Scorsese’s Harrison doc
Assisted by editor David Tedeschi (Shine a Light, No Direction Home), Martin Scorsese will assemble a doc about the life of the late George Harrison, the quietest, most solemn-minded Beatle who played a mean crying guitar. His playing on “So Sad,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” etc. (Is that Harrison playing on Badfinger‘s “Day After Day,” or someone who sounds like him?) He was also one of the most economical lead guitarists in rock music history. That mad jangly riff on “Hey, Bulldog” still has a great tumultuous quality.
Scorsese and Tedeschi can cut and interview all they want, but Harrison’s greatest cinematic moment will always be that Hard Day’s Night scene with Kenneth Haigh as the trend-obsessed ad man. Harrison: “She’s a drag, a well-known drag. We used to turn the sound down on her and say rude things.” Haigh: “You can be replaced, chicky-baby.” Harrison: “I don’t care.”
Harrison has always been known as the most spiritual of the Fab Four, but he wasn’t an incarnation of Shri Krishna either. He smoked himself into an early death, kept a place in his heart open for Harry Nilsson (one of the unregenerate party animals in the history of the human race), and especially liked Nilsson’s “You’re Breaking My Heart.” According to a cheap tell-all book, Harrison never stopped strumming his acoustic guitar as he received a blowjob from a girl at a party in Los Angeles, and thereafter said “thanks, luv” and strolled out of the room.
Nobody’s just one color or mood or flavor. Everyone’s complicated and inconsistent and contradictory. If Harrison-the-holy wasn’t known for occasionally flawed or weird behavior his rep would be insufferable.
Variety‘s Michael Fleming reports that the doc “is being constructed as a theatrical release, and the Harrison family will supply materials from its extensive archive. Interviews and early production will begin later this year, and the film will take several years to complete.” Several years?
Have you ever considered a music blog when Hollywood is getting you down, Wells? I’m liking the way you roll today.
Maybe you should get hammered at EW parties more often.
Eric Clapton played lead on While My Guitar…just so ya know. Harrison of course later returned the favour on Cream’s Badge.
Badfinger! I love those guys. Wiki and other sources say that Harrison and Ham had dual (dueling?) guitar solos on Day after Day.
I assume Scorsese won’t stop making features while the doc is being put together; besides the various archive film and audio formats the edit team will be dealing with – so several years doesn’t seem so outlandish.
It was always a bit of a shame that Harrison had the least productive solo career of all the Beatles, at least quality wise. It seemed he got everything he wanted to out of his system on “All Things Must Pass” and then some. After that, he’s got a catalog of solo stuff that ranges from alright to awful. Something tells me the Scorsese doc will probably gloss over this.
Harrison is the least interesting of The Beatles, especially after he got religious. Still, I agree with Steven Soderbergh, he’s the best actor in Hard Day’s Night. And, no matter what else, he recorded all those great solos (not to mention adding his vocal harmony) on so many Beatles’ songs. I’ll take a few bars of Harrison any day over those endless jams that we started getting in the late 60s.
I’m especially intrigued by the whole Clapton/Harrison dynamic. I believe they stayed fast friends despite the whole Layla debacle. I’m really looking forward to this.
I would say Ringo Starr is the least interesting. I sometimes forget he even exists.
I don’t know about least interesting, Larry. Ringo was more fun to watch and listen to, but I think Harrison has a better career story.
As far as great Harrison guitar moments, what about his blistering outro on the un-released Not Guilty? Heavy shit. How that failed to make the cut on The White Album where absolute dreck like Honey Pie and meh songs like Savoy Truffle were cleared is beyond me. Personally I think it’s Harrison’s best Beatles track next to While My Guitar…
Also, Marty needs to stop doing all this archival crap and focus on narrative work. There’s plenty of time to do these low stress projects after he turns 75.
Lazarus: Documentaries are low stress – what do you base this on? They might not have the stress of a narrative shoot, but they present their own stress points.
Marty to Wells: “What’s the rush man, where ya going?”
Well, some documentaries would be higher stress, especially if you’re out on location trying to capture events as they happen, track down elusive subjects or interviews, etc. But sitting in a chair across from various musicians and talking about the old days, as well as combing through old films and videos at your own pace (a luxury that Marty certainly has) doesn’t sound like very high stress to me.
I should have known Marty was into Harrison from the terrific use of George’s What Is Life during the cocaine bust scene in GoodFellas.
Affirmative on the Badfinger Harrison solo. He’s actually produced some Badfinger stuff, too. Hope Scorsese includes a Wilbury segment. Actually, between Scorsese’s Dylan and Harrison docs and Bogdonavich’s Tom Petty doc (out next month) the Wilburys are doing okay. *sigh* Poor Jeff Lynne.
Jeff Lynne has a very small but devoted group of fans. His masterful ‘Zoom’ album (under the ELO moniker) is the only album I’ve actually paid for in the last 10 years.
Harrison truly was the dark horse and with his introduction of eastern ideas and influences is almost solely responsible for the Beatles’ philisophical awakening. McCartney and Lennon were the true powerhouses, yes, but along with George Martin and outsiders like Dylan and Brian Wilson, Harrison helped shape their later sublime sound that cemented their legacy as more than just a pop phenomenon.
There’s also George the movie producer. Handmade Films put out some interesting titles: Life of Brian, Long Good Friday, Time Bandits, Private Function (a most unheralded masterpiece), Mona Lisa, Withnail & I, etc.
T.S. Idiot: I almost never post on here anymore except to rant about the most egregious bullshit, but – good taste deserves a pat on the back – A Private Function, yes, a million times yes. Handmade was a an uncommonly filmmaker friendly group and I think APF is a classic of its form, maybe even Handmade’s high point… keep on keeping on, T.S. …
delbomber, agreed. I love Zoom as well and I also have last year’s Highway Companion from Tom Petty (also produced by Lynne) on heavy rotation, too.
T.S., don’t forget ‘How To Get Ahead In Advertising.’
Harrison was the true sardonic Beatle. His songs were tougher, more cynical and accusatory than Lennon’s. But it was his use of the sitar that turned Norwegian Wood into great pop. I’ve never been able to enjoy Within You etc but it is Sgt Pepper’s spiritual heart.
Least interesting Beatle? Please.
Obviously I’ve only “met” him through interview footage etc but he has always struck me as one of the most kindhearted, genuine and down to earth “celebrities” ever.
If you watch the Beatles Anthology – or pretty much any time he talks – you’ll even see he has an amusing quirk of always referring to the Beatles in the 3rd person.
It’s not that he denies the legacy but that he was content to put it behind him and move onto other things. He loved cars and gardening and put out some amazing music as a solo artist and felt no need to do red carpets, go clubbing or even tour if he didn’t want to. He did more of that in 3 years than any of us can imagine.
He was as much of a class act as the rock industry has ever seen and, as Christian said, no less of a funny smart-ass than Lennon (minus the abrasiveness).
If he wasn’t into Indian stuff you get no Norwegian Wood and then no Paint it Black, no Kashmir etc etc
And let’s not forget, since this is a film site, that without him: No Life of Brian, no Meaning of Life, no Time Bandits (okay, and no Shangai Surprise)…
This song has nothing tricky about it, this song ain’t black or white and as far as I know
don’t infringe on anyone’s copyright, so . . .
Huge Harrison fan…this is great news.
He also had a guitar solo in the bridge of Belinda Carlisle’s “LEAVE A LIGHT ON”. [/slinks away]
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