Re: A NON-Assyrian/Chaldean post about George Harrison

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: Here's a song that George Harrison wrote that we can all relate to and apply to our lives. : Rest In Peace George. : Within You WIthout you : We were talking - about the space between us all : And the people - who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion : Never glimpse of truth - then it's far too late - when they pass away : We were talking - about the love we could all share - when we find it : To try our best to hold it there - with our love : With our love - We could save the world - if they only knew : Try to realize it's all within yourself no-one else can make you change : And to see you're really only very small, and life flows on : wit-hin and wit-hout you : We were talking - about the love that's gone so cold and the people, : Who gain the world and lose their soul - then you may find, : pea-ce of mind, is waiting there : And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within and without you : : Ex-Beatle George Harrison Dies at 58 : : By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer : : LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Harrison, the Beatles' quiet lead guitarist and spiritual explorer who : : added both rock 'n' roll flash and a touch of the mystic to the band's timeless magic, has died, a : : longtime family friend told The Associated Press. He was 58. : : Harrison died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at a friend's Los Angeles home following a battle with cancer, : : longtime friend Gavin De Becker said late Thursday. : : ``He died with one thought in mind - love one another,'' De Becker said. He said Harrison's wife, : : Olivia Harrison, and son Dhani, 24, were with him when he died. : : With Harrison's death, there remain two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. John : : Lennon was shot to death by a deranged fan in 1980. : : Harrison's family issued a statement saying: ``He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God, : : fearless of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends. He often said, `Everything else can : : wait but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.''' : : It wasn't immediately known if there would be a public funeral for Harrison. A private ceremony had : : already taken place, De Becker said. : : In 1998, when Harrison disclosed that he had been treated for throat cancer, Harrison said: ``It : : reminds you that anything can happen.'' The following year, he survived an attack by an intruder who : : stabbed him several times. In July 2001, he released a statement asking fans not to worry about : : reports that he was still battling cancer. : : The Beatles were four distinct personalities joined as a singular force in the rebellious 1960s, : : influencing everything from hair styles to music. Whether dropping acid, proclaiming ``All You Need is : : Love'' or sending up the squares in the film ``A Hard Day's Night'' the Beatles inspired millions. : : Harrison's guitar work, modeled on Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins among others, was essential. : : He often blended with the band's joyous sound, but also rocked out wildly on ``Long Tall Sally'' and : : turned slow and dreamy on ``Something.'' His jangly 12-string Rickenbacker, featured in ``A Hard : : Day's Night,'' was a major influence on the American band the Byrds. : : Although his songwriting was overshadowed by the great Lennon-McCartney team, Harrison did : : contribute such classics as ``Here Comes the Sun'' and ``Something,'' which Frank Sinatra covered. : : Harrison also taught the young Lennon how to play the guitar. : : He was known as the ``quiet'' Beatle and his public image was summed up in the first song he wrote : : for them, ``Don't Bother Me,'' which appeared on the group's second album. : : But Harrison also had a wry sense of humor that helped shape the Beatles' irreverent charm, : : memorably fitting in alongside Lennon's cutting wit and Starr's cartoonish appeal. : : At their first recording session under George Martin, the producer reportedly asked the young : : musicians to tell him if they didn't like anything. Harrison's response: ``Well, first of all, I don't like your : : tie.'' Asked by a reporter what he called the Beatles' famous moptop hairstyle, he quipped, ``Arthur.'' : : He was even funny about his own mortality. As reports of his failing health proliferated, Harrison : : recorded a new song - ``Horse to the Water'' - and credited it to ``RIP Ltd. 2001.'' : : He always preferred being a musician to being a star, and he soon soured on Beatlemania - the : : screaming girls, the hair-tearing mobs, the wild chases from limos to gigs and back to limos. Like : : Lennon, his memories of the Beatles were often tempered by what he felt was lost in all the madness. : : ``There was never anything, in any of the Beatle experiences really, that good: even the best thrill soon : : got tiring,'' Harrison wrote in his 1979 book, ``I, Me, Mine.'' ``There was never any doubt. The : : Beatles were doomed. Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed, because : : we didn't have any. We were like monkeys in a zoo.'' : : Still, in a 1992 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Harrison confided: ``We had the time of our lives: : : We laughed for years.'' : : After the Beatles broke up in 1970, Harrison had sporadic success. He organized the concert for : : Bangladesh in New York City, produced films that included Monty Python's ``Life of Brian,'' and : : teamed with old friends, including Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison, as ``The Traveling Wilburys.'' : : George Harrison was born Feb. 25, 1943, in Liverpool, one of four children of Harold and Louise : : Harrison. His father, a former ship's steward, became a bus conductor soon after his marriage. : : Harrison was 13 when he bought his first guitar and befriended Paul McCartney at their school. : : McCartney introduced him to Lennon, who had founded a band called the Quarry Men - Harrison : : was allowed to play if one of the regulars didn't show up. : : ``When I joined, he didn't really know how to play the guitar; he had a little guitar with three strings on : : it that looked like a banjo,'' Harrison recalled of Lennon during testimony in a 1998 court case against : : the owner of a bootleg Beatles' recording. : : ``I put the six strings on and showed him all the chords - it was actually me who got him playing the : : guitar. He didn't object to that, being taught by someone who was the baby of the group. John and I : : had a very good relationship from very early on.'' : : Harrison evolved as both musician and songwriter. He became interested in the sitar while making the : : 1965 film ``Help!'' and introduced it to a generation of Western listeners on ``Norwegian Wood,'' a : : song by Lennon from the ``Rubber Soul'' album. He also began contributing more of his own material. : : Among his compositions were ``I Need You'' for the soundtrack of ``Help''; ``If I Needed Someone'' : : on ``Rubber Soul''; ``Taxman'' and ``Love You To'' on ``Revolver''; ``Within You, Without You'' on : : ``Sgt. Pepper''; and ``While My Guitar Gently Weeps'' on the White Album. : : In 1966, he married model Patti Boyd, who had a bit part in ``A Hard Day's Night.'' (They divorced in : : 1977, and she married Harrison's friend, the guitarist Eric Clapton, who wrote the anguished song : : ``Layla'' about her. Harrison attended the wedding.) : : More than any of the Beatles, Harrison craved a little quiet. He found it in India. Late in 1966, after the : : Beatles had ceased touring, George and Patti went to India, where Harrison studied the sitar with Ravi : : Shankar. He maintained a lifelong affiliation with that part of the world. : : In 1967, Harrison introduced the other Beatles to the teaching of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and all : : four took up transcendental meditation. Harrison was the only one who remained a follower - the : : others dropped out, with Lennon mocking the Maharishi in the song ``Sexy Sadie.'' : : By the late '60s, Harrison was clearly worn out from being a Beatle and openly bickered with : : McCartney, arguing with him on camera during the filming of ``Let It Be.'' : : As the Beatles grew apart, Harrison collaborated with Clapton on the song ``Badge,'' performed with : : Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and produced his most acclaimed solo work, the triple album ``All Things : : Must Pass.'' The sheer volume of material on that 1970 release confirmed the feelings of Harrison fans : : that he was being stifled in the Beatles. : : But one of those songs, the hit ``My Sweet Lord,'' later drew Harrison into a lawsuit: The copyright : : owner of ``He's So Fine,'' written by Lonnie Mack and recorded by The Chiffons, won a claim that : : Harrison had stolen the music. : : Another Harrison project also led to legal problems. Moved by the starvation caused by the war : : between Bangladesh and Pakistan, Harrison in 1971 staged two benefit concerts at Madison Square : : Garden and recruited such performers as Starr, Shankar, Clapton and Dylan. : : Anticipating such later superstar benefits as Live Aid and Farm Aid, the Bangladesh concerts were also : : a cautionary tale about counterculture bookkeeping. Although millions were raised and the : : three-record concert release won a Grammy for album of the year, allegations emerged over : : mishandling of funds and the money long stayed in escrow. : : Despite the occasional hit single, including the Lennon tribute song ``All Those Years Ago,'' Harrison's : : solo career did not live up to initial expectations. Reviewing a greatest hits compilation, Village Voice : : critic Robert Christgau likened him to a ``borderline hitter they can pitch around after the sluggers : : (Lennon and McCartney) are traded away.'' : : Harrison's family life was steadier. He married Olivia Arias in 1978, a month after Dhani was born. : : The next year, Harrison founded Handmade Films to produce Monty Python's ``Life of Brian.'' He : : sold the company for $8.5 million in 1994. : : Fame continued to haunt him. In 1999, he was stabbed several times by a man who broke into his : : home west of London. The man, who thought the Beatles were witches and believed himself on a : : divine mission to kill Harrison, was acquitted by reason of insanity. : : But fame also continued to enrich Harrison. The following year, he saw a compilation of Beatles No. 1 : : singles, ``1,'' sell millions of copies and re-establish the band's status around the world. : : ``The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it,'' he said in an interview with : : The Associated Press. ``It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available : : for the past 20 years. : : ``I think the popular music has gone truly weird,'' he said. ``It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty : : stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.'' : : - : : Eds: Robert Barr in London and Hillel Italie in New York also contributed to this report. : : - : : On the Net: : : http://www.beatles.com

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