George Harrison

Also known as	Carl Harrison L'Angelo Misterioso Hari Georgeson Nelson/Spike Wilbury George Harrysong George O'Hara-Smith
Born	25 February 1943(1943-02-25) Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Died	29 November 2001 (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Rock, pop, psychedelic rock, experimental, world
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, film producer
Instruments	Guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards,ukulele, mandolin, sitar,tambura,sarod, swarmandal
Years active	1958–2001
Labels	Parlophone, Capitol, Swan,Apple,Vee-Jay, EMI,Dark Horse
Associated acts	The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, Dhani Harrison
Website	GeorgeHarrison.com

George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's breakup, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Harrison generally wrote one song per side from the Help! album onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's breakup, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison.

Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, and is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980.

Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to the model Pattie Boyd in 1966, and to the record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias in 1978, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.

American film director Martin Scorsese has announced that he is making a George Harrison documentary titled Living in the Material World: George Harrison.

Harrison was born in Liverpool, England, on 25 February 1943,[11][12] the last of four children to Harold Hargreaves Harrison and his wife Louise, née French.[13]
Exterior of a red brick building. Visible are a black door with a small window just above it, two larger windows to the left of the door, one above the other, and a flowerpot between the door and the lower larger window
Harrison's first home - 12 Arnold Grove

He had one sister, Louise, born 16 August 1931, and two brothers, Harry, born 1934, and Peter, born 20 July 1940. His mother was a Liverpool shop assistant, and his father was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line. The family was Roman Catholic; his maternal grandfather, John French, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, emigrating to Liverpool where he married a local girl, Louise Woollam.

Harrison was born in the house where he lived for his first six years: 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool, which was a small 2 up, 2 down terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with an alley to the rear. The only heating was a single coal fire, and the toilet was outside. In 1950 the family were offered a council house, and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke.

His first school was Dovedale Primary School, very close to Penny Lane, the same school as John Lennon who was a couple of years ahead of him. He passed his 11-plus examination and achieved a place at the Liverpool Institute for Boys (in the building that now houses the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), which he attended from 1954 to 1959. George said that, when he was 12 or 13, he had an "epiphany" of sorts - riding a bike around his neighbourhood, he heard Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" playing from a nearby house and was hooked. Even though he did well enough on his 11-plus examination to get into the city's best high school, from that point on, the former good student lost interest in school. When Harrison was 14 years old, he sat at the back of the class and tried drawing guitars in his schoolbooks: “I was totally into guitars. I heard about this kid at school who had a guitar at £3 10s, it was just a little acoustic round hole. I got the £3 10s from my mother: that was a lot of money for us then.” Harrison bought a Dutch Egmond flat top acoustic guitar. While at the Liverpool Institute, Harrison formed a skiffle group called The Rebels with his brother Peter and a friend, Arthur Kelly. At this school he met Paul McCartney, who was one year older. McCartney later became a member of John Lennon's band called The Quarrymen, which Harrison joined in 1958.

"My Sweet Lord"

INTRO:

e |-16--14\12--12/14--12-------------16--14\12--12/14--12--------------------|
A#|-----------------------15--15---------------------------15-------18-------|
G |-----------------------------------------------------------16/18----18\16-|
D |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


e |-16--14\12---16\13---13\10---10\7---7/10---13-----------------------------|
A#|-------------16\13---13\10---10\7---7/10---13---15---15---15\13---10\8----|
G |------------------------------------------------14---14---14\13----9\8----|
D |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|



SOLO:

e |-18--16\14--14/16--14------------------18--16\14--14/16--14---------------|
A#|----------------------17--17\15-----------------------------17---------20-|
G |--------------------------------15\-----------------------------18/20-----|
D |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


e |------------18---16\14----18\15---15\12---12\9---9/12---15----------------|
A#|--------------------------18\15---15\12---12\9---9/12---15----17----17----|
G |--20\18-------------------------------------------------------16----16----|
D |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


e |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A#|---17\15-----12\10--------------------------------------------------------|
G |---16\15-----11\10--------------------------------------------------------|
D |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

* you'll need to use your finger for the last 2 slides down.

That's about everything the lead guitar does. The intro goes clean and the
switch to the left while the solo has some distortion with the switch to the
right, right?.
This different tuning is absolutely correct, there's no other way of playing it.
It's totally worth to try it and a slide shouldn't cost more than $10.

As for the chords they go like:

(capo = 2nd)

Em - A7 (VERSE)
D - Bm - D - Bm - D - D#dim (CHORUS)
D - D7 - B - E - Fdim (BRIDGE)

F#m - B7 (VERSE)
E - C#m - E - C#m - E - Fdim (CHORUS)

EADGBE
D#dim:XX1212
Fdim :XX3434


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