tribute to 'Quiet Beatle' who sang to Doon's beauty in 1960s
February 25 is the birth anniversary of George Harrison, the popular British songwriter and musician known best as a member of the famous Beatles group.
It is now very well known that Harrison wrote a song especially for Dehradun during his stay at the ashram of Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh in the late 1960s. For the Beatles, their stay in India was their most creative period. When they were in Rishikesh for several weeks in February, March and April of 1968 (they stayed at Mahesh Yogi’s spiritual centre in Rishikesh), they wrote many songs, most of which were included in their “White Album”, one of their best known.
Born on February 25, 1943, in Liverpool, England, Harrison formed a band with schoolmates to play in clubs around Liverpool.
Source: The Pioneer/dailypioneer.com
