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Over a roughly one-year period, Harrison tracked a quartet of solos on the recording. Here's the story behind each of them ...
Fender chose a holiday month to present George Harrison with a gift. In December of 1968, Harrison received a handsome Fender Rosewood Telecaster. Master guitar maker Philip Kubicki spent hours ...
The Rosewood Telecaster was a gift to Harrison from Fender, but after using it for less than a week on 'Let It Be,' he cast it aside and gave it away just months later ...
George Harrison wasn’t happy with the way Eric Clapton promoted an album. In 1968, Clapton recorded a guitar solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” a song Harrison wrote.
George Harrison's early Beatles guitar has broken a record, selling for millions at auction. By George Simpson , Film & Music Editor 14:22, Thu, Nov 21, 2024 | UPDATED: 14:24, Thu, Nov 21, 2024 ...
It was the first song George Harrison wrote expressly with the sitar in mind, as the instrument was introduced to ‘Norwegian Wood’ as an afterthought. It was recorded in April 1966. Harrison had just ...
On the morning of Dec. 9, 1980, Beatles guitarist George Harrison was asleep at his country estate in England when his wife Olivia took a call from Harrison’s sister, Louise, in New York.
Its Telecaster is one of its popular early models, but the Stratocaster is the real icon. Designed originally by company founder Leo Fender, the Stratocaster, aka Strat, is often seen as perfection.
George Harrison: Living In the Material World This 2011 book was released as a companion piece to a documentary film of the same name, co-produced by Martin Scorsese, Nigel Sinclair, and Harrison ...
The company has crafted 100 “perfect” copies of George Harrison’s custom Telecaster guitar from Let It Be and the famed 1969 rooftop concert, giving Beatles fans the opportunity to play a ...
The early ’50s and ’60s models of the Strat were affordable tools used by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and David Gilmour, but they’ve all but disappeared from ...