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...investigate Eastern religions. In the early aftermath of the Beatles demise, Harrison, the revelation, rivaled Lennon or McCartney as a pop icon, and Shankar realized his friend might be the perfect front man for a good cause. In August 1971, Harrison and friends Dylan, Starr, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton staged two concerts at New York City's Madison Square Garden to raise money for the flood-and famine-ravaged Indian subcontinent. The Concert for Bangladesh established Harrison as a pioneering rock philanthropist, and set a model for future celebrity fund-raising efforts like Live...
...While the band is there, Island Records chief Chris Blackwell makes a deal with the group to release a record. The result is the album Catch a Fire, which melds reggae spirituality with rock-'n'-roll attitude. In later years, a wide range of acts, from rock guitarist Eric Clapton to hip-hop-soul singer Lauryn Hill, draws from the Wailers' work...
George remembers Abbey Road as a place of discord, where he and Paul screamed at one another and the Beatles fell apart. But does he know how millions of others will see it for decades after he and his old cohorts—Paul and Ringo, Patti and Eric Clapton, Dylan and Petty—are gone? Perhaps George saw bitterness and regret. Does he know what I saw there...
...Beatles’ breakup might well have been pinned on George's increasing assertiveness as a songwriter and increasing inability to get along with Paul. George was the colorless Beatle, the dubious target of allegations of plagiarism, the man whose wife so cruelly inspired his lovestruck best friend Eric Clapton to write “Layla.” (And when the couple divorced and Clapton married Patti Harrison, who could not help but feel that the better man had finally...
DIED. JOHN LEE HOOKER, 83, Mississippi Delta bluesman whose impassioned, resonant voice and urgent electric-guitar riffs influenced modern rock 'n' roll and inspired such musicians as Van Morrison, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton; in Los Altos, Calif. The son of a sharecropper and one of 11 children, Hooker ran away from home at 14 to make music in Memphis, Tenn., and didn't stop until 1997--more than 100 albums later. In 1989 Hooker won his first of four Grammy Awards for a version of his 1951 million-selling single, I'm in the Mood, which he rerecorded...