George Harrison (with Eric Clapton at left) performing at the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971.
Photo: Henry Diltz/Getty ImagesThe paradoxes of George Harrison’s career can perplex even the most casual Beatles fans.
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One of the most ominous subtexts of “George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle,” it turns out, is the sense of a man grown old before his time.
Hospitalized for six weeks at the age of 13 with nephritis, a martyr to swollen tonsils and on-tour exhaustion, he spent much of his early life being ill.
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