Harrison by Editors of Rolling Stone
Book Description: George Harrison was one of the most adored and accomplished
musicians of the rock & roll era. His brilliant, understated guitar
playing helped define the sound of the Beatles, and his songs -- including
"Something," "Here Comes the Sun" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" --
are among the group's finest. Harrison's lifelong quest for new sounds
had a profound influence on the Beatles; he introduced the sitar and other
Eastern instruments into the group -- and to rock & roll. In the late
sixties he also led the Beatles to explore Eastern religion and embarked
on a personal spiritual journey that continued for the rest of his life.
In 1970, following the Beatles' breakup, Harrison released a solo masterpiece,
All Things Must Pass, and the next year he pioneered rock's first large-scale
charity event with the Concert for Bangladesh. Harrison launched a solo
tour in 1974 and made a series of wonderful solo albums and side projects
with friends like Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar and fellow Beatle Ringo Starr.
In the late eighties he formed the Traveling Wilburys with his friends
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, but Harrison spent most
of that decade and the nineties at home in England and Hawaii, tending
to his garden, playing the ukulele and enjoying a quiet life with his wife,
Olivia, and son, Dhani.
ROLLING STONE featured George Harrison on its cover three times for
his post-Beatles work and eight times as a Beatle. He was also featured
on the cover of a special commemorative issue, as well as on the magazine's
regular edition, following his death from cancer at age fifty-eight, on
November 29, 2001. Now, in a definitive tribute that features a new foreword
by Olivia Harrison, the editors have drawn on their archives and hundreds
of photographs, both the iconographic and the rarely seen, to celebrate
the life and career of one of the most important musicians in rock &
roll history.
Compiled by the editors of ROLLING STONE, Harrison chronicles the guitarist's
life before, during and after the Beatles. Contributing editor Mikal Gilmore
offers an expansive, thoughtful new essay, "The Mystery Inside George."
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner and ROLLING STONE senior editor David Fricke
tells the stories behind Harrison's best-known songs, and offers a guide
to twenty-five essential Harrison recordings. Harrison also features news
stories and interviews with the guitarist from throughout ROLLING STONE's
history -- from his first Q&A with the magazine, in 1968, to his last,
a 1987 interview with ROLLING STONE contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis.
Harrison also collects more than one hundred photographs -- from intimate,
never-before-seen family photos to iconic images of Harrison as a member
of the world's most photographed band. The work of nine renowned photographers
is featured in a stunning sixty-page gallery. Included among them are German
photographers Max Scheler's and Jürgen Vollmer's early photos of the band's
wild days in Hamburg. There is also the deeply personal work of Astrid
Kirchherr, who shot the Beatles' earliest formal portraits in a Hamburg
fairground and became a close friend of George's. P.J. Griffiths photographed
the band for a newspaper article in 1963 on the Liverpool scene. David
Hurn shot the filming of A Hard Day's Night and Help! Curt Gunther was
one of the few photographers allowed to travel with the group during their
1964 North American tour. And Mark Seliger shot what became the definitive
late-period portrait of Harrison for ROLLING STONE's twenty-fifth anniversary
issue in 1992.
Paperback from Simon & Schuster
Book Published: May, 2002
Harrison by Rolling Stone (Editor)
Hardcover: 240 pages
Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0743235819; (May 2002)
I,
Me, Mine by George Harrison, Olivia Harrison
Hardcover from Chronicle Books
Book Published: October, 2002
