George Harrison Interview REACTIONS on Clapton, Madonna, Beatles, and Part Time Hippies
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- George Harrison gives insights into song writing, paying 93% tax on earnings, Beatles legal battles, and finding peace in life.
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Such a very
thoughtful and sincere bloke
Yep, learned so much from listening to him..
Such an unhappy bloke, always pretending to be “spiritual” and honest. He was a fraud!
He treated the women in his life very badly. Great musician, flawed human being.
@@kathrynperry992 He was and nice to read the truth about George. And so many bad albums he laid on us. His true love was Clapton, by the way.
@kathrynperry992
A bit of heaven and hell.
But he took to spiritual life, and one step forward in that direction will counter 10 steps in the opposite direction.
He's in a much better place now that he was in his former life as a bug. Really.
Wow! I am 71 years old. I have been a Beatles fan for 59 years. I always loved George’s songs. I always thought he was gorgeous and he’d was my first love. I still love him today !!!! He writes beautiful and different music. Rest In Peace, Gorgeous George, you are truly loved and missed. ❤️🌹❤️
That’s so sweet
@@freewheelingideas , Sweet but true! ❤️🌹❤️
George had a nice wife but he went after other women.
The Beatles all cheated on their wives or girlfriends.
I feel the same as you. George was my first love and I always admired how he tried to go beyond this life and find God for peace. My brother and I both loved his music. Both are gone from this earth, and I believe they have met in Heaven. Being the same age as you, I remember the great times we lived in. Nothing like today. God bless✝️☮️
We were making a comedy movie and Madonna doesn’t have a sense of humor…😂
I know, such an honest line.
He hired her.
@@Sirharryflash82 Yes, and he admitted he made a mistake. So?
For a rich and celebrated pop star whose only exceptional talent is dancing, she always seems to have taken herself very seriously. I can't say I'm surprised by George's comment.
@@Sirharryflash82 But did he actually hire her? Usually they have a casting director. Anyway, now I think of it, I've never heard her laugh.
R.I.P. George Harrison! You are missed!
we are rapidly approaching the days when all these pioneers of music and film will be dropping like flies. Part of my heart will shatter when Paul dies. It's bad enough Bowie is gone. Gads: David Gilmour, Mick Jagger, Elton John; can't even go there. 😭
What a lovely man he was.
George the thinking man’s beetle. My favourite
George is the best. Madonna is disgusting😅 no humour is right 👍🏻🙏🏻 George was brilliant. My favourite still. Cheers
To the Paul bashers, from the horses mouth here with George, Paul was right all along about Allen Klein!@#$&! Shocker I'm glad George admits that publically..
Lennon admitted it also but I'm still a McRatney basher.
John did as well. Paul actually saved them a lot of grief.
@@JoeKoOhNo Yes, John did, years and years later.
It’s more complicated than Paul was right.
@@bb1111116 yes, true. But in the respect that the court case saved them from a massive catastrophe is correct. Making no other assumptions about it.
He really was the transcendent beetle with an impressive ability to describe what you need to know about life!
Wasn't he the translucent beetle?
In my views: he was both: transcendant; translucent; transparent; transformed; &, transformative; plus: much more.
&,
PLEASE NOTE: *Beatle
George Harrison was spiritual and clearly ahead of his time. ❤ I think the trip to India had a big impact on George. "My guitar gently weeps" was and still is a magical composition and a clear expression of his profound sensibility. What an incredible man. ❤
As a 16 year old in 1964 when the Beatles arrived I was in love with Paul and Ringo as were all my friends. George and John were also BEATLES!! but I wasn't in love with them. As the years went by my boyfriend Mark told me to give George another look and now he is my favorite Beatle. "The quiet one" was always very deep, the youngest Beatle. His artistry and talent was something wonderful to behold. Rest in peace, friend. You gave us all such pleasure.
We were all sitting here for days on end wondering who was YOUR "favorite Beatle." Holding our breaths. Don't let that vanity take you under and sink you.
@@davidb2206 This is about sharing memories. You must be a really unhappy person. We've been sitting here wondering when you'd say something stupid. You did not disappoint.
@@bethvirginiaphillips4583 Narcissism. Learn the word.
