 IN THE minds of many, the mere mention of the name George Harrison evokes crystal images of Beatlemania, and of rock music's golden age. His name is a key that unlocks a door to long-ago memories of other days that have now faded away. To me, his name conjures up muted sounds of Here Comes the Sun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and My Sweet Lord, and has them drifting softly through my mind in a dreamy cadence. Was there ever a more lovely way in which to herald the coming of springtime than Here Comes the Sun? Decades after Harrison wrote and recorded it, there remains a brilliant simplicity to this time-worn classic that still has the fresh feel of a summer rain shower as it gently pulls you along. It's one of those songs that still has the power to capture our imagination when it comes on the car radio. We might be driving along the road with the top down drinking-in the warmth, or just strolling through the garden on a spring morning and we find ourselves humming it over and over again. It stays with us. Here Comes the Sun is timeless, and it is vintage George Harrison. And every time I hear it I'm still struck by the thought that George left this world too soon. He died far too young.
 For those people who came of age in the 1960s, The Beatles rode the back of the decade as if they had invented it. The world's most celebrated and enduring musical quartet became the kings of all that they surveyed while earning fame and fortune on a scale that they had never dared dream of as young boys growing up in Liverpool. Many of us carry around in the back pocket of our mind indelible images of The Beatles. Freeze frames of four carefree madcap lads who, through their talent and by the sheer force of their personalities, defined the decade. It was a magic time when the Beatles extended the creative envelope as far as it would stretch, and in the process, they also took the rest of the world along with them on the ride. There can be no doubt that, for George Harrison, being a Beatle was often a daunting challenge indeed. | 
