Olivia Harrison
| Olivia Harrison | |
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 In April 2009 |
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| Born | Olivia Trinidad Arias 18 May 1948 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican, British |
| Known for | "Beatle wife" |
| Spouse(s) | George Harrison (m. 1978–2001) (deceased) |
| Children | Dhani Harrison |
Olivia Harrison (born Olivia Trinidad Arias, 18 May 1948) is a British-Mexican author, film producer and widow of musician George Harrison.
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Early life [edit]
Harrison is the daughter of a dry-cleaner and a seamstress.[citation needed] She attended Hawthorne High School in Southern California and graduated in 1965.[citation needed]
Adult life [edit]
Harrison worked as a secretary at A&M Records, where she met George Harrison.[1] She married him in a private ceremony in 1978 at the Henley-on-Thames Register Office in England. Harrison attended Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach's wedding in 1981 without her wedding ring, giving rise to the mistaken speculation that her marriage to George was a hoax.[citation needed] In the early 1990s, Harrison founded the Romanian Angel Appeal to provide aid to children living in devastation in Romania.[citation needed]
In 1999, Harrison and her husband George were attacked by a mentally ill man who broke into their home. After George was stabbed, Olivia attacked the assailant with a "heavy table lamp".[2][3]
Harrison produced the memorial Concert For George in 2002 at London's Royal Albert Hall, which featured Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, and her son Dhani. Proceeds from the event were given to George's Material World Charitable Foundation. Harrison's video production received the Best Long Form Music Video in 2005.[citation needed] She wrote the introduction for the 2002 book I Me Mine and authored the book Concert for George: A Celebration of the Life of George Harrison in 2006.
Harrison appeared on-stage at Microsoft's 1 June 2009, E3 press conference with Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to promote the The Beatles: Rock Band video game.[4]
She co-produced the Martin Scorsese film George Harrison: Living in the Material World and appeared with Scorsese at Cannes in 2010 and in New York City in the summer of 2011 to promote the documentary.[5] She co-authored the book George Harrison: Living in the Material World, which was released in 2011.
References [edit]
- ^ "Olivia Harrison Biography". the-beatles-history.com. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
- ^ The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America, pp 277–278, Eric Idle, Harper Entertainment, 2005, ISBN 0-06-075864-3
- ^ Udovitch, Mim; Wild, David (2 January 2002<!- – 12:00 AM -->). "Tom Petty Remembers George". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 31 October 2008.[dead link]
- ^ Radosh, Daniel (11 August 2009), "While My Guitar Gently Beeps", The New York Times (New York ed.) (2009-08-16): MM26, ISSN 0362-4331, retrieved 2009-08-26
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave, "Within Him, Without Him" (limited free access), The New York Times, 23 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Mexican emigrants to the United States
- American people of Mexican descent
- American expatriates in Australia
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- George Harrison
- Grammy Award-winning artists
- People from Los Angeles, California
- Mexican expatriates in the United Kingdom
- People from Hawthorne, California
