George Harrison

At 58 years old, George Harrison has this physical status:

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and film director whose international fame as the Beatles' lead guitarist.

Harrison, nicknamed "the quiet Beatle" for a variety of popular music, helped broaden the reach of popular music by his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work.

Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the majority of Beatles albums from 1965 to 1980 contained at least two Harrison compositions.

"Within You Without You," "When My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Here Comes the Sun," and "Something" were among his songs for the group. George Formby and Django Reinhardt were among Harrison's earliest musical influences; Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins, and Chuck Berry were among the others' influences;

He had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock by 1965, his fascination with Bob Dylan and the Byrds, as well as Indian classical music by the sitar's use of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood" (This Bird Has Flown).

He began the band's embrace of Transcendental Meditation in 1967 and then began a friendship with the Hare Krishna Movement.

Early years: 1943–1958

Harrison was born in Wavertree, Liverpool, on February 25, 1943. He was the youngest of four children of Harold Hargreaves (or Hargrove) Harrison (1909–1978) and Louise (née French; 1911–1970). Harold was a bus conductor who had served as a ship's steward on the White Star Line, and Louise was a shop assistant of Irish Catholic descent. Louise (1931), one sister, and two brothers, Harold (born 1934) and Peter (born 1970).

Harrison's mother was particularly helpful, "All she wanted for her children was that they be happy," she said, acknowledging that nothing made George quite as happy as making music." Louise was a passionate music lover who was well-known for her booming singing voice, which at times sparked visitors by rattling the Harrisons' windows. When Louise was pregnant with George, she listened to Radio India on a weekly basis. "Every Sunday she tuned in to mystical sounds evoked by sitars and tablas, wishing that the exotic music would bring peace and quiet to the baby in the womb," Harrison's biographer Joshua Greene said.

Harrison lived at 12 Arnold Grove, a terraced house on a cul-de-sac, for the first four years of his life. The home had an outside toilet and the only heat came from a single coal fire. The family was given a council house in 1949 and relocated to 25 Upton Green, Speke. Harrison was enrolled in Dovedale Primary School at the age of five in 1948. He took the eleven-plus examination and attended Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1954 to 1959. Harrison, who did not have a music course, was dissatisfied with the absence of guitars and thought the school "moulded [students] into being afraid."

George Formby, Cab Calloway, Django Reinhardt, and Hoagy Carmichael were among Harrison's early musical influences; by the 1950s, Carl Perkins and Lonnie Donegan were among his key influencers; by the 1950s, Leon Perkins and Lonnie Donegan were among his main influences. He had an epiphany while riding his bike when Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" appeared on a nearby hotel, sparking his interest in rock and roll. He often sat in the back of the class drawing guitars in his schoolbooks, and later said, "I was entirely into guitars." "I never saw a guitar in a magazine or live on television, Slim Whitman was the first person I ever saw playing a guitar." Guitars were definitely coming in."

Harold Harrison was worried about his son's interest in pursuing a career in music at first. However, he bought George a flat-top acoustic guitar in 1956, which is equivalent to £90 in 2022). Harrison learned how to play "Whispering," "Sweet Sue," and "Dinah," according to one of his father's friends. Harrison, inspired by Donegan's music, formed the Rebels, a skiffle group made up of Peter and a friend, Arthur Kelly. Harrison met Paul McCartney, who also attended the Liverpool Institute, on the bus to school, and the pair became close over their shared passion for music.

Later life and death: 1997–2001

Harrison collaborated with Ravi Shankar on the latter's Chants of India after the Anthology project. Harrison's last television appearance on the album was a VH-1 special that was taped in May 1997. Harrison was diagnosed with throat cancer within a few years; he was treated with radiotherapy, which was considered to be fruitful at the time. He attributed his illness to years of smoking.

Harrison attended Carl Perkins' funeral in Jackson, Tennessee, where he performed a brief version of Perkins' "Your True Love" in January 1998. He defended the Beatles at the High Court in London in their successful attempt to obtain unauthorised recordings of a 1962 performance by the band at the Star-Club in Hamburg. In the year after, he was the most vocal of the former Beatles in promoting their 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.

