George Harrison

Birth Date : 25 February 1943 – Liverpool, England

Passed Away : 29 November 2001 Los Angeles, California

English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer

Mother :Louise Anne (French)

Father: Harold Hargreaves Harrison.

Sister: Louise,

Brothers: Harry and Peter

George Harrison’s Childhood Photographs

1- A young George plays a guitar Photo Credit: Harrison Family.

‘When George was ten, a classmate offered to sell him a beginner’s guitar for three pounds, ten shillings. It was a lot of money in those days but George’s mother bought it for him. His father had a friend who ran a pub and played guitar, and he showed George how to finger chords to tunes from the twenties and thirties such as ‘Dinah’ and ‘Whispering’ George tried the new chords out for his mother, twisting the guitar pegs until each string came as close to true as he could manage, positioning his fingers to best effect. The instruments’ cheap wooden neck bent, and his fingers bled from pushing down on the strings.

‘I’ll never learn this’ he said

‘You will son,’ Louise encouraged, ‘Just keep at it’

She sat up with him until he quit, teary eyed, at two-o-clock in the morning He looked at the toy instrument and chafed. ‘You don’t understand about guitars, do you Mum’ he said.

‘No,’ she admitted ‘But if you stick to it, I’m sure you’ll make it’

–Excerpt from the book, ‘Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison’ by Joshua M. Greene page 5

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2- George Harrison with his mother, Louise Harrison

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3- (A very young) George Harrison

“Our house was very small. Two up and two down – step straight in off the pavement, step right out of the backroom. The front room was never used. It had the posh lino and a three piece suite, was freezing cold and nobody ever went in it, we’d all huddled together in the kitchen, where the fire was, with the kettle on, and a little iron cooking stove.”- George Harrison

4- Cute George Harrison , late 1940s

5- George Harrison with 9 year old brother Peter Harrison

Peter Harrison, older brother of the late Beatle, George Harrison, and a long-time Henley resident, has died at the age of 66. He had been ill with cancer. Peter was the second youngest of three sons born to Liverpool bus driver Harold Harrison and his wife Louise. Besides George, who died in 2001, Peter had another brother, Harry, and a sister, Louise.

The Harrisons’ childhood home was in Wavertree, Liverpool, until 1950 when the family moved to Speke.

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8- Young George Harrison 15 years old

9- George Harrison – School Days ‘

An early school photograph of George, George is 2nd on the left in the back row.

After leaving Dovedale School it was time to go to the Seniors, George passed his 11plus exam and was excepted into the Liverpool Institute High School in Liverpool City Centre, another pupil at the “Inny” but a year above him was Paul McCartney. George and Paul would travel to school on the same bus from Speke to the Inny, and became friends through their interest in Rock-n-Roll.

11- George Harrison (bottom right) with his two brothers Peter, Harry and sister Louise.

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12- Harry, Louise, George(being cheeky),Peter, and Mother Louise and Father Harry.

“I had two brothers and one sister – my sister was twelve when I was born; she’d taken her Eleven Plus. I don’t really remembering much of her from my childhood because she left home when she was seventeen. She went to teacher college and didn’t’ come back.”- George Harrison

I’m guessing George’s mother took the photo

14- George with Louise and their mother heading to the Isle of Skye

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