George Harrison was born on February 25, 1943 at 12 Arnold Grove, Liverpool, England. He died on November 29, 2001 at a friend's house in Los Angeles, USA. He was 58 years old.
George, when talking of his family when he was born, says, "My dad had been a seaman, but by then he was driving a bus. My mother was from an Irish family called French, and she had lots of brothers and sisters. My mother was Catholic. My father wasn't and, although they always say people who weren't Catholics were Church of England, he didn't appear to be anything."
George Harrison Quotes
"I remember asking my big brother, 'Would you pack in work and have a go at this if you were me?' He said, 'You might as well - you never know what might happen. And if it doesn't work out you're not going to lose anything.' So I packed in my job, and joined the band full time and from then, nine-to-five never came back into my thinking."
"For me caring about the planet probably began in a previous life. When I was a kid, I used to walk around on my own and I was very much in touch with nature and the sky and the trees and the plants and the insects."
"...I've heard that while the [Ed Sullivan] show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes."
"We were watching on TV, and they were saying, 'I wonder why they're not coming out to wave.' There's no way we could tell them that we didn't have any dry trousers!" 1964
"I remember looking out of the window on the flight in [to Anchorage, Alaska], and Alaska was incredible: mountains, lush green pine forests, wonderful lakes and rivers. As we were coming lower and lower, the lakes and the trees were thinning out a bit, but when we landed suddenly there was a huge, bulldozed mess that Man had made in the middle of the lush beauty.
I thought, 'Oh, here we are again.' Mankind keeps giving us real tacky things until eventually the planet's covered in them. The nasty little hotels that they throw up - boxes made out of concrete. It was so obvious there in Alaska. Normally they are absorbed into the city, but in the middle of a million acres of pristine forest they stick out a bit."
"I don't want to be an icon; I suppose it's a bit late for me to say that."
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November 30, 2001- RollingStone.com article on George Harrison's death