George Harrison was born in Liverpool on 25th February 1943. His family were Roman Catholic and he went to school close to Penny Lane – later to me immortalised in song. At school he became friendly with Paul McCartney. It was Paul McCartney who introduced George Harrison to John Lennon and George was gradually invited to play with the pre-Beatles band – The Quarryman.

George Harrison was the youngest Beatle, being only 16 when he met up with John Lennon.

George Harrison of the Beatles was a devotee of Yogananda, and Yogananda’s image appears on the cover of the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band . Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya and Swami Sri Yukteswar, other gurus in Yogananda’s lineage, are also on the album cover.

Harrison liked to give away copies of his “Autobiography of a Yogi.”

Harrison’s interest in India began during production of the Beatles’ second movie, Help! (1965), with its slapstick Hindu subplot. He was intrigued by the sitar used in an Indian restaurant scene filmed in London.