Lisa's Like List
Feb 19

George

 

Guest Contributor//Holly Rankin Growing up I always wondered how people could pick a favorite Beatle. Like picking a favourite child or pet, or even a favourite season, it didn’t seem right – each Beatle played an equal part in my Beatlemation, blending together like a perfectly synchronised string section or rainbow ice-cream. Though after watching Martin Scorceses George Harrison biopic ‘Living in the Material World’, I think it is safe to say that as of 2012, I now hand my alliance to George. A man of peace, truth, wonder, youth and the world, George revolutionized musical relationships between the West and East – taking the Beatles’ sound to India; created the first large-scale benefit concerts (Concert for Bangladesh) and amongst endless other things, wrote some of the...