George Harrison's 68th birthday on 25th Feb passing one by has a nice symbolism to it. Everybody's second favourite Beatle after all. But , in ways both tangible and intangible , he was the different one, right ?
What he brought to the table musically with both the Post '65 Beatles and solo is obvious. You could argue he was the key driver of the band's second-half evolution in the sense that his growth was disproportionately the highest. Be it worldview / mindset , singing , writing , musical breadth or indeed guitar playing ( which grew from ridiculous three note linear add-ons to his own signature 'floating note' style solos and slide playing).
It carried on from there. All Things Must Pass has got to be an All Time Top Something album , Traveling Wilburys an All Time Top Something all-star ensemble.
A true talent - and a personality. Macca was always reputed to be playing to the gallery but i believe Lennon did a lot of image cultivating and gallery playing too. Harrison though remained his own man to the end. He truly didn't give a fuck.
33& 1/3 is a relatively lesser known album from 1976. I didn't know about it when i stumbled upon it by chance back in the autumn of 1990 - in a dank brokedown room inside a dilapidated brokedown building deep inside off seedy brokedown Free School Street (now Mirza Ghalib Street) in Kolkata , India. That place is an Ali Baba cave for old LP records and the like - but that's a separate note.
33 & 1/3 has some solid music. Here's the groovy album opener Woman Don't You Cry For Me. Funk , slide , killer slap bass. Love it !
RIP George Harrison.
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