George Harrison: Living In the Material World

On Saturday I went to the Balmoral Cinema to see the documentary George Harrison Living In the Material World. in this documentary it talks about George Harrison's upbringing in Liverpool, joining the Quarrymen who would become the Beatles, Beatlemania success, his travels to india, the Indian culture influence in his music, his relevance and importance as an member of the Beatles, as well as his solo career after the Beatles, his friendship with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, launching Hand Made Records in the 80's, the attempt on his life in 1999 when he was stabbed and hsi sad death on November 29th 2001 and others. it's an BRILLIANT, IMPRESSIVE and an AWESOME documentary with archival interviews with George Harrison as well as interviews with people like his Brothers Peter and Harry, surviving Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Astrid Kirchherr an photographer who knew them in Hamburg,germany in the early 60's,Klaus Voorman, Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd(george's First wife), Yoko ono, Phil Spector, tom petty, Olivia Harrison(george's 2nd wife), Dhani harrison(george's son) and many others. Olivia harrison was also one of the producers of the documentary with Nigel Sinclair and Martin Scorsese who also directs it and also Olivia chose to have Scorsese after seeing the Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home in 2005. it has also great footage and photos some never before seen and it's deeply personal with all the great stories about they shared with george harrison. It will be 10 years next month since George's passing but at least his music lives on and this documentary it's an must for any Beatles fan out there which it is well worth seeing. i give this 5 stars and it's currently running in the cinemas now

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