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Author:	Philip Norman
Title:	George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster UK
Country:	UK
Date:	24 Oct 2023
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Biography
ISBN-13:	9781398513402
Total Editions:	3
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$32
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560 pages.

From the publisher's website (www link as at 16 February 2023):

Sometimes referred to as the ‘Quiet Beatle’, George Harrison never considered himself more than ‘an okay player’ & toward the end of his life took to referring to himself as ‘the economy-class Beatle’. He was often ridiculed by his bandmates for his low-class background &, typically, was allotted only one song per Beatles album despite writing dozens. Yet modern music critics place him in the pantheon of 1960s guitar gods alongside Clapton, Hendrix, Richards, Beck & Page.

In George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions. While with the Beatles, George was considered a minor talent as compared with songwriting luminaries Lennon & McCartney, yet he composed such masterpieces as ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ & ‘Something’. His solo debut album ‘All Things Must Pass’, with hits like ‘My Sweet Lord’ & ‘What Is Life’, achieved enormous sales & has appeared on many lists of the 100 best rock albums ever. He spent years lovingly restoring his Friar Park estate, site of many of his efforts to become a more spiritual being, yet in a heartbeat he mortgaged the property to help rescue a film project that would be widely banned as sacrilegious (Monty Python’s ‘The Life of Brian’). Harrison could be fiercely jealous, yet he not only stayed friends with Eric Clapton, the man who fell in love with his wife, but, after Clapton walked away with her, grew even closer to him.

This book shows George Harrison at his most multi-faceted: devoted friend, loyal son, seeker of guitar-playing mastery, brilliant songwriter, cocaine addict, serial philanderer, global philanthropist, student of Indian mysticism, self-deprecating comedian & ultimately the man beloved by millions.

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