The project marked a departure for Genesis Publications, which had previously focused on facsimile editions of historical nautical journals, including The Log of H.

His bizarre childhood as the son of an unsuccessful seaside showman inspired his memoir Babycham Night. Despite his religious convictions, Harrison led an interesting life and it's all detailed in this book in 530 pages. Sometimes the context allows you wiggle room to be a little understanding, and yet sometimes you consider his actions spiteful, juvenile, and utter shit. I really enjoyed what I read, and when I learned that GH was not only a serious devotee of Hinduism, but had also written the forward to this edition of the BG, I was deeply sold.Here, the Fab Four's inimitable chronicler Philip Norman gives us the portrait of Harrison's remarkable life that only he can: myth-dispelling, richly detailed, and full of humor.

Handsomely bound in half black calf and black cloth, embellished with a brown leather inlay and gilt guitar motif to the upper cover and gilt facsimile signature to lower cover, five raised bands, gilt-stamped spine, brown leather spine label, all edges gilt, ribbon bookmark, 4 separate music scores as endpapers, 2 tipped-in sepia toned childhood portraits with tissue guards as frontispiece and endpiece, 17 text engravings, 48 photo plates + large 4 panel fold-out plate, 120 colour facsimile pages containing 83 of George's song lyrics. Initially a vehicle to produce Life of Brian, HandMade went on to revive the British film industry with a run of quirky, critical successes including The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits , Mona Lisa , A Private Function and Withnail and I. Roughly the first half of the book is comprised of George's birth, inclusion into The Beatles and their rise to fame. The lyrics document an afternoon spent immersed in meditation, [27] [28] during which the singer surrenders the distractions of the physical world for a communion with his deity.A unique view is provided of Harrison's world, his early days, and his friends and collaborators through the years. Brian Roylance, who founded the company in 1974, said of Harrison's memoir: "I saw the song lyrics as important documents – as important as all the other things I was publishing. Norman compassionately relates Harrison’s struggles after he was stabbed by a mentally ill intruder at his mansion, and his battle against cancer. The resulting collection provides an unparalleled insight into Harrison's writing process, and the creation of the songs that so many have come to know and love.

Original black morocco, raised bands to spine, lettering to spine and front cover gilt, single gilt rules to covers, red morocco guitar onlay to front cover with gilt detail, sheet music endpapers, all edges gilt. At that point, almost everything I knew about George had gone into my 1981 Beatles biography, Shout!George in turns treats her beautifully and then appallingly, offering her to Eric Clapton one night casually. Its defining track, My Sweet Lord, was an anthem for any creed a year before John’s Imagine, with a slide guitar motif like a tremulous human voice that would become a signature as personal and inimitable as Jerry Lee Lewis’s slashing piano arpeggios or Stevie Wonder’s harmonica. Norman remains keenly aware of how culture, politics, religion and pop music entangled in the minds of Harrison and his mates. The morning after our interview, Abbott was having coffee outside a north London cafe when a friend stopped by his table to say hello, accompanied by a man he didn’t know. Harrison subsequently edited Taylor's memoir, Fifty Years Adrift, [3] which Genesis published in its customary, limited-edition, deluxe format in 1984.

Harrison railed against the material world yet wrote the first pop song complaining about income tax. We journey with the group as they struggle from very humble beginnings, living in squalor as they played in the red-light districts in some of the seedier cities in Europe, to having to run for their lives from adoring fans a few years later. There was the philanthropist who donated tens of millions to charity, both in cash and song-copyrights, yet received no public honour beyond the MBE doled out to each Beatle in 1965 for shaking their hair and going “Oo! The complexity of his character was something that hadn’t really been noticed before,” Norman said, adding, “Actually taking the whole elusive man, a bundle of different personalities, that was what was fascinating .In another example of “timing is everything,” this new biography comes as “the final” Beatles song --- “Now and Then” --- hits the scene. However, their son Dhani received the attention that his father felt had too long been lacking in his life. Olivia Harrison reflects on the music and a book marking what would have been 'quiet Beatle's' 74th birthday". The opening track on the EP, the 1979-copyright "Sat Singing", was recorded at Harrison's Friar Park studio, FPSHOT, [23] in March 1980. Their nonpareil record producer, Sir George Martin, to whom I spoke shortly before his own death, was still remorseful for having been “rather beastly to George” in the studio before realising his true worth.