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...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...
...same, it is much too soon for George Harrison to be gone. All things must pass, he said. O.K., we say back. O.K., we know. We have lived through Sept. 11. We have seen things pass. We listen to his song differently now, cherishing it as a warning against old complacencies and a promise that the darkness of this moment too shall pass. But about some things, we still feel the same way. One of them is this: Long live the Beatles...
...Beatle only in that he was standing alongside two louder-than-life characters and in front of a guy playing drums. He held many strong opinions - on Beatlemania, on global want, on his right to privacy, on his God - and gave firm voice to most of them. But George Harrison was certainly the most reluctant Beatle, wanting out almost as soon as he was in. He often said that his luckiest break was joining the band and his second luckiest was leaving it. And he said once, "Being a Beatle was a nightmare, a horror story. I don't even...
...Harrison died at a friend's home in Los Angeles last week at age 58, losing his last battle with cancer. In 1997 he had a cancerous lump removed from his neck; earlier this year he was operated on for a cancer found on his lung and subsequently received treatment for a tumor on his brain, including a controversial form of radiation therapy at the Staten Island University Hospital in New York City. "George is very different from many people in that he didn't have fear of death," said Gil Lederman, one of his doctors there. "He felt that...
...Harrison's wife Olivia and son Dhani, 23, were at his bedside when he died, and as word spread about his death, Harrison was mourned and eulogized by the crowds who gathered outside the Abbey Road studios in London and in Strawberry Fields, the area of Manhattan's Central Park across from where Lennon was shot, and by his former bandmates. "He was a beautiful man. He was like my baby brother to me," said Sir Paul, who lost his wife Linda to breast cancer in 1998. Starr, long Harrison's best friend in the band, said, "We will miss...