Circa 1940s: George and his older brother Pete.
1954: An 11-year-old George plays guitar.
1960: George, far right, performs with his new bandmates, from left, Stu Sutcliffe (John Lennon's friend from art school), Lennon and Paul McCartney in Liverpool. The drummer, Johnny Hutch, was sitting in for the day.
1963: If George, Paul, Ringo and John look wide-eyed, it might be because their debut album, Please Please Me, had just come out.
1964: The Beatles flew to Miami for their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, which was being broadcast from Miami's Deauville Hotel that week. While there, they stopped by the beach for a photo shoot.
1964: George on the set of A Hard Day's Night.
1964: George films a scene in A Hard Day's Night as adoring fans paw at him through the window.
1964: George picks at his guitar while filming A Hard Day's Night at London's Twickenham Studios.
1964: Publicity shots of George for A Hard Day's Night.
1966: George Harrison with his first wife, model Pattie Boyd, during their honeymoon in Barbados.
1967: George, with his Sgt. Pepper–era mustache, attends a UNICEF gala in Paris.
Circa 1970s: George Harrison studies sitar with the renowned Indian musician Ravi Shankar.
1970: George poses with Hare Krishna friends after recording The Radha Krsna Temple, an album of devotional music issued by the temple on the Beatles' Apple Records label.
1975: Around the time of the Beatles' breakup, Harrison purchased Friar Park, a 120-room Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames, England. Here, he poses in one of the house's gardens.
1976: A smiling Harrison poses with his second wife, Olivia.
1976: The bearded Beatle on the beach in Cannes, France.
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