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LEFT: Bob DYLAN, performing live onstage at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival RIGHT: George Harrison plays guitar on a sailboat while on vacation in Papeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia, May 1964.

“It seemed kind of a natural progression.” George Harrison never understood why Bob Dylan going electric caused such outrage

By Phil Weller Published

The Beatle recalled watching Dylan plug in — and wondering why so many fans felt betrayed

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LEFT: John Lennon, 1965 - London, England, United Kingdom. RIGHT: Dave Davies of The Kinks pop group rehearsing in their dressing room before a concert September 1964

Dave Davies revisits the Kinks’ Beatles rivalry — and reveals the only Fab Four member he admired

By Phil Weller Published

More than 60 years after the bands first clashed, the guitarist says George Harrison was “the nicest guy,” while offering little praise for Lennon or Paul McCartney

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George Martin, George Harrison And George Martin

George Harrison on the night the Beatles got George Martin and his crew high

By Phil Weller Published

The producer wouldn’t learn about the incident until the early ‘90s

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LEFT: Delany Bramlett poses with George Harrison's 1968 Rosewood Telecaster. RIGHT: Duane Allman rehearses at FAME Studios in 1968 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Duane Allman wanted his first electric guitar back. Delaney Bramlett refused to hand it over

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The Allman Brothers guitarist had pawned his cherry-red ’59 Gibson Les Paul Junior years earlier — only to discover that his friend had ended up with it

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LEFT: George Harrison, photographed in Munich, Germany, February 1988. RIGHT: Phil Collins in a London recording studio, 1977

Phil Collins heard one sentence on an old George Harrison tape — and thought he’d solved a 30-year mystery

By Phil Weller Published

The future Genesis star believed he’d finally discovered why he didn’t appear on All Things Must Pass. Then George Harrison revealed what had really happened.

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George Harrison photographed in Germany, 1988

George Harrison said he would have formed a new group with just one Beatle

By Phil Weller Published

Although his solo career was going strong, the Quiet Beatle entertained the possibility of forming a new band with one of his former Fabs

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LEFT: John Lennon backstage for the Beatles' final performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, August 14th, 1965. RIGHT: Roger McGuinn of "The Byrds," at a recording session in Los Angeles, California. Image dated June 2, 1965.

Byrd’s founder Roger McGuinn on the origins of John Lennon’s trippiest track

By Andrew Daly Published

The guitarist reveals the deep friendship between the Byrds and the Beatles at the dawn of the 1960s’ psychedelic era

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Beatles legend George Harrison before TV Show Formula One, Munich, Germany, february 1988

George Harrison wanted the Beatles to record this song in 1963. It became one of the biggest hits of his solo career

By Phil Weller Published

After discovering the track during a visit to America, Harrison carried it with him for nearly a quarter-century before revisiting it on ‘Cloud Nine’

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Badfinger group portrait, London, February 1971, L-R Pete Ham, Tommy Evans, Mike Gibbons, Joey Molland.

Todd Rundgren recalls taking over Badfinger’s ‘Straight Up’ after George Harrison abandoned the troubled sessions

By Gary Graff Published

Rundgren says Harrison left the album unfinished as Apple Records scrambled to salvage the project behind “Baby Blue” and “Day After Day.”

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George Harrison appears on The DIck Cavett Show, airdate November 23, 1971.

“He put it in our coffee and never told us.” George Harrison rejected claims the Beatles were responsible for America’s drug culture

By Phil Weller Published

Harrison recalled how he and John Lennon unwittingly took acid, and argued that the media played a larger role in the drug’s popularity than the Beatles

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