Cant wait to see this. Always loved George the best.
It's going to be one of the best music movies/documentaries and movies I've ever seen.
haha you certainly have high expectations for this thing
I just hope there's a bunch of George/Eric stuff in there.
Of course I do. Scorsese making a doc about a Beatle...it's a win-win for me.
Yeah, I'd definitely like to see what footage they have of those two. There is a clip on George's site, with Eric and Ringo talking about George writing "Here Comes the Sun".
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If this is a success, Scorcheese should do a Ringo doc next.
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If this is a success, Scorcheese should do a Ringo doc next.
That'd be awesome. I'd say he could do a doc on all of them.
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The title of this doc reminds me of a Madonna song
"FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
The title of this doc reminds me of a Madonna song
It's also the name of a George album.
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If this is a success, Scorcheese should do a Clapton doc next.
fixed
Him too.
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Documentary examines George Harrison
'Living in the Material World,' Martin Scorsese's film on HBO, reveals an unvarnished look at the late Beatle, getting a boost from widow Olivia Harrison's cooperation.
When Martin Scorsese and Olivia Harrison first sat down about five years ago to strategize about a documentary on the life of George Harrison, both quickly zeroed in on a letter the young Beatle wrote to his family at the height of Beatlemania.
"It was a letter George had written when he was not more than 22," Harrison said of the man to whom she was married for 23 years before his death from cancer a decade ago. "It was in 1965, and the Beatles would have been really cresting at that point. He was writing home and told his family, 'I know that this isn't it. I knew I was going to be famous, but now I know I can reach the real top of what man can achieve, which is self-realization.' He knew then that [material reward] wasn't it."
That letter figures into a pivotal moment in Scorsese's film, "George Harrison: Living in the Material World," which premieres on HBO over two nights Wednesday and Thursday to accommodate its 31/2-hour length.
In the scene, George says how lucky the Beatles were to acquire so many of the material goods early on that most people spend their entire lives yearning for, because they learned relatively young how hollow such things ultimately ring.
Olivia Harrison gave Scorsese and his team virtual carte blanche access to home movies, family photos, audio recordings and other items from her husband's estate for use in the film, which paints a richly detailed and unvarnished picture of the man initially pigeonholed as "the quiet Beatle."
A more accurate sobriquet might have been "the spiritual Beatle" to reflect the inward quest that seemed to capture Harrison early in a life about which he once famously said that his biggest break had been getting into the Beatles; his second biggest, getting out.
In talking about the film, Olivia Harrison makes no bones about how emotional it's been for her to see the many aspects of her husband's life translated to the screen.
"I thought I had this clear vision of what this story would look like on screen, but it's nothing like how I imagined it would be," she said, "even though it's accurate and honest and truthful."
Even about uncomfortable topics such as Harrison's 1974 solo tour that was savaged by many critics as well as its references to affairs he had after he married the former Olivia Arias, whom he met in 1974 when she was working in the L.A. offices of his Dark Horse Records label.
"Nobody asked me to bring up that subject," she said, "it just came up. It was really about being with someone who's in that position. I'm certainly not the only one who's been with somebody who's charismatic. It's a big diversion."
It's also just a tiny part of the overall story, which begins with Harrison as a fairly happy child, born into a large Liverpool family amid World War II. It follows his ride to the pinnacle of pop culture as a member of the most popular and creatively influential band in the world, his exit when the group disbanded in 1970 and on through his subsequent musical, cinematic, spiritual and philanthropic endeavors, which Scorsese covers, rough edges and all.
"Left to me, [the documentary] would have had no edges," Olivia Harrison said. "I really had to let go of that. Marty crafted it that way, and Dhani [her son with George] was also very helpful. He told me, 'You have to have the good and the bad, the black and the white; you can't just have it all nice.' ...It took a lot of getting used to. I had to see it several times before I could look at it and not wince. It is brutally honest."
