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George Harrison is born in Liverpool, UK, in 1943
In its first group (The Beatles), George Harrison is a guitarist soloist, sometimes singer (Roll Over Beethoven) and occasionally type-setter, placant one or two titles per album, generally of the small pearls (Yew I Needed Someone, Taxman). About 1968, its songs become sumptuous carrement (While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, Here Comes The Sun), but it does not arrive has to place them all, vis-a-vis the very powerful Lennon-McCartney tandem. It writes many titles thus refuse by its future ex-partners (some having however ete record by the group), whom one will find for the majority in his albums solo of the Seventies (All Things Must Pass, Not Guilty, Circles, etc).
Before separation, George publishes two rather strange instrumental albums, between Indian music and bidouillages electronic: Wonderwall Music in 1968, music of a film that nobody saw and Electronic Sound in 1969: deconseiller with the amateurs of pop music has
Then in 1970, finally libere, it records the mythical one and genial All Things Must Pass with some friends: Dylan, Clapton, Ringo, Phil Spector, etc. The album will be number one (as well as the hit My Sweet Lord) and will obtain more successes than all the other discs solo of the ex-Beatles: sacree revenge
The following year, it organizes (with the same ones) the Concert For Bangla Desh, first event of the kind (Live Aid and company will follow ten years later), which will be the subject of a film and new triple album!
George will always have evil has to find this level of inspiration. Living room In The Material World (1973) decoit fans (same if it contains a new number one, Give Coils Me). In 1974, Harrison cree his own label, Dark Horse, and publishes an album (enough weak) same name. He also undertakes a tournee americaine, has the exit of which he publishes Extra Texture (Read all About It) (1975). The best of this period and its titles for Beatles east compiles in 1976 in excellent Best Of.
Harrison then will record less and less enthralling albums: 33 and 1/3 (1976), George Harrison (1979), Somewhere In England (1981) and Gone Troppo (1982) are followed in the general indifference. Such point that it hangs up again, being devoted has the cinematographic production (in particular films of his/her friends Monty Python).
However, in 1987, pushes by its entourage, it publishes Cloud Nine, true masterpiece which one always awaits the reedition. And which one awaits also the successor
Then, it forms a group for rire' with some pals (Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty), Traveling Wilburys, who publish two albums sublimes (vol. 1 in 1988 and Vol.3 in 1990!) which one always awaits the reedition
After Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989 (1989), George is made trainer in Japan by Eric Clapton for his second and derniere tournee, which will give place has Live In Japan (1992), which one always awaits etc.
Lastly, ten years later, whereas one always awaits (the fan learned patience) a new album studio that one promises to us for soon (ah! ah!), appears the reedition remasterisee and augmentee of All Things Must Pass, which should be followed of that of the other albums of discrete Beatles '.
George dies in November 28th 2001, after a long fight with cancer.
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