George Harrison
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Official Twitter feed for the Estate of George Harrison
Joined August 2010
OUT NOW, the 50th Anniversary edition of George’s ‘Living in the Material World’. Overseen by Dhani & Olivia Harrison, the album features a new mix by multi-Grammy Award winner Paul Hicks along with 12 previously unreleased tracks. The album is available as a Super Deluxe
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The unauthorized use of #HereComestheSun at the #RNCinCLE is offensive & against the wishes of the George Harrison estate.
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You were the one who had made it so clear.All those years ago . You point the way to the truth when you say.All you need is love. You were the one who imagined it all.All those years ago. Photo by George.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new • Happy New Year!
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They say it’s your birthday!.Love and blessings to @PaulMcCartney from the Harrisons. Photo: Bruce McBroom © Apple Corps Ltd
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Now the darkness only stays the night time.In the morning it will fade away.Daylight is good at arriving at the right time.It’s not always going to be this grey. All things must pass.All things must pass away. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year.
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Astrid is and was the sweetest woman, so thoughtful and kind and talented, with an eye to capture a soul. Our family loved her and none more than George. I am truly saddened but honoured to have known her. Olivia #AstridKirchherr
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Happy Birthday, Paul!. Film created by @dannysangra . Photos by Linda McCartney and George. @PaulMcCartney @thebeatles
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Happy Birthday Ringo! • George and @ringostarrmusic would spend Ringo’s 29th birthday recording “Here Comes the Sun” in Studio Two at Abbey Road #peaceandlove
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The George Harrison masterpiece, All Things Must Pass, celebrates its 50th anniversary today. To mark this special occasion, you can listen to the brand new 2020 stereo mix of the album’s title track now - This is just a prelude of what’s to come in 2021.
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“Thank you all very much, especially the rock’n'rollers, and Little Richard - it was all his fault really.” George Harrison at @thebeatles induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. #RIPLittleRichard
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"I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands."
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Here’s a surprising magical story about Now and Then. @thebeatles | @johnlennon | @PaulMcCartney | @ringostarrmusic
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20 years ago today, on November 17th, 2003, George’s legacy was honored with the release of the ‘Concert for George’ film and album. The concert celebrated George’s life with contributions from George’s friends and family, including Olivia & @DhaniHarrison, @EricClapton,
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"All your love's reflected back to you" • To celebrate George's birthday, please share your favorite stories, songs and photos of #GeorgeHarrison. Looking forward to sharing them throughout the day #HappyBirthdayGeorge
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Tom was a tender southern gent in life, a poet and a music master on stage. He had a rocking chair wisdom that brought everything back. .
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To mark George's birthday today, the Liverpool City Council and the Harrison Estate proudly announce The George Harrison Woodland Walk, a memorial woodland opening in Liverpool in 2021. Artists are encouraged to submit artwork for the garden here –
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The official music video for ‘Now And Then’, directed by Peter Jackson, is live on @thebeatles YouTube channel - Link: Peter describes finding “a collection of unseen outtakes in the vault, where the Beatles are relaxed, funny and rather candid. We wove
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“If I play a song to Ringo, I don’t need to say to him, ‘I want it to go like this’, I just play it and he joins in. he just gets his sticks and he just does it and it sounds just like Ringo and he can hold the rock steady all day long.” George. Happy🎂 Birthday
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Now and Then, the last Beatles song, is out now. @thebeatles | @johnlennon | @PaulMcCartney | @ringostarrmusic
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Happy Birthday, @ringostarrmusic!. Film created by @dannysangra . Photo by Linda McCartney / © @PaulMcCartney . Footage courtesy of Apple Corps Ltd. @thebeatles
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‘It’s Johnny’s Birthday’. Remembering @johnlennon on his 80th Birthday. Click here - - to listen to the ‘It’s Johnny’s Birthday’ George & John Spotify Playlist. Animation by Spencer Ramsey.
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"He gave us the money to shoot Life Of Brian because he wanted to see the movie. It remains the highest price ever paid for a cinema ticket." – @EricIdle on George's funding of @montypython's "Life of Brian", released in 1979
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1964 Gibson SG Standard • Featured on Rubber Soul, Revolver, The White Album and beyond. The SG also appeared in the videos for “Paperback Writer,” “Rain” and “Lady Madonna.”
