Director Martin Scorsese and his friend and one-time collaborator Olivia Harrison shared stories and reminiscences of George Harrison, days before the 21st anniversary of the Beatle’s passing.
, days before the 21st anniversary of the Beatle’s passing, celebrating Genesis Publications’ release of her autobiographical writings on her late husband, “Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George.”
Discussing her initial reluctance to work on a film of her late husband’s life, Harrison called the handing over of George’s private letters and tchotchkes to the director a form of catharsis, “a letting-go process,” that made sense in relation to the Beatle’s transference into another spiritual realm.
Along with poems that touch on Friar Park, the Harrisons’ home in Henley-on-Thames, where the cover of the solo Beatle’s 1970 classic, “All Things Must Pass” was photographed, Olivia mentioned how George gardened feverishly at the end of his life, thirsty to see new life blossomed before his time on earth ended. “I’m from downtown New York, so I’m allergic to everything green, but I know that’s how it’s supposed to be,” quipped Scorsese, about creating life that will go on beyond us.
There was shock and sadness in Olivia Harrison’s recounting of the attempt on their lives in their home in 1999 how she thwarted the attacker, and how her husband knew that that moment was not his time to die – with George being deeply pained that John Lennon wasn’t allowed to choose his own death.
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