born in 1943 and 62 to 70 was the lead guitarist and singer (often accompanying) the Beatles, for which he composed 22 songs.
After the dissolution of the group (the last recording from April 1970 with the song written by Harrison I Me Mine) has embarked on a career as an individual and as a successful musician and as a film producer.
Inside the Beatles' Harrison played a minor role near the most popular Lennon & McCartney, but never marginal and, in the early years the group, his compositions were not frequent.
Among them are to remember I Need You, If I Needed Someone, both of 1965, Taxman and I Want To Tell You, 1966.
Harrison was among the first to enter eastern instruments in rock songs and played the sitar in Norwegian Wood, 1965, Within You, Without You The Inner Light, 1967 and 1968.
In the second period of activity of the Beatles Harrison took a leading role both as a guitarist, honing a unique style of guitar, either as original author of some beautiful and intense songs like While My Guitar Gently Weeps, 1968 , Here Comes The Sun and Something, 1969, and of course his wonderful piece capolavaoro.
After the band split, the real debut as a soloist is Harrison with All Things Must Pass in 1970, an ambitious album very nice which highlights the artistic maturity reached in the last three years of activity of the Beatles.
the summer of 1971 organized the famous Concert for Bangladesh, charitable initiative to help people displaced by civil guerrra between India and Pakistan that led to the establishment of the state of Bangladesh. the late seventies, his friendship with the comedy group Monty Python stimulated in financing the production of the film Life Of Brian 1978, initially rejected by Warner Brothers.
The initiative was successful enough to induce him to found the production company HandMade Films.
eighties Harrison significantly reduced the activity of music and devoted himself mainly to the movies.
The album Cloud Nine, 1987 marks the bully back, however, and was a great success.
The following year he participated in the birth of the Traveling Wilburys, a recording project very joyful and remarkably successful, which sees the birth of a supergroup consisting of Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison.
The album has a great success but unfortunately Orbison died just weeks after its release.
Despite the success both critically and commercially, due to the strange synergy that was created by artists as diverse, with Orbison's death the group broke up.
In the nineties, is divided between the usual commitments in the field of cinema and a comfortable musical activity.
The only result was the second chapter in the studio (although the title refers to a hypothetical intermediate disk actually nonexistent) in the saga of the Traveling Wilburys, Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 of 1990.
a job but that does not have the freshness and originality of the first and only reflects a contractual obligation.
In 1994, due to financial problems must close the HandMade Films.
That same year, back in the recording studio along with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to complete the Beatles Anthology project, built between 1995 and 1996 in a documentary film and three double albums .
project despite criticism that he had the power to consolidate the myth of a group now entered the history of music of this century.
died of cancer in 2001.
The last album Brainwashed has been released a year after death, and got rave reviews from critics.
The disc, which contains eleven new songs and a remake of a standard, Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, was left unfinished and completed by Jeff Lynne, with whom he was working on an anthology of the Traveling Wilburys.
In the same year his wife Olivia and Eric Clapton organized a concert in tribute to his memory with the participation of that Clapton, Ravi Shankar, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne.
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