Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby, Cab Calloway, Django Reinhardt and Hoagy Carmichael by the 1950s, Carl Perkins and Lonnie Donegan were significant influences. Though the institute did offer a music course, Harrison was disappointed with the absence of guitars, and felt the school "moulded into being frightened". He passed the eleven-plus exam and attended Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1954 to 1959. In 1948, at the age of five, Harrison enrolled at Dovedale Primary School. In 1949, the family was offered a council house and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke.
The home had an outdoor toilet and its only heat came from a single coal fire. Harrison lived the first four years of his life at 12 Arnold Grove, a terraced house on a cul-de-sac. Harrison's biographer Joshua Greene wrote, "Every Sunday she tuned in to mystical sounds evoked by sitars and tablas, hoping that the exotic music would bring peace and calm to the baby in the womb." When Louise was pregnant with George, she often listened to the weekly broadcast Radio India. Īccording to Boyd, Harrison's mother was particularly supportive: "All she wanted for her children is that they should be happy, and she recognised that nothing made George quite as happy as making music." Louise was an enthusiastic music fan, and she was known among friends for her loud singing voice, which at times startled visitors by rattling the Harrisons' windows. He had one sister, Louise (born 16 August 1931), and two brothers, Harold (born 1934) and Peter (20 July 1940 – 1 June 2007). Harold was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line, and Louise was a shop assistant of Irish Catholic descent. He was the youngest of four children of Harold Hargreaves (or Hargrove) Harrison (1909–1978) and Louise ( née French 1911–1970). Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool on 25 February 1943. Harrison's place of birth and first home – 12 Arnold Grove He left an estate of almost £100 million. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. Harrison died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his Friar Park home. The following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani. Harrison's first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". A prolific recording artist, he was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Tom Petty, among others.
In 1988, he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer. In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, " My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. Having initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences.