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George Harrison
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Producer, Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Actor, Songwriter Born: February 25, 1943 in Liverpool, England Death: November 29, 2001 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Liverpudlian "George Harrison", lead guitarist of the "Beatles", was the youngest and, for many years, least appreciated of the Fab Four. Often labelled the "quiet Beatle" in the early 1960s, Harrison seemed so retiring and self-deprecating that the makers of the first Beatles flick "A Hard Day's Night" took pity on him and wrote him his own individual sequence. The result was the hilarious "shirt scene," wherein Harrison finds himself auditioning for a specious teen-oriented TV show (asked his opinion on some wretched "mod" clothing, Harrison replies "They're grotty.") For the next Beatles film "Help" (65), Harrison broke the "Lennon"-McCartney stranglehold on the musical score by writing the song "I Need You" -- a fact that we hear proclaimed over and over during the film's closing credits. While overwhelmed in the public eye by the charisma of his fellow Beatles, Harrison was the first to assert... Full Biography
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