Chords for George Harrison Interview (Beatles) on Countdown 1977

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Hello, my name is [Ab] George Harrison and it's nice to be here on Veronica.
This evening we're going to be talking about my music and I hope you enjoy the show.
[Bb] Thank you. _
Now that the financial and legal problems [N] with Alan Klein have been solved, there seems
to be little in the way to reunite the Beatles.
Is that true?
Well, I mean, there's little in the business side left in the way, but there's a lot of other things.
Just physically we're all in different places now and we don't spend time together anymore.
You know, it's, that's the problem.
We'd have to get to know each other again _ because we haven't sort of hung around together
like we did in the past.
_ _ So I mean, it's everybody's into their own lives.
It seems very difficult, the idea of getting together, _ _ _ _ but it's just a joke.
I mean, it needs a joke when the last offer was for $50 million and it's crazy, you know,
it's trying to put the responsibility of making the world a wonderful place again onto the Beatles.
You know, I think that's unfair.
I know a lot of people like the Beatles, but _ it's like _ _ eight years ago we split up and
it's like difficult, you know, it's like we all grew up and we left home.
It's like trying to get the family back again or trying to get us to go back to school again.
_ I suppose the first feeling I really had that was strong, spiritual feeling was after taking LSD. _ _ _
_ Somebody, John Lennon and I were having dinner with somebody who was a dentist _ and he dropped
_ LSD in our coffee and we took it and ever since then it's all changed.
_ And I don't know, I just, on that, you know, what happens is it sort of makes a lot of
blood go up into the brain and you start _ using more of the brain through the chemical.
You use more brain than you normally have used and somehow the senses _ get _ heightened
for a moment.
I don't know, I just took one look at the trees and the grass and the sky and I thought,
yeah, that's it.
_ You have also done a lot for the third world, _ looking at your Bangladesh concert.
_ Well, really that happened because of my _ friendship with Ravi Shankar.
He, _ I think that was 1971, he told me that this situation was happening in Bangladesh _
and that he was going to do a concert to try and raise some money.
But _ the concerts that he does, he can't really make that amount of money and he was saying
maybe you've got some ideas, maybe you could help give me some ideas how I could do a show
to make maybe $25,000, _ something which is much more than he could normally make in one concert.
And then he gave me a lot of information about the war and I read a lot about it and once
I got to understand what was happening, because what happened, there was more people killed,
murdered in Bangladesh than in the second world war and not many people knew about it.
So I just, the more I read about it, the more I became involved with it.
So I said, okay, I'll come on the show as well.
And then I started to organize it _ _ because I thought if we're going to do it, let's do
it big and let's not make $25,000, let's make $5 million.
_ _ How do you feel about 33 and a third?
_ Yeah, I liked it.
I mean, for me, it's like the songs, you know, it's usually different songs mean different
things to me, but I think generally the album is nice because it's happy.
_ Like we go through so many crazy things in our lives and I've been up and down and up
and down and _ _ [Fm]
the music always reflects it, you know, like some albums.
I think my last album was more down and this one is just happy and up.
That's what I like about it. _ _ _
Music is your life and you are very [Abm] famous, yet your self-consciousness seems to be [Ab] very strong. _
How could you maintain that even through the stormy and [E] _
rich years of the Beatles?
_ Well, I was _ _ fortunate in that respect.
[A] The Beatles were [Ab] fortunate that there was four people because I think for somebody like
[N] Elton, you know, who's on his own, it's more difficult.
You go crazy with the four of us.
We either went crazy together, you know, which made it easier or we stopped ourselves going
crazy because we had each other's company. _
_ _ _ But at the height of it all _ was _ the thing where I got involved with India anyway and
for me it was the meditation. _
Meditation was the key to _ releasing all the anxieties and frustrations.
You know, when the nervous system gets wound up, then meditation is a way of helping to
restore some sort [Ab] of order.
It's like a mirror has become dirty and so through meditation and yoga it's a process
of trying to polish the mirror so that we can reveal what we really are, which is Satchitananda.
_ _ _ Perfection and that's it.
Each one is potentially divine and the [G] goal is just to realize that.
[Abm] So I mean, that's all I want to [D] do.
Nothing much.
_ _ [Db] Well, I hope you enjoyed the show.
It was a little short this time, but Veronica needs a bit more time.
So maybe when they [N] get the longer time we'll do a longer show.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it.
Thank you very much.
Good night. _
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