@@davidb2206 Takes one to know one..tee hee. Have a good day! Over and OUT.
Look in the mirror.@@davidb2206
wow I just watched the video from Patti Boyd's marriage to George. I cant even believe how he treated her. SO SAD. And her marriage to Clapton too! OMG. to think I used to envy these women as a teenager adn think they must have great lives. OMG.
Me too and to think I so admired George. Thought he was the best. What a wanker for a husband. Karma got him in the end as well as that other wanker Eric Clapton
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she was abused, at least psychologically. Male rock stars are at the very least horribly narcissistic. She was a plaything for fickle egos
Just remember, Boyd has an axe to grind, too, and she never said a word about the situation until long years after George’s death. I’m not saying she’s lying, and it’s obviously what she’s accepted as her truth, but bitterness doesn’t age well. She also took tons of drugs, so there’s that, as well. Boyd just doesn’t impress me as an introspective person who weighs motivations at the time or thinks of ways to solve problems. I read part of her book and quickly realized that she lived much of her life keeping quiet because she couldn’t seem to put even her most basic feelings into words, at all! She seemed to observe her life without thinking.
Friar Park is quite the shack🤣
His first solo album All Things Must Pass is just my absolute favorite albums. He was so prolific with his song writing, just such beautiful lyrics.
Yes love that album. A tremendous talent indeed.
The best album by an ex-Beatle. Many think so, me included. A gem.
@@Skedawg88 Easily the best. Though honestly there's not a lot of strong competition for that title.
It’s funny….my mind doesn’t categorize the music I listen to from best to worst or anything in between. I listen and feel about music in the moment, as I’m listening, and those sensations guide whether I listen again or not. I obviously love the Beatles’ music and have loved it since I first heard it as a very little girl, but I don’t even have a favorite song, they’re all so different. I guess that’s why I can listen to and love such a crazy wide range of genres, because I never put any of it in a box. There are times I’ve compared opera singers, but I don’t even like to do that….their interpretation of masterpieces at such a high level stand alone…there’s no need to compare them.
Listen to all the Beatles answers when they answer questions: they all make sense, to children even. Simple, direct, intelligent.
Agreed. I wish everyone could communicate like that.
And very often, extremely funny!
People of that generation actually used to grow up.
I feel George was just plain honest; you can drop the 'brutal' part as he was gentle and reflective.
Not honest or gentle when married to Patti Boyd. He was terribly cruel and continually broke his marriage vows.
And John, Paul & Ringo weren't honest people?
A nice lad isn't he? Us scousers are very proud of our George.
As you should be!
I mean what else do ya have? Other than stolen tyres.
Just jokes from a manc, George was an absolute gem.
Go Man City. From a Yank.@@crankfastle8138
@@crankfastle8138😂👍
Scouser?
George Is still missed almost 22 years later. His son is keeping his spirit alive though with making music. I wish he would make another Fistful of Mercy record too!
Always loved George's honest, don't-give-a-f*ck attitude.
Yeah, he called them "pigs" and taught that to his son, until HE was the one being stabbed in the lungs in his house. Then, he called the police (like a typical hypocrite).
Honest, yes, and he definitely gave a ‘FUCK’ about so many things.
@@davidb2206fact: his wife Olivia called the police
Is that Tony Wilson (of Factory Records & Hacienda fame) interviewing George 3 1/2 minutes in? Wow!
I believe his little shack had 30 bedrooms.
I’m prepared for that eventuality is my favorite George quote. It’s from A Hard Days Night.
When George was honest you could tell he wasn’t trying to be a dick
Yea I agree.
@@freewheelingideas- What about screaming at the top of his lungs at John in New York to 'sign the bloody papers'. To dissolve the Beatles!!😅
A dick?..
@@cdsorvinyl He wasn't being a dick. It was actually John and Yoko who were the issue. If it weren't for Yoko they almost certainly wouldn't have broken up.
@@wintermute-That is ridiculous! They just 'grew out' with one another. George's 'All Things Must Pass' is the best solo album and he wanted it released. He wanted out.
What I found funny about the first interview is that George forgot about While my guitar gently weeps. Arguably his best song.
