George Harrison Archive (@harrisonarchive.bsky.social)

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:26 PMReposted by @harrisonarchive.bsky.social

“On [British] television about a year ago I did this thing singing ‘The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea.’ It’s for this guy Jools Holland; he’s done a couple of these TV shows.” - George Harrison, Goldmine (1992)

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@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:26 PM

“On [British] television about a year ago I did this thing singing ‘The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea.’ It’s for this guy Jools Holland; he’s done a couple of these TV shows.” - George Harrison, Goldmine (1992)

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@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:10 PMReposted by @harrisonarchive.bsky.social

“George is so straight and so ordinary and so real, and he happens to believe in God. That’s what’s wrong with George to most people’s minds.” - Paul McCartney, People Magazine (1976) 📷: backstage in Southport on Oct. 15, 1963, photo by Paul McCartney

Backstage in Southport, on October 15, 1963, Paul borrowed photographer Jim Owen’s camera to take this snapshot of George. Image were scanned from the book Peter Kaye’s The Beatles In Liverpool.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:10 PM

“George is so straight and so ordinary and so real, and he happens to believe in God. That’s what’s wrong with George to most people’s minds.” - Paul McCartney, People Magazine (1976) 📷: backstage in Southport on Oct. 15, 1963, photo by Paul McCartney

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:09 PMReposted by @harrisonarchive.bsky.social

“[John Lennon] was great, he was brilliant, and he was a great soul. Still is.” - George Harrison, Guitar World (April 1988)

Remembering John on his birthday, at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8300128....

#JohnLennon #GeorgeHarrison #TheBeatles

Photo by Enrico Caruso for McCall’s magazine.

Color photo of George Harrison and John Lennon looking toward the camera during the filming of Help!, Bahamas, 1965; photo by Enrico Caruso for McCall’s magazine.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:09 PM

“[John Lennon] was great, he was brilliant, and he was a great soul. Still is.” - George Harrison, Guitar World (April 1988)

Remembering John on his birthday, at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8300128....

#JohnLennon #GeorgeHarrison #TheBeatles

Photo by Enrico Caruso for McCall’s magazine.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:16 PM

“[George] was a genuinely lovely man — sincere, witty, down-to-earth, and quite talkative for being ‘the quiet Beatle.’ He looked right into your eyes when he spoke (or listened) and gave you his full concentration.” - Dan Forte, Cosmik Debris (2001)

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George Harrison, 1987. Photo by John Livzey.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 4:11 PM

“They say I’m shy, sometimes, in the papers, but it’s not true in the least. It just depends on when I don’t want to talk to somebody.” - George Harrison, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 30, 1965)

Photo from Oct. 7, 1965 by Leslie Bryce

George Harrison, photographed by Leslie Bryce at Kinfauns on October 7, 1965; image scanned from The Beatles Monthly.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 4:08 PMReposted by @harrisonarchive.bsky.social

“George was a perfectionist and always meticulous with his music. Even while writing a song, he would spend days tinkering. That was how it was in the studio too.” - Klaus Voormann, translated from onetz (2011)

Pic by Astrid Kirchherr

George Harrison and Jackie Lomax in the studio; photo by Astrid Kirchherr.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 4:08 PM

“George was a perfectionist and always meticulous with his music. Even while writing a song, he would spend days tinkering. That was how it was in the studio too.” - Klaus Voormann, translated from onetz (2011)

Pic by Astrid Kirchherr

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:08 PM

“[George] was my mate before either of us joined The Beatles and was like a brother to me.” - Paul McCartney, official message board (December 2001) 📷: Paul McCartney and Beatles Monthly photographer Leslie Bryce, photographed by George Harrison; image scanned from The Beatles Monthly, Sept. 1964

Paul McCartney and Beatles Monthly photographer Leslie Bryce photographed by George Harrison; image scanned from The Beatles Monthly, September 1964.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 4:15 PM

“I marveled at [George’s] ability to separate himself from the mythology of the Beatles and stay grounded with what mattered. He showed me how Hindu philosophy could guide someone living in the West.” - fan Veena Siddharth (2001)

George Harrison with Billy Preston, Lakshmi Shankar and Ravi Shankar during the Dark Horse Tour, 1974.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:23 PM

“The quality of the records sound better and better as the quality improved as we were making them. Like Rubber Soul sounded better than Help!…” - George Harrison, Rockline (1988)

Photo by Robert Freeman

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 4:07 PMReposted by @harrisonarchive.bsky.social

Remembering Tom Petty on the ninth anniversary of his passing. “George came along, and we just got so close; it was like we had known each other in some other life or something.” - Tom Petty, Petty: The Biography (2015) Photo by Neal Preston

George Harrison (Spike Wilbury) and Tom Petty (Muddy Wilbury) sharing a laugh in 1990. Photo by Neal Preston.

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 4:07 PM

Remembering Tom Petty on the ninth anniversary of his passing. “George came along, and we just got so close; it was like we had known each other in some other life or something.” - Tom Petty, Petty: The Biography (2015) Photo by Neal Preston

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:12 PMReposted by @harrisonarchive.bsky.social

“We were proud being Wilburys and it was a lot of fun, but the greatest thing to me was there were some really long-lasting friendships made, and that’s a kind of gift that you just don’t get all the time.” - Tom Petty on The Traveling Wilburys, Billboard (November 28, 2005)

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:12 PM

“We were proud being Wilburys and it was a lot of fun, but the greatest thing to me was there were some really long-lasting friendships made, and that’s a kind of gift that you just don’t get all the time.” - Tom Petty on The Traveling Wilburys, Billboard (November 28, 2005)

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 4:15 PMReposted by @harrisonarchive.bsky.social

“The first verse was me just trying to make George and Jeff laugh. […] We liked things to be silly.” - Tom Petty, “The Making of ‘The Wilbury Twist,’” Traveling Wilburys YouTube channel

More at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8291979....

📷: interview with Denise Donlon for The New Music (1990)

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 4:15 PM

“The first verse was me just trying to make George and Jeff laugh. […] We liked things to be silly.” - Tom Petty, “The Making of ‘The Wilbury Twist,’” Traveling Wilburys YouTube channel

More at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8291979....

📷: interview with Denise Donlon for The New Music (1990)

@harrisonarchive.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:32 PM

“It spoke to me with such soul. That’s the prettiest slide guitar on that record, that I have heard in my life.” - Carl Perkins on George’s guitar on the song “Distance Makes No Difference With Love,” Goldmine, October 1996 (published 1998)