the planet is called austria.... one of ~ 20 people i've asked knew his full name... and that was my mother.

Quoted from komakino

the planet is called austria.... one of ~ 20 people i've asked knew his full name... and that was my mother.

LOL! The planet can be called Austria but ... is everywhere the same!!!

Quoted from Mairi

He was cremated.

And I believe his ashes were scattered over the river Ganges.

And you can do worse than that: I read a few days ago that the urn with the ashes of Sid Vicious was knocked over at Heathrow Airport's arrival lounge by his mom...

I say he Has been forgotten, sadly enough. Underrated as a Musician, also.  

yeah i agree with Becky
it should be tribute for Georgie every year ....
But media is so evil machine - they only want to remember about killings and attacks ...
Maybe that's why they write only about Johnny when it's anniversary of his death ...
That's really sad
But i think that of georgie see us, he is much more happy that WE as FANS remember and still LOVE HI so much, that if media remember and writte about him ...

[quote=664]he is much more happy that WE as FANS remember and still LOVE HI so muchquote]

he did after all love his apple scruffs  

It sickens me when an artist dies, then all of a sudden all there albums
are Re-issued or something.
Before George died, i was really searching hard for george's cd's but had no success.
Then after he died, all his albums available on cd appered on record store
shelves. He was a ghastly underated musician & guitarest!!!!
I think he just got better & better as a songwriter throughout his whole
carear. The trouble was his albums were never promoted enough & that's
why some never charted, & always overshadowed by Lennon & McCartney's
career's.
They were all very strong & amazing songwriter's (macca still is), but George to me
shone out different than the other 2. I will never forget George, (how can i!!)
Out of the 3, George's music particully helped me through an awful time in my life.
I know George's music is & will always be there for me!!

The truth (imo) is that George doesn't get the same attention because his solo career was a huge dissapointment. His first album was great, but that contained all the songs he'd written over the last decade. He got done for plagarism for it's one big hit. From then on each album declined in quality and the general public lost interest. So it seems did he. At the best some albums were ok, but most were found wanting. Apart from The Cloud Nine thing he never cracked the top ten after '73. His one tour is one of the most disastrous ever by a major act - and the critiscm wasn't just at his laryngitis affected voice.
Hats off to him for Bangladesh (though not a penny went to the needy) and The Travelling Wilbury's were pleasant. And yes he played a mean slide guitar. But at the end of the day, as a solo artist he didn't come up with the goods and just doesn't command (rightly imo) the respect due to John and Paul. Such things must be earned.
just for the record I don't hold John's solo career in that hihger a regard either. What would be the public's reaction to him if he'd never written Imagine?

One thing that I've always heard/read is that George composed most of the All Things Must Pass album (2/3 of it or even more) since the White Album sessions and through 1969 ... he even said once (Anthology?) that he had not much stuff by mid 60s ... and some of the outtakes and songs of that period (You, Try Some Buy Some) were released some years later ... but some unreleased songs (I Live For You, Dera Dhun) were quite good too ... so I consider those two years (1968-1969) as the most prolific of George with The Guys ... and surely his best years musicalley   ...

He said he wrote 'Art of Dying' as early as 1966 which was on his
first album & another 'Woman, don't you cry for me' in 1969 which appeared on
his 1976 album '33 & 3rd'.
and of course 'Not Guilty' which he wrote in 68 appeared on 1979's
'George Harrison' album, so i think he was always pulling songs he
left unfinished from the beatles-days to completed some of his albums.
It was hard for him to write songs very quickly & didn't go as fast as
Lennon or McCartney.
Oh, yeah (i forgot), 'Circles' that appeared on 1982's Gone Troppo which he
wrote in India in 68!

^No doubt George had a great period of creativity 68-69 and wrote some great stuff. He promised so much then but in the end delivered so little. After "Living IAMW" he seems to have run out of ideas. And lets face it, in The Beatles he  only had to come up with 3 or 4 good songs a year.

well however great his solo career and however renound he was as an artist compared to other people, I believe the important thing is the impact he had on the people who have discovered huge power and meaning in his music and in the story of his life. His uniqueness, spiritual wisdom and the example he set is a huge inspiration, and for me, that alone means that he deserves to be well remembered. Maybe he should be remembered more, but then the quiet ones often get forgotten; and the quiet ones often have a lot to offer which people can learn from. It seems George never needed a great deal of popularity and appreciation- and after his death, I think he would be touched by the people who do remember him- but above all he would probably smile to see people who have learnt from his spiritual path how to improve their own. A lot of people may have forgotten him but he will always be in the hearts of the people who love him. There will always be some who love him, and that is all that really matters.

I dunno- just my views about his memory!  

people who don't want to forget him won't, and people who do don't know what they're missing

Nicely said, Flaming Pie in the Sky. Welcome to the forums!

I just love all these lovely comments about George. Andy and Tangerine, I found yours particularly moving.

Kevin, I'm puzzled why you think not a penny of the Bangladesh concerts went to the needy.  According to the UNICEF website, "the concert also made history by raising an unprecedented $10 million – making it the single largest such benefit ever held."  The take from the gate was $241,000, which was instantly used for relief efforts. Due to squabbling among the record companies, however, the majority of the funds were held up for several years-- but they were then released.  In addition, profits from the Bangladesh concert and film continue to support UNICEF to this day.  For that reason the UNICEF people awarded George an appreciation plaque not too long ago; Olivia accepted it for him, of course. When you consider that Ravi Shankar's initial vision was to raise $20,000 to help the poor, you can see that George got 10 times that amount just from the ticket receipts. I would say that if George is remembered for anything over the years, it is for pioneering rock 'n roll as a major benefit effort.  That is certainly a status that he earned, and he did it from the heart.