george harrison
The Solo Years
CD/DVD review by Ritchie Champagne
With screen captures from the DVD
Everyone knows that The Beatles revolutionized rock music and pop culture in general during their heyday in the 1960s. Their impact is still felt today, most recently evidenced by the fact that one of the hottest illegal downloads in recent months was Danger Mouse's The Gray Album, which paired the acapella rhymes of Jay Z with unauthorized samples from The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album).

It is widely acknowledged that The Beatles owe their success to many factors, not the least of which was the chemistry between the four members. Would the band have been as huge as they were without Ringo? Most likely not, taking into account that he was the most popular member during the early days of Beatlemania. While the lion's share of the credit is usually given to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the contributions of
George Harrison are more often than not overlooked, to the extent that when Frank Sinatra covered the Harrison-penned classic Something, he erroneously introduced it as his favorite Lennon/McCartney composition.

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