Re: A NON-Assyrian/Chaldean post about George Harrison


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Posted by Stella (140.192.18.91) on November 30, 2001 at 12:46:01:

In Reply to: A NON-Assyrian/Chaldean post about George Harrison posted by Jeff on November 30, 2001 at 03:37:06:

Here's a song that George Harrison wrote that we can all relate to and apply to our lives.
Rest In Peace George.

Within You WIthout you

We were talking - about the space between us all
And the people - who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse of truth - then it's far too late - when they pass away
We were talking - about the love we could all share - when we find it
To try our best to hold it there - with our love
With our love - We could save the world - if they only knew
Try to realize it's all within yourself no-one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small, and life flows on
wit-hin and wit-hout you
We were talking - about the love that's gone so cold and the people,
Who gain the world and lose their soul - then you may find,
pea-ce of mind, is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within and without you

: Ex-Beatle George Harrison Dies at 58

: By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer

: LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Harrison, the Beatles' quiet lead guitarist and spiritual explorer who
: added both rock 'n' roll flash and a touch of the mystic to the band's timeless magic, has died, a
: longtime family friend told The Associated Press. He was 58.

: Harrison died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at a friend's Los Angeles home following a battle with cancer,
: longtime friend Gavin De Becker said late Thursday.

: ``He died with one thought in mind - love one another,'' De Becker said. He said Harrison's wife,
: Olivia Harrison, and son Dhani, 24, were with him when he died.

: With Harrison's death, there remain two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. John
: Lennon was shot to death by a deranged fan in 1980.

: Harrison's family issued a statement saying: ``He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God,
: fearless of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends. He often said, `Everything else can
: wait but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.'''

: It wasn't immediately known if there would be a public funeral for Harrison. A private ceremony had
: already taken place, De Becker said.

: In 1998, when Harrison disclosed that he had been treated for throat cancer, Harrison said: ``It
: reminds you that anything can happen.'' The following year, he survived an attack by an intruder who
: stabbed him several times. In July 2001, he released a statement asking fans not to worry about
: reports that he was still battling cancer.

: The Beatles were four distinct personalities joined as a singular force in the rebellious 1960s,
: influencing everything from hair styles to music. Whether dropping acid, proclaiming ``All You Need is
: Love'' or sending up the squares in the film ``A Hard Day's Night'' the Beatles inspired millions.

: Harrison's guitar work, modeled on Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins among others, was essential.

: He often blended with the band's joyous sound, but also rocked out wildly on ``Long Tall Sally'' and
: turned slow and dreamy on ``Something.'' His jangly 12-string Rickenbacker, featured in ``A Hard
: Day's Night,'' was a major influence on the American band the Byrds.

: Although his songwriting was overshadowed by the great Lennon-McCartney team, Harrison did
: contribute such classics as ``Here Comes the Sun'' and ``Something,'' which Frank Sinatra covered.
: Harrison also taught the young Lennon how to play the guitar.

: He was known as the ``quiet'' Beatle and his public image was summed up in the first song he wrote
: for them, ``Don't Bother Me,'' which appeared on the group's second album.

: But Harrison also had a wry sense of humor that helped shape the Beatles' irreverent charm,
: memorably fitting in alongside Lennon's cutting wit and Starr's cartoonish appeal.

: At their first recording session under George Martin, the producer reportedly asked the young
: musicians to tell him if they didn't like anything. Harrison's response: ``Well, first of all, I don't like your
: tie.'' Asked by a reporter what he called the Beatles' famous moptop hairstyle, he quipped, ``Arthur.''

: He was even funny about his own mortality. As reports of his failing health proliferated, Harrison
: recorded a new song - ``Horse to the Water'' - and credited it to ``RIP Ltd. 2001.''

: He always preferred being a musician to being a star, and he soon soured on Beatlemania - the
: screaming girls, the hair-tearing mobs, the wild chases from limos to gigs and back to limos. Like
: Lennon, his memories of the Beatles were often tempered by what he felt was lost in all the madness.

: ``There was never anything, in any of the Beatle experiences really, that good: even the best thrill soon
: got tiring,'' Harrison wrote in his 1979 book, ``I, Me, Mine.'' ``There was never any doubt. The
: Beatles were doomed. Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed, because
: we didn't have any. We were like monkeys in a zoo.''

: Still, in a 1992 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Harrison confided: ``We had the time of our lives:
: We laughed for years.''

: After the Beatles broke up in 1970, Harrison had sporadic success. He organized the concert for
: Bangladesh in New York City, produced films that included Monty Python's ``Life of Brian,'' and
: teamed with old friends, including Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison, as ``The Traveling Wilburys.''