Harrison and his wife Olivia were assaulted at their Friar Park home on December 30, 1999. Michael Abram, a 34-year-old man who suffers from schizophrenia, burst into and struck Harrison with a kitchen knife, puncturing a lung and causing head injury before his wife incapacitated the body by striking him repeatedly with a fire poker and a lamp. "I felt drained and could feel the energy draining from me," Harrison later reported. I can recall a deliberate thrust to my chest. I could hear my lung exhaling and had blood in my mouth. "I thought I had been fatally wounded," I thought. Harrison was hospitalized with more than 40 stab wounds, and a portion of his punctured lung had been removed after the attack. "He wasn't a robber," he said of his assassination, but he certainly wasn't auditioning for the Traveling Wilburys." Adi Shankara, an Indian historical, spiritual, and groovy-type individual, wrote, "Life is fragile like a raindrop on a lotus leaf." You'd better believe it." After being released from a mental hospital in 2002 after less than three years in state prison, Abram said, "If I could turn back the clock, I would do what I did not do in attacking George Harrison, but I've come to realize that I was not in charge of my behavior at the time." I can only hope that the Harrison family would have it in their hearts to accept my apology.

In their remarks to the media, Harrison's family played down the injuries sustained during the home invasion. Many in Harrison's social circle believed that the assault brought about a change in him and was the reason for his cancer's return. Harrison had undergone an operation to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs in May 2001, and it was announced in July that he was being treated for a brain tumor at a Swiss hospital. While in Switzerland, Starr visited him but had to stop his stay to Boston, where his daughter's emergency brain surgery was required. "Do you want me to come with you?" Harrison, who was extremely young, said. He began radiotherapy at Staten Island University Hospital in New York City in November 2001 for non-small cell lung cancer that had spread to his brain. Harrison bemoaned his doctor's secrecy, and his estate later claimed loss.

Harrison died on November 29, 2001, at a McCartney property on Heather Road in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. He was 58 years old at the time. He died in the company of Olivia, Dhani, Shankar, and the latter's wife Sukanya and her daughter Anoushka, as well as Hare Krishna devotee Shyamasundar Das and Mukunda Goswami, who chanted verses from the Bhagavad Gita. "Everything else will wait," Olivia and Dhani's final word to the world was: "The search for God cannot wait, and love one another." He was cremated at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and his funeral was held at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, California. In a private service in Varanasi, India, his close relatives scattered his ashes according to Hindu tradition. He left over £100 million in his estate.

Brainwashed (2002), Harrison's last studio album, was announced posthumously after his son Dhani and Jeff Lynne completed it. "There never was a time when you or I didn't exist," a Bhagavad Gita liner notes. If we do not have any more, there will not be a future. "Stuck Inside a Cloud," Leng's "a distinctly candid reaction to illness and mortality," debuted at number 27 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. On the UK Singles Chart, the single "Any Road" was ranked at number 37. "Marwa Blues" received the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, while "Any Road" was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

Personal life

Harrison had become an advocate of Indian history and mysticism by the mid-1960s, bringing it to the other Beatles.

During the filming of Help!

They met the founder of Sivananda Yoga, Swami Vishnu-devananda, who gave each of them a signed copy of his book, The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga, in the Bahamas. He and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, undertook a pilgrimage to India with Ravi Shankar, and visited various holy places between the end of the last Beatles tour and the start of the Sgt Pepper recording sessions in 1966; there, he studied sitar with Ravi Shankar; there, he visited several holy places. He and the other Beatles went to Rishikesh, northern India, to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Harrison's use of psychedelic drugs aided him in their journey to meditation and Hinduism. "It was like a flash for me." It was the first time I had acid, and I discovered a lot of things. I didn't know they existed because I already knew them, but it was the door that opened the door to reveal them. I wanted to have it all the time, these thoughts about the yogis and the Himalayans, as well as Ravi's music."

