The Private Life of George Harrison
The new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and available through Rolling Stone All Access September 2nd, contains an exclusive look at the new book George Harrison: Living In the Material World (by Olivia Harrison, edited by Mark Holborn, to be published by Abrams on September 26th) along with a cover story on Harrison's life by Brian Hiatt.
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Young George Harrison
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family George Harrison with his older brother Peter in the early Fifties.
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At the Races
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Harrison at a Liverpool racetrack in 1955.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Harrison self-portrait, circa 1960.
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The Beatles’ Early Days
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney on the roof of Hamburg's Top Ten Club in 1961; the band would play eight hours a day. "He came back [from Hamburg] with his hair spiked up, wearing leather and cowboy boots," said Harrison's sister-in-law Irene. "I just realized that nobody's ever going to tell him what to do anymore."
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Guitar Shopping with John Lennon
Image Credit: Peter Kaye/©Apple Corps LTD. Harrison with John Lennon in 1962, picking up new guitars at Rushworth's Music House in Liverpool. "We were just cocky," Harrison said of the Beatles' early days. "There was no justification for it – [it was] just an inner feeling."
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At the Empire State Building
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family On his first U.S. visit, 1963. "The nonstop change was amazing," said Harrison. "At the age of 17 I was in Hamburg, and by the time I was 23, we had done Sgt. Pepper. . . . We put in maybe 20 years in every year, just in experience."
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On Vacation
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family In Tahiti, 1964, on one of his first real vacations. "We hadn't been hardly anywhere out of England," said Harrison. "It was incredible, a smooth lagoon with the island in the background with mountains and coconut palms. . . . It blissed me out."
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On the Courts with Dylan
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Bob Dylan, playing tennis with Harrison on the Isle of Wight in 1969.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Playing tennis with Bob Dylan on the Isle of Wight in 1969. To Harrison, Dylan was both a friend and hero. "George used to hang over the balcony videoing Bob while Bob wasn't aware of it," said Tom Petty. "Bob would be sitting at the piano, playing, and George would tape it and listen to it all night."
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George Harrison at Home
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Harrison with his head gardener, Maurice Milbourne, at his home, Friar Park, which he bought in 1970 and became the center of his post-Beatles life; the fairy-tale estate – which contained a 120-room mansion, caves, gargoyles and waterfalls – entranced visitors. "It's like Disneyland," Harrison said in 1987.
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At Friar Park
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Harrison at his estate, Friar Park, in England, 1974.
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Harrison in India
Image Credit: Courtesy of Harrison Family Pictured here in 1976; Harrison first visited the country a decade earlier.