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George Harrison [nb 1] (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) [nb 2] was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian ...
The four-string tambura that Donovan plays on the track has been given to him in India by George Harrison, who also helped write the lyrics. [17] In his autobiography, Donovan recalls that he began writing "Hurdy Gurdy Man" on the tambura after Harrison discussed the sitar scales he had learned from Ravi Shankar. [18]
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
I, Me, Mine is an autobiographic memoir by the English musician George Harrison, formerly of The Beatles.It was published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by Genesis Publications, with a mixture of printed text and multi-colour facsimiles of Harrison's handwritten song lyrics.
Harrison performed "Cheer Down" throughout his 1991 Japanese tour with Clapton, [21] which was Harrison's first tour since 1974. [22] " Cheer Down" was the most recent song included in Harrison's set list; [ 23 ] [ 24 ] in addition, it was one of the few selections to showcase his slide guitar playing, since otherwise he delegated his slide ...
Lou Harrison's Threnody for Carlos Chavez; Toshio Hosokawa's Threnody: To the victims of the Tōhoku 3.11 Earthquake (2011) André Jolivet's "Chant de Linos" for flute and piano or flute, string trio and harp; described by the composer as "a form of threnody: a funeral lamentation interrupted by cries and dances" (1944, premiered 1 June 1945) [9]
The Proto-Indo-European pantheon includes a number of securely reconstructed deities, since they are both cognates—linguistic siblings from a common origin—and associated with similar attributes and body of myths: such as *Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr, the daylight-sky god; his consort *Dʰéǵʰōm, the earth mother; his daughter *H₂éwsōs, the ...
Apollyon (top) battling Christian in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.. The Hebrew term Abaddon (Hebrew: אֲבַדּוֹן ’Ăḇaddōn, meaning "destruction", "doom") and its Greek equivalent Apollyon (Koinē Greek: Ἀπολλύων, Apollúōn meaning "Destroyer") appear in the Bible as both a place of destruction and an angel of the abyss.