Harrison became a vegetarian in the late 1960s, following the Hindu yoga tradition. After Shankar's graduation in 1966, he remained a lifelong promoter of Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings, as well as Raja Yoga and Autobiography of a Yogi. He produced "Hare Krishna Mantra" by members of the London Radha Krishna Temple in mid-1969. Harrison later met their leader, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who described him as "my friend... my master" and "a shining example of all he preached" after also assisting the Temple devotees in the United Kingdom. Harrison converted Hare Krishna, particularly japa-yoga chanting with beads, and became a lifelong devotee. He donated his Letchmore Heath mansion north of London to the devotees in 1972. It was later converted to a temple and renamed Bhaktivedanta Manor.

He once remarked, "All faiths are branches of one great tree." It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call."

He commented on his beliefs:

Cliff Richard had been the only British performer known for similar activities before his religious conversion; Richard's conversion to Christianity in 1966 had gone largely unnoticed by the public. "Harrison's spiritual journey was seen as a crucial and important development that represented popular music's increasing maturity," Inglis said.

Pattie Boyd, a model from 1971, married Harrison Pattie Boyd on January 21, 1966, with McCartney as the best man. On set in 1964, Harrison and Boyd met, in which the 19-year-old Boyd had been cast as a schoolgirl, George 'playfully' suggested to her at lunch. They divorced in 1976 and 1979, but they separated in 1974. Boyd said she was led in large part to George's repeated infidelities. Ringo's wife Maureen became "the final straw" in the last infidelity affair. "George used coke excessively, and it changed him," she said, "it froze his emotions and hardened his heart." She and Eric Clapton married in 1979, and they later became engaged together.

Harrison married A&M and then Dark Horse Records' marketing manager Olivia Trinidad Arias on September 2, 1978. The couple first met over the phone as a result of A&M's subsidiary, and then in person at the A&M Records Los Angeles headquarters in 1974. Dhani Harrison, their one son, was born on August 1, 1978.

Harrison restored Friar Park, his home in Henley-on-Thames, where many of his music videos, including "Crackerbox Palace," were shot; the grounds also served as the background for the All Things Must Pass cover. He had ten employees help care for the 36-acre (15 ha) garden. "I feel like I'm really on the wrong planet and that's great when I'm gardening, but "what the hell am I doing here?" Harrison said about gardening as a form of escapism. "I, Me, Mine," his autobiography, is dedicated "to gardeners around the world." Former Beatles publicist Derek Taylor aided Harrison in writing the book, which said little about the Beatles and instead concentrated on Harrison's hobbies, music, and lyrics. "George is not disowning the Beatles," Taylor said, "but it was a long time ago and actually a short period of his life."

Harrison was interested in sports cars and motor racing; he was one of the 100 people to buy the McLaren F1 road car. He had been collecting photographs of racing drivers and their cars since he was young; at 12, he had attended his first competition, the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree. As a salute to Formula One racer Jackie Stewart and Ronnie Peterson, he wrote "Faster" in honor. Since the Swedish driver's death from the disease in 1978, proceeds from its establishment went to the Gunnar Nilsson cancer charity, which was established in 2007. A 1964 Aston Martin DB5, Harrison's first expensive car, was auctioned in London on December 7th. Harrison had purchased the car new in January 1965, but an anonymous Beatles collector paid £350,000.

For the bulk of the Beatles' career, the group's friendships were close. "The Beatles lived their lives not in a communal one but lived the same way," Hunter Davies said. They were each other's best friends." Pattie Boyd, Harrison's ex-wife, described how the Beatles "all belonged to each other" and revealed, "George has a lot with the others that I am unaware of." "No one, not even the wives, will be able to crack or even comprehend it." "We really looked out for each other, and we had so many laughs together," the star said. We had the best hotel suites in the old days, the entire floor of the hotel, and the four of us would end up in the toilet, just to be together." "There were some really loving, caring moments between four people," he said, including a hotel room here and there – a truly amazing closeness. Just four guys who loved each other. It was aweful sight."

"One of young follower and elder guy, [he] was like a disciple of mine when we first began," Lennon said. The two people developed a friendship over LSD experiences, finding common ground as seekers of spirituality. They took radically different paths after, with biographer Gary Tillery, Harrison finding God and Lennon coming to the conclusion that people are the creators of their own lives. "John Lennon is a saint and he's on service," Harrison said of him in 1974. He's wonderful and I love him." However, he's still such a bastard, but that's the best part of him.

