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...George Harrison's death further eroded a group that entranced the world, not just with its musical genius but with its sense of camaraderie and fun, as TIME noted in a 1967 cover on THE BEATLES...
...Each week we pick a few stories from the magazine and give you the essential websites to round out each one. This week see where to find the sheet music to George Harrison's and the Beatles' biggest hits and which karaoke websites allow you to sing Something...
...cellophane innocent, and the official announcement of their breakup, a squabble as painful for the world at large as it was for them. Ten years after that John Lennon was gone. And now, although it may take a while for it to sink in, when George Harrison died last week, we said goodbye to the Beatles for good. A Beatles reunion with just Paul and Ringo would be not much more than a memorial service...
...Harrison, of course, had offered his own guidance on how to think about these things. All Things Must Pass was a song he wrote after the breakup of the Beatles. John had his bitter wit. Ringo Starr had his affability. Paul McCartney had his winking charm. What Harrison possessed was something more unexpected in a rock star: the air of a man in search of mature understandings. He may have been the youngest Beatle, but from early on he struggled toward the melancholy wisdom of later life. There was gravity even in his love songs. The stately tempos in Something...
...Beatles have been like a great clock. Year after year we have looked at them--at the aging of those faces, at the mellowing of their lives--to see what time it is for all of us. When one of them dies, the hour seems very late. Even so, Harrison's death is not a shot to the heart, as Lennon's was. It was Lennon's murder that truly snuffed out the baby-boomer fantasy of eternal youth. If the presiding imp of the golden 1960s could be snatched away so suddenly, what hope was there for the rest...