In late September, Conan O’Brien devoted a week to the music of George Harrison, in honor of some of his music being re-released. I’ve mentioned before that my realization of how much I experienced George’s loss was much more gradual than the shock of John Lennon’s murder.
LISTEN to:
Conan Kicks Off George Harrison Week
Paul Simon – Here Comes the Sun, and talks about singing it with George on Saturday Night Live
Dhani Harrison & Friends featuring Big Bad Delta – Let It Down
Dhani Harrison On Preserving His Father’s Legacy. I’m not a watcher of the show, but evidently, Dhani and Conan are old friends.
Dhani Harrison Presents The George Harrison Guitar App (February 2012)
Norah Jones -Behind That Locked Door.
Interesting that everyone, except Simon, picked something from that classic album All Things Must Pass.
Slightly off-topic:
Listen to The Beatles’ isolated vocal tracks for Abbey Road medley
I’ve become newly interested in the Beatles song Piggies since its inclusion in a musical review at church. Here’s the Anthology 3 version. “Harrison’s mother provided the line ‘What they need’s a damn good whacking’, and [John] Lennon contributed the line ‘clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon,” instead of the original lyrics “to cut their pork chops.” Here’s Piggies from the white album.
The Quarrymen – That’ll Be The Day and In Spite of All The Danger (1958)
‘4: John Paul George Ringo’: Beatles release free iTunes EP of solo music.
A signed copy of Beatles’ Please Please Me sells for $36,655.