♥️ #MidweekRockBallad
All the gentleness of #GeorgeHarrison, 1970

https://youtu.be/fFDyXBU2fq8

🎼27 November 1970. George Harrison releases his masterpiece, his third studio album (the first after the #Beatles break-up) entitled All Things Must Pass: it's a huge work (a triple album in fact) where #GeorgeHarrison releases all his spirituality, his tremendous songwriting and his trademark slide guitar sound 🎸
Major artists appear as musicians and/or co-writers in All Things Must Pass, to name a few: #BobDylan, #BillyPreston, #GaryWright, #RingoStarr, #DaveMason, #PeterFrampton, the entire band of #Badfinger and Harrison's longtime friend #EricClapton 🤟

Here's the most famous and best selling song from the album, I'm sure everyone heard it at some point: "My Sweet Lord". It's also the most controversial song for 2 reasons:
1- Harrison was engaged in an endless lawsuit for copyright infringement by American songwriter Ronnie Mack who in 1963 had a n.1 hit called "He's So Fine". Harrison always claimed he never realized that and even offered huge compensation on "My Sweet Lord" sales.
2- Most people think the song is a prayer to God, it is a sarcastic invitation to abandon religious sectarianism instead! Harrison had embraced Hindu belief years earlier when tavelling to India, and in the song we can hear the typical "Hare Krishna" chant.
#27November

https://youtu.be/ujfJpKV2McQ

"All things must pass
None of life's strings can last
So I must be on my way
And face another day"

📝 #GeorgeHarrison (gone on his way 20 years ago, #29November 2001)
📸 #Giudecca island, Venice

🎼30 December 1947. Happy Birthday 🥳🍾 to Jeff Lynne, born Jeffrey in Birmingham, England.
Singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, producer, #JeffLynne Rock career spans across 55 years, as founder and member of #TheMove in the 60s, #ElectricLightOrchestra in the 70s, supergroup #TravelingWilburys in the 80s along with his longtime collaborators and friends #RoyOrbison, #GeorgeHarrison, #BobDylan, #TomPetty and as a solo artist since 1990.
In the Chat Room👇 few iconic songs by Lynne, among them a stunning version of #ChuckBerry standard "Roll Over Beethoven" by #ELO
🤟❤️‍🔥
#30December

🎼🌷17 March 1944. Happy Birthday to Pattie Boyd from Taunton, England.
Sometimes you don't have to be a musician to have a space in Rock #MusicHistory!
If it wasn't for her George Harrison wouldn't write "Something" and "I Need You" (#Beatles), "I Live for You": if it was't for her Eric Clapton wouldn't write "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues", "Wonderful Tonight"...
#PattieBoyd was married to #GeorgeHarrison from 1966 to 1977 and to #EricClapton from 1979 to 1989.
Clapton and Harrison were big friends... Clapton falled in love with Pattie and wrote songs for her when she was married to Harrison... and both knew it!
#17March #LoveTriangle #RockMoments

"If there was no Carl Perkins there would be no Beatles."
- #PaulMcCartney

In early 1960s the #Beatles started as a sort of #CarlPerkins cover band, often playing his hits "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox", "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby", "Honey Don't".
#GeorgeHarrison sometimes even adopted the stage name Carl Harrison in honor of their biggest influence 🤟

📌22 March 1963

The Beatles
📀 Please Please Me
#RocknRoll #Pop #MerseyBeat

60 years ago The Beatles from Liverpool, #UK released their debut studio album.

Please Please Me contained covers of Pop and R'n'R standards, plus their first 1962 single "Love Me Do" (where Ringo Starr was replaced by #AndyWhite on drums) and some more tracks penned by Lennon - McCartney, who started here their partnership to become the most successful songwriting duo in music history!
In this album all 4 Beatles members alternate on lead vocals. Producer #GeorgeMartin also appears as musician playing piano and celesta in 2 tracks.

Quite a date in Rock'n'Roll history!

#Beatles:
#JohnLennon
#PaulMcCartney
#GeorgeHarrison
#RingoStarr
#22March

🎧Listen to Please Please Me 👉 here

📌10 July 1964

The Beatles
📀 A Hard Day's Night
#Rock #PopRock #Pop

60 years ago The Beatles from Liverpool, #UK released their 3rd studio album.

A Hard Day's Night is the first #Beatles album to contain only songs written by the duo Lennon-McCartney and the first where George Harrison plays a 12-string guitar, thus popularizing instrument and sound.

Side A of the album is the #soundtrack of the film of the same name focused on the Beatlemania, starring the Fab Four themselves: it came out along with the album and both had an unprecedented commercial success!

A Hard Day's Night (film) is still considered one of the best music movies of all time and it basically influenced everything visual that came after (Musicals, TV Shows, Videoclips...).

In this album:
#JohnLennon – vocals, guitars, harmonica, piano
#PaulMcCartney – vocals, bass, piano, cowbell
#GeorgeHarrison – vocals, guitars
#RingoStarr – drums

Additional musician
#GeorgeMartin – piano, production
#10July

🎧Listen to A Hard Day's Night 👉 here

🎥 One of the most iconic scenes in #Beatles history is the very first when they're attempting to escape the crowd and #GeorgeHarrison and #RingoStarr truly fall down and #JohnLennon laughs... they decided to keep the scene as it was!

Among the many, #PattieBoyd, #CharlotteRampling and a young #PhilCollins briefly appear in the film.

The Trailer here👇

https://youtu.be/Pbg8T9r1DiQ?si=KZVFjCctISL34e4S