Harrison and McCartney were among the first Beatles to meet, having shared a school bus, and they often learned and rehearsed new guitar chords together. When touring, McCartney said he and Harrison used to share a bedroom. Harrison has been referred to as his "baby brother" by McCartney. Harrison said, "[McCartney] destroyed me as a guitarist." In the same interview, Harrison said, "I just know that whatever we've been through, there's always been something that has tied us together." Harrison and McCartney's personal friendship was perhaps the biggest obstacle to a Beatles reunion after Lennon's death, as both men admitted that they often got on each other's nerves. "They were a volatile couple even before George's days," Rodriguez said.

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Solo career: 1968–1987

Harrison had already recorded and released two solo albums: Wonderwall Music and Electronic Sound, both of which contained mainly instrumental compositions, well before the Beatles' break-up. Wonderwall Music, a soundtrack to the 1968 film Wonderwall, blends Indian and Western instruments, while Electronic Sound is a pioneering album that prominently features a Moog synthesizer. Wonderwall Music, released in November 1968, was the first solo album by a Beatle and Apple Records' first LP. On the album, Indian musicians Aashish Khan and Shivkumar Sharma performed, as well as the experimental sound collage "Dream Scene," which was released several months before Lennon's "Revolution 9."

Harrison appeared in a short tour of Europe in December 1969 with the American group Delaney & Friends. Harrison, Bobby Whitlock, drummer Jim Gordon, and band members Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, began playing slide guitar and then wrote "My Sweet Lord," his first solo album.

Harrison was barred from contributing to the Beatles' albums for many years, but he released All Things Must Pass, a triple album with two discs of his songs and a third of recordings of Harrison jamming with friends. Many thought this album was his best work, and it topped the charts on both directions of the Atlantic. "My Sweet Lord" was the LP's top-one hit single and the top-ten single "What Is Life" was released. Phil Spector's "All Sound" concept was co-produced on the album, as well as Starr, Clapton, Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Klaus Voormann, and Deaney and Bonnie's Friends band and Apple's Friends. All Things Must Pass was released with critical acclaim; Rolling Stone's Ben Gerson described it as "of classic Spectorian proportions, Wagnerian, Brucknerian, the music of mountain tops, and vast horizons." Ian Inglis addresses the album's title track's "an acknowledgement of human existence"... a simple and poignant conclusion" to Harrison's ex band. Bright Tunes sued Harrison for copyright violation over "My Sweet Lord" in 1971, owing to its resemblance to the 1963 Chiffons hit "He's So Fine." When the lawsuit was heard in a United States district court in 1976, he denied intentionally plagiarising the song but the prosecution was dismissed as the judge found that he had done so subconsciously.

Apple Records released a thirtieth anniversary edition of the album in 2000, and Harrison was instrumental in its promotion. In an interview, he discussed the job: "It's just like my continuation from the Beatles." It was me sort of getting out of the Beatles and instead going my own way — it was a joyful moment." "Well, in those days, the reverb was much used a bit more than what I would do now." I'm not sure about reverb at all. I can't abide it...You know, going back to something 30 years old and expecting it to be how you want it to be now."

Harrison responded to Ravi Shankar's plea by arranging the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, which took place on the 1st of August 1971. In Madison Square Garden, New York's Madison Square Garden attracted over 40,000 people to two shows. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, the aim of the festival was to raise funds to assist starving refugees. Shankar opened the show, which featured well-known performers such as Dylan, Clapton, Leon Russell, Badfinger, Preston, and Starr.

Apple released The Concert for Bangladesh in December and a concert film in 1972. The album, "George Harrison and Friends," debuted on the UK chart and peaked at number two in the United States, and went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year. Many of the funds were later tied up by tax issues and questionable spending, but Harrison said: "Mainly the concert was to draw attention to the situation." The funds we raised were secondary, and although we had some money issues, they still had a lot... even though it was a drop in the ocean. The key was that we spread the word and helped get the war over."

