George Harrison

Behind the Locked Door

Graeme Thomson

• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857128584
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

Behind The Locked Door is Graeme Thomson's rich, insightful account of George Harrison's extraordinary life and career.

This Omnibus Enhanced digital edition includes Spotify sections, detailing Harrison's early influences, his contributions within The Beatles and the best of his solo career. Additionally, an interactive Digital Timeline leads you through a collage of music, videos and images, displaying live performances, interviews, memorabilia and more.

As a Beatle, Harrison underwent a bewilderingly compressed early adulthood, buffeted by unprecedented levels of fame and success, from schoolboy to global superstar. "Beatlemania" offered remarkable experiences and opportunities, and yet dissatisfaction still gnawed within. His life became a quest for meaning and truth which travelled far beyond the parameters of his former band and his former self. This elegant, in-depth biography tracks these changes and conflicts, marking the struggle of walking a spiritual path lined with temptation.

Drawing on scores of interviews with close friends and collaborators, rigorous research and critical insight, Behind The Locked Door is a fascinating account of an often misunderstood man. As well as an intimate character study, it offers a full analysis of Harrison's music, from his earliest songs for the Beatles to his landmark solo album All Things Must Pass, his work with The Traveling Wilburys and the posthumous Brainwashed. Behind The Locked Door provides the definitive account of a compelling, contradictory and enlightening life.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Prologue: Be Here Now: August 1, 1971
• Chapter 1: All Those Years Ago
• Chapter 2: Plug Me In
• Hear the Music: The Early Influences
• Chapter 3: Life Itself
• Chapter 4: Beatle: Red
• Chapter 5: Circles
• Picture Section A
• Chapter 6: The Rising Sun
• Chapter 7: White Out
• Chapter 8: Beatle: Blue
• Hear the Music: The Beatles Years
• Chapter 9: How High Will You Leap?
• Picture Section B
• Chapter 10: Bread For Bangladesh
• Chapter 11: Deep Blue
• Chapter 12: Dark Horse Rides Out
• Chapter 13: Blow Away
• Chapter 14: Rough Cuts
• Picture Section C
• Chapter 15: Travelling Man
• Chapter 16: The Answer At The End
• Hear the Music: The Solo Years
• Epilogue: Everyone’s Got To Be Somewhere
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• Acknowledgements
• Source Notes
• Copyright