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LEFT: Jimmy Page photographed in January 1970. RIGHT: SAN George Harrison performs onstage during his Dark Horse Tour in 1974 in San Francisco, California.
Jimmy Page on the Beatle who inspired Led Zeppelin’s most beautiful song

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

George Harrison’s complaint inspired Page to borrow one of his melodies — but there’s a James Taylor connection there as well

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George Harrison photographed in Germany, 1988
The Beatles song George Harrison didn’t think was any good: “It might not be a song at all”

By Phil Weller Published

The track saw John Lennon experiment with an early fuzz pedal before George Martin rejected the sound as too distorted

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LEFT: The cover of the Beatles’ 1969 album, Abbey Road. RIGHT: The Beatles at the London Palladium, February 18, 1965
Behind the Beatles’ Abbey Road cover with Paul McCartney and its designer: “I thought, I’ve got to do this and get it out on Wednesday?”

By Phil Weller Published

As Sam Mendes re-creates the iconic image for his new Beatles films, we revisit how the original cover photo became an icon

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George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Little Richard and Mike Love of The Beach Boys performing at the 1988 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame awards ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on January 20, 1988.
When George Harrison, Bob Dylan and a host of stars recorded in Dave Stewart’s kitchen

By Phil Weller Published

It was the perfect environment for the most casual of supergroups to find their sound

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Ritchie Blackmore performs onstage with George Harrison on Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers World Tour at the Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia, December 12, 1984.
Ritchie Blackmore recalls when George Harrison jammed with Deep Purple

By Phil Weller Published

Watch Harrison perform with the British hard rockers on an energetic version of Little Richard’s "Lucille" in 1984

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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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