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(2/2) down to earth. We will love and miss him for the rest of our days. Our thoughts are with his family and all the💔 s. Olivia and Dhani.
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Celebrate George's birthday with a special custom Twitter emoji by using #GeorgeHarrison and #HappyBirthdayGeorge.
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NOW AND THEN. THE LAST BEATLES SONG. OUT 02.11.23. '#NowAndThen' is the last @thebeatles song – written and sung by @johnlennon, developed and worked on by George, @PaulMcCartney and @ringostarrmusic, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo over four decades later.
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"All it's got to take is some warmth" • 'Blow Away' released 40 years ago today • Watch –
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"I went through a period where I just played sitar for years and I never played any guitar. I just forgot about it. I was friendly with Eric, and he gave me this great guitar and I really got back involved and I started to try and play slide guitar."
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"I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I’m fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I’m not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I’ll be satisfied.”
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George with the Hofner President 'f-hole’ Acoustic Guitar later swapped to a member of the Swinging Blue Jeans for a Hofner Club 40.
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"George tried to teach himself [the guitar]. But he wasn’t making much headway. ‘I’ll never learn this,’ he used to say. I said, ‘You will, son, you will. Just keep at it.’ He kept at it till his fingers were bleeding." - Louise Harrison
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RIP Chuck Berry. The 1st song that @thebeatles performed at their 1st US concert was "Roll Over Beethoven.".Watch:
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“If I’d had my way, the Strat would have been my first guitar."
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George in Hawaii, 1983 • Olivia Harrison has joined Instagram by sharing some of her favorite photos of George that she has taken over the years. Follow her for more –
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Celebrate George's birthday on the new George Harrison website, filled with the love, songs & spirit of George –
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Beep beep'm beep beep yeah! • George and his E-Type Jaguar, 1964 • Photo by Leslie Bryce
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The only guitar used on every Beatles album • 1962 Gibson J-160E
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Congrats to @RealRonHoward for winning the best music film @Grammys for 'The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- the Touring Years'. @thebeatles
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I’d become friendly with Paul, I remember him coming round to my house and I had this guitar, he had a trumpet. Paul realized he couldn’t sing and play the trumpet at the same time, so then he went off and bought his guitar. #Georgequote.Happy Birthday @PaulMcCartney
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Olivia & Dhani invite you to join them in celebrating what would have been George's 75th Birthday today, by watching this performance of one of his loveliest songs, Isn't It A Pity, here performed by his friends at the #ConcertforGeorge. Watch:
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John phoned me up one morning in January and said, ‘I’ve written this tune & I’m going to record it tonight and have it pressed up and out tomorrow. That’s the whole point – “Instant Karma!” – you know?’ So I was in. I said, ‘OK, I’ll see you in town.’ #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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"Music doesn’t overwhelm me as it did before. It’s a more spiritual, subtle thing now. More a part of my everyday life, but not in as flashy a way. There’s an inner music every soul possesses, but most of us are unaware of it." • Interview in 'Men Only' magazine, November 1978
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"My favourite version is the one by James Brown. When I wrote it, in my mind I heard Ray Charles singing it, and he did do it some years later. I like Smokey Robinson's version too." – George on "Something", recorded 50 years ago today • Listen –
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My dear friend, artist Alejandro Olmo turned to @LEGO_Group this week while sheltering at home. It helps to stay creative. Love, Olivia
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"Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me." •
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#OTD 16JUN1971 George and @johnlennon jam in NYC. John invites George to play on his next album #Imagine.
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Happy Birthday Bob Dylan! . First meeting in August of 1964, George and Bob became life-long friends. "They had a soul connection" - Olivia Harrison
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"I don't know where I had been,.but I know what I have seen."
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‘Oh My Love’ is one of five songs on @johnlennon’s ‘Imagine’ album that George played on. George plays the guitar while John sings and plays piano. Photo by Peter Fordham. Click here - - to listen to ‘Oh My Love’ on the It’s Johnny’s Birthday Playlist.
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