Living in the Material World, Harrison's 1973 album Living in the Material World, rose to the top of the Billboard charts for five weeks, and the album's single, "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), debuted at number one in the United States. The LP peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, and the single reached number eight. The album was lavishly made and packaged, and Harrison's main message was a remark on its Hindu beliefs. "Contained many of the finest compositions of his career," Greene wrote. Stephen Holden, a Rolling Stone writer, wrote that the album was "terribly appealing" and "productively seductive," and that it stood "alone as an article of faith, miraculous in its radiance." Other reviewers were less enthusiastic, describing the launch as uncomfortable, sanctimonious, and overly sentimental.

When Harrison began his 45-date Dark Horse Tour in November 1974, he became the first ex-Beatle to tour North America. The show featured guest spots from Billy Preston and Tom Scott of his band, as well as traditional and contemporary Indian music performed by "Ravi Shankar, Family and Friends." Despite numerous good feedback, the general reaction to the tour was negative. Some fans found Shankar's presence to be a strange disappointment, and many were offended by what Inglis called Harrison's "sermonizing." He reworked the lyrics to several Beatles songs, as well as some commentators who referred to the tour as a "dark hoarse." "While the Dark Horse tour was deemed as a noble failure, there were a number of followers who were tuned-in to what was going on." Robert Rodriguez wrote: They went home ecstatic, knowing that they had just seen something so inspiring that it could never be repeated." The tour was described as "groundbreaking" and "revolutionary" in terms of Indian Music's performance, according to Simon Leng.

Harrison's Dark Horse, an album that earned him the least favorable reviews of his career, received the least favourable reviews. Rolling Stone described it as "the continuous performance of a performer out of his element, on a deadline, enfeebling his overburdened talents, assembling a cross-country tour in three weeks." The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard chart, and the single "Dark Horse" made it to number 15, but it was unable to make a splash in the United Kingdom. Dark Horse was described by music critic Mikal Gilmore as "one of Harrison's most interesting works – a record of transition and loss."

Extra Texture, Henry Harrison's final studio album for EMI and Apple Records, titled "Read All About It" (1975), the soul music-inspired Extra Texture (1975), reached number 8 on the Billboard chart and number 16 in the United Kingdom. Harrison thought it was the least of his three albums since All Things Must Pass, the least of which he had seen since All Things Must Pass. In several of Leng's tracks, he had described "bitterness and dismay"; his long-time friend Klaus Voormann wrote: "He wasn't up for it." It was a rough time because I suspect there was a lot of cocaine around, but that was before I was taken out of the picture. I didn't like his frame of mind. "You," which made it to the Billboard top 20, and "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)," Apple's last original single release, and "You" released two singles from the LP: "You" which made it to the top 20.

Three & Third (1976), Harrison's first album release on his own Dark Horse Records label, released "This Song" and "Crackerbox Palace," both of which reached the top 25 in the United States. Harrison's friendship with Monty Python's Eric Idle, who produced a comedic music video for the song, reflected his humour on "Crackerbox Palace." Harrison's most coveted critical notices in the United States since All Things Must Pass placed an emphasis on melody and musicianship, and a more subtle subject matter than his earlier works. The album debuted just outside the top ten, but it outsold his previous two LPs. Harrison appeared on Saturday Night Live with Paul Simon as part of his promotion for the show.

Harrison released George Harrison in 1979, the son of his son Dhani's second marriage and his second marriage. Russ Titelman co-produced the album and the single "Blow Away" all made the Billboard top 20. Several of the songs were written in the tranquil setting of Maui, marking Harrison's gradual departure from the music business. George Harrison was described as "melodic and lush... peaceful," the work of a man who had lived the rock and roll dream twice over and was now embracing domestic as well as spiritual bliss.

The assassination of John Lennon on December 8th, 1980, stunned Harrison and reignited his decades-long trembling suspicions. Harrison and Lennon had no contact in the years before Lennon was killed, but it was also a deep personal loss. "I had and still have a lot of love and admiration for John Lennon after all we went through together." "I'm both shocked and astonished." Harrison changed the lyrics of a song he had written for Starr to make the song a tribute to Lennon. "All Those Years Ago," which featured vocal contributions from Paul and Linda McCartney, as well as Starr's original drum piece, reached number two in the US charts. The single appeared on the album Somewhere in England in 1981.

