джордж Харрисон: Жизнь В Материальном Мире". Не пропустите! Напомним, предпремьерный показ этой ленты состоялся в начале августа на кинофестивале "Rock Out!", организованным нашей радиостанцией
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У Джоржа и Оливии оказывается есть домик и в австралийской деревне.
George Harrison’s Haven
The Australian Home of the Late Beatle and his Wife
George Harrison, the Beatles lead guitarist who died in 2001, and his wife, Olivia, built an isolated sanctuary on Australia’s Hamilton Island in 1987. They planted the property with dense tropical vegetation. “George always had a major conflict between the trees and the views,” says Olivia Harrison. “Every few years I would persuade him to cut back some foliage to reclaim the views.”
The couple first visited the island for the Australian Grand Prix. “I wasn’t at all enthused,” Harrison remembers. “But one visit to the Whitsunday Islands opened up a continent entirely new to both of us.”
The musician worked closely with landscape designer Malcolm Hunt on the gardens and pool area. “George handpicked the big boulders from around the island,” says Harrison.
The compound has three guest huts, at right, and the main house. “George sketched his ideas for Roger Parkin, the architect, and together they designed the house,” says Harrison. Waterfalls feed into the organically shaped pool. “We swam a lot in the natural ponds in Hawaii and tried to create that feeling.”
Отправлено: 07.11.12 12:26. Заголовок: 25 Years Ago: George..
25 Years Ago: George Harrison Releases ‘Cloud Nine’
For most of the ’80s, George Harrison seemed content to let Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr represent the surviving Beatles on the pop charts — but that changed in a big way with the release of his 10th studio album, ‘Cloud Nine.’
By the time ‘Cloud Nine’ debuted on Nov. 2, 1987, Harrison’s solo career had been more or less on hiatus for five years; he hadn’t released a proper album since the poorly received ‘Gone Troppo’ in 1982, and in the intervening years, he seemed more interested in other pursuits, such as his production company, Handmade Films. Happily for his fans, however, Harrison hadn’t lost the musical bug, and in late 1986, he hired Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne to help supervise the sessions for what would become his wildly successful comeback effort.
Settling into Harrison’s home studio, the duo enlisted a top-shelf corps of musicians to help them bring ‘Cloud Nine’ to life, including famous friends (Eric Clapton and Elton John), session ringers (drummer Jim Keltner, percussionist Ray Cooper, and sax player Jim Horn), and a former bandmate (Starr). The end result was an 11-song set of some of the loosest, most energetic music Harrison had turned out in years, including the surprise hit ‘Got My Mind Set on You.’
Released as the album’s leadoff single a little under a month before ‘Cloud Nine’ arrived in stores, ‘Got My Mind Set on You’ topped the Billboard charts in the U.S. and peaked at No. 2 in Harrison’s native UK, reaffirming his status as a viable recording artist and giving him his biggest hit since ‘Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)’ reached No. 1 in 1973.
While none of the album’s subsequent singles would achieve similar success — the most successful of the bunch, the Beatles nostalgia number ‘When We Was Fab,’ broke the Top 40 — ‘Cloud Nine’ attained further significance by presaging a period of renewed creativity for Harrison, who unwittingly founded the Traveling Wilburys when he got together with Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty to record the track that was supposed to be a B-side: ‘Handle With Care.’
Sadly, although Harrison went on to record a pair of albums with the Wilburys, ‘Cloud Nine’ would ultimately remain the last album of new material he’d release during his lifetime. His final studio set, ‘Brainwashed,’ didn’t come out until 2002 — a year after Harrison succumbed to cancer at the age of 58.
Отправлено: 19.11.12 10:10. Заголовок: 10 Years Ago: George..
10 Years Ago: George Harrison’s Final Album, ‘Brainwashed,’ Released
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this week is George Harrison‘s understated and deeply beautiful ‘Brainwashed,’ the famed guitarist and former Beatle‘s eleventh — and, tragically, final — studio album.
Though ‘Brainwashed’ is indeed a collection of George Harrison-penned songs, it’s technically a posthumous set, released almost one year after the legendary songwriter’s death, following a lengthy battle with cancer. The songs are vintage Harrison, full of nimble chord progressions, tasteful slide-guitar solos, and warm vocal harmonies — but ‘Brainwashed’ wouldn’t exist if not for the efforts of producer-instrumentalist (and longtime Harrison collaborator) Jeff Lynne and Dhani Harrison, George’s son.
