George Harrison and his spiritual mentor, Ravi Shankar, organized the Concert For Bangladesh to relieve the country from a couple of big messes. First off, on Nov. 12, 1970, a devastating tropical storm, known as the 1970 Bhola Cyclone, struck East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh). Equivalent in strength to a category 3 hurricane, it flooded the [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Abandoned Love (George Harrison covers Dylan)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. Throughout the 1960′s, The Beatles came to have a lot of respect for Bob Dylan. George Harrison worked with Bob on numerous occasions after the Beatles broke up, and also covered a few of his songs over the years. If Not For You on George’s triple album [...]
All Things Must Pass (40th Anniversary Reissue coming out)
It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years since the first re-issue of this great album, but the reissues keep coming, and here is the news: George Harrison’s first post-Beatles album release, All Things Must Pass, will be 40 years old next month on November 27th. In commemoration of this, a 40th anniversary vinyl reissue [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – My Sweet Lord (demo)
This week’s BROW needs no introduction so I will be brief. The Beatles had broken up, and George Harrison had his first serious album to put together on his own. Here, a song immediately recognizable from the first few melodic strums of George’s six-string, is a diamond in it’s earliest recorded demo form. From the [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – If Not For You (30th Anniversary Concert Celebration)
Welcome to this week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week and HAPPY NEW YEAR! Perhaps the most memorable concert event of the 1990′s occurred on October 16, 1992 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. It was one of the biggest collections of artists ever assembled under one roof and included John Mellencamp, Stevie Wonder, Carolyn Hester, [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Run Of The Mill (early take)
Welcome to BROW. This week we look at George Harrison’s Run Of The Mill. This was one of my favorite, although somewhat obscure, tracks from the All Things Must Pass sessions. Recorded sometime between May and August of 1970, this early take has just had the piano track added to it and sounds much cleaner [...]
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