indexed_doc en utf8 davidm pagea11.qxd http://research/ak19/gs2-svn-22Aug2013/collect/Multimedia/tmp/1383181859_2/beatles_georgeob.html http://research/ak19/gs2-svn-22Aug2013/collect/Multimedia/tmp/1383181859_2/beatles_georgeob.html import/wordpdf/beatles_georgeob.pdf tmp/1383181859_2/beatles_georgeob.html beatles_georgeob.html beatles_georgeob.pdf beatles_georgeob.pdf PDFPlugin 84054 beatles_georgeob PDF _iconpdf_ doc.pdf doc.pdf 1 Supplementary 8.57 /research/ak19/gs2-svn-22Aug2013/collect/Multimedia/import/wordpdf 2013:10:31 14:10:03+13:00 beatles_georgeob.pdf 755 84054 PDF application/pdf davidm 1910:11:20 10:00:24 ADOBEPS4.DRV Version 4.10 false 2001:12:01 00:11:13 1.2 1 Acrobat Distiller 3.01 for Windows pagea11.qxd HASH016a1c118d0ebce15ef6b87f 1383181803 20131031 1383181859 20131031 HASH016a.dir doc.pdf:application/pdf: <A name=1></a>Saturday, December 1, 2001 Laredo Morning Times PAGE 11A BEATLES Fans, musicians mourn George Harrison death BY HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press Writer Paul McCartney called him ”my baby brother.” A fan thought him ”quiet and nice and powerful.” Musicians and music lovers on Friday mourned the death of George Harrison, the ”quiet Beatle” who fit in famously, if not always happily, alongside his more colorful bandmates. ”I am devastated and very, very sad,” McCartney told reporters outside his London home. ”He was a lovely guy and a very brave man and had a wonderful sense of humor. He is really just my baby brother.” Harrison, at 58 the youngest Beatle, died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at a friend‘s Los Angeles home after a battle with cancer, longtime friend Gavin De Becker told The Associated Press late Thursday. Harrison‘s wife, Olivia, and son Dhani, 24, were with him. ”He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God, fear- less of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends,” the family said in a statement. With Harrison‘s death, two Beatles survive: McCartney and Ringo Starr. John Lennon was shot to death by a deranged fan in 1980. The Beatles were four distinct personalities joined as a sin- gular force in the rebellious 1960s, influencing everything from hair styles to music. Whether meditating, dropping acid or sending up the squares in the film ”A Hard Day‘s Night,” the band inspired millions. The story of the Beatles was as much a story of their fans: the rebels who identified with Lennon, the girls who fell for Paul, the little kids who adored Ringo. Harrison‘s appeal was harder to define. He wasn‘t the cleverest Beatle, that was John. Paul was the cutest and Ringo the most lovable. But something about Harrison — the mysticism, the quiet competence, even the moodiness — endeared him to fans and musicians alike. Edna McDonald, 49, from the Welsh mining town of Llanelli, recalled seeing the Beatles perform in Bristol, England, as a teen-ager. While her friends chose Paul McCartney as their favorite Beatle, she said she was drawn to Harrison. ”He was quiet, different from the others,” McDonald, vaca- tioning in New York, said softly at Strawberry Fields, a Lennon tribute site in Central Park. ”I respected him more for that. I was always influenced by how he was a silent partner but had a lot of influence on the group. It showed me that you could be quiet and nice and powerful at the same time.” Ayessa Rourke, 43, a giraffe keeper at the Los Angeles Zoo, brought roses and wiped away tears at the Beatles star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ”He was just a lovely person and a great example of what a human can do, and the great things we are all capable of,” she said. As the news of his death spread, radio stations played music by the Beatles and by Harrison, and fans grieved. They gathered at Strawberry Fields and left bouquets and tributes at the gate of Harrison‘s 19th century Gothic man- sion in Henley-on-Thames in England. But Harrison never cared for all the attention. He preferred being a musician to being a star, and soon soured on Beatlemania — the screaming girls, the hair-tearing mobs, the wild chases from limos to gigs and back to limos. Like Lennon, his memories of the Beatles were tempered by what he felt was lost in all the madness. ”There was never anything, in any of the Beatle experiences really, that good: even the best thrill soon got tiring,” Harrison wrote in his 1979 book, ”I, Me, Mine.” ”Your own space, man, it‘s so important. That‘s why we were doomed, because we didn‘t have any. We were like monkeys in a zoo.” Still, in a 1992 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Harrison confided: ”We had the time of our lives: We laughed for years.” Peers enjoyed his company. He was close to Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. <hr>