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George Harrison

Named: George Harold Harrison Born: 25th of February, 1943 Parents: Harold and Louise Siblings: Louise-1931; Harold-1934; Peter-1940

George Harold Harrison was born on 25th of February, 1943 at 12:10 am to Harold and Louise Harrison. Lousie and Harold already had three children, Louise, Harold, and Peter. George being their last child. He was the only Beatle whose childhood wasn't ruined by death or divorce. His father was a bus driver, his mother, a music lover and house wife. George has hazel eyes and dark brown hair, and attended the Liverpool Institute. He likes the colours black and blue, and he likes eggs and chips. He wants nothing more than to retire with lots of money. He also likes casual clothes, and Alfred Hitchcock. In his spare time, you will find George around either records, the guitar or his garden. He plays the one-finger piano, guitar and sitar, likes driving and television, and dislikes having his hair cut and traveling on buses.

George was very eager to start school. He was bright intellegent andextremely independent. He was also very fair haired. He and his brother Pete were always together. As a tot, George used to look at old photographs of his brother and think it was himself. He never played about the streets as a child. He used to like swimming and always found something constructive to do in his spare time.

George's first school was Dovedale Primary, just a short hop from home, across Penny Lane and down the street. John Lennon was already there, three years ahead of George and just beginning to dabble the guitar. The two never met at school. In Hunter Davies' definitive "The Beatles: The Authorized Biography," Louise Harrison remembers her son's early days at Dovedale: "I took him to school that first day. He wanted to stay dinners right from the big. The next day, as I was geting my coat off the hanger,he said, "Oh, no, I don't want you to take me." I said, "Why not?" "I don't want you to be one of those nosy mothers, standing round the gate who stood around gossiping." He was always independent."

"It was okay in that house," recalls George, "Very pleasant being little and it was always sunny in the summer. It was cold in those times, cold. We only had one fire in one room. No heating. And there used to be ice on the windows and in fact, you would have to put a hot water bottle in the bed and keep moving it around for an hour before getting into the bed (keep nipping upstairs to keep it moving) then whip your clothes off and leap in. And then ooohhh, be still and then the next morning you'd just got warm and then you'd wake up, "Come on, time for school," put your hand out of bed. Freezing. Oh dear. The worst thing was leaving the junior school and go to the big grammer school. That's when the darkness began and I realized it was rainy and cloudy with old streets and backwards teachers and all of that and that is where my frustrations seemed to start. You would punch people just to get it out of your system. The whole idea of it was serious. You can't smile andyou're not allowed to do this or that. Be here, stand there, shut up, sit down and always you need those seven-plus exams, or scholar- ships or GEC. That's when the darkness came in."

"It took from four o' clock to five to get home in the evenings to the outskirts of the Speke estate and it was on that bus journey that I met Paul McCartney, because he, being in the same school, had the same uniform and was going the same way I was, so I started hanging out with him," George remembers, "His mother was a mid-wife and he had a trumpet."Like the twirling smoke of Indian joss stick, the swinging sixties faded into the uncertain seventies and scattered to ashes only hoping the world might have had that the Beatles would stay together. When at last it came, on December 31, 1970, with the suit McCartney brought against his three former partners, the end was long overdue, in even the most bitter of marriages, the mechanics of the final dissolution are always painful. Anger is the first emotion to be overcome, and in the case of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, that alone took years.

People of course, are desperate to try to pinpoint a specific curse of the split something absolute to tidy up all the loose ends in their minds. The truth is it was many things, but mostly just the inevitable ebb and flow of time washing away what was and replac- ing it with what it is. Now, George's intrests are writing new songs for his solos career, spending time with his wife Olivia and his only son, 20-year-old Dhani. He enjoys gardening and traveling.