George Harrison

:This article is about songwriter and musician George Harrison. For the early twentieth century singer, see Clinton Ford. For Nintendo's Senior VP of Marketing and Corporate Communication, see George Harrison (Executive).

Early years

George Harold Harrison was born in Liverpool, England in 1943. His sister has said that their mother wrote in her diary that he was born ten minutes after midnight on February 25, though Harrison subsequently discovered that he had, in fact, been born on February 24 at 11:40 PM.

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Liverpool - England - 1943 - February 25 - February 24

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Harrison?s childhood home is located at 12 Arnold Grove. He first attended school at Dovedale Infants, just off Penny Lane. Later on, he attended the Liverpool Institute, a "smart school", but was regarded as a poor student, and contemporaries described him as someone who would "sit alone in the corner". In the mid-1950s he knew Paul McCartney (also a Liverpool Institute student) and beginning in February 1958 played lead guitar in the band (initially called the Quarry Men) that eventually became the Beatles.

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12 Arnold Grove - Dovedale Infants - Penny Lane - Liverpool Institute - 1950s - Paul McCartney - February - 1958 - Guitar - The Quarry Men

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In 1959, Harrison worked briefly as an apprentice electrician at Blacklers Stores in Liverpool.

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1959 - Blacklers Stores - Liverpool

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