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"What Is Life" is a song by the English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. In many countries, it was issued as the second single from the album, in February 1971, becoming a top-ten hit in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, and topping singles charts in Australia and Switzerland.
George Harrison [nb 1] (25 February ... Of the 1967 Harrison song "Within You Without You", ... but it was a long time ago and actually a short part of his life ...
"Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Written by lead guitarist George Harrison, it was his second composition in the Indian classical style, after "Love You To", and inspired by his stay in India in late 1966 with his mentor and sitar teacher Ravi Shankar.
George Harrison in 1974. George Harrison (1943–2001) was an English musician who gained international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.With his songwriting contributions limited by the dominance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Harrison was the first member of the Beatles to release a solo album. [1]
Among Harrison's biographers, Simon Leng views All Things Must Pass as a "paradox of an album": as eager as Harrison was to break free from his identity as a Beatle, Leng suggests, many of the songs document the "Kafkaesque chain of events" of life within the band and so added to the "mythologized history" he was looking to escape. [309]
The widow of George Harrison is now looking back in the poetry collection Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George, about her life with the legendary Beatles guitarist, who died of lung cancer ...
Cloud Nine (1987) and its lead single "Got My Mind Set on You" marked a commercial comeback for Harrison. [13] He then formed the Traveling Wilburys with Dylan, Jeff Lynne , Tom Petty and Roy Orbison , and the band released two successful studio albums between 1988 and 1990 on his Warner Bros. contract. [ 14 ]
"Never Without You" is a tribute song from Ringo Starr to his former Beatles bandmate George Harrison, who died on 29 November 2001. The recording appeared on Starr's 2003 album Ringo Rama , and was also released as a single.