George loving telephone line even before he met Jeff is sweet, especially considering that George and Olivia met through phone calls.
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George loving telephone line even before he met Jeff is sweet, especially considering that George and Olivia met through phone calls.
Wishing Dhani a very happy birthday!
Clip from a 2024 DIONZ interview.
Q: “Has remarrying and having a child significantly changed your life?” George Harrison: “Yeah, that’s been a wonderful thing for me. Everybody who has a baby thinks their child is wonderful, and it is.” - Rolling Stone (1979) Q: “I was wondering if your son Dhani has any musical aspirations?” George Harrison: “He has, yeah, he’s sensational actually, but he plays William Tell on the piano but he does it in the minor, you know, like when the arrow missed the apple and got him right in the neck, he plays that version, you know. [hums] da-da-dum, da-da-dum, dum-dum-dum, you know, that one. Anyway, he’s really good.” - Rockline (1988) “[‘Soft Touch’] actually came from a remark Jim Keltner made in one of his lighter moods about me being a soft touch. I had Dark Horse Records at the time, and people think that you’re a bank and come to you for money. By the end of the song, though, I’d changed some of the words so that it became more about my baby boy.” - George Harrison, Goldmine (1992) “There’s a song he wrote about our son when he was born that I really love, and it’s become a favorite. It’s called ‘Unknown Delight’ and it’s on the Gone Troppo album.” - Olivia Harrison, NPR (2004) “Of course, one of my favorites on [Gone Troppo] is ‘Unknown Delight.’ He was saying, ‘What should I write about? What should I write a song about?’ I said, ‘Write a song about Dhani.’ And he wrote this beautiful song which was very prescient actually.” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio (2018) “Shortly after Dhani was born Ravi and Alla Rakha took the train over to visit us [George, Olivia and Dhani], and I picked them up at Reading. They came over to see the baby, and Ravi wrote a tune called ‘Dhani.’ The name ‘Dhani’ actually came from my study of Indian music: from the scale of Sa-Ri-Ga-Ma-Pa-DHA-NI-Sa. So he wrote this song, and Alla Rahka played on one half of the tabla, the bayan.” - George Harrison, Raga Mala (1997) “The only things he felt I had to do in my life are be happy and meditate.” - Dhani Harrison, Rolling Stone (2011) “[George] did everything with a big, open heart and lots of love… He taught me that anything can be accomplished as long as you set out to do it with love.” - Dhani Harrison, Yahoo Music (February 8, 2015)
how can people hear dark sweet lady and not love olivia harrison
George Harrison photographed by Guido Harari in San Remo, 1988.
“Such arrogance comes from the Government. They are forgetting we, the people, employ them. I’m talking now not as this famous George Harrison, I’m talking now as an ordinary member of humanity and of the British public. I’m quite a reasonable person, but the way I feel about the environment, I could just go and throttle those people. I tend to try and turn a blind eye and just do it through music, or quietly. It’s not every day I talk like this, exclusively to a newspaper. You would think the Minister of Environment would be out there looking after all the birds and the trees and the oxygen. All Nicholas Ridley ever did for the environment was concrete over it. They won’t be happy until we are all squatting in the back of some f***ing hatchback on the motorway, and that’s the reality we are facing. What are we going to do about all this traffic? They’ve got to ban it. The only vote I have ever cast is Green. By putting this present Government down, it doesn’t mean to say that Neil Kinnock is going to be any better. They are all the same; they switch their policies just to suit whatever is in vogue. We can’t go on and on creating more and more waste. The whole planet is operating on the waste of over-indulgence. It’s just ridiculous. ‘Money doesn’t speak, it swears,’ [Bob] Dylan said that years ago.” - George Harrison, Daily Express (July 1989) “It’s a real low-level game, that’s how I see politics. They don’t have any kind of budget limits for Gulf wars or Falklands wars, but if it’s for national health or something it’s hard to get them to put any money in.” - George Harrison, RCD (1992) “[The song ‘Brainwashed’] is very anti-establishment, just like punk music, or Rage Against the Machine. And all that stuff is great. But a lot of the time music that denounces what’s happening in society doesn’t offer an alternative; it just says, ‘Well, this is wrong,’ but it doesn’t say, ‘Go and realize God,’ or, ‘Go and meditate for a bit.’ And that’s why I think ‘Brainwashed’ is so strong — because of the contrast that he presents in the song. It leaves you with something positive rather than just denouncing the brainwashing and leaving you depressed. Because, you know, my dad was very alarmed by the state of affairs in the world. He was very disturbed by it. That’s why he didn’t go out much, why stayed in his garden. Because he didn’t like traffic jams and mobile phones, and governments and war.” - Dhani Harrison, Guitar World (January 2003) Annual revisiting of these quotes...
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Photos by Roger Di Vito/Camera Press London.
