George Harrison on the Dick Cavett Show Part 2

[ChelleyFresh01]

1:26 so awkward lol

[bd9598]

I was about 15/16 at the time babysitting watching this I just loved George Harrison, Dick Cavett I could do without LOL He was so conceited and a pseudo intellectual to us, the teens at that time for the most part. We had an English teacher who thought he looked like him and imitated him all of the time, SO annoying LOL

[RommelEGH]

A nice man but unfortuneatly his eastern religion won't cut it in the eyes of the living loving god, jesus warned us and I see suffering and eternal pain for George. Too bad

[bd9598]

@RommelEGH Hogwash,it's better to have a religion and belief than nothing. There are good people of all faiths and beliefs. I do not believe that Christians only will be able to go to heaven or what you believe is there in the after life. I believe in the good vs evil people and God never said you have to be a Catholic, Jew, etc to be loved, be good, and to achieve heaven, nirvana whatever you believe in. Where you are born and the religion you believe in does not make you a bad person.

[1982pencil]

I'd like to point out that he was 28 years old in this. What wisdom in such a young guy. 

[birdhasflown1]

Love this!!

[MOVIMKR7]

i dont think it is rubish, it is just a man who died, and his life was this, and its not, so whats sadder a man who died in trying to find peace of heart, or the people on here bagging on a man whos dead

[emiatrio]

9:12

[netsurfer7]

I didn't care for Cavett's questions. He should have been more philosophically orientated with the thinker that Harrison was.

[CordStudios]

he said he didn't have much to say but their convo went on :) miss u George R.I.P.

[tcarter1927]

Anyone know roughly what the viewing figures would have been for something like this? I find it amazing that a kid from Liverpool could command the attention of a huge American audience in the 70s by talking about Eastern music and charities

[BeAsTm0aD]

@tcarter1927 He gives love and happiness in music to the people, in return people give love and support back.

[cobaltblueeyes]

He was such a stunningly beautiful man. A lovely musician, great good sense and a good heart.

[beatlelover111]

such a beautiful, beautiful man.



[rockandroll4evermore]

Cavett asks questions he shouldn't ask, selling out to the producers.

[snloftus]

@rockandroll4evermore I think he asked great questions...interviewers need to ask controversial questions like about his affect on drugs and youth or the interview would be cut and dry

[PhilipPorter]

I think George was always a slightly prickly and difficult guest to interview. I`m sure it is partly down to his nervous and tenseness under scrutiny but also due to his awareness of the banality of the situation. He is after all a very down to earth northern English type. You have to understand that wy of thinking.

Dick Cavett really makes a good job of eventually engaging him.

[omarkaya42]

@PhilipPorter the key word is 'eventually.' cavett was obviously nervous too and it really shows in the beginning of the interview. maybe that's just his vibe - an era goneby and all that. but his presence was weak as hell in the first few minutes of part 1

[QueenieG7]

Ding! 

[teddy1066]

241 likes, 0 dislikes...that says a lot about George Harrison.

[sirspikey]

@teddy1066

You said it! Not even the Talibans can neglect the Harrison mind

[zappatx]

I sure like George - now if you want to see something way out there - watch the David Bowie interview...

[c15art]

great interview , great sense of humour by George .

[trr321321]

"TV in America is such a load of rubbish!"

Still true!

"Try to get Monty Python's Flying Circus on."

Good advice!

[charlesfrith]

George Harrison was a very perceptive person and you can see in this interview he doesn't trust Dick Cavett. I don't either. Something plastic about him.

[deadreck024]

Heroin doesn't make you feel higher, it just makes you not give a shit!

[SamsonOff7]

@deadreck024 It doesnt know, ok ex heroine addict.

[Ju1ceem4n]

george looks like he came out of black sabath

[flagwaver1969]

Cavett was a bit annoying but nowhere near the creep that David Letterman is.

[blewj]

I love that questions could be asked in the 70s that today people are too uptight to let be asked.

[catchrnthkudzu]

Because of the world of shit thrown at the Beatles, George is wise far beyond his 28 years here. They were pure grace under media fire during Beatlemania

[kittywoman5309]

George Is so honest "I'll take the money there myself".What a great heart..miss him !

[kittywoman5309]

George Is so honest "I'll take the money there myself".What a great heart..miss him !

[LikkleFreakie]

Love Georges honest thoughts :) Bless him :)

[Burnzi2]

This interview is great. He tells it like it is, and you can hear is accent changing.

[Burnzi2]

This interview is great. He tells it like it is, and you can hear is accent changing.

[MattSaintsMusic]

i love him so much man. he's so real. by far has always been my favorite of the beatles, and of any music from that era and even now RIP

[marycockburn1]

spot on george about us tv hahaha couldnt agree more 

[giggleshugs]

I like how real is. he doesnt care about the trivial things in life,and he cares more about the important things about life. He lived his life instead of spend his life watching reality shows

[thecity42]

no one remembers Dick Cavett

[ThePhil909]

george is a realy cool person , it took him a we while to relax here but he starts to now and hes the best beatle who should have been allowed to put more music in the beatles.(

[wiisalute]

a friend of my dad's met george harrison in a guitar shop. and my dad told me that his friend said that he was a very nice man

[TheAbrahamsillo]

Hare Krishna, George.

