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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 4h

“To close your eyes in meditation first of all eliminates all the visible obstructions or hindrances or just things which will divert your attention. Then you start to go deeper and deeper in thought.” - George, Rock Around The World (1974)

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George Harrison, surrounded by tropical vegetation as he smiles and sits cross-legged, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word Tibet, in the 1990s.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 1d

“[George Harrison] was one of the nicest down to earth people that had made it, I have met. […] He didn’t know me from adam or eve, but he stopped and chatted.” - user andy_bee, Autosport dot com forums (2001)

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Candid color photo of George Harrison wearing sunglasses, 1980s.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 2d

“Dhani was very helpful to me in his feeling that the dark and the light, and the good and the bad have to be told. You can’t just have nice things.” - Olivia on the Living In The Material World documentary, NYT Arts Blog (2011)

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Pic by Clive Arrowsmith

Color photo of Olivia, Dhani, and George Harrison, circa 1987. Photo by Clive Arrowsmith.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 3d

“Actually [Monty Python’s Life of Brian] was upholding Christ and knocking all the idiotic stuff that goes on around religion, like the fact that many folks often misread things and will follow anybody.” - George Harrison, Musician Magazine (1987)

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Color photo of George Harrison at Friar Park, 1978. Photo by Mike Salisbury.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 3d

Photo by Guido Harari.

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Color closeup of George Harrison gazing into the camera, 1988. Photo by Guido Harari.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 4d

“…I wanted it [the book I Me Mine] to be what it set out to be, which was just the songs, the bits of paper, how I wrote them.” - George, Guitar Player (1987)

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Pic by Guido Harari

Color photo closeup of a serious George Harrison, 1988. Photo by Guido Harari.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 5d

Clip from a RAI Uno interview with George Harrison conducted by Carlo Massarini at the San Remo Music Festival on February 26, 1988.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 6d

“I miss that in music, when I listen to other records. There’s nobody who does anything that’s that *neat*; that fun and unusual and sarcastic and loving… [John] was great, he was brilliant, and he was a great soul. Still is.” - George, Guitar World (1988)

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 7d

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 7d

“[T]he governments and everybody’s still got the money, they still choose to use the money for military and for weaponry as opposed to building the inner cities, about giving people jobs or detoxifying the oceans... I mean it’s just in a nutshell greed, I think.” - George Harrison, RTE (1987)

Color photo of a relatively stoic George Harrison, 1988. Photo by imago/LFI.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 8d

“I know this sounds really corny, but it’s almost as if they’re like real brothers.” - Jim Keltner (aka Buster Sidebury) on The Traveling Wilburys; Detroit Free Press (Oct. 28, 1990)

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Photo by Neal Preston

Black and white photo of Buster Sidebury (also known as Jim Keltner) on drums, plus Spike Wilbury (that is, George Harrison) and Muddy Wilbury (a.k.a. Tom Petty) on guitars in 1990. Photo by Neal Preston.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 9d

“If [Roy] started laughing, he’d get everybody laughing. I remember all the Wilburys in a car once when Roy started laughing and got everybody doing it. We went a good mile laughing at the top of our lungs.“ - Tom Petty, Lakeland Ledger (May 19, 1989)

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Color photo of The Traveling Wilburys (plus guitars) gathered under a tree, 1988. Photo by Neal Preston.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 10d

“If [George] walked in the room now, he would make you smile. He had a great presence, and he was an uplifting person. He could be grumpy too, but he didn’t like people around him to be unhappy.” - Olivia Harison, The Independent (2005)

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Photo by Olivia

Color photo of a beaming George Harrison gardening in Hawaii, 1983. Photo by Olivia Harrison.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 11d

“[George] was like the sun, the flowers and the moon, and we will miss him enormously. The world is a profoundly emptier place without him.” - Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone (2002)

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📷: at the Concert for Bangladesh, Aug. 1, 1971. Photographer unnamed.

Color photo of a smiling George Harrison and Bob Dylan at the Concert for Bangladesh, August 1, 1971. Photographer unnamed.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 12d

“George quoted Bob like people quote Scripture. Bob really adored George, too.“ - Tom Petty, Rolling Stone (January 17, 2002)

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Photo by Caroline Greyshock

Color photo of The Traveling Wilburys in 1990. Photo by Caroline Greyshock.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 13d

“Me and George have something somewhere where we’re connected. Some past life or something.” - Tom Petty, Guitar World (November 2017)

Remembering Tom Petty, who left us eight years ago today. More quotes at www.instagram.com/p/DPUChQTDKM....

