Shocking new doc rips the lid off “The Quiet Beatle” GEORGE HARRISON’s helter skelter free love raptures of the deep!
An explosive new documentary about George Harrison — produced by his wife Olivia — reveals the truth about his womanizing, drug-taking rock 'n' roll excess and yet became one of the most spiritual musicians to emerge from the turbulent 1960s.
In "George Harrison: Living In The Material World," directed by Martin Scorsese, those closest to the musician, including surviving Fab Four Paul and Ringo dish the dirt on their beloved partner.
His widow Olivia tells how she had to fend off women attracted to him.
Paul divulged George "liked the things that men like. He was red-blooded."
The documentary took Olivia, 63, five years to make.She was married to George from 1978 until lung cancer ended his life ten years ago in November 2001 when he was only 58.
Olivia told the filmmakers, “He was really a free person and did not like to be bound by rules. But he did like women and women did like him.
"And whether he just said a couple of words to a woman, he honestly had a profound effect on them. I was not the only person who had to live with someone who was well loved, so that was always a challenge."
She says the couple grew stronger overcoming these "hiccups."
George had earlier been married to Patti Boyd for eight years and she can be seen in “Hard Day’s Night” as a groupie in the train. They split up in 1974 when she dumped him for pal Eric Clapton.
"When we did finally start to act it out I went to George straight away and said, 'Look, this is going to happen and there are already feelings there,’ Clapton told George.” And I have to know how you feel about that'.
"It was almost, 'If you want me to stop and go away, I will'. He was really cavalier — 'you can have her'. It had already got to that before — swapping, there was all that Sixties free love stuff.
Yet, the two brothers in music remained pals even after Patti married Clapton.
In archival footage in the documentary George, who became heavily involved in Indian mysticism and the spiritual life, talks about taking LSD.
Yet, Ringo remembers George as someone who’d do anything to help a friend.
In the documentary, Ringo openly weeps as he recalls his last meeting when George was being treated at a hospital on Staten Island for lung cancer.
Ringo revealed, "I had to go to Boston because my daughter had a brain tumor.
"And the last words he said to me were, 'Do you want me to come with you?'
"And that was George."
The book “George Harrison: Living In The Material World”, by Olivia Harrison, published by Abrams Books, streets today and the HBO documentary based on the book directed by Martin Scorsese airs this week.
