George Harrison
Full Name: George Harrison
Birthdate: February 25th, 1943
Here Comes The Sun
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Fun Facts
The most difficult thing in the world to get George Harrison to do is to be serious. He laughs at life, himself, The Beatles, success, everything. His humor is absolutely unquenchable.
In telling about his early life George says, "I was never officially introduced to myself. In accordance with natural custom I was born, at the time being fairly small...about 20 inches l ong. My mother insisted I was brought into the world singing and playing a guitar, but I think she was joking."
"After I was born I started to grow, which is pretty lucky, 'cos I'd have looked a bit like Charlie if I'd stayed 20 inches all my life. By the time I was five I could walk and talk andknew my name was George (brilliant really)."
About that time George's parents and the local schooling authority decided it was time for him to exercise his brain and he was enrolled in Dovedale Primary School. He took an active interest in all kinds of sports, becoming almost an expert in swimming, soccer, and cricket.
George's early years passed uneventfully. About the only thing he could ever count on was tonsilitis every year. "No kidding," he says, "every year on the day before my birthday I always came down with tonsilitis. The habit was broken the day before my 13th birthday. I woke up without a sore throat, so naturally I was frightened. I went right to the doctor. I told the doctor that for the first time, my throat was fine. He said 'yes, it's so fine, I'll have to put you in the hospital.' And he did. I had nephritis and stayed in the hospital 7 weeks."
When George was 14, he was riding on a bus one day and he noticed a boy sitting across the aisle. "He was sitting there laughing to himself. All of a sudden I realized he could see his own reflection in the window...and that was enough to make him laugh."
"He was eating fish and chips but his hair was so long it kept getting in the way."
The boy was Paul McCartney. The boys struck up a conversation which resulted in a strong friendship. They playind in groups around Liverpool and went on holidays together.
Once they went on a hitch-hiking holiday to Paington in Devon. They ran out of money and had nowhere to sleep. George suggested that they sleep on the beach because the sand would be soft.
"How wrong I was," he says, "sand is as hard as concrete when you lie on it all night. Another year we did sleep on concrete. We were on a hitch-hiking trip to South Wales and again we ran out of money. This time we slept in the grandstand of the football club." Early next morning they were thrown out by a watchman who informed them that the grandstand was not a hotel.
Links
Cloud Nine
When We Was Fab
Sat Singing
George Harrison: Albums, Songs, and Lyrics
Pics
*Get Back*
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