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The George Harrison Encyclopedia

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I bought this book based on the far superior Beatles Encyclopedia written by Bill Harry. This was a big disappointment. The book is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccurate information. For example, there are three differnt stories on how the Traveling Wilbury's were formed, depending on if one reads the Roy Orbison entry, the Tom Petty entry or the Traveling Wilbury entry. Unlike the Beatles Encyclopedia, there are no pictures, which would have greatly enhanced this book. I am giving it three stars as there was some new (to me anyway) information, but the editting and fact checking were very sloppy.

...to check out this book! Although there are some inaccuracies in this work, it is still a treat to read. This is a MUST have for Harrison fans and Beatle fans alike. This book gives a good coverage of the life of the youngest Beatle; the people and events that influenced his career and his own deeply profound words. This is a welcome addition from the inveterate Harrison fan to people who are just becoming familiar with the works and life of this outstanding artist. George Harrison was a man who did, indeed, with his words AND his music influence countless people.

I love the book and can't recommend it highly enough.

There are many people and songs I didn't know George was involved with. This book is full of information going back in his ancestry and one thing I learned is that Georges' birthday is Feb. 24th NOT Feb. 25th.

Great book!
If you're WILLING to read a book about George Harrison.
Really, if you were there at the time, and the right age, there was something about him the other Beatles didn't have. And gee, all those portentious songs on "All things must pass" and what was that other one, "Dark Horse" was it? He really did seem to BELIEVE something. Well, contact with self-righteous, self-centered, holy-no-matter-what religious types over the years teaches you that it's EASY for someone who believes in nothing in particular to BELIEVE IT WITH HEART AND SOUL, to use G.'s own original eloquence. "Where are we going, why are we here etc." were the kind of questions that motivated this character who, as his former business associate Paul McCartney managed to say in weak eulogy, "didn't suffer fools gladly", e.g. tore up the bits of paper proffered to him by star-struck kiddies or signed all of the Fab Four when sought for his own unique sign, the sign that he did indeed inhabit the same universe that the rest of us milling around outside of his preposterous mansions were forced to inhabit.
Did this guy EVER do anything for anybody else?
Try Catholicism, Judaism, Baha'i, deism, radical atheism, anything other than "I'm-too-good-for-the-worldism".
Or if you want to stay with the Beatles, stick with jabberin' John, who seems to have been more or less sincere in his peaceniking, or send a card to Paul, who's done some good in the world and certainly deserves to get a card on his 64th. And isn't Ringo still married to Barbara Bach? That's something, anyway. And I've never heard of him tearing up a 14-year-old's notebook and buggering back off to his palace when asked for an autograph.