harrisonstories:

Srila Prabhupada: Your wife is very nice. She’s a nice girl.

George: Yes, she is, she’s an angel.

abbeyroadforever:

Happy Birthday Olivia Harrison!! -18th May 1948

dark-sweet-lady:

Happy Birthday Liv (:

george-harrison-marwa-blues:

“Tragedy is much more of an adventure than joy. I am not saying joy is over-rated. But happiness is fleeting; it exists in the present. Tragedy casts a long and persistent shadow with the power to dim even the most perfect moment. It also has the potential to follow us to the end. We don’t stop to analyze happiness but when grief and strife occur we recount the events leading up to it over and over. It wakes us from our sleep as we try to figure out how and where it all went wrong. Of course, with death, the question is more of a ‘why’? But for me, the question was, “what is it I am meant to do now?” The script was changed, as George said when John Lennon was killed: “That’s not how the script goes. It was like someone tore out that page and stuck a new one in.” My movie changed too.

After George died, I was certain the usual tower of mail on the kitchen chair would dwindle, the house would be tidy and the sofas would seat people rather than guitars. None of that happened. In fact, it was quite the opposite.

Maybe it was the momentum of his hectic life, in addition to my need to keep busy, but my own life began to pick up speed. Thankfully George and I didn’t spend much time looking back. I mean, we weren’t making scrapbooks. We were steaming ahead. Thirty years of stuffing letters, tapes and film in drawers turned the house into one enormous discombobulated archive. Having an over-developed sense of duty, and the recent deep awareness of my own mortality, I began to organize the remnants and treasures of the life George lived. It seemed so unfair to leave this task to my son and it was important to me that things be in order. It was also an obvious way of staying close to life as I knew it, not being ready to ‘move on’ — as they say, a term I have come to detest.

Half way through the treasure hunt it became even more obvious how rich a life George led. From the bin bag of reel-to-reel tapes I listened to George working out his first song, “Don’t Bother Me” and Ravi Shankar giving George his first sitar lesson in 1966.

There were traces of him everywhere; chord sequences and tablatures written out, notes and silly drawings but also deeper reminders, one written on a scrap from the Bel-Air Hotel, “When you strip it all away, there is only God.”

Olivia Harrison article

Olivia in some George videos

-This Song

-Crackerbox Palace

-This is Love

- The True Story of the Traveling Wilburys (Documentary)

george-harrison-marwa-blues:

On November 3. 2011, Alicia Keyes honored George Harrison at her 8th annual “Black Ball” event, at which Olivia Harrison gave a speech about the George Harrison Unicef Fund and the Month of Giving. With the help of many supporters within the music industry, the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF raised more than 1.2 million US dollars for relief for children in the Horn of Africa. Alicia’s event was called “Keep A Child Alive” 

hahairuinedyou:

I”m happy to just dance with you 

“He just lit the room” -Olivia Harrison 

thoseliverpoollads:

the awesome Olivia Harrison~