George Harrison: Living in the Material World Page #7

Synopsis: George Harrison first became known to the world as "The Quiet Beatle" of the Fab Four, but there was far more to his life than simply being a part of The Beatles. This film explores the life and career of this seminal musician, philanthropist, film producer and amateur race car driver who grew to make his own mark on the world. Through his music, archival footage and the memories of friends and family, Harrison's deep spirituality and humanity are explored in his singular life as he took on artistic challenges and important causes as only he could.
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Production: HBO Documentary
  Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
208 min
397 Views


me up as a Catholic.

They had told you to just believe

what they're telling you,

and, you know, not to have

the direct experience.

And this, for me, going to India

and hearing somebody saying,

you know,

"No, you can't believe anything until

you have direct perception of it".

And I thought, "Wow, you know,

fantastic! At last, you know,

"found somebody who...

makes some sense."

And so I wanted to go deeper

and deeper into that.

I think that George's experiences

of expanding his mind with acid...

led him to looking for something

that didn't need chemicals.

He knew that there was a point where

you couldn't keep on doing that.

And it wouldn't be good for you,

if you did keep on using chemicals.

So he was looking for...

He was always looking for the truth

and he was also looking

for peace of mind...

..because it was...

it was pretty crazy.

John would pick us up in this big

Rolls Royce with blacked-out windows,

and Ringo, John and I

all moved out of town to Surrey.

And then he'd pick up Ringo

and then pick me up

and then we'd head into

town and, by the time

we got to Hammersmith,

we were just loaded

and feeling ill, cos,

you know, a Rolls

Royce doesn't have

the proper springs.

They just roll around.

And the black windows,

you couldn't see anything out

and the windows would be shut

and so you'd just be getting

double doses of these reefers.

And then we'd pull up

at Abbey Road Studio

and just be, like,

fall out of the car.

We have to thank Paul that we made

as many records as we did because,

you know, John and I,

cos we lived in the same area,

would be hanging out.

It's like a beautiful day

in the garden in England

and the phone'd ring

and we'd always know it was him.

"He wants us to work!"

I mean, everywhere we went,

people were smiling and,

you know, sitting on lawns,

drinking tea.

I went to Haight-Ashbury, expecting

it to be this brilliant place,

I thought it was

going to be all these groovy

kind of gypsy kind of people, with

little shops making works of art

and paintings and carvings.

But, instead, it turned

out to be just a lot of bums.

And many of them,

they were just very young kids

who'd come from all over America

and dropped acid

and gone to this Mecca of LSD.

We'd walk down the street

and I was, like, being treated

like the Messiah or something.

I was really afraid,

because I could see

all these spotty youths

and they were...

still an undercurrent

of Beatlemania,

but from a, kind of, twisted angle.

And they were...

People were handing me things,

like there was this big pipe,

like a big Indian pipe

with feathers on it

and books and incense and,

you know, all kinds of stuff.

And trying to give me drugs and,

you know, I'd say

"No, thanks, I don't want it."

We were walking quicker and quicker.

We went through the park

and back out of the park,

and in the end, we just said,

"Let's get out of here."

And we drove back to the airport,

got on the jet, and as it took off,

the plane went into a stall,

and the whole dashboard lit up,

saying "Unsafe" right across.

It certainly showed me what was

really happening in the drug cult.

It wasn't what I thought of all

these groovy people getting...

having spiritual awakenings

and being artistic.

It was like any addiction.

So, at that point,

I stopped taking it, actually,

the dreaded Lysergic.

That's where I really went

for the meditation.

Let me take you down

Cos I'm going to

Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry Fields forever

Living is easy with eyes closed

Misunderstanding all you see...

We'd stopped touring.

We were now in the mid-60s.

We were partying

and I think we, kind of, lost,

sort of, our spiritual direction.

Not that we ever had one,

but we lost it.

So we were, kind of,

experimenting in anything.

It was the time of Sgt Pepper,

and I'd written a song,

the title song,

and I put it to the guys

that what we should do,

we could make this record now

under another persona.

We'll be this other band.

And it will free us.

The idea was we could

bring anything we wanted,

because now, you know, there was

no lid on what we could do.

When we were doing Sgt

Pepper, he presented

us with a song which I

thought was boring.

And I had to tell him so.

And I said,

"George, honestly, I

think we could do...

you could do something

better for this record,

"because it's going to be

an astonishing record.

"There's so many

great moments in it.

"And do you mind going

away and thinking

about it and coming up

with something else?"

We were talking

About the space between us all

And the people

Who hide themselves behind

A wall of illusion

Never glimpse the truth

Then it's far too late

When they pass away-ay-ay...

He came up with

Within You Without You.

Now, Within You Without You

was not a commercial song,

by any means.

But it was very interesting.

He had the way of communicating

music by the Indian system

of, kind of, a separate language,

like, tiki-tiki-ta-ta-ta,

tiki-tik, tika-da - the kind of things

that would be the rhythms suggested

by the tabla player. And you had

to get inside that to find out

what it was about. So it was like

working out a puzzle with George.

He had Ravi play at his house once.

And we all went.

And we're sitting on the floor

and Ravi made the announcement,

"Please don't smoke

while I'm playing."

And, uh, anyway, there was

like a crowd of us and

a crowd of Ravi's friends

just sitting around

and Ravi's playing away and this is

how little we understood at the time,

that Ravi's pals

are all like going...

"Aw!

"Aw!"

Which it sounded like to us they

were saying, "Aw, God, crap!"

But they were really going,

"Ohhhh. Ohhhh."

We were like,

"Keep the noise down"!

When you've seen beyond yourself

Then you may find peace of mind

is waiting there

And the time will come

When you see we're all one

And life flows on

within you and without you.

When you get a sort of typical

westernized Englishman coming to you,

what is the most important thing

you have to teach? Concentration?

No. Just allowing the mind

to take its natural course.

Just that.

Say, it was surprising

someone one day, uh,

started to meditate. Next day

he came for checking and he said,

"I feel wonderful.

I slept very deep

"and the whole thing is good, but

tell me what you have taught me."

I said, "Nothing."

Because the process of thinking

has not to be learned.

We are used to think. We know

how to think from birth.

I got a message from John

and a message from George, saying,

"We're going to Wales.

We've met this guy.

"We listened to him.

He's great. Come."

We'd seen this giggly

little Indian guy with

a beard coming on TV,

and we liked him.

He was a funny little character,

who was going to save the world.

So he came around

and we were ripe for saving.

You know, I wanted

to get into meditation.

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