George was spot-on when he said “all the people who supposedly loved me, and now they are just dropping apart at the seams with hate”. So much for the peace-and-love folks who are in power today, tearing our country apart. George was such an insightful man.
They were taxed at 93%??? Insane. You could then never retire. Just have to keep chasing your tail. Imagine only being able to keep 7 dollars of every 100 dollars you earn for yourself, no matter how hard you work. Something inherently wrong with that system.
Agree
That wasn't the tax rate for the entire population... There are tax brackets, lol. He was in the highest tax bracket, meaning he was earning so much money that even though he was taxed at that rate, he was STILL able to live comfortably.
I mean, you can look up the literal estates the Beatles lived on in the 60s and the cars they owned, like Lennon's custom Rolls-Royce.
People who earned less and were in lower brackets paid a much smaller percentage and were able to because of the rich bearing a higher burden and because the rich could afford it, publicly funded things like education, healthcare, etc, were fully funded.
From 1945-1963, the top tax bracket in the US paid 91% too. And it was an amazing economic period.
Today, the top tax bracket in the US is 37% (with loads of write-offs and loopholes where you can make it appear you have less money) and every institution is barely funded outside of the military.
They don't pay that rate on all their income there would be different rates for different bands of income.
@@freewheelingideas This is actually how it should be. Like someone said there are rates for different bands of income but once you hit a certain amount it's taxed at 93%. It used to be like this in the US too. The great thing is this is why he funded things like Monty Python and the Holy Grail and other movies, etc. That high tax rate encourages you to invest in other projects and people unless you just want it to go to the government. The way it is now people at the top of corporations just give themselves offensive amounts of money because they get to keep 89% of tax breaks, etc so there is no incentive to not give it all to yourself.
@@wintermute- the other side of that viewpoint is when businesses have to give so much of their profits to government that leaves less for employees pay and benefits and expansion to hire more employees.
George Burns "the only reason to retire is to do something better". nuff said.
George Harrison, thought that he may live in a little shack somewhere when he retires, well, that shack turned into a huge mega mansion in a estate 🏡 with a huge garden 🪴 and he still was playing till his death
I've never liked Madonna as a person. When people take themselves too seriously they are not known to be considerate of others.
Madonna always seems like a huge narcissist.
Madonna is a big gas bag. Never wrote a song in her whole career but recorded and huge pile of shallow drivel and is somehow an icon. I don't get it.
You met her?
You don’t know Madonna as a person. You know her as a celebrity.
Well, Paul was right about Allen Klein...
Madonna film used lots of large tropical trees and was filmed in an east London location. I was offered the trees to use after thr shoot but i had nowhere to place them.
George NEVER dropped his Scouse accent
😂😂😂
I thought all brits talk like him
Met him in 1996. Total Liverpudlian.
This is a unique accent. I don't know how or why but John, George, Paul, and Ringo developed what ever that is that is specifically theirs. It is not close to a true Scouse accent.
I always thought he sounded more brummy.
@@crankfastle8138it’s very much scouse but more refined and polished with speech patterns slowed and every syllable pronounced to be clearly understood. Real scouse speak would be someone like Wayne Rooney or Jamie Carragher in his younger days before he joined Skye sports
Love George. A deep thinker.
George genius every thing he said is true today o
I think George’s comment re: the fans, Beatles, Sinatra is always overlooked. I mean John always said if they got back together he’d was worried the audience would want to see “The Fab Four” but I think they would’ve wanted to see more of the rooftop Beatles! At least that’s what I would’ve wanted to see.
My dream was to see the Beatles in MTV unplugged.
Thanks for putting this collection together, and sharing it with us!
You’re so welcome
The first interviewer is Tony Wilson, later to be the central figure in the fictionalised "24 Hour Party People". Here he engages in basic conversations with astute and sensitive musicians. In one instance here he inquires of George , "…would you have enough money to retire on for the rest of your life?"
Following this line of inquiry, Wilson then proceeds to establish Factory Records as his next venture. Initially, he recruits acts like Joy Division, with subsequent signings such as Happy Mondays and similar acts deemed by most as considerably less refined, one might even say cretinous. Crack cocaine, initially encouraged by Wilson, becomes a detrimental force. Claiming the artistic lives of many associated with Factory Records. He more or less admitted the whole Manchester movement wouldn't have started without him. Despite the presence of musicians characterised by relatively subpar skills and intellects resembling woodland creatures, it succeeded. It's speculative whether it was good or bad.
