As Olivia Harrison remembers, her future husband, George, drove himself to work on the first day on his new job. The only problem was that no one had organized a welcoming party for him, but Olivia — then Olivia Arias, newly hired to work on the project — dashed out to the parking lot to greet him. In many ways, the story befits Harrison: Among his fellow Beatles , he was always the most low-key and publicity averse — the so-called quiet Beatle who also had a sly sense of humor.
He went solo as soon as the group disbanded in , organized the all-star Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, and had hit singles of his own. Then, in , he decided to start his own label, Dark Horse Records. Many current rock and hip-hop artist-entrepreneurs have determined how to own, run, and distribute their own labels, but in the early years of such undertakings, everyone — especially the musicians who fronted the companies — was learning as they went along.
But his experience running a company, and touring to promote himself during that time, would reverberate for the rest of his career, in ways both positive and less so. The two were hanging out in the downstairs breakfast room that was the social hub of the house. So to me, dark horse is the one not expected to win but who wins. For Olivia, the connection was clear. But he was very internalized. His triple album, All Things Must Pass, was both a best-seller and a declaration to the world that he could make records equal to those of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
I want to keep it reasonably small. As an artist himself, Harrison was happy to delegate: In the U. He designed everything, even the merch. He had beautiful bronze Dark Horse belt buckles and pins.
There were dark horses everywhere. Still, Dark Horse was hardly a haven for purist music. Harrison also issued Mind Your Own Business! On top of launching his own label, Harrison piled even more work onto his plate by undertaking his first and only American tour. Even at a time that found Dylan back on the road and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young reuniting, an endeavor like this by a solo Beatle was an event.
Neither Julian nor Sean were ever going to emulate their father's success and soon stopped trying; likewise, James McCartney, a singer-songwriter who, at 34, has yet to release a full album, and Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr's son, is seemingly content as a session drummer.
But Dhani Harrison did step happily into a Beatles-hued limelight after his father's death in November He collaborated with Jeff Lynne on George's final album, Brainwashed, and a year later participated in the tribute show "Concert for George", revisiting his father's songs alongside Macca and Eric Clapton.
He has since worked on the development of The Beatles: Rock Band, a music video game for the Xbox, and is perpetually rumoured, alongside the other Fab Four offspring, to be dusting off various Beatles rarities for imminent, if never quite materialising, release. The first album by thenewno2, You Are Here, was released in It arrived without fanfare, and didn't sell many copies. Harrison argues that this was just the way he wanted it.
Thenewno2 never had that luxury. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you. Which is why he decamped to California, to hang out with all the "weird people", and retain at least a kind of anonymity.
If LA is a city where everybody has a colourful back story, then Harrison is merely one of many. I live out by the beach. I have my dogs, I ride my bikes, and I mix with a lot of really lovely, sweet and talented artistic people. He has also recently married his long-term girlfriend, the former model Solveig Karadottir, about whom, no, he will not talk; likewise the recent claims that he and James McCartney, Sean Lennon and Zak Starkey were about to do something thoroughly foolish and form a next-generation Beatles supergroup.
Rumours of these kinds, he complains, spread like wildfire, and to add anything to them is merely to fan the flames. He doesn't want to fan any flames. George was the youngest of four children and was doted on by his elder siblings. He was a great brother,' she said in an interview in Louise moved to Illinois with her Scottish mining engineer husband, Gordon Caldwell, and had two children in the late s.
In October , Love Me Do was released in the UK and the nation became gripped by the four mop-tops and their sensational style. However, at that moment, the band was unknown in America - a situation that their manager Brian Epstein hoped to change.
Louise, stepped up to the task and she took it upon herself to visit every small-town DJ she could, asking them to play her kid brother's band's songs. She still has letters from Brian Epstein, expressing gratitude for how she helped them break America.
In , George spent two weeks at Louise's home. He was able to walk the streets unrecognized, he went camping and played with a local band in front of a small crowd of Louise traveled to New York to see her now world-famous brother and met John, Ringo and Paul and eventually George's then girlfriend, Patti Boyd - for whom he would end up writing the ballad Something.
Louise recalls that the moniker of the 'Quiet Beatle' was bestowed on her brother - for the wrong reasons. George was in fact suffering a strep throat at the time and as a result couldn't speak to the press or address the hordes of screaming girls who had flocked to see him. The brother and sister spent the s and the s very close, but George reportedly distanced himself from her in the mid-Nineties, however - because he disapproved of the conversion of her old Illinois home into a 'Beatles bed-and-breakfast' inn, called A Hard Day's Night.
Louise does not own the establishment, but did use her name to help promote it because the town had fallen on hard times. She was says that she was trying to help them economically. George pictured with his parents Harold and Louise in Liverpool joined a local band The Four Vest on stage during his secret US trip and ended up playing with them at a birthday party.
When George lay dying in hospital in Staten Island more than 10 years ago they reunited. Louise was led into a room where she found a familiar, though diminished figure propped up in a reclining chair, clinging to life.
The only other people present were Olivia and her sister Linda, and Dhani. They left Louise and George to hold hands and reconcile for 90 minutes. He was still George. He must have been in pain, but he didn't show it.
We reminisced about our childhood, and his sense of humor was the same as ever. He laughed and said: 'My ears finally came in useful for something. As their time together drew to a close, George humbly apologized to his sister.
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