Rating of
2.5/4
Interesting documentary.
Gabe - wrote on 12/30/13
For those of you that are Beatles fans, or have seen the Beatles Anthology, than the first half of this film won't really reveal anything new. We get to relearn that he was the youngest Beatle. He was quite upset that his songs weren't getting put on their records, although he even admits that his early work just wasn't good enough. We get to re-hash him quitting the band and asking Eric Clapton to play on Wile My Guitar Gently Weeps. But, right around the time of Abbey Road, so 1969 or so, it starts to get interesting.
His composition, Something was chosen as the first single off of Abbey Road (b/w Come Together) maybe the greatest A/B side of all-time considering both went to number one. I wanted more about Eric Clapton stealing his wife, but, what else is Clapton going to say? I also wanted more Traveling Wilburys, I thought Tom Petty was a great interview. He even tears up when talking about the death of fellow Wilbury Roy Orbison. We also have the privilege of learning about his film agency, Hand Made Films, which backed Monty Python's Life of Brian and other features. Without him, that film never gets made.
But, most interesting to me was the way this film was made, there is no narrator, instead, all of the narration is done by interviews, both old and new. A lot of the Harrison stuff is from the Beatles Anthology. And it's only in roughly chronological order, this is a bit confusing at first, but you get used to it quite quickly.
This is a good, but not great documentary of a great musician.
