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them as carebears..

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george harrison painting

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now that you’re gone - mclennon animation

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Blue Jay Way

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Cue Paul and John tryna calm Geo down

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I miss my boys so much

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Paul and George aren't married so Ringo and John could have them

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George Harrison, 1971; photo by Barry Feinstein.

“I was working as a musician in the 1970s, and very late one night during a recording session at Capitol Records, George Harrison just sort of wandered in and sat down to listen. Since he knew the producer of the session, he decided to stay for a ‘few minutes.’ We all sat and talked, drank a few beers, and sang background harmonies together… for the better part of five hours. I can report to you that the above quote depicts exactly how he showed up that evening. He was not wearing his Beatles identity, he was just a guy named George, hanging out like a kid with some of his buddies in a garage band. Back then, I was just starting to get a clue about my spiritual reality, but without a doubt, George was already there. He has often been referred to as ‘the spiritual Beatle.’ Looking back at that evening, I can see why. He was totally unimpressed with his own fame. Why? Who he knew himself to be had nothing to do his name, fame, money, or for that matter, even his body. He didn’t take himself too seriously because he knew who he really was… and who he wasn’t. With that clarity, who others thought him to be didn’t much matter. George Harrison had discovered the reality of the self he shared in infinite presence and thus had broken free from that which binds most people to their egoic self. It was ironic: Here I was, a real nobody, struggling to be somebody, and there was George Harrison, a real somebody, acting like he was really nobody. I didn’t get the full impact of this irony until many years later when I realized that the closer we get to identifying with our own divine nature (the authentic self) the further we get from identifying with the trappings of the material world and the attachment to ego-based thinking.” - Dennis Merritt Jones, Huffington Post, 10 November 2011 (x)

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George Harrison, Friar Park, circa 1990; photo by Terry O'Neill.

George’s jukebox at Kinfauns has been explored by the Harrison Archive (and is available as a playlist here), thanks in large part to an article about it, published in the Record Mirror’s 1 January 1966 issue.

George’s jukeboxes at Friar Park, however, are a little more obscure. The following playlist of songs featured on the jukeboxes and mentioned in some way from 1970 onward is an approximate one only, based on doing some digging into print interviews, audio interviews, and written pieces by family and friends. (The tracks include information previously posted on the Harrison Archive. For - hopefully - easier navigation, I’ve also bolded the artists – and tracks known for certain to have been either on the jukeboxes or George’s favorites.)

“Stardust” (instrumental) - Hoagy Carmichael “Our son, Dhani, and I, like George’s friends, were spoiled by his rich and loving presence: from the morning wake-up call, which could have been (depending on our location and mood) a morning raga, a Vedic chant, a Mozart concerto, Cab Calloway’s ‘Bugle Call Rag,’ or Hoagy’s earliest instrument version of ‘Stardust’…” - Olivia Harrison [read more]

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George Harrison & Bob Dylan, “I’d Have You Anytime,” November 1968.

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Interviewed at the Montreal Grand Prix in June 2000.

“[W]hether he listened to Hoagy Carmichael or Cab Calloway, we would go on a musical journey for like months at a time. You would wake up to ‘Bugle Call Rag’ on the jukebox, that was his way of getting Dhani up for school. You know, loud. [Laughs] He probably would have covered Barnacle Bill the Sailor by now, you know, because he had a funny version of that. And it was all about the chords and notes and the sentiment.” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio, 2018 “My mother, ‘Who’s That Girl’ by the Eurythmics. My dad, ‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ by Hoagy Carmichael.  He would go up at parties to the DJ and say, ‘I’ve got something really amazing.’ ‘Cause he was who he was, they would listen to him, and then everyone would just be bummed out, it would clear the dance floor. And then he’d come back later — ‘I’ve got something else’ — and he’d put it on again. You know, he would just do this until the DJ was like [exasperated].” - Dhani Harrison (on what songs he associates with his parents), la minute rock, Rolling Stone France, November 28, 2017

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Footage (from a charity race on June 3, 1979) courtesy of AP Archive.

“In his slow, deliberate — and knowledgable — Scouse drawl, George will tell you about oversteer, understeer, gear ratios and why he hopes Jody Scheckter will be world champion this year.And he will rave about Fangio with the same 12-year-old’s wide eyes that watched the great Argentinian dominate the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree with Mercedes team-mate Stirling Moss.‘I can’t remember why I started going to Aintree — I think I just saw a poster advertising a race,‘ he says. ‘Anyway, I used to go there whether it was a big or small meeting, take my butties and sit on the Railway Straight embankment to watch the race. I went to a lot of bike meetings as well — I was a big fan of Geoff Duke!‘I had a box camera and went round taking pictures of all the cars. If I could find an address I wrote away to the car factories, and somewhere at home I’ve got pictures of all the old Vanwalls, Connaughts and BRMs. All that stuff got lost when I went on the road with The Beatles, but I’m sure it’s still in my dad’s attic.‘“ - Motor, July 28, 1979 “I’ve never raced seriously myself, but I had a go in a Formula One car, with quite an old 3-liter- engine car. I’d drive round Brand’s Hatch in one. And I drove in a charity for Gunnar Nilsson, a Swedish driver who died of cancer, because I gave the money from the ‘Faster’ single off George Harrison to Gunnar’s cancer fund. Anyhow, they had this day for the Gunnar Nilsson campaign at the track in England and they asked me to drive this 1960 Lotus, which had won a race in Monte Carlo when driven by the great English driver Sterling Moss. This car had no seatbelts, and because it had been in a museum for 20 years the tires were hard with no grip on them, yet the car was still pretty quick! But they assured me it was just a demonstration run, going round for five laps in formation and then five laps at your own pace. So I said I’d do it. I got there, and it’s Jackie Stewart in the Tyrrell he won his ‘73 championship in; James Hunt in the McLaren. Phil Hill in his famous Ferrari. I’m walking to my car while chatting with driver John Watson about the pleasure of the run we’re about to take, and he says, ‘You’re joking. There’s no racing driver that goes in formation! As soon as they drop that flag, they’ll all be gone like crazy!’ Sure enough, as soon as the checkered flag fell, the other cars went whoosh as mine puttered along in a haze of smoke! By the time I got to my first lap they were already coming behind me for their second lap, screaming away! Scared me stiff! [wild laugh] But at least I did better than James Hunt, who broke down on the first pass.” - George Harrison, Goldmine, November 27, 1992

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pluh pluh pluh!! let me rizz your gyatt !! 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

I'm literally so obsessed with vampire George (blame the Sims for that) so I drew him!! >.<

I did this ages ago and then never posted it whoppsie 🥴 better late than never

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GEORGE HARRISON CLAY FIMO FIGURINE

I literally cooked him

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