Olivia Harrison paints a loving portrait of her husband that brings together anecdotes and testimonies from those closest to him throughout his life and marries them perfectly to images that capture his peaceful intensity. What we see in these photographs is the arc of a man's life, from the stark images of the Liverpool he grew up in through family portraits and school photos to those of a young man standing atop cities with thousands of disciples and the world at his feet. George Harrison's own photographs offer the reader a glimpse of how he saw the world himself; pictures of his band mates, fans and the wonderful vistas of India tell us what he thought was beautiful. The testimonies tell us of a man who strived for spiritual peace and we can see from the changes between the manic pictures of the Beatles heyday to the more solemn and pensive images of George meditating in India that he was not content to live a material life.
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