News about Olivia Harrison

Let it be...built! George Harrison's widow applies to build electric buggy garage and workshop in the grounds of Beatles legend's £75M mansion

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 7, 2023
Olivia Harrison, 75, is planning to press forward with the large garage, which will be equipped with electric charging points, in the grounds of historic Friar Park. George, a British emperor who died in 2001 at the age of 58, regarded his garden as a temple. In 1970, he purchased the Grade II-listed home as a peaceful escape from London and a location to open a new recording studio. It comes just six months after the author and film director were granted permission to build an ultra-modern yoga studio complete with an indoor gym. Olivia needs a place to park her golf buggies, which presumably were used to get around the estate's sprawling gardens, which total 62 acres.

George Harrison's songs saved him from knifeman: Widow Olivia reveals ex-Beatle survived blade attack because he had lyrics stuffed in his top pocket

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 30, 2023
Ex-Beatle George Harrison (left with wife Olivia) has told how his songs saved his life when he was stabbed by a knifeman, as he had reams of lyrics packed in his top pocket. Olivia Harrison (right) said her husband's songwriting papers, which were folded so tightly that they shielded the vital organ from the 1999 blade attack. Here Comes Intruder Michael Abram (inset), who stabbed The Beatles legend ten times in the chest, assaulted the Sun writer inside his house in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire.

George Harrison's widow wins permission to build yoga studio in the grounds of huge mansion

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 21, 2023
George Harrison's widow (left) has been granted permission to create a'minimalist and modern' yoga studio (inset left) in the grounds of the large mansion she once shared with her Beatle husband. Olivia Harrison, 74, has decided against plans to build the super-modern structure (top right) in the grounds of historic Friar Park (bottom right).

George Harrison's widow applies to build a yoga studio in mansion grounds

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 16, 2022
Olivia Harrison, 74, has submitted plans for a new glass structure to be built in Friar Park's gardens - the magnificent neo-gothic mansion Harrison built in 1970. Harrison, the band's most devoted member, died in 2001 at the age of 58, and he's often practiced yoga and transcendental meditation. During his lifetime, he described how he felt most at peace on his sprawling Oxfordshire estate, where he invented the 'decidedly un-rock-star-ish pastime' of gardening.

Peter Jackson's Get Back to It has been named four Creative Arts Emmys for his Beatles: Get Back

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 4, 2022
At the 2022 Creative Arts Emmys held in Downtown Los Angeles, Peter Jackson's highly acclaimed documentary The Beatles: Get Back was a big winner. According to Emmys.com, the eight-hour, three-part Disney+ series took home four awards out of five nominations, including the highly coveted Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. Jackson, along with fellow producers and former members of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr, as well as Yoko Ono Lennon, Clare Olssen, Jonathan Clyde, and WingNut Films Limited, a team of Disney+, Apple Corps Limited and WingNut Films Productions Limited welcomed the big win.