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George Harrison - Essay

George Harrison

George Harrison

Harold and Louise French gave birth to George Harrison on February 25, 1943 in Liverpool, England. George Harrison was the youngest of four children. While George Harrison had a solo career, he is best remembered as the lead guitarist and sometimes lead vocals with The Beatles.

Like his future band mates, Harrison was not born into rich families. Louise was largely a stay-at-home mom while her husband Harold drove a school bus for the Liverpool Institute, an acclaimed grammar school where George Harrison attended and first met Paul MCcartney.

By his own admission, Harrison was not much of a student and what little interest he did have for his studies washed away ...

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taught himself a few chords.

Forming the Beatles

Impressed with his younger friend's talents, Paul McCartney, who had recently joined up with another Liverpool teenager, John Lennon, in a good group known as the Quarrymen, invited Harrison to see the band perform. Harrison and Lennon actually shared some common history. Both had attended Dovedale Primary School, but oddly had never met. Their paths finally crossed in early 1958. McCartney had been pushing the 17-year-old Lennon to let the 14-year-old Harrison join the band. But Lennon was reluctant to let the young Harrison team up with them. As legend has it, after seeing McCartney and Lennon performance, George was granted an audition on the upper deck of a bus, where he wowed Lennon with his rendition of popular American rock riffs.

By 1960 Harrison's music career was in full swing. Lennon had renamed the band the Beatles and the young group began cutting their rock teeth in the small clubs and bars around Liverpool and ...

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