It's also exceedingly admiring of a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who for much of his career lived in the estimable shadows of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
In one of the most charming moments of the film, Harrison, the youngest Beatle, talks about writing his first song, "Don't Bother Me," from the group's 1963 album "With the Beatles." He summed it up as "an exercise. It's not a particularly great song." He simply felt at the time that "If John and Paul could write, then anyone can.... [It] showed me I just had to keep on writing and someday I'll write something good."
Scorsese also addresses Harrison's strong attraction to the classical music of India, which he explored extensively through his friendship with sitar master Ravi Shankar; the original rock music all-star benefit Concert for Bangla Desh that grew out of that relationship; his exploits in filmmaking through the Handmade Films company; and his latter-day role in the Traveling Wilburys supergroup. Harrison died on Nov. 29, 2001, at age 58.
Harrison's legacy will be explored further in an exhibition opening Oct. 11 at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, one that shares the title with Scorsese's film and Olivia Harrison's companion book.
Museum executive director Robert Santelli said the exhibition will underscore Harrison's sometimes underappreciated status as one of rock's greatest guitarists and his deeply felt spirituality.
"I see him as one of rock's first renaissance men," he said. "He was authentically interested in spiritualism and Eastern philosophy; he was experimenting with electronic sounds in the '60s. He did the 'Electronic Sound' album, which was the first Beatles solo album, but we forget that. We know him for 'All Things Must Pass' but don't know he was a great photographer. We know him for his interest in films for his work with Monty Python and his Handmade Films, but he also was a great gardener who was deeply interested in the natural world."
Olivia Harrison has loaned guitars, clothing Harrison wore onstage while touring with the Beatles and solo, original lyric sheets, letters, photos and other items for the display, billed as the first major exhibition focusing on Harrison as a Beatle and his life away from the group.
"It just so happened that everything was completed this year, which happens to be the 10th year since George died," she said from the estate in Oxfordshire, England, that George bought in 1969, where she was busy packing up items to be sent to the Grammy Museum.
"I'm a little nervous about it," Olivia said. "Sitting by the front door right now is a huge road box full of guitars that are going out tomorrow. Letting these things out — it's a big deal.
"Then again," she quickly added, a note of good-humored resignation creeping in over the worry, "George would say, 'It's only stuff.'"
Nice article, but you'd think the executive director of a music museum would know that George's "Wonderwall Music" predated "Electronic Sound" and, therefore, should be considered the first solo Beatle album. Of course, and argument could also be made for Paul's soundtrack album to the film "The Family Way," which was released in 1967, a year before "Wonderwall Music" and two years before "Electronic Sound."
Documentary examines George Harrison
'Living in the Material World,' Martin Scorsese's film on HBO, reveals an unvarnished look at the late Beatle, getting a boost from widow Olivia Harrison's cooperation.
When Martin Scorsese and Olivia Harrison first sat down about five years ago to strategize about a documentary on the life of George Harrison, both quickly zeroed in on a letter the young Beatle wrote to his family at the height of Beatlemania.
"It was a letter George had written when he was not more than 22," Harrison said of the man to whom she was married for 23 years before his death from cancer a decade ago. "It was in 1965, and the Beatles would have been really cresting at that point. He was writing home and told his family, 'I know that this isn't it. I knew I was going to be famous, but now I know I can reach the real top of what man can achieve, which is self-realization.' He knew then that [material reward] wasn't it."
That letter figures into a pivotal moment in Scorsese's film, "George Harrison: Living in the Material World," which premieres on HBO over two nights Wednesday and Thursday to accommodate its 31/2-hour length.
In the scene, George says how lucky the Beatles were to acquire so many of the material goods early on that most people spend their entire lives yearning for, because they learned relatively young how hollow such things ultimately ring.
Olivia Harrison gave Scorsese and his team virtual carte blanche access to home movies, family photos, audio recordings and other items from her husband's estate for use in the film, which paints a richly detailed and unvarnished picture of the man initially pigeonholed as "the quiet Beatle."