: George Harrison was born Feb. 25, 1943, in Liverpool, one of four children of Harold and Louise
: Harrison. His father, a former ship's steward, became a bus conductor soon after his marriage.

: Harrison was 13 when he bought his first guitar and befriended Paul McCartney at their school.
: McCartney introduced him to Lennon, who had founded a band called the Quarry Men - Harrison
: was allowed to play if one of the regulars didn't show up.

: ``When I joined, he didn't really know how to play the guitar; he had a little guitar with three strings on
: it that looked like a banjo,'' Harrison recalled of Lennon during testimony in a 1998 court case against
: the owner of a bootleg Beatles' recording.

: ``I put the six strings on and showed him all the chords - it was actually me who got him playing the
: guitar. He didn't object to that, being taught by someone who was the baby of the group. John and I
: had a very good relationship from very early on.''

: Harrison evolved as both musician and songwriter. He became interested in the sitar while making the
: 1965 film ``Help!'' and introduced it to a generation of Western listeners on ``Norwegian Wood,'' a
: song by Lennon from the ``Rubber Soul'' album. He also began contributing more of his own material.

: Among his compositions were ``I Need You'' for the soundtrack of ``Help''; ``If I Needed Someone''
: on ``Rubber Soul''; ``Taxman'' and ``Love You To'' on ``Revolver''; ``Within You, Without You'' on
: ``Sgt. Pepper''; and ``While My Guitar Gently Weeps'' on the White Album.

: In 1966, he married model Patti Boyd, who had a bit part in ``A Hard Day's Night.'' (They divorced in
: 1977, and she married Harrison's friend, the guitarist Eric Clapton, who wrote the anguished song
: ``Layla'' about her. Harrison attended the wedding.)

: More than any of the Beatles, Harrison craved a little quiet. He found it in India. Late in 1966, after the
: Beatles had ceased touring, George and Patti went to India, where Harrison studied the sitar with Ravi
: Shankar. He maintained a lifelong affiliation with that part of the world.

: In 1967, Harrison introduced the other Beatles to the teaching of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and all
: four took up transcendental meditation. Harrison was the only one who remained a follower - the
: others dropped out, with Lennon mocking the Maharishi in the song ``Sexy Sadie.''

: By the late '60s, Harrison was clearly worn out from being a Beatle and openly bickered with
: McCartney, arguing with him on camera during the filming of ``Let It Be.''

: As the Beatles grew apart, Harrison collaborated with Clapton on the song ``Badge,'' performed with
: Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and produced his most acclaimed solo work, the triple album ``All Things
: Must Pass.'' The sheer volume of material on that 1970 release confirmed the feelings of Harrison fans
: that he was being stifled in the Beatles.

: But one of those songs, the hit ``My Sweet Lord,'' later drew Harrison into a lawsuit: The copyright
: owner of ``He's So Fine,'' written by Lonnie Mack and recorded by The Chiffons, won a claim that
: Harrison had stolen the music.

: Another Harrison project also led to legal problems. Moved by the starvation caused by the war
: between Bangladesh and Pakistan, Harrison in 1971 staged two benefit concerts at Madison Square
: Garden and recruited such performers as Starr, Shankar, Clapton and Dylan.

: Anticipating such later superstar benefits as Live Aid and Farm Aid, the Bangladesh concerts were also
: a cautionary tale about counterculture bookkeeping. Although millions were raised and the
: three-record concert release won a Grammy for album of the year, allegations emerged over
: mishandling of funds and the money long stayed in escrow.

: Despite the occasional hit single, including the Lennon tribute song ``All Those Years Ago,'' Harrison's
: solo career did not live up to initial expectations. Reviewing a greatest hits compilation, Village Voice
: critic Robert Christgau likened him to a ``borderline hitter they can pitch around after the sluggers
: (Lennon and McCartney) are traded away.''

: Harrison's family life was steadier. He married Olivia Arias in 1978, a month after Dhani was born.

: The next year, Harrison founded Handmade Films to produce Monty Python's ``Life of Brian.'' He
: sold the company for $8.5 million in 1994.

: Fame continued to haunt him. In 1999, he was stabbed several times by a man who broke into his
: home west of London. The man, who thought the Beatles were witches and believed himself on a
: divine mission to kill Harrison, was acquitted by reason of insanity.

: But fame also continued to enrich Harrison. The following year, he saw a compilation of Beatles No. 1
: singles, ``1,'' sell millions of copies and re-establish the band's status around the world.

: ``The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it,'' he said in an interview with
: The Associated Press. ``It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available
: for the past 20 years.

: ``I think the popular music has gone truly weird,'' he said. ``It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty
: stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.''

: -

: Eds: Robert Barr in London and Hillel Italie in New York also contributed to this report.

: -

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: http://www.beatles.com




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