Topeka-bound Louise Harrison talks about her 'kid brother's band,' the Beatles
Although she has never been to the capital of Kansas, Louise Harrison said she expects to feel as though she is with loved ones when she appears with the Liverpool Legends, a Beatles tribute band, Sept. 24 at the Topeka Performing Arts Center.
“I always thought that all of the Beatles fans of the world were my extended family,” the 85-year-old sister of the late George Harrison said recently by telephone from a Liverpool Legends tour stop in Chicago. “I very much feel that way when I’m among their thousands of fans.”
Harrison will be with the Liverpool Legends, a tribute act whose members she handpicked and calls “the very best reproduction of a Beatles band that I’ve ever seen,” at the 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 concert in TPAC, 214 S.E. 8th, to share some of her stories about her kid brother, whom she held in her arms hours after his birth at home in Liverpool, England.
“We were all born at home. It was the same midwife that birthed us all,” said Louise Harrison, the eldest sibling and only sister of George Harrison, who had two other brothers. Louise was 11 when George, the youngest of her brothers, was born.
“I helped him learn how to talk, learn how to walk and all of those kinds of things,” she said. “It was very much of a big sister, almost a mum kind of thing.”
Although she had already married and left home when George Harrison first picked up the guitar and began his path toward a musical career, Louise Harrison didn’t stop looking out for her kid brother’s best interests, even though she was an ocean away.
By: Bill Blankenship
Source: Topeka Capital-Journal
