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10GEORGE HARRISON: THE RELUCTANT BEATLE

PHILIP NORMAN

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Norman’s remains a key Beatles text, but his obituary for George Harrison was, he confesses, “unremittingly negative”. This partial re-evaluation of the most underrated Beatle contains valuable input from Harrison’s second wife Olivia and their son Dhani, and employs an almost Pythonesque tone when George lets himself down.

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