George Harrison in the grounds of Friar Park (1970) [click to enlarge]Photo from: Living in the Mate

George Harrison in the grounds of Friar Park (1970) [click to enlarge]Photo from: Living in the Material World “With George Harrison, there was a certain awe I had to get past, but I came to understand the specialness of what he brought to the Beatles and to popular music in his solo work. George’s guitar style and sounds are incredibly unique, but it’s important to realize that George was not that much of a jamming soloist, as Eric Clapton was and is. So all George’s unforgettable Beatles solos were very deliberately thought out. He was a craftsman of the highest order and he remains that kind of player in his solo music. The fluid approach he got from India was in songs on ‘George Harrison’, like 'Dark Sweet Lady’, 'Love Comes To Everyone’ and 'Blow Away’, which is a phenomenal pop single. A lot of people don’t realize that 'Blow Away’ used the rebuilding of Friar Park, the broken-down nunnery that he restored as his family home, as a metaphor for how he had to rebuild his life after the Beatles broke up and his marriage to Patti Boyd ended. The song has a brilliant lyric and musical structure. George also brought both a very confidentspiritual dimension and a knowledge of world music to pop music that it had never had previously. Things like that take guts and an inner will.” - Russ Titelman, producer of George Harrison (self-titled album), Billboard (22 June 1996) -- source link

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