📷 by Kevin Mazur

Color photo of Tom Petty and George Harrison in December 1992. Photo by Kevin Mazur.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 14d

“If I could’ve picked one guy I wanted to work with, it would have been George.” - Jeff Lynne, Rolling Stone (October 22, 1987)

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Photo © Mirrorpix

Color photo of a smiling Jeff Lynne and George Harrison, 1980s. Photo © Mirrorpix.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 15d

“Sometimes it’s nice to be invisible and just go out and just be nobody.” - George Harrison, radio interview (1975)

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Pictured: George and Olivia with Jesse Ed Davis and Patti Daley in California, 1975; photos courtesy of the Patti Daley collection.

Color photo of Jesse Ed Davis, Patti Daley, Olivia and George in L.A., 1975. Photo courtesy of the Patti Daley collection.

Color photo of Olivia and George with Patti Daley in L.A., 1975. Photo courtesy of the Patti Daley collection.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 16d

“George was always a reluctant famous person.” - Pattie Boyd, British Beatles Fan Club (2011)

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Pictured: George Harrison en route to, and on, the Isle of Skye, Scotland; photos by Pattie Boyd.

Black and white photo of George Harrison pulling a face en route to the Isle of Skye, Scotland; photo by Pattie Boyd.

Black and white photo of George Harrison en route to the Isle of Skye, Scotland; photo by Pattie Boyd.

Black and white photo of George Harrison on the Isle of Skye, Scotland; photo by Pattie Boyd.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 17d

“[A hippie said to George] ‘You know where it’s at, man.’
‘It’s you who should be leading yourself,’ explained George. ‘You don’t need to be following leaders, me or anyone else.’” - Melody Maker (Aug. 16, 1967)

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📷: in Haight-Ashbury, Aug. 7, 1967

Color photo of a group gathering: George Harrison (playing guitar), Pattie Boyd, Derek Taylor, and others in Haight-Ashbury, August 7, 1967; photo by Grant Jacobs.

Black and white photo of a group of people walking: George Harrison (playing guitar), Pattie Boyd, Derek Taylor, and others in Haight-Ashbury, August 7, 1967; photo by Bettmann/Corbis.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 18d

“…what happened to me was, like, it was just like lots of doors in my mind… just flying open.” - George Harrison on his mid-60s first LSD experience; radio interview (1979)

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Clip from an interview by Selina Scott for West 57th Street (1987)

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 19d

“I didn’t know at the time that it was the last Beatle record that we would make, but it felt as if we were reaching the end of the line.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology

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The Beatles photographed at Tittenhurst Park on August 22, 1969 (the last group photo session); photo published in The Beatles Monthly, probably photographed by Mal Evans.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 20d

“I thought ‘Here Comes The Sun’ was the happiest, simplest, clearest wishing well for the world of all the songs that they [The Beatles] had ever done.” - Richie Havens, British Beatles Fan Club (2011)

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George Harrison and Richie Havens, 1969; photographer unnamed.

George Harrison and Richie Havens, 1969; photographer unnamed, photo © akg images.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 21d

“I miss [George], you know, I miss him in the night a lot.” - Tom Petty, Concert for George microsite

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Pictured: George, Dave Stewart, and Tom Petty at Friar Park, 1994. Photo published in Conversations With Tom Petty.

Color photo of George Harrison, Dave Stewart, and Tom Petty sitting on a bench at Friar Park, 1994. Photo published in Conversations With Tom Petty.

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 22d

“[When first meeting in 1974,] George was really nice to me, as he would be. He gave me a Dark Horse T-shirt.” - Tom Petty, Conversations With Tom Petty (2005)

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Photos by dpa and Steve Wilson

George Harrison promoting Thirty-Three & 1/3 with an appearance on Disco 77 in Germany, 1977. Photo by dpa.

Benmont Tench, Tom Petty (wearing a Dark Horse Records shirt), Stan Lynch, and Ron Blair at the Shelter Records Picnic in Malibu, 1976. Photo by Steve Wilson.

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