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...Harrison, first and foremost, will always be thought of as a member of the Beatles. He was their lead guitarist, "the quiet Beatle," and a sometimes frustrated songwriter suffering under the shadow of the great team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Still, Harrison produced his share of classic Beatle tunes, including "Taxman," "Here Comes the Sun," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Something." Any single one of those songs would guarantee an artist immortality on VH1 and classic radio stations worldwide. "I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical," Harrison said. "?Taxman' is perhaps. Some of them were...
...Desh" was the spiritual precursor to 1985's Live Aid, the various 911 relief concerts that have been staged recently and many other charity megaconcerts that have been held over the years. Harrison helped popularize the melding of charity, global awareness and rock music. He may have been the quiet Beatle, but he was never afraid to sound off on social issues that concerned him. His take on gun control? "If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn't be a problem...
...said at the time we did split up, it doesn't really make any difference," Harrison once said. "The music is there, the films are all there. Whatever we did is still there and always will be." All things must pass, but they don't pass completely away. The quiet Beatle, in one way or another, will always make himself heard...
Denny had made an indelible mark on all his friends. He was possessed of a quiet confidence, a confidence made sensible by a very human combination of sympathy and humility—qualities so often lacking at Harvard. He was not conniving, and he had that perceptive eye which sees through pretension and falsehood. Even those who saw him infrequently knew that they could always count on Denny and always trust him as a friend. Often reserved at first sight, Denny radiated a vivacity which was the envy of darker souls. He had a side-splitting gift for humor...
...audience laughed at the prospect of being lured into writing by dimestore novels with shapely, off-color Fallen Women on the cover, but quickly became quiet at what Atwood said next. Her decision to become a writer, she recounted, “simply happened in 1956 while I was crossing the football field on the way home from school [and composed a poem in my head]. From that point on there was nothing else I wanted to do.” There was a moment of silence. Then the audience laughed, disbelieving. Just like that. There had to be more...