[punkvictim]

why are interviews with really really really famous people always kinda awkward?even though this one is pretty good as far as they go.

[vcx9dfne]

Cavett is the star here, too. We don't see this honest interviewing anymore, I don't think. George is smart and man enough to keep up, and it makes a great show. I really miss Cavett, actually, as much as I miss George.

[maggottron333]

What a nice dentist.

[greatsajby]

This was recorded 30 years to the week before his death.

[ednoroirika]

WoW this is deep! As much as we try to change here in America nothing really change!

[RandyAKing]

What's he got in his hands?

[Sirscorps]

If only George could watch American tv now! It's total bullshit now, tv sucks! My dad even complained about the numerous adverts back in the late 70's too.

[bd9598]

@Sirscorps I was a kid then, but I think commercials are worse than ever now.

[scoutee39]

It's so funny to hear George complain about all the commercials on American TV "40" years ago. I always hated them as a kid back then. I really have to grit my teeth to get thru them today. I would love to know what he thought in the last few years of his life about it.

[millerhighlife2112]

"It's such a load of rubbish"- George Harrison on American TV

[dasmado]

@millerhighlife2112 I agree

[RickyJulianandBubbs]

How many idiots are going to ask what year this was? Can you not see where it tells you SEVERAL times on the screen that it was f*cking 1971??

[roo7227]

@RickyJulianandBubbs I'm a fairly smart guy, and i never noticed what you posted... I was mesmerized by the interview, itself, which was incredibly honest, and engrossing.. Chillax..

[MaverickLuV345]

Wow, when he was talking about American TV and how it was all BS, I was so shocked that he was open about it! About everything, really! I have soo much more respect towards George, I've always loved him and always will; his honesty and sense of humor is amazing! <3 RIP GEORGE <3

[uberscheisse]

@mexman4848 MEXMAN4848 IS A GUY AT A PARTY WHO NOBODY IS TALKING TO

[xXColdaustinXx]

@mexman4848 And how do you know they didn't? There was a lot of corruption in the late sixties and seventies especially with racial issues, and it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't help the African Americans there at the time, as there was still a lot of racism around.

[trickykid73]

@mexman4848 you talk shit .this was 1971 

[ph4720631]

what year is this?

[ShaggyAlonso13]

@ph4720631 1971

[beatlebob101]

what is he playing with??

[onestringbanjo]

the best beatle..

[diewasseratte]

He was such a good man. I suspect that his public persona was very much like his private one...just plain honest and unassuming.

[lucyandethel22]

No question, favourite Beatle! Looks like he was just a really great, nice person!

[KrisM2010]

"in the end they just put commercials on all the time." and now america has the informertial channel. hahahaha.

[NinetiesYouth]

9:13 "with a little help from my friends" lol

[manolitohh]

what an adorable human beeing. love him.

[Ali27R]

At 6:18 George mentions "News of the World" the tabloid scandal sheet paper in England that just closed down.

[Ali27R]

At 6:18 George mentions "News of the World" the paper that just closed down.

[TelecasterLPGTop]

Heroin is the perfect drug for people who feel a lack or an emptiness inside. It's not about getting high it's about blocking pain. The rock industry can really get to people who are at a level where it's a battle between the corporate push for profit and the artists need to express themselves. Google Dr Gabor Mate and he'll tell you about people's need to replace what their brain won't produce with opiates.

[bigman25plus25]

@TelecasterLPGTop It's bad. But I'm pretty sure it gets you fucking high. 

[wecanworkitout2]

George is so insightful and an overall lovely person. I'm tearing up at this for some reason...I wish he was still here:(

[davidgbarron]

Strange that George is talking about Monty Python and News of the World in 1971. Monty Python in terms of George's future relationship with them. Strangely enough he didn't seem to meet them until 1975 according to both Eric Idle and Michael Palin. Also New of the World, this is being typed on the day that horrible scandal sheet is being printed for the last time.

[rsohlich1]

When George was talking about heroin and that crap, I could sense an empathy in him even though he didn't do it. He just had that compassion that the human race needs oh so badly. All a user really is searching for with hard drugs is love and for awhile drugs help, but after awhile like he said, one becomes dependent on them. Fuck drugs, smoking cannabis is ok and a few beers but not much else.

[5inthehole]

About the money going to UNICEF- All the money for the concert and royalties from the record sales (Concert for Bangledesh) ended up being tied up in escrow for years as the American Government froze the funds in fear they wouldn't get their tax money from the concert. It left such a bad taste in Georges mouth that he decided never to do another benifit concert again. I believe the money was finally released sometimes in the late 80's early 90's. Ridiculous isn't it?

[bd9598]

@5inthehole YES The concert was fantastic and he and others worked SO hard and gave so much of his own money as well to get the record out there. I don't think the money was tied up like that for that long, I have an article about that from waay back then I was a young teen, let me check it.