The seeds of ‘Brainwashed’ were planted as early as 1988, when Harrison originally wrote the driving pop anthem ‘Any Road’ (which he whipped together during a video shoot for his 1987 single ‘This is Love’). With 1987′s Jeff Lynne-produced ‘Cloud Nine,’ Harrison had regained his critical and commercial standing, and he followed up that project by forming the supergroup Traveling Wilburys (along with Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty), who released two albums over the next few years. All the while, ‘Brainwashed’ remained on the back-burner, but its progress was halted by Harrison’s throat cancer diagnosis in 1997 and a knife attack from a mentally unstable fan in 1999.
As the cancer spread to his lungs and, finally, his brain, Harrison still charged forward on his music, keeping specific instructions about how the songs and production should be carried out, even recording vocal melodies intended as string arrangements. After Harrison’s death on Nov. 29, 2001, Lynne and Dhani Harrison took charge of the album’s production, overdubbing any remaining vocals and instrumentation to complete the songs as Harrison requested.
Phenomenally, ‘Brainwashed’ never sounds — even for a second — like an awkward patchwork. Lynne, typically known for his grandiose, symphonic productions with ELO, kept the songs tight and spacious, allowing the unhurried charm and graceful humor of Harrison’s writing to breathe freely — like on the tongue-in-cheek blues-pop of ‘P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night)‘ or the gently atmospheric folk of ‘Stuck Inside a Cloud.’ There’s plenty of pain stirring under the surface, too, if you look for it. It’s difficult not to get choked up on ‘Cloud,’ as Harrison sings, “Never been so crazy, but I’ve never felt so sure / I wish I had the answer to give, don’t even have the cure.”
“The album was very cathartic for me,” Dhani Harrison said during a 2002 CBC interview. ”As I said, it was done at the right time. I dealt with a lot of this as it happened and never shied away from any of the reality of what’s been happening over the last few years. Doing the recordings was great and wonderful and really sad as well … It was a very positive thing to have done so soon after his death.”
Though it’s been a decade since its release, ‘Brainwashed’ remains a tuneful, tasteful source of comfort — a loving swan song from one of rock’s finest talents.
Отправлено: 23.11.12 11:32. Заголовок: Beatles Story to exh..
Beatles Story to exhibit George Harrison Cavern Club jacket
Liverpool's awarding-winning Beatles Story has teamed up with international auction house Bonhams to give Liverpool's music fans the opportunity to view a rare piece of Beatles history ahead of their December auction.
The 10 day exhibition will be launched on Friday November 23 at The Beatles Story with the unveiling of the leather jacket that George Harrison wore throughout the formative Beatles appearances in Hamburg and at Liverpool's Cavern Club between 1960 and 1962.
Jerry Goldman, Managing Director of Beatles Story says, "This collaboration is a terrific way for Beatles fans to see up close some of the world's most valuable and rare Beatles memorabilia. We are very excited by the opportunity to work with Bonhams and know that our visitors will benefit from the opportunity to see George Harrison's iconic jacket."
Stephanie Connell of Bonhams comments, "This leather jacket, instantly recognisable, an important part of the Beatles image in their early years, will be the highlight of our December Entertainment auction which includes over 100 items relating to The Beatles. This important piece of music memorabilia has never previously been offered at auction."
George Harrison's famous Cavern Club leather jacket exhibit opens with a special photo call event this Friday, November 23, 2012 at 9:30 am. The Beatles Story is located at Albert Dock in Liverpool. For more information, visit them at www.beatlesstory.com.
Ушел из жизни легендарный ситарист Рави Шанкар. Маэстро скончался в Сан-Диего в возрасте 92 лет, сообщили в Ravi Shankar Foundation. В течение последних месяцев у музыканта наблюдались проблемы с верхними дыхательными путями и сердцем. В минувший четверг Шанкару была проведена операция по замене сердечного клапана. Она была признана успешной, однако восстановиться от процедуры Рави так и не смог.
У ситариста остались жена Суканья, дочери Нора Джонс и Анушка Шанкар Райт (обе сделали успешную карьеру в музыке).
Несмотря на плохое самочувствие, Шанкар продолжал выступать. В частности, 4 ноября Рави отыграл концерт вместе с Анушкой в Калифорнии. Это и стало последним публичным выступлением ситариста.
Добавим, что Шанкар - трехкратный лауреат премии "Грэмми" (он также попал в число номинантов этого сезона и, таким образом, может получить четвертую награду посмертно).
"Хотя пришло время скорби и печали, это еще и время, когда все мы можем поблагодарить судьбу за то, что он был частью нашей жизни. Он будет жить всегда в наших сердцах и в его музыке", - говорится в заявлении семьи Шанкара.
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