Abdilaqim ademi biography of george harrison

George Harrison [ nb 1 ] 25 February — 29 November [ nb 2 ] was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu -aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work.

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Although most of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney , most Beatles albums from onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. By , he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds , and towards Indian classical music through his use of Indian instruments, such as the sitar , which he had become acquainted with on the set of the film Help!

Having initiated the band's embrace of Transcendental Meditation in , he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. After the Beatles disbanded , Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass , a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, " My Sweet Lord ", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar.

He also organised the Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar , a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer.

In , he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 31 in their list of greatest guitarists of all time. Harrison's first marriage to model Pattie Boyd in ended in divorce in In the following year he married Olivia Arias , with whom he had a son, Dhani. A lifelong cigarette smoker, Harrison died of numerous cancers in at the age of 58, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his home, Friar Park.

His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. Harold was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line , [ 12 ] and Louise was a shop assistant of Irish Catholic descent. According to Boyd, Harrison's mother was particularly supportive: "All she wanted for her children is that they should be happy, and she recognised that nothing made George quite as happy as making music.