Philip Norman’s biography of the Beatles’ guitarist finds a figure of contradictions.
The paradoxes of George Harrison’s career can perplex even the most casual Beatles fans. Taken together the contradictions are as much a part of the band’s legend as John Lennon’s solipsism or Paul McCartney’s eagerness to please. Here, after all, was a global pop star who played lead guitar in the most influential group in history and yet was regarded as its invisible man. He was a paid-up antimaterialist whose first significant Beatles song, “Taxman,” was a scarifying assault on the U.K.
Norman, whose grapplings with the Fabs go back as far as “Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation” , is sensitive to these motivational tangles, and also to another of his subject’s defining characteristics. One of the most ominous subtexts of “George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle,” it turns out, is the sense of a man grown old before his time.
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