harrisonarchive: A series to mark 50 years since George Harrison purchased Friar Park – part s
harrisonarchive: A series to mark 50 years since George Harrison purchased Friar Park – part six. Pictured: George and uke, Friar Park, circa 1979, photo © Brian Aris/Aris Archive. An omnipresent part of the Harrison home life was – the ukulele. “The main thing was he was always around the house, playing his ukulele and smiling. I’d come home from school and he’d be standing in the doorway playing his uke.” - Dhani Harrison, Los Angeles Times, Nov 2002 “If I began to sing a song — any song — he would accompany and encourage me. If I played three chords on the uke (compulsory instrument in our home), he would be my band.” - Olivia Harrison, Harrison, 2002 “[George] had a lot of patience and he had time for people. If somebody truly wanted to know something, whether it was a guitar chord or something from the Vedas or how you prune a tree, if you were really curious, he had an endless amount of time. He actually sat with my mother and showed her how to play one chord on a ukulele so she could play along with him. He wanted everybody to have fun and join in. He was a Pisces; I think he liked the whole school going along with him.” - Olivia Harrison, Filter, Fall 2011 “[George would] always, like, serenade you to the door [of Friar Park] with a ukulele.” - Jim Capaldi, BBC Radio, 2009 (x) -- source link