It's because of his great personality and sense of humor...

To be honest, Dick Cavett extracted the best out of him in this. Very casual and respectful towards his guest. Great interview, I think.

@@frankgile1996 With questions like what John Lennon said to George Harrison?interviewers only ask questions like that when they have nothing left in the tank to ask.Now Piers Morgan now that guy is an interviewer ooooh yeaaaaaa!or Johnny Carson,Johnny Carson if he had a guest who wasn't talking ,he would do most of the talking until the quest starts feeling more comfortable and will open up,but Cavett was clearly making Harrison feel uncomfortable the whole time.

and cut Cavette off a few times eager to get his point across. Just prime the pump and stand back and let the info flow.

Miss George.

Translation: I don't WANT to remember anything about the Beatles days.

I was 3 years old in 1964 when they came to America.but i had a Beatles rebirth in 1977 wheni bought a compilation Album of all of their early cover songs mixed in with some of their first songs.like "Kansas city" or "Roll over Beethoven",Along with "twist and shout" and "Mr postman"

I feel that too.

He also did a lot of drugs

@@1who4me that's why the audience chuckled some. what George meant was prob more along the lines of "it was so hectic, there was really no time to take it all in"

He's probably a tender lover..love his voice.

Indeed Soothing and beautiful............

That's how Scouse accents used to sound. Not so much now days.

@@reneetuer3525 Easy Renee!

@Darius Beaumont This was right after the Beatles breakup so i assume he was not use to being a single musician,He seem shy to me ,and he explained why he was acting like that,i mean after what he went through with crowds rushing him ,i can't blame him for acting paranoid.

Yea, he could be 46 here, and another person from how he looked in 1967.

I def think the “pop star” life effected George greatly, unfortunately.

Tony Walton well smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day does that to you

@josé navarro : YES! I see George sitting in Asana in the Middle of the Universe, a brilliant diamond third eye shining out illuminating everything. He is Beyond. Look at my vision, here it is: YuGaLm3F!

Think he looks about 32 with a beard here, can't see the 46 really.

The way any good talk show should be! We're here for the guest after all

"You just talk and I'll watch" LOL.

"There's nothing to talk about" 😂🤣

He really took control of the show just by putting Dick off early with saying he doesn't like conversation much.

👏👏👏

Wow ❤

Could you tell us how that came to pass?

ALL THIGS MUST PASS LOL@@herrqwertz3567

Yes, he even funded The Life of Brian for Monty Python after it was in danger of not being made. He definitely appreciated humor.

@@herrqwertz3567 it’s kind of a long story but, I had a co-worker who had been commissioned to do a 12 hour radio documentary for a British radio network work. Part of his agreement was he would be able to interview the 3 remaining Beatles. George was set up to do his interview but didn’t show up that day. A couple months later he got an email from George apologizing for not not being there. My friend sent me a copy of the email but forgot to delete George’s email address. I didn’t know but his email propagated to my address book. There was a virus going around that was connected to a Budweiser Frog screensaver. I sent a warning to “all” in my address book and a couple of weeks later I opened up my email and there was a message from George. “Maybe the frogies croaked my last computer… GH”. I’m not sure who he thought I was, but I didn’t abuse the access and only sent him things occasionally. I always got a humorous reply from the things I sent and the last message I got from him was about ten days before he passed.

@@trevorcox3669 I was pointing it out as a funny moment dickhead

@@trevorcox3669 Making a point of it.You couldn't do that with a Joe Biden press conference ,it is so hard to follow a guy who can't even remember his own name BAHAHAHAHAHA!

@@TheWonderfulBlake don’t explain yourself, you retyping what was said makes it even funnier for those that understand the point you were making, and thats the majority of us.

What a talent! Rip George off

@Rope Kittens, firstly why type what everyone is watching it’s boring. Also obviously your unpleasant name calling, grow up, big man. Worlds full of hard keyboard warriors,sad.

All Things Must Pass is probably my favorite post-Beatles album. And he had a nice comeback album in the late eighties.

MINE TOO

I thought it funny when Cavett says that he doesn't really like to talk. Not something most talk show hosts would admit, ON their own show. Clearly, he was very good at talking to his guests.

Yes good point. It was a really good interview and they both get credit for that.

George Harrison was doing interviews with good interviewers to nobodies since 1964 when the Beatles landed in America to when he died,Do you think that a nobody like Dick Cavett could rattle George's cage?HAHAHAHAHA!George Harrison is a very spiritual person, and have done it all, George was in control of that interview from the very beginning not the other way around,he was sarcastic and passive aggressive at the right time. George is a master.I could watch George Harrison all day but Dick Cavett not really.

Truly

@@gusmozart I watched an interview with him, and he said he just wanted to be famous, haha

he is the joker

Yep ☺️

It’s amazing when he talks about how being in the Beatles feels like a past life, and how it’s totally natural to have felt that they should grow up from those days and do something else and how relieving it must’ve felt, that is really beautiful, especially at how much peace it brings him and all of them.

