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A George Harrison summer playlist
The Best of Dark Horse came up on my iTunes shuffle the other day, and I was struck by how many George Harrison songs can go with a sunny, breezy day. George has a (not wholly undeserved) reputation as the dour Beatle, but here’s a playlist of his solo songs that I think make for good summer listening. […]
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Dark Horse demo
Commenter @Linda S. sent me this lovely video of George Harrison singing a Dark Horse demo. Just the thing on this rainy SoCal Sunday. (BTW, I was interested to learn — via Wikipedia (so…y’know) — that “[a] number of music critics rate Dark Horse as one of Harrison’s finest post-Beatles compositions and believe that the […]
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George & Ringo: The Brothers Fab
By Michael Ray, Guest Dullblogger • Discuss the Beatles and much has been made regarding the brotherhood of its two principal players, John Lennon and Paul McCartney: a team – collaboratively and spiritually. Such a force is hard to deny. But there is another brotherhood that rarely gets mention, a true musical expression of love […]
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What is Life Video Contest Entry
Yesterday, I got the most interesting email from two Beatle fans working in the international film business. Apparently the Harrison Estate is running a worldwide contest to name the “official music video” for the Harrisong “What is Life” Based in Spain, Victor Suñer and Óscar Turín have used facial tracking and 3D modeling tech to […]
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Shepard Fairey George Harrison Poster
Star graphic designer Shepard Fairey (yes, you know him — think “OBEY” or that Obama poster) has created a new poster of George Harrison, to celebrate/promote the release of The Apple Years 1968-75. I think it’s pretty cool. What say you? Interested in purchasing a Shepard Fairey George Harrison Poster for your own cozy little […]
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George Harrison and Krishna: Devotional Display in Dallas
NANCY CARR * While looking at the jade collection in the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas earlier this week, I was surprised to hear “My Sweet Lord” playing faintly in the distance. A museum worker was moving pedestals around in a nearby gallery, preparing for a new exhibit: was she listening to the […]
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Update: George Harrison’s India photos (and John’s Spain ones)
Shooting Film has a lovely post collecting all of the fisheye selfies taken by The Quiet One in India in 1966. You should read the whole post, but I’ll paste the whole set of George Harrison’s India photos below. [h/t Dangerous Minds, whose ever-snappy writeup is here.] FISHEYES FOREVER: …and as a special Dullblog bonus, […]
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Happy birthday, George!
HEY DULLBLOG • He’d have been 71 today. All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. Related posts: Happy birthday, George! Happy 65th birthday to Beatle Ted…I think? George and Ringo, the forgotten Beatles: A preamble and provocation for 2014 George Harrison: Early Takes: Volume 1 It’s Yoko’s birthday. […]
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George Harrison: Early Takes: Volume 1
DEVIN McKINNEY • Note: These are not new impressions, but ones jotted down in May 2012, the day Early Takes: Volume 1 came in the mail, and embellished more recently. George, in a photo taken in a Bahamian pool during the filming of Help!, holds his head above the water’s crystal surface, his face the […]
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George and Ringo, the forgotten Beatles: A preamble and provocation for 2014
DEVIN McKINNEY • Offered in spirits of love and objectivity: One notices that the talk at Hey Dullblog tends, in a broad sense, to revolve around, or devolve toward, precisely two subjects: John and Paul. (Or John or Paul; or John versus Paul. Or John. Or Paul.) Start at virtually any discussion point, and reader […]