After Gone Troppo's 1982 debut, Harrison did not announce any new albums for five years, no one in the media or the general public paid attention. During this period, he appeared at many guest appearances, including one in 1985 at a tribute to Carl Perkins titled Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session. He made a surprise appearance at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert in March 1986, an annual event held to raise funds for the Birmingham Children's Hospital. He appeared at "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun" at Wembley Arena in London the following year. Dylan, John Fogerty, and Jesse Ed Davis appeared on stage in February 1987 for a two-hour collaboration with the blues musician Taj Mahal. "Bob called me up and asked if I wanted to come out for the evening and see Taj Mahal, so Harrison said," she recalled. We went to this Mexican beers and enjoyed a few more.' "Why don't we all get up and play, and you can sing?" says Bob. Dylan comes up and starts singing this garbage in my ear, trying to throw me every time I get near the microphone."

Harrison introduced the platinum album Cloud Nine in November 1987. Harrison's interpretation of James Ray's "Got My Mind Set on You" reached number one in the United States and number two in the United Kingdom, co-produced by Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). The accompanying music video received significant airplay, while "When We We Were Fab," a retrospective of the Beatles' career, received two MTV Music Video Awards nominations in 1988. Clapton, Jim Keltner, and Jim Horn were among his long-time musical collaborators on the album, which featured many of his long-time collaborators, including Clapton, Jim Keltner, and Jim Horn, recorded at his estate in Friar Park, Harrison's slide guitar. Cloud Nine's hit number eight and ten on both the US and UK charts, respectively, and several tracks from the album have landed on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart – "This Is Love" and "Cloud 9" – and "Cloud Nine" and "Cloud Nine."

Later career: 1988–1996

With Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty, Harrison formed the Traveling Wilburys in 1988. The band had assembled in Dylan's garage to record a song for a Harrison European single outing. Harrison's record company decided that "Handle with Care," rather than the original intended use as a B-side, was too good for the company's original purpose as a B-side and called for a complete album. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (LP). In October 1988, the first child, as well as the pseudonyms of Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr., was released under pseudonyms. It hit number 16 in the United Kingdom and number three in the United States, where it was certified triple platinum. "Nelson Wilbury" was Harrison's pseudonym on the record; for their second album, he used the term "Spike Wilbury";

Harrison and Starr appeared in Petty's 1989 film "I Won't Back Down." Harrison assembled and published Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989, a collection of his later solo projects, in October that year. The album featured three new songs, including "Cheer Down," which Harrison had recently contributed to Lethal Weapon 2's film soundtrack.

The Wilburys were enrolled as a four-piece following Orbison's death in December 1988. Traveling Wilburys Vol. II, the band's second album, which was released in October 1990, was mischievously named Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. "That was George's idea," Lynne says. "Let's confuse the buggers,'" he said. It reached number 14 in the United Kingdom and number 11 in the United States, where it was designated platinum. The Wilburys never performed live, and the group did not perform together again after the release of their second album.

Harrison arrived in Japan in December 1991 during a tour of Japan. It was Harrison's first visit since 1974, and no others followed. Harrison held a benefit concert for the Natural Law Party at the Royal Albert Hall on 6 April 1992, his first London appearance since the Beatles' 1969 rooftop performance. He appeared at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City in October 1992, as Dylan, Clapton, McGuinn, Petty, and Neil Young appeared together.

Harrison began working with McCartney, actor, and producer Jeff Lynne on the Beatles Anthology Project in 1994. The recording of two new Beatles songs based on solo vocal and piano tapes recorded by Lennon as well as lengthy interviews about the Beatles' career was included in this collection. "Free as a Bird" was the first new Beatles song since 1970, and was released in December 1995. They released "Real Love" in March 1996, their second single. Harrison declined to participate in the completion of a third song. "I hope someone does this to all my crap demos before I'm dead, make them into hit songs," the singer said later.

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