He feels so calm it’s beautiful

Pop on over to Grey Ghost interview with Keith Richards in '74!!

Javier Cisternas agreed

His recordings are incredible too! Would recommend Raga Nata Bhairav and Raga Mishra Piloo

Indian music is the most difficult to master.

Seeing the Indian musicians play makes you realize how much more technically proficient they were than, let’s say, the crowd that George comes from.

@Steve Okay, maybe if you listen to more music of the same kind it will stop sounding like random noise. It's always nice to discover new things.

Precisely. Lovely man taken too soon.....just 58

“lol whatever”

hippiecheezburger back in his beatles days his ego sometimes slipped around 68-ish but everyone goes through trials and tribulations. I’m glad he eventually found his place in the world and didn’t let his ego get the best of him, unlike the many before and after who let it get to their head and consume them.

@@ayaonora ikr, quite the flip side of the coin lol

I wish he was my Uncle and I would take and heed a lot of his advice. He just has a way about him that is calming and peaceful. He would be a great uncle!

He was handsome, good looking, sexy and witty ❤️❤️❤️

@Janetta Martin 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💜💜💜😍😍😍😍😻

@@marjanp4784 And lovable too.💖💖💖😍😍😍🌞🦋

@@charlottec.3566 Absolutely, actually he is my boyfriend 🥰

You actually confused me when you said that cause he passed away in 2001.

Only a few? My eyes lit up at that moment.

Y Pure I believe he’s referring to the audience reaction. I noticed it as well though.

I think most people got it. But I think they thought that if they laughed at it it might annoy George because it was just another of thousands of Beatle references that he's heard. Idk, that's my take on it.

@@skysmindgarden I agree. I think most fans, certainly older ones, would have immediately seen the reference.

You assume you’re the only one who got it??? You don’t know how many got anything... arrogant you are... I know I know, you just wondered...🤫😏

Jennifer Lee well it’s just something there to understand when it comes to anyone and anything that involves dedication and passion like a profession for example It’s very simple and minute to a musician like George since he’s been doing it all his life

It was in reference to not enough complexity to need sheet music. It's a few chords.

That simplicity is very rare today... people seem to love complexity these days... World needs People like George Harrison more than ever ❤️

It's my 10th time in a month...

@@marjanp4784 its my second one

Paul was pretty mature too. Even in the early sixties he was very honest and respectful. Answered questions thouroughly. George and Paul were probably the most mature of the 4

john was always the most mature beatle as an appearance and intelligence and the way of talking between 1962 and 1970 and even until his death in 1980.

Hakan Çevikel we’re one Ringo away from not making any point at all

He was indeed the sweetest one.

and incredibly intelligent!

And incredibly spiritual!

The humour, the politics, the friendliness, the revolutionary thinking. I honestly don't think the Beatles would've worked unless they had Liverpool within them.

Soooo.. You didn't understand the question? Only joking! I go for George over John and Paul too, in every facet.

Yeah I had similar with the old question comes up so often Beatles or Stones It’s always Zeppelin.

It's always George for me...not only as a musician but also as a whole human being, he was magical ❤️

@JM Loves GH And 'your' grammar is rubbish.

@JM Loves GH A typo is a typographical error. The kind you make when accidentally hitting a wrong key or just simply through not knowing the correct spelling. Something KZfaq would've alerted you to. So rubbish grammar it was. (Before you were made aware and corrected it) 🖕

Absolutely agree with you and oh my gosh Everything was before my Time!!! Love George Harrison! & Ravi Shankarji what He did took Me into a whole new State/SELF Play Of Consciousness!! Absolutely blew ME AWAY wasn't expecting to Hear this no wonder everyone clapping was EXTRAORDINARY performance I went HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH on UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!!!! DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT was inside of ME like I had those car keys in my pocket so to speak!!! The entire time I was ALIVE!!! ❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤

I didn’t even hear that! I was so focused on Ravi

This may be a dumb question but why did he mortgage his house for that? Wouldn’t he have had tons of money in the bank at that point to fund any movie he wanted?

@@TheIJP123 Not necessarily, a lot of times people who are wealthy don't have a lot of cash on hand, their money is tied up in property and stocks. I don't pretend to understand his specific financial situation, though.

@@isaacbruner65 ohh I see. Thanks for the clarification!

George Harrison mortgaged friar park, it's a 62 acre property. George bought it for around 200,000£ in the 70s. It's worth around 40 million US$ in 2021.

