A little 'bout... George Harrison

"My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it." - George Harrison

George! My favorite Beatle! *mwah! mwah!* [kisses computer screen] Okay, now that I've gotten that out of my system, here's a little about George: The third member to join the band, George Harrison (aka "The Quiet Beatle") was a wonderful guitarist, but never really was considered as a songwriter until he penned such classic rock songs as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun." Often overlooked as part of the Beatles, George was the first of them to have a #1 hit following the breakup--the religious anthem "My Sweet Lord"--and his debut solo album, All Things Must Pass, is considered by many to be the greatest solo Beatle album. Although not as big a commercial success as Paul or John, George still turned out some great songs like "What Is Life," "You," "Crackerbox Palace," and scored another #1 in 1987 with "Got My Mind Set On You." The following year, George teamed up with Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and ELO's Jeff Lynne to form the Traveling Wilburys, and had a hit with "Handle With Care." In another sad note, in 2001, George Harrison joined John Lennon in Rock 'n' Roll Heaven after losing his battle with cancer. But like John, George's music and his message lives on well beyond his death.

"I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.'"

"As long as you hate, there will be people to hate."

"It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality."

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