Tom Dunne: My sweet George - the surprisingly overlooked Beatle
George Harrison aboard the liner QE2 IN 1971.
You didn’t notice, did you? Amidst The Beatles “lost track”, the red and blue reissues, their first number one since the moon landings, Britney’s tell-all memoir, and Pete Doherty making clear to Louis Theroux that “just say no” was the best advice he never took, you didn’t notice the new biography.
You didn’t notice that the one Beatle who spent the 1960s saying, “no-one listens to me”, and the ’80s saying “I was a Beatle too, ya know” has had the Phillip Norman treatment. It slipped out almost unnoticed. What does George need to do to get attention?
