They were very good friends, and Jeff was meticulous, and he’d have a lot of ideas and bounce stuff of my dad. “Jeff and my dad had a great way of working together.
But he loved to make music and he loved recording.” Jeff Lynne He didn’t like the bulls_t that goes with being famous. At the end of a session, around two in the morning, we’d have a few drinks, listen back to the stuff we’d been doing and then start playing other songs together, some of his old favourites. “George was a reluctant rock star, but he loved to play rock’n’roll. I want to believe that as well.” Terry Gilliam He was always convinced that the spirit of The Beatles went into the Pythons because we started the year they quit. Some people have this image of him as a kind of reverent guy, which he was, but he was also rip-you-apart funny.” Tom Petty He could get you laughing really hard, you know, and I held my sides and tried not to hurt with him. His life was magical and we all felt we had shared a little bit of it by knowing him.” Yoko Ono “George has given so much to us in his lifetime and continues to do so even after his passing, with his music, his wit and his wisdom. I’ve discovered it takes courage to be gentle. “My favorite George Harrison song? ‘ My Guitar Gently Weeps’. It’s his innate talent that comes through on that song, that brought that song together.” John Lennon You can hear his mind is clear and his music is clear. I like the arrangement, the sound and the words. “I think that is one of George’s best songs, one of my favourites of his. The song ‘Something’ is still one of the prettiest songs of all time.” Michael Jackson “George was like a son to me, and my Indian name for him was ‘Jáyaraj.’… He gave the whole world so many beautiful songs.” Ravi Shankar And I like the way he bends the strings too.” Eric Clapton So I respect his judgement and his values and I think he’s a wonderful man. “I always thought of George as being a little like the elder brother that I never had.
He is really just my baby brother.” Paul McCartney “He was a lovely guy and a very brave man and had a wonderful sense of humour. Listen to the best of George Harrison on Apple Music and Spotify. As Ringo Starr once put it: “Let’s have peace and love for George.”
What follows are tributes and memories of the great man, from those who knew him the most. In a statement following Harrison’s death, his family revealed, “He often said, ‘Everything else can wait but the search of God cannot wait, and love one another.’” His many fans and friends, however, made sure to send a lot of love towards George Harrison himself. “It was like I’d been sent the person I needed,” fellow-Wilbury Tom Petty said of their friendship. Indeed, Harrison was far more than a musical inspiration he was, to many, a spiritual guide as well. The Concert For George, staged at London’s Royal Albert Hall, and now being reissued on DVD, CD and LP formats, allowed for a universal outpouring of love for a man who’s work - and outlook on life - touched so many. It’s been said of him that, “George was a great believer in this fantastic language called music - the universality of this language,” and so it was fitting that, on 29 November 2002, a year to the day after George Harrison passed away, a musical family - led by Eric Clapton and including lifelong friends and collaborators, among them Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Ravi Shankar, Tom Petty and Billy Preston - gathered to pay tribute to their beloved friend and inspiration. Add to that a post-Beatles career that saw him further develop his songwriting skills with classic solo albums such as All Things Must Pass and the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys, and it becomes clear that George Harrison, born on 25 February 1943, was one of the greatest musical talents to have ever walked the earth. As an ex- Beatle, George Harrison’s place in history is assured.
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