George Making Bob Smile

When I say George Harrison is not appreciated enough I mean it in the sense of his massive impact on music and western culture is always ignored or overlooked, if credit is given it is always in a diffused. for eg. the hippie movement would never have happened if it hadn't been for george (or it would have very different imagery and aesthetics if it did) but you never see people say that. some will credit the beatles trip to India as the ideological start of the hippie movement but never credit george directly

george was also the first to make music truly international. Not only in terms of influence but he was willing to learn from and share his platform with artists whose formats were very different from what pop music of the time was used to. george's influence opened up pop music which had been v one dimensional at the time. and as i said while the beatles are credited for it, it's always unilateral when it had always been just george ploughing on with his interest for the most part, inspite of often being ridiculed by his friends and bandmates for it

also concert for Bangladesh! While music had long been political he was the first to use his platform to do something that would have a tangible, real life consequence. The Bangladesh/Pakistan situation wasn't very different from Israel/Palestine today because Pakistan was being backed by the US, and george was warned against it but he still went ahead! Who has the guts to organise a Concert for Palestine today? King of using his privilege and I'd have that any day over the vaguely "political" music of early bob dylan, pete seeger et all with left wing jargon and folk tunes appropriated from poor black ppl.

George Harrison during the filming of Magical Mystery Tour in Plymouth, England | 12 September 1967

bob dylan, woodstock, ny, 1967

Joan Baez & Bob Dylan, Newark, New Jersey, 1964 © Daniel Kramer.

John Lennon in every Beatles movies

George Harrison during Robert Whitaker's Yesterday and Today photo session | 25 March 1966 © Leslie Bryce

FROM MIKE MCCARTNEY’S EARLY LIVERPOOL

“George was determined to have some pictures inside his brand new car (here next to the Police Training College round the corner from Forthlin Road). I told him that it was a good idea but that it was very dark. So he said, “Bring your flash!” I protested, “But it’s raining.” George replied, “Well, bring your umbrella!”