“True Love at Henley on Thames: ex-Beatle George Harrison, tired of his forgotten man image, has got it all together again, says he never felt better, and is filming here in his Berkshire home, promoting his new album, ’33 1/3,’ in which he revives the Cole Porter oldie, ‘True Love.” - press blurb
“Just this summer I was sitting ‘round with the guitar and that song came into my mind and I just started playing it. And then I thought that it’s so, I don’t know, off the wall really and it’s such a nice song anyway, it’s a very simple melody and very simple words — it’s only about four words in it — and yet it’s a nice song, it’s a love song, it’s an up-song. And I just like the tune and I started fiddling about with it and with the chords, and then I just heard that arrangement that could be done just like that. That song could be done any way, really, you know.” - George Harrison, A Personal Music Dialogue with George Harrison at 33 & 1/3 (1976) “We’d been watching Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, watching that movie [High Society], and they do a duet, and just that little harmony thing they do, because she wasn’t know as really a singer. He’d play and we’d sing it. It just would get in his head, it would go around and around — I guess a lot of people get loops in their heads about songs — and then the natural progression was to go in the studio and record it. He didn’t care if it was punk rock, he was putting out ‘True Love.’” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio (2018) Q: “I looked at it for the first thirty seconds you’re on the screen, Where did they get this guy? And I thought, that’s George.” George Harrison: “I’m such a ham. I think I’ve had an image, people have had a concept of me being really straight ‚cause I was the serious one or something.” Q: “You were the mysterious one.” GH: “But actually, I mean, I’m the biggest lunatic around; one of them anyway.” - A Personal Music Dialogue with George Harrison at 33 & 1/3 (1976) It’s the seventh month of the year, so what better time to revisit the (Harri)songs that are track number seven on their respective albums? ("True Love" is track 7 on Thirty-Three & 1/3.) You can find those track 7 posts here. “My dad’s favorite number was 7, and a lot of things that he did were according to the number 7, whether he meant it or not. That was the highest honor I could have given a track on the album [Brainwashed], to put it track 7.” - Dhani Harrison, Brainwashed EPK
"True Love" music video
forgot to tell my beautiful 3 followers that i went to see ringo live on 6/14/26!!! it was kinda meh imo… my trip back home was more interesting than the concert itself bcos i got lost & came home 6 hours later… olivia harrison attended this same concert so worth it🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
i really wish i had seen the sweet amazing lovely beautiful gorgeous magnificent stunning angel olivia with my own two eyes but no…. i found this out through a lucky couple on tiktok who did spot her >:/ lucky…. i was hoping that she would be there at the concert too bcos i knew she was from LA☺️ atleast she graced me with her presence, just like when we attended paul’s concert in 9/29/25😻🙏
..hopefully one day, i will see her through my eyes instead of my screen🥺😭 i had dreams about this too lol…….
(Photo 1) George and Olivia photographed by Simon Townsley in London, 1990. Other photo credits as known: Mail Newspapers plc, Romanian Angel Appeal, Wembley Observer.
“[The Traveling Wilburys] chose [‘Nobody’s Child’], thought it was a perfect song, and it was. It was really generous of them, because they were in full flow recording the second album and they stopped, it was literally - I woke up, and he called me. They were still awake. 'We did this… He knew, you know, George knew I wouldn’t ask, and he knew tones of my voice and obviously knew it was serious and how I was feeling there. Because it was pretty horrific. And in fact the Romanian Angel Appeal’s still going. It has been adopted as a program by the government there, so they’re still helping children.” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio (2018) “People ask me, ‘Why this cause?’ I don’t know. It just hit me. I wake up thinking of faces I saw there. They haunt me. I just have to do it.” - Olivia Harrison, New York Daily News (April 29, 1990) “I remembered that old song from the late ‘50s, ‘Nobody’s Child’ — Lonnie Donegan had it on one of his albums. I could remember a bit of how the tune went but I didn’t know the words. I eventually got in touch with Joe Brown in London who knew the first verse but not the rest. So I wrote the second verse lyric myself (‘In every town and village there are places just like this/With rows and rows of children, babies in their cribs/They’ve long since stopped their crying/As no one ever hears/And there’s no one there to notice them or take away their fears’). […] [Organizing the charity album is] nothing compared to what Olivia and all the carpenters and electricians who are giving their time for free are doing. This is just my small contribution.” - George Harrison, Q Magazine (1990) “Olivia Harrison is George Harrison’s widow, one of the former Beatles. She is slim, gentle, and beautiful, a discreet and loving person. All her life she has been involved in helping children in need throughout the world, and I am one of them. I was one of the many abandoned children from Romania and she decided to help us through her Romanian Angel Appeal organization. My mother met her and worked as a Portage teacher in all the projects. Olivia Harrison started her work in Romania, renovating the buildings where abandoned children lived and improving their living conditions. Then she realized that children also needed an education and she trained educators. Her next involvement was with HIV children, providing proper medication for the Day Clinics, educators for the abandoned HIV children in hospitals and a Mobile Unit for those living with their families. My mother met Olivia Harrison when the Educational Program started. She traveled everywhere Romanian Angel Appeal had projects and she had the opportunity to see abandoned children considered with ‘special needs’ become ‘normal’ as a result of the love and care of the educators. My mom and dad, having no children of their own, decided to adopt me and my twin brother. When we were old enough to understand this important change in our lives they told us the truth. I don’t consider them being less parents than others; on the contrary, I think they did a heroic thing. Everything I have written about I know from my mother, but I also did my own research on the Internet. I admire all the Beatles’ wives for what they have done, but most of all I worship Olivia Harrison. If she hadn’t met my mother, my brother and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to live in a loving family. She gave us a chance to live a better life and I’m grateful for that.” - Bianca-Cristina from Constanta, Romania, myhero dot com (August 28, 2011)