Reviews and Appreciations for
Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison
-Boston Globe
-Mia Farrow
University of Southern California
Author, The Sixties Spiritual Awakening
Founder, The Moody Blues
Co-Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
Board Chair, Centre for Spirituality and the Workplace
KIRKUS REVIEW (November 2005)
A friend of George Harrison offers informed reflections on the late musician’s spiritual quest.
Out of the insanity, claustrophobia and estrangement that came with being a member of the Beatles, Harrison emerged an affected man, in search of God and peace. Filmmaker/biographer Greene (Justice at Dachau, 2003, etc.) portrays his friend as introspective and modest, inspired by an experience with LSD (‘ “From that moment on, I wanted to have that depth and clarity of perception,” ’ Harrison told Rolling Stone.) Harrison reached beyond intoxicants into the bliss of yoga and cosmic chants, a buzz that took him “into the astral plane.” He wanted others to share his contact with the mystical and spoke of his spirituality during concerts, where his comments were met with, at best, indifference. Though he spent considerable time exploring the Hindu religion, writes Greene, the musician was a restless quester, always looking for ways to put his spiritual house in order. Greene writes of a newfound “levelheaded dispassion” as Harrison moved into his sixth decade, a sense of liberation from the material world coupled with an affirmation of nature and a personal recognition of his place in the scheme of things.
Greene presents a man deeply engaged in the world he longed to transcend.