“Merdonner” 🤣🤣🤣
I wonder if other producers feel the same way about Madonna?
Likely. But only an ex-Beatle could say that about Madonna and not have his career ended.
He nails Sean Penn that’s for sure
Ive always fancied George.
George certainly didn't suffer fools and didn't have time for nonsense.
Beatles fans are Lifetime Sir George
Love you, George.
Never liked the guy.
Moaning george we call him.
We would never heard from the guy if it wasn't for paul.
Thank you for sharing and keeping his spirit alive.
You’re very welcome
i must confess to being a huge fan of all thangs 'BEATLES' (i have them tattoo'd on my right arm) but in addition to fascinating interview clips i gotta say i really loved the still pics that accompany the audio. many i'd never seen before great stuff.
Thank you so much! And I’m right there with you in fandom. They’ve just got such enjoyable personalities.
yep. u betcha!
George was a sage we could learn a lot from listening to him so great full for these interviews
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I Love This Man So Much ❤
Oh George how I adore you
i must admit ringo said something honest once on tv : a year after john lennon's supposedly death, the tv host asked ringo a question about john lennon Ringo answered why don't you ask himself (Quote).
He had a good head of hair on him. Fair play.
george :::: our favorite forever.
Love hearing George.
‘It’s all in the mind.”😊
It was very interesting to listen to this, thanks. I enjoy the sincerity in a lot of his responses.
You’re very welcome
Love the honesty!! Very rare these days!
so humble and zen..
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Love this, thanks for sharing. George was just so insightful and wise beyond his years. So well-respected by his peers and just seems like a decent sort. He certainly had his flaws but even those who he wronged (Eric Clapton) still managed to be good friends with. Taken from us much, much too soon. :(
Glad you enjoyed it! And yes agree
Lol! We have gone full circle. Look at the world now. That movie with Madonna was the worst ever. Now I understand why.
Volumume at 6:48
sudden volume low..
I had it maxed it was low.
Thank you for this compilation.
You’re very welcome. Glad you enjoyed it!
"We all grow together"❤
My favorite has always been George
Same here....aul was always mugging, john, meh. ringo i did not notice at all hardly.ssss.
2:43 I love George.
Also I love how this video has more views than the Paul and John one, thus proving my belief that George was the best Beatle. His honesty wasn’t out of ego, but sincere belief, his goal was not to hurt, but help those build and do better. It’s like when he said he was disappointed in Paul’s album in the 90s, he didn’t say that out of contempt but he knew that his brother could do a lot better, and that he still has the talent.
There is no best, only your favorite.
He doesn't have to say anything about Paul's albums. You call it honesty , but he just comes across bitchy.
Actually it doesn't prove anything.
My favourite Beatle. X
Thanks George we were rapscallions
I enjoyed listening to the interview so thanks for uploading.
You’re welcome
It's laughable when the interviewer way back then comes out with ageism nonsense mentioning the rolling stones who are still touring now lol. Even though the Beatles are before my time but they are my favourite all time band because music is beyond age, or race but its what unites us and which is why also being a Hindu I often visit Bhaktivedanta manor which George donated where I feel that spiritual vibe
That’s awesome. Yea, no one would have ever guessed then that would’ve been the Stones younger days. We live much more vibrant lives throughout all our years nowadays. Thank goodness.
@@freewheelingideas Absolutely. And Paul is still touring and even other great artists from that time. I had recently walked across Abbey road past midnight as you can see on my banner pic and all the other people there taking pics across abbey road were all 'young' which shows the impact of the beatles which continues up to this day to generations even after
The audio around 8:21 is DREADFUL during a profound moment!
Ah, that's Tony Wilson interviewing him abouty 33 and a third,
Love his George Harrisons honesty. Eric Clapton a tough intelligent great guy, Madonna a humorless pain in the ass 😆
And Eric married George's ex-wife and they were still close friends the whole way through. What a guy!❤️
George was a deep thinker. Although he wrote brilliantly I surprised he didn't write much more.
