Tuesday, August 21, 2018

George Harrison: Living In The Material World

It can arguably be said that at the  time of the Beatles break up, George Harrison  experienced the most growth as an artist.  His songs, Something and While My Guitar Gently Weeps have become such classics, that they have been remembered as HIS songs as much as Beatle songs.   His solo career also yielded many classics including My Sweet Lord and What Is Life. 
The show lasts 3 and a half hours, but is never boring. It covers his rise with the Beatles, his emersion into Indian Culture, where he learned the to play the sitar (shown above),  his post Beatle projects and his spirituality.  
There are interviews with fellow artists both past and present, living and dead, fellow Beatles,  and his family including his son, and both his ex wife Pattie and his widow, Olivia
The documentary was directed by Martin Scorsese.  It was released in 2011 and won Emmys for Non Fiction Special and for Direction. 

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