Footage as featured in the special edition of Living In The Material World and the George Harrison Guitar Collection app — George playing Fred Astaire’s “Shine On Your Shoes” on the ukulele.
“The main thing was he was always around the house, playing his ukulele and smiling. I’d come home from school and he’d be standing in the doorway playing his uke.” - Dhani Harrison, Los Angeles Times, November 2002
“If I began to sing a song — any song — he would accompany and encourage me. If I played three chords on the uke (compulsory instrument in our home), he would be my band.” - Olivia Harrison, Harrison (2002)
“[George] had a lot of patience and he had time for people. If somebody truly wanted to know something, whether it was a guitar chord or something from the Vedas or how you prune a tree, if you were really curious, he had an endless amount of time. He actually sat with my mother and showed her how to play one chord on a ukulele so she could play along with him. He wanted everybody to have fun and join in. He was a Pisces; I think he liked the whole school going along with him.” - Olivia Harrison, Filter, Fall 2011 (x)
Does anyone else just find Ringo absolutely adorable in these photos?? Like, the way he is sitting next to Brian. Or the way he's laying on the couch with his camera resting on his tummy. Or the way he's looking up at Paul with that sweet face and eyes and adorable nose.
Also, the way Paul is looking at George in these pictures like a proud older brother. He looks so sweet with him!
Ok, here me out. John and Paul, teenagers of Liverpool. Walking down the streets, leather jackets on, Elvis styled hair, guitars in hands, discussing Elvis. And then tiny little George running, trying to keep up!
And now, the odds and ends:
Paul's innocent peaceful face.
The way Paul's looking at the little girl.
John looks so sweet!
George and shy little Dhani!
Need I say anymore?
This is a cute Beatles appreciation post. Please appreciate!
14 hours from 1995!! Finally using some of Olivia’s home movies!! Pete Best sent in something!!! Dhani crying?! OMG now the video is gonna kill me too okay thanks Peter Jackson
22 years since his passing, for what would have been his 80th birthday, I am overjoyed to announce that we are bringing my father’s music catalogue back home to Dark Horse Records, the company he started back in 1974. We look forward to releasing only the finest of packages and hope the fans join us on the deepest of dives into our archives as we continue to grow his legacy through our partnership with BMG, starting with the release of his entire back catalog in Spatial Audio, for the first time, on Apple Music. We also will be using this opportunity to make all the custom limited vinyl that we can get away with. Happy 80th Dad!!! We love you always.
Dhani Harrison, George Harrison’s Solo Catalog Moves to Dark Horse-BMG (21 Feb. 2023)
“‘He had the most distinctive voice, those funny little vowels. I always have that disconnect where I’m listening as a music lover and then I suddenly go, “Oh, oh, it’s you.”’
Her deep brown eyes — so similar to his — drift to the middle distance and there’s a beat of silence. That recognition is ‘not painful.’ Occasionally she finds herself listening to a song and it does not conjure him up just as he played it to her. “When that happens it doesn’t make me happy,” she laughs. She wants their connection to live whenever she hears his music. ‘Oh, wait, don’t ever let that become just objective, something that you don’t connect to.’
[…] The Scorsese documentary, instigated by Olivia, opens with Dhani being asked what he would say to his father if he appeared now. Dhani says he saw his father in a dream and asked him ‘Where’ve you been?’ and his father replied, ‘Here the whole time.’
‘What Dhani said was really very lovely. He had a lot of numinous dreams.’ She smiles and repeats, ‘Here the whole time.’ I ask Olivia what she would say to George now. She pauses.
‘I hope I told you everything. I hope I told you how wonderful you are.’” - article/interview by Helen Rumbelow, The Sunday Times, September 24, 2014 (x)