[5inthehole]

@bd9598 I know about the proceeds for the concert and record sales getting tided up in escrow for years. It had to do with revenue and the tax man (ironically for Harrison) getting his appropriate cut. It left such a sour taste in Harrison's mouth that he never did a charity event in that manner again. It is really to bad because the guy loved helping those in need. Even sadder were the poor people of Bangle-Desh.

[carlopstar]

dick cavett's such an asshole...

[TheNuber10]

i noticed tht this interview that they doing is in VH1 WOW classic

[RubHerSoul1]

I think the band "The Marmalade" he refers to having orgies with teenage kids may in fact be Led Zeppelin. They used that name at a gig in Germany because they couldn't be called Led Zeppelin or something. I could be wrong, but given Zeppelin's prowess as pirates, i wouldn't doubt it.

[mrsaganscosmos]

@RubHerSoul1 no there was a band called the marmalade. zeppelin we're horny bastards though.

[RubHerSoul1]

@mrsaganscosmos Yeah, when they came to the states, they just raped the whole town. No one seemed to mind though.

[5jerry1]

@RubHerSoul1

"Reflections Of My Life" was a hit in the early 70's by a band called "Marmalade."

[MGL196]

I really can't love this man more than I do.

R.I.P George <3

[bibi5027]

@MGL196 agree

[ELIMINATORRRR]

What has everyone got against Dick? i think he's a great interveiwer.

[lilymacsification]

the interviewer is a Tw*t

[follownicholas]

@lilymacsification No he's not, Dick Cavett is one of the best interviewers of music icons of all time.

[04callwilk1]

LOL "Fancy That"

[Cedartree5]

Why do they have DICKS interviewing these legends? When George was discouraging the use of drugs that Dick cut him off and then after the commercial he kills that moment by saying how his music caused thousands of kids to go into drug problems...this is what he meant about how lame american television is, he wasn't just referring to the commercials

[lilliemom]

I had a dream about George where he was sitting in my attic. I invited him to a nicer part of the house and he said "I'm dead now I can hang out wherever I wish."

He also said he was mostly in India since he died when I asked him what he was doing now.

[MissQuietGirl]

have noticed when george is nervous he licks his lips alot. even in the early years.i love to watch a vid of him and seeing him do that LOL.shows he's just human with normal fears and thoughts. Rest in Peace George

[EvilGaoQui]

Monty Python reference for the win

[agent1442]

@EvilGaoQui George was a huge Python fan, in fact he supplied the money for Life of Brian, is credited as Executive producer, and has a cameo appearance in the film. He's the one in the crowd scene that shouts 'I'm not!' when Brian says 'we're all individuals!'.

The reason he gave for giving them the cash was 'I want to see it'. Eric Idle says that's the most anyone's ever paid for a cinema ticket.

[MrDDC12]

i so totally agree what he says about commercials ugh and like ads even here on youtube it really is rubbish drives u crazy!!!

[chibichibi9981]

I love that look on his face at 2:42. He's just like, "Why the hell are they clapping at that?" xD

[rd47blog]

Do you get the feeling? That both of them are giant Whores.

[JetpackMedia]

@rd47blog No.

[rd47blog]

@JetpackMedia

Dick defended the Red Cross, enough said.

[rd47blog]

@JetpackMedia

Does the name Frank Kush ring a bell?

[LordEizen]

he is so honest and real, what a nice guy i admire him =) miss u george

[DoctorUncleKeith]

@1spati, perhaps theyre starving for a reason. they got no talent. and its time to move on and get a job so they will starve no more. and in case you werent aware, The Beatles were consistent in their dominance of music. and John and Paul may have been the driving force George and Ringos contributions gave them the final piece of the puzzle.

[thestranger4812]

Back then it was about the guests, today it's all about the hosts. You notice how Dick lets him speak completely uninterrupted?

[journeythruthepast]

George did use coke i think in the 70s but during this interview a few of his best buds had drug issues. Namely Clapton being reclusive cause of his heroin addiction. George might've been thinking of Slowhand when he did that speech about heroin.

[CheerJaja]

"haaahhhh your doing nasty things!" :) I love how George tells things in such a unique way, also quite truthful too. May he rest in paradise and in peace.

[MuzikLady22]

The concert was unforgettable!!

[Quex01]

TV is still a load of rubbish, and it is getting much worse...

[qsergyuko]

george is alive and well he lives in my attic.

[vnisanianisback]

@qsergyuko Hillarous.

[jegkiggerbare2]

@qsergyuko tell him we said hi =)

[maggottron333]

@qsergyuko Can I meet him, please?

[DoctorUncleKeith]

always my favorite Beatle by far. his honesty and humor really showed what kind of person he was. i and many many others miss you George.

[1spati]

@DoctorUncleKeith That wasn't a very nice comment about the starving musicians.

He would be a starving musician too if he didn't hit the jackpot with the Beatles.

[1spati]

@DoctorUncleKeith That comment is bewtween 12:52 to 12:55

[ryan25n]

@DoctorUncleKeith well said my friend couldnt of said it better

[HeatherRawriee]

He is just fantastic, funny, frank - just a beautiful man, love him dearly :) <33

[redhedbedhed]

george's talk about drugs is really great, it's so real and straightforward. not preachy, but he's so wise