The youngest member of the Beatles-George Harrison (George Harold Harrison), was born: February 24, 1943 in Liverpool, England. His father Harold was a bus driver and his mother Louise was a housewife. Born into a working class family, George attended Dovendale Primary School, three years behind John Lennon. In 1954 he entered Liverpool Institute (the city's best high school for boys), a grade behind Paul McCartney, who also went to the same school as George. They met each other riding the same bus to school, and soon found out that they were both into music. Playing lead guitar, George Harrison in 1956, formed his first band, the Rebels. Occasionally, George and Paul would jam together, and it was in 1958, that McCartney would introduce George to Lennon. Soon, all three of them were playing in the Quarrymen, who later became the Silver Beetles, and then eventually the Beatles.
Harrison sang backup vocals besides playing lead guitar. He sang the lead on: "Roll Over Beethoven", "If I Needed Someone", "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You" with the Beatles. In the mid-1960's, he was one of the first rock musicians to experiment with Indian and Far Eastern instruments, like the sitar, which he learned from Indian master Ravi Shankar.
George Harrison met his first wife, model Patti Boyd, in early 1964 on the set of the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night. They were married from 1966 to 1977. After getting divorced, Patti married George's good friend Eric Clapton. Harrison married Olivia Arias in 1978, a month after their son Dhani, was born.
After the Beatles disbanded in early 1970, that same year in November of 1970, Harrison releases his three record set, "All Things Must Pass" produced by Phil Spector, which topped the charts for seven weeks. That album included the hit single: "My Sweet Lord", which topped the charts for four weeks, the first single by an ex-Beatle to reach #1, that also sold 5 million copies. George Harrison was later sued for this song for copyright infringement over the supposed similiarities to the Chiffons early 60's hit: "He's So Fine". In the late summer of 1971, Harrison sponsored and hosted two benefit concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden, which drew 40,000 people. With its intention on helping aid the starving refugees from the war in Bangladesh. Despite having musicians like Eric Clapton, Badfinger, Leon Russell, Bob Dylan and Billy Preston, was a sounding success, although the funds raised were impounded during a nine-year audit of Apple by the IRS (the concert actually lost money due to expenses). "Living in the Material World", was Harrison's next album in 1973, which released a single: "Give Me Love(Give Me Peace On Earth)", became a big #1 hit. In 1974, George released: "Dark Horse", which is also the name of his own record label, Dark Horse Records (with distribution via Warner Bros). He also launched a major tour of the United States. George Harrison established Handmade Films in 1974 and produced Monty Python's- Life of Brian and Time Bandits.
