Biographie

His Gretsch Country Gentleman electric guitar

Songs about love

Long hair

His usual beard.

Rainbow colored Stratocaster dubbed "Rocky", which he painted himself, and red Les Paul "Lucy', the latter previously owned by Eric Clapton

He played 26 instruments: guitar, sitar, four-string guitar, bass guitar, arp bass, violin, tamboura, dobro, swordmandel, tabla, organ, piano, moog synthesizer, harmonica, autoharp, glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone, claves, African drum, conga drum, tympani, ukulele, mandolin, marimba and Jal-Tarang.

When it was his final show at Madison Square Garden in New York, he told 11-year-old Julian Lennon to tell his father, John Lennon, "All is forgiven and I still love you." That was the last time Harrison saw Lennon before his death.

In the early 1970s Eric Clapton fell madly in love with Pattie Boyd (at the time married to Harrison) and wrote "Layla" about her; when she refused to leave George for him, Clapton became so distraught and depressed he turned to heroin and developed a severe addiction. By 1974, feeling abandoned by George's obsession with Indian culture, Pattie left George for Eric and the Harrisons' divorce was finalized in 1977. Two years later, Pattie and Eric were married (they divorced in 1988). Through it all, George, Eric and Pattie remained the best of friends - George attended the Claptons' wedding reception and commented, "I'd rather she was with him than some dope". (Clapton and Harrison called each other "husbands-in-law.").

After his lung cancer was found to have returned in March 2001, Harrison was operated on in June and had half of one lung removed. By November of that year however the cancer had spread to his brain, making recovery impossible.

In 1968 Eric Clapton played guitar on George's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on The Beatles' "White Album". Also, George was at Eric's home in England and wrote "Here Comes the Sun" while skipping a board meeting for the band's company, Apple Corps.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

[his last public statement, issued after his death] Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.

[at his induction into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame] It's a shame Paul [Paul McCartney] can't be here, because he was the one who had the speech in his pocket.

[on his teenage years in Liverpool] You couldn't get a cup of sugar, let alone a rock-and-roll record.

[on the reasons why he became a vegetarian] People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.