Actually there is a documentary on the whole George Harrison connection to the Monty Python movies,called "An Accidental studio" and according to that Documentary Monty Python couldn't get funding from any studio in the UK,but someone who knew George Harrison connected to the Monty Python project approached George Harrison in an unofficial way,like over drinks and asked George if he would help them out ,financially.They never expected George to be interested since he was more into music, but i suppose since the Beatles had done some movies George was interested .So George approached the guy who helped him with his videos etc and asked him to be a part of the team he was forming to produce this project,George was so excited he came up with most of the money but he did manage to get i believe two other backers as well.It was a very big risk but thank god for George it paid off in the end.So yes he had to like the Monty Python movie more than you know,lol.I believe if memory serves me correctly ,which it doesn't most of the time,George was so serious about this project that he even created a studio to actually make this movie.

Gio X George was a genius musician.

I really dig George but John had a bigger impact on the music world and culturally and politically etc... Truth is truth.

siddhesh patankar Dude, I love George. His music, his philosophy... but Lennon does not need to be “marketed”! What kind of a ridiculous statement is that? John Lennon is part of Lennon & McCartney. He was part of the songwriting partnership that made the best musical group of the 20th century. Everyone knows that. You don’t need to market that when word of mouth and the history books do it for you. George wrote good riffs, good solos and good songs. He made a very solid post Beatles solo album. He was part of a legendary supergroup late in his career. Still doesn’t get to Lennon’s knees when it comes to vision, craft, originality, lyricism, singing chops, political and social value... not even close. Are you on drugs?

Flame the Narwhal Only if you don’t know how to properly read and reason. Read and reason. Important.

Flame the Narwhal Are you daft?! Seriously?! The Beatles had 27 #1 singles. Of those 27, John wrote and sang on 11. Specially in the beginning stages of the band’s career where during Beatlemania he was heralded as the leader of the band. He also co-wrote 4 more singles reaching #1 with Paul, who had 14 of his self penned songs hit #1. George Harrison only had 1 of those 27 #1 songs! Something. That’s it. George only had 1 or 2 songs per album on a 14 song album track listing. Seriously, what are you on about?!! I like George, even have a poster of him in my music room but reality is reality and you are not living in it mate. You sound ridiculous and everyone can read your ignorance.

È triste pensare che ha visto morire George, il suo giovane grande amico con cui ha condiviso una parte tanto importante della vita,ma ora sono sicuramente insieme per sempre e sarà meraviglioso...

George likes to reference beatles songs like that time when in the Rock and roll hall of fame He said "its wonderful to be here its certainly a thrill" he was obviously referencing Sgt pepper's

Is it true people were generally sooooo much more easy going back then then now?

Its a joke, you guys are on the southern hemmesvhere (so upside down for europeans and americans) but im geussing you guys are boomers...

Shut up BOOMER.

Boomers be like: REEEEE

@@donbasto4864 you made me sing in to comment on the comment you made! Get a fucking life you are argumentative. Do YOU not comprehend it was a funny comment???????? Go away and do some research on funny amusing comments.

@@blurenthusiast6568 see my above comment.

He died at the age of 92 and he was active till quite late age so at 60 he must be good

@@Phoenix.219 Well he meant mid 60s as in 1965-66 not Ravi Shankar at the age of 60.

@@kartikbakshi5535 okk...my mistake

Ravi Shankar is an instrumentalist, so age is not really a factor really, one can lose his voice due to age, but the musicality and movements are still there inside him/her. That’s why classical music has so many old people, they have practiced precise movements for decades, which is essential for orchestras and stuff. Whereas soloists are generally younger.

Conan is one of the good ones.

I was a devoted Dick Cavett fan. He's also a great writer.

The people today don’t control their own shows

That explained it perfectly. I see why he’s a friend of George’s

I preferred the wholly grail

Dick interviews John Cleese where he mentions that George is the reason the film was made. The interview is on KZfaq as well. Love these little stories

It's funny how in this video Cavett doesn't quite know what Monty Python was when George mentions it and then he's interviewing John Cleese for a new Monty Python film only a few years later.

Monty Python didn't just owe a lot to George Harrison but they owed everything to George Harrison ,without him no one else was willing to sign on and in fact he almost covered the total cost himself ,he took a real chance on the Monty Python idea.The crazy thing of it was,that no one knew what a role George Harrison played in the Monty Python franchise until now.Talk about being humble.

Was it not the Holy Grail??

English Jesus😏 Jesus and Dick Cavett, circa 1971😂

Not really. It's the words

No, it's what he says. The accent is a minor part of it.

@@strawberryfields9762 such a hot Jesus 😜

@Janetta Martin 😂🤣 maybe George was Jesus's incarnation in the modern world...

That's very observant of you.

..staring directly at your soul

That stare could pierce through anyone's heart ❤️

@JM Loves GH exactly 🥰😍

Like a dolls eyes

reminds me of Rasputin in this

Yes may her Rest in Peach along with John.

Man he's only 28 in this

He was the Jimi Hendrix of India and he loved the ladies too.

it's like fast forwarding, they're so fast...

thats a tablah!

Tablahs