He did
As with many artists, much of their work is never put in front of the public for a variety of reasons. It doesn't mean they haven't written/produced more.
hahahahaha I love George
7:40 So true "Rolling Stone Mag and Jann Wenner: nothing but hate" already in 1975
WOW! A really young Tony Wilson, interviewing GH
"While me guitar quietly whimpers..." 😂😂😂
I worked with hundreds of celebs in my career, the worst were Ciccone and Marie Osmond
What happened with Marie Osmond?
At least Marie does not have a foul, vulgar mouth like Madonna. Marie is, or was, LDS/Mormon.
She died
Edit: oops, she is most certainly not. Must have been thinking of Valerie bertanelli.
Taxes and lawyers got so much of the money. That is sad.
And her majesty.
2:25 Thoughts on working with Madonna.
It’s amazing that the interviewer doesn’t understand what George means by “bliss”, asking if he got it in the studio. Harrison is speaking of the “Sublime” when you feel your spirit is outside the body. This can only happen in true love or a religious experience.
The only two Beatles that I love:
Ringo and George.
When George Harrison was being treated for cancer, he was in the same hospital as my father at the same time, the doctor which was banned from the hospital after what he did, he brought a guitar to George Harrison’s bedside to get an autograph, it was very shameful on his part. Needless to say George and my father never survived the treatments.
Well done
Some sections of this are barely audible, others are too loud. Can you do something to even it out?
I can’t edit it while it’s already published, but I’m gonna redo it soon to fix the audio.
Top man.... Respect
Nice vid, shame about the volume levels
Every interview i've heard, George is not a big fan of Paul's music! When asked what his favorite Beatles tunes are, he routinely names John's songs. He seemingly liked and admired John a lot more than Paul.
He continued his bitterness till he died , in regards to Paul. Very strange considering he got him in the band and worked on his songs providing great bass lines among other things. John never contributed half as much to George's stuff.
@@TheKevzalisten to the conversation between John and Paul with the hidden mic after George left. They literally discuss and admit how bad they were to him the whole time. They understood. Maybe you could too.
@crankfastle8138 I'm pretty sure in every band, the main songwriters, who are writing hit after hit, are run this way. Yet not all bands have jealous guitarists who want an equal slice of the pie after a few years.
You didn't see ringo get all bitter. He was happy to accept his role in a band with 2 great writers.
George created alot of problems when he decided he should be equal to lennon mccartney.
That was extraordinarily well done!
Thank you 🙏
His album Dark Horse was originally going to be called Dark Pyjamas or Sore Horse...if a coin had landed a different way 'round, he might have called it Sore Pyjamas instead.
Great sense of humor
Top guy.
Experiencing pure consciousness preceding self-awareness.
''TO LIVE OUTSIDE THE LAW YOU HAVE TO BE HONEST.'' ~BOB DYLAN
I doubt he practices what he preaches, also anyone who is ashamed of his birth name isn’t someone to preach to others!.
@@astragreen How much more then than Mark Twain?
very cool..i wonder who took the black and white photographs NYC?
Ritchie Blackmore was there ❤
That little retirement "shack" turned out to be a palatial estate.
Because he could afford. His last years, he was living in Santa Monica. There are no palatial estates there. No mansions. It's a beach town.
@@crankfastle8138 I thought he was only there because he was getting his cancer treatments in the US? His main home was definitely Friar Park. It was where he preferred to spend his time. He also recorded there.
@@Meladjustedisn't it where he got killed as well? 👀
I believe it was 95% in England.....hence the song Taxman...1 for me, 19 for you. Rolling Stones moved to France to pay less.....
There’s a video in the channel about this
nice, but audio levels are all over the place
Sorry about that. My free software was worth every penny. I didn’t realize at the time but have since upgraded and resolved the issue.
What George says of the result of the '60s movement I used to think was summed up well in Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone. Still think so but this older commentary ain't too bad: "A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs."
How can you pay the Crown 97 per cent ???
My goddness
The interviewer for 33 1/3 wasted such a good opportunity asking such stupid questions. All that ageism BS and how much money do you have?