A more accurate sobriquet might have been "the spiritual Beatle" to reflect the inward quest that seemed to capture Harrison early in a life about which he once famously said that his biggest break had been getting into the Beatles; his second biggest, getting out.
In talking about the film, Olivia Harrison makes no bones about how emotional it's been for her to see the many aspects of her husband's life translated to the screen.
"I thought I had this clear vision of what this story would look like on screen, but it's nothing like how I imagined it would be," she said, "even though it's accurate and honest and truthful."
Even about uncomfortable topics such as Harrison's 1974 solo tour that was savaged by many critics as well as its references to affairs he had after he married the former Olivia Arias, whom he met in 1974 when she was working in the L.A. offices of his Dark Horse Records label.
"Nobody asked me to bring up that subject," she said, "it just came up. It was really about being with someone who's in that position. I'm certainly not the only one who's been with somebody who's charismatic. It's a big diversion."
It's also just a tiny part of the overall story, which begins with Harrison as a fairly happy child, born into a large Liverpool family amid World War II. It follows his ride to the pinnacle of pop culture as a member of the most popular and creatively influential band in the world, his exit when the group disbanded in 1970 and on through his subsequent musical, cinematic, spiritual and philanthropic endeavors, which Scorsese covers, rough edges and all.
"Left to me, [the documentary] would have had no edges," Olivia Harrison said. "I really had to let go of that. Marty crafted it that way, and Dhani [her son with George] was also very helpful. He told me, 'You have to have the good and the bad, the black and the white; you can't just have it all nice.' ...It took a lot of getting used to. I had to see it several times before I could look at it and not wince. It is brutally honest."
It's also exceedingly admiring of a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who for much of his career lived in the estimable shadows of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
In one of the most charming moments of the film, Harrison, the youngest Beatle, talks about writing his first song, "Don't Bother Me," from the group's 1963 album "With the Beatles." He summed it up as "an exercise. It's not a particularly great song." He simply felt at the time that "If John and Paul could write, then anyone can.... [It] showed me I just had to keep on writing and someday I'll write something good."
Scorsese also addresses Harrison's strong attraction to the classical music of India, which he explored extensively through his friendship with sitar master Ravi Shankar; the original rock music all-star benefit Concert for Bangla Desh that grew out of that relationship; his exploits in filmmaking through the Handmade Films company; and his latter-day role in the Traveling Wilburys supergroup. Harrison died on Nov. 29, 2001, at age 58.
Harrison's legacy will be explored further in an exhibition opening Oct. 11 at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, one that shares the title with Scorsese's film and Olivia Harrison's companion book.
Museum executive director Robert Santelli said the exhibition will underscore Harrison's sometimes underappreciated status as one of rock's greatest guitarists and his deeply felt spirituality.
"I see him as one of rock's first renaissance men," he said. "He was authentically interested in spiritualism and Eastern philosophy; he was experimenting with electronic sounds in the '60s. He did the 'Electronic Sound' album, which was the first Beatles solo album, but we forget that. We know him for 'All Things Must Pass' but don't know he was a great photographer. We know him for his interest in films for his work with Monty Python and his Handmade Films, but he also was a great gardener who was deeply interested in the natural world."
Olivia Harrison has loaned guitars, clothing Harrison wore onstage while touring with the Beatles and solo, original lyric sheets, letters, photos and other items for the display, billed as the first major exhibition focusing on Harrison as a Beatle and his life away from the group.
"It just so happened that everything was completed this year, which happens to be the 10th year since George died," she said from the estate in Oxfordshire, England, that George bought in 1969, where she was busy packing up items to be sent to the Grammy Museum.
"I'm a little nervous about it," Olivia said. "Sitting by the front door right now is a huge road box full of guitars that are going out tomorrow. Letting these things out — it's a big deal.
"Then again," she quickly added, a note of good-humored resignation creeping in over the worry, "George would say, 'It's only stuff.'"
