


According to Ultimate Classic Rock, when the group began to play shows in Hamburg, Germany, they originally performed primarily at two clubs owned by a man named Bruno Koschmider. This would not be the last time that Harrison's age affected his career, however. Despite this, as McCartney says in the documentary, Living in the Material World, during a bus ride with the three boys, Harrison played a perfect rendition of the song, "Raunchy," which convinced Lennon to put him into the group as the lead guitarist. Harrison was three years Lennon's junior and two years younger than McCartney. Despite this, according to Biography, there was a major factor that made Lennon hesitate to add Harrison. While John Lennon was the clear leader and frontman of the Beatles in their early days, McCartney knew his school friend George Harrison's skills at the guitar surpassed everyone else in the young group. That upperclassman was none other than Paul McCartney. Though he said it took a while to get home, it was on one of these bus rides that he met an upperclassman who also lived in the area and the pair sparked a friendship. In 1954, though a far bus ride away, Harrison started to attend the Liverpool Institute. According to Barry Miles' book, The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Year, in 1949, the family moved to a new home on 25 Upton Green, Speke, a council house (which is a form of public housing in England). Harrison was the youngest of four children to Harold and Louise Harrison. Young Harrison used an outdoor toilet and managed without hot running water indoors. According to Harrison, the home was "OK in its own period." Each room on the downstairs was only 10 feet by 10 feet and during the winter, the home would get terribly cold. The rocker, 78, recently shared that he regularly communicates with his late Beatles bandmate by talking. In his 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison described the home he grew up in during the first years of his life. Paul McCartney says he still talks to George Harrison 's spirit in a very unique way. He let us all get a few songs in, though, and you can hear the results on the records that followed, the Beatles’ White Album and my own The Hurdy Gurdy Man.” A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, The Beatles from left: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, 1964.įinally, as Paul couldn’t mediate like the others and couldn’t write songs effectively because of George’s operation, he had to leave the retreat early and concluded writing his songs in England.George Harrison was born on Februin Wavertree, Liverpool. On 31 October 1956, when Paul was only fourteen years old, his mother, Mary McCartney, died of breast cancer.
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“Paul Mac never had a guitar out of his hand. Paul McCartney was born on Jto parents Mary McCartney and James McCartney. According to Rolling Stone, “they created more great music than in any similar period in their illustrious careers.” all because “there were no fans, no press, no rushing around with busy schedules,” and they enjoyed and put the beautiful freedom they had to good use.Įven Donovan recalled in The Autobiography of Donovan that during the Beatles’ stay in India, Paul was always with a guitar. To write forty-eight songs during a retreat is no easy feat. However, we wouldn’t blame the zealous Paul because that turned out to be the group’s wisest decision. Paul McCartney and George Harrison's friendship began before The Beatles Edward Wing/Getty Images The bond among the Fab Four looked strong when they first appeared together in the early '60s.
