Harrison George, *25 February 1943 Liverpool, †29 November 2001 Los Angeles, English rock guitarist and vocalist, composer and lyricist. In 1956, he founded the skiffle group The Rebels. In 1958–70, he played solo guitar in a band known from 1959 as Silver Beatles, and soon – The Beatles. In 1968, he learned to play the sitar with R. Shankar. In 1971, Harrison organised a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York for the victims of the famine in Bangladesh, with the participation of, among others, E. Clapton, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, L. Russell and R. Shankar. In the 1980s, Harrison worked with English television as a producer and actor. In 1982, he published his memoirs entitled I Me Mine. The Beatles included about 20 of their songs on their albums; the most famous of them are Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Here Comes the Sun. He was one of the first English rock musicians to use Eastern instruments, playing the sitar, among others, in Norwegian Wood and Within You without You by the Beatles. His solo works, inspired by Indian music and philosophy, are characterised by a monotony of melody and moralizing lyrics.
