George Harrison Quotes
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
The Beatles Anthology. Chronicle Books, 2000, p. 183.
For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
The American Army had just liberated Bellau Wood, but had lost almost 8,000 men.
They became Company C of the 125th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, and were known as the Huntington Bible Company. See {618057}.
He asked for a lawyer, and was laughed at. He was jailed for 30 days and he never forgot it, even when he became the most highly paid writer in American history.
Beaumarchais had provided the Americans with credit in the amount of ½ million French Livres. However, Beaumarchais served the French King Louis XVI as a spy and advisor on foreign affairs. The money had been secretly provided by the French government to help the American cause while still being able to officially deny to England that they were in any way involved in the rebellion. The American agent, Silas Dean, who arranged for the loan saw through the ruse. See {624186} and {624184}.
George Harrison MBE was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group include "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something".
