From: Mark P, youamwho@yahoo.com Subject: Harrisongs stuff/NC Date: 2/5/2002 4:11:07 PM To: purple pagoda, purplepagoda@hotmail.com echounit@hotmail.com --- purple pagoda wrote: > Which brings up a good question...who now controls the Harrisongs > catalog as > well as his post-fabs tunes. > > Bill Bingo ... just found this ... I remember reading this after George's death, it don't really answer the question wholly but ... it's a pretty cool ...m http://www.ericfrancis.com/articles/bergstein/george.html Here's the first couple paragraphs... >>THERE IT IS, New York Times, front page, above-the-fold. George is dead. Even an editorial about George from the Times' stuffy editors. A second Beatle death is awful to fans who see another piece of the puzzle disappearing each year. Two Beach Boys are dead. Jerry Garcia is dead. Read the New York Times obituaries on a regular basis and some lesser known performer is dead. Those who survive are nearly eligible for social security, as if they need it. George was one of the truly interesting stars of his era. While among the granddaddies of psychedelic music, unlike other hippies who mastered only that domain, George's best stuff came later. His image as "the quiet Beatle" meshed with his refusal to sell out. When George grew tired of recording in 1982, he didn't bite the bullet and pump out the same old crap like the Rolling Stones and other has-beenauts. George instead issued a half-assed album, Gone Troppo (the local music mag when I was growing up called it "Gone Floppo"), declined to promote it in any way and pursued extracurricular interests -- movie-producing, auto racing and, to offset the excitement, gardening while vowing never to reunite the Beatles. The early 1980's were not an exiting time for rock music, and, in pulling the plug for a few years, George probably saved himself a lot of embarrassment. Sort of like Lennon's "retirement" in the late 1970's. George once said the Beatles would not reunite so long as "John Lennon remains dead." I always marveled about this comment. Anyone else would say, "out of respect for John Lennon, the Beatles find it inappropriate to regroup." As the thought of reforming the Beatles without Lennon is utterly preposterous, George's comment hit the bulls-eye.<< ...hit that link ... great article! ===== Sleep Well ~ Don't Burst http://www.mitchworldusa.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com