Harrison’s heartfelt vocal on that Abbey Road highlight unveiled a softer, intimate longing that was passionate as much as spiritual. One must get in all the dross about sales and chart placings, ever seeking new and interesting ways of saying things like “the album went to No 2 on the Billboard Hot 100”.

Its defining track, My Sweet Lord, was an anthem for any creed a year before John’s Imagine, with a slide guitar motif like a tremulous human voice that would become a signature as personal and inimitable as Jerry Lee Lewis’s slashing piano arpeggios or Stevie Wonder’s harmonica. The book includes a foreword by his Cloud Nine co-producer, Jeff Lynne, and a written contribution from Elton John. The ordeal of his last years didn’t stop at his cancer nor his being almost murdered at Friar Park by the crazed midnight intruder fought off by Olivia.Harrison provided text commenting on the story behind some of the songs, along with facsimiles of his original lyric sheets.

Sometimes the context allows you wiggle room to be a little understanding, and yet sometimes you consider his actions spiteful, juvenile, and utter shit. Harrison could be fiercely jealous, but not only did he stay friends with Eric Clapton when Clapton fell in love with Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd, the two men grew even closer after Clapton walked away with her. Chock full of insight and personal stories from family and friends alike, The Reluctant Beatle is an eminently readable biography for fans of the man himself, the Beatles, or anyone who would like to know more about the seminal rock band of the twentieth century. Like "Sat Singing", "Lay His Head" was recorded during the sessions for Somewhere in England, in April 1980.This is something like Philip Norman's 4th or 5th book on the Beatles - one devoted to at least each group member except for my favorite, Ringo Starr! This attracted the attention of not only the Ku Klux Klan but every other good ol’ boy south of the Mason-Dixon line. With written contributions from Olivia Harrison and Derek Taylor, original cover art by Shepard Fairey, and a wealth of previously unpublished material, the new edition is a treasured portrait of George Harrison and his music. Leng describes the song as "a companion piece" to the Beatles' " Tomorrow Never Knows", in that "Sat Singing" represents the "attainment" of John Lennon's earlier exhortation to "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream". I believe George was a gifted, if not genius, guitarist with a very kind and elevated heart through his religious quest.

Another solid bio from Norman detailing the birth, incredible life, and passing of the “quiet” Beatle George Harrison.Philip Norman captures [Harrison’s] class consciousness vividly [and] does a marvelous job evoking Harrison’s working-class Liverpool upbringing. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Being in the Fab Four might have given Harrison fame, wealth and boundless opportunity, but as Philip Norman shows in this absorbing biography [with] its eye for period detail, the burden it placed on his far-from-resilient shoulders stayed with him for the rest of his life. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions.