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Article: My sweet bore: explaining a former beatle's artistic slide.(Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison)
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- August 1, 2002
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As a longtime George Harrison fan--I am surely one of the five or six people in America who bought his 1982 turkey Gone Troppo upon its release--I studied with special care the reactions to his death last November. Most of the obits described his years with the Beatles, noted his early success as a solo performer, and then fast-forwarded to his painful final days. Th is was a way of not speaking ill of the dead, for it meant skipping over most of Harrison's discography.
Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison, by Marc Shapiro (St. Martin's), and Harrison, an anthology of Rolling Stone articles (Simon & Schuster), follow the same basic format. In doing so, ...