Nice article, but you'd think the executive director of a music museum would know that George's "Wonderwall Music" predated "Electronic Sound" and, therefore, should be considered the first solo Beatle album. Of course, and argument could also be made for Paul's soundtrack album to the film "The Family Way," which was released in 1967, a year before "Wonderwall Music" and two years before "Electronic Sound."
Seriously...such a fail by this writer. Technically, Paul's is the first Beatles solo album.
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I am DVR'ing both of them and watching them back to back over the weekend. I have very high hopes for this.
I still don't know if I want to watch it tonight or wait for the weekend and watch it with my dad. I might do the second option, so I don't have to wait for tomorrow to watch the second part.
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Part I was great. Kinda bummed they ended it when they did. Just getting into George writing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and how he asked Eric Clapton to play in the studio cause he felt John and Paul were phoning it in. Makes me impatient to see Part II tomorrow. So far a very intriguing doc. Learned a lot about George by watching this.
Part I was great. Kinda bummed they ended it when they did. Just getting into George writing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and how he asked Eric Clapton to play in the studio cause he felt John and Paul were phoning it in. Makes me impatient to see Part II tomorrow. So far a very intriguing doc. Learned a lot about George by watching this.
Nice. I didn't watch it. Waiting for the weekend to watch it with my dad...and one of the reasons was so I wouldn't have to wait a day to watch Part 2.
Can't wait!!
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Finally getting home and watching the rerun of part 1 with a Newcastle. "He just had so much fun playing in the Beatles." Love the old footage and shit.
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I was a little disappointed - but overall it was good. I was surprised to see quite a bit of focus on John and Paul early on, including clips of them singing some of their songs. Also heard Paul, George and Ringo telling the same stories as they did in Beatles Anthology. I guess you can't really avoid that and some of it is going to be stuff we've already seen or heard before. But there was enough new footage to keep me interested. I hope part 2 is even better.
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I was a little disappointed - but overall it was good. I was surprised to see quite a bit of focus on John and Paul early on, including clips of them singing some of their songs. Also heard Paul, George and Ringo telling the same stories as they did in Beatles Anthology. I guess you can't really avoid that and some of it is going to be stuff we've already seen or heard before. But there was enough new footage to keep me interested. I hope part 2 is even better.
You should find part 2 more satisfying. I'm assuming that part 2 will deal more with his solo years, so it should be all new stuff, with much less overlap from the Beatles Anthology project.
You should find part 2 more satisfying. I'm assuming that part 2 will deal more with his solo years, so it should be all new stuff, with much less overlap from the Beatles Anthology project.
You're probably right. : )
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Somebody should hook me up with the Tom Petty interviews....
Watch the movie.
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Somebody should hook me up with the Tom Petty interviews....
Watch the movie.
Damn, I knew you were going to say that....
It's a great movie. Who knows, maybe you'll become a George fan.
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I'll probably watch Part 1 tonight...overall what did everyone think?
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I'll probably watch Part 1 tonight...overall what did everyone think?
I loved it and thought Scorsese did a great job on it.
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I can't believe it's already been 10 years since he passed away.
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Yeah, I'd definitely like to see what footage they have of those two. There is a clip on George's site, with Eric and Ringo talking about George writing "Here Comes the Sun".
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If this is a success, Scorcheese should do a Ringo doc next.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Nice article, but you'd think the executive director of a music museum would know that George's "Wonderwall Music" predated "Electronic Sound" and, therefore, should be considered the first solo Beatle album. Of course, and argument could also be made for Paul's soundtrack album to the film "The Family Way," which was released in 1967, a year before "Wonderwall Music" and two years before "Electronic Sound."
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
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Great Neal Young album
I am DVR'ing both of them and watching them back to back over the weekend. I have very high hopes for this.
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Can't wait!!
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You should find part 2 more satisfying. I'm assuming that part 2 will deal more with his solo years, so it should be all new stuff, with much less overlap from the Beatles Anthology project.
You're probably right. : )
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Damn, I knew you were going to say that....
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful