Today marks the 35th Anniversary of George Harrison and Ravi Shankar’s Concert For Bangladesh. The event took place on August 1st 1971 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, and featured performances by George, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell and Billy Preston.
Madison Square Garden will celebrate the 35th Anniversary by […]
Press Release - Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing announced the reissue of George Harrison’s Living In The Material World album on September 26, 2006. The CD will be issued in two formats. Both packages will contain the album, which has been re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios from the original analog tapes.
The new version also includes two […]
According to an article on Contactmusic, George Harrison was $34 short when he bought a black Gretsch Duo Jet electric guitar from merchant seaman Ivan Hayward back in in 1961. So, he wrote Hayward an IOU for the amount, and promised to pay him back.
However, it seems that George never honoured his promise, and to this […]
Saturday, 4th March, 1961
Just a single gig for The Beatles on this Saturday with an appearenc at the Aintree Institute in Aintree, Liverpool.
As well as being the home of a famous horse racing course, in the 1950s, Aintree also played host to several motor races including The British Grand Prix. Among the crowd at the 1955 Grand […]
Saturday, 25th February, 1961
George celebrated his 18th Birthday with the rest of The Beatles by playing two gigs this evening. The first was another appearence at the Aintree Institute in Aintree, followed by another repeat perfomance at Lathom Hall in Seaforth.
Over at the Boston Globe web-site author James Parker provides insightful reviews of three new Beatles related books.
“Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison” By Joshua M. Greene.
“McCartney” By Christopher Sandford.
“Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four” Edited by Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis
The full […]
A few days before the opening of an exhibit of her photographs at a San Francsico gallery, Patti Boyd spoke of her memories of ex-husband George Harrison.
Pausing in front of her photo of Harrison and her second husband blues guitar maestro Eric Clapton together with cigarettes in their hands in the mid-1970s, she reflected on the […]
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
