David was born May 17, 1927, in Grandville, Mich., to Earl and Rilia Fretz Harrison. He was raised in the Milan area from the 1930s to 1948. He graduated from Sherrard Community High School in 1945.

When George Harrison’s "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Les Paul was kidnapped in 1973, he called on his former sitar mentor Ravi Shankar to issue an appeal for its safe return, such was their ...