George Harrison: Living In The Material World, which airs over two nights on October 4 and 5 on HBO, features an avalanche of interviews with the musicians and close friends who knew the guitarist best. None are as revealing as those with his wife, Olivia, who also served as producer, and his only son, Dhani. Now 33 and an accomplished musician in his own right—he fronts the thenewno2, whose new EP, EP002, was released in September—George’s spitting image son was born almost a full decade after the Beatles’s dissolution. Naturally, Dhani knew a different George. We chatted with Dhani about the documentary, getting validation from his idols, and his old pal, Wu-Tang Clan’s the RZA.
GQ: This film has your father’s diehard fans feeling quite validated. How did it get off the ground? Dhani Harrison: The way it first started was my mother thinking about doing a documentary. One of her friends had dinner with Scorsese and the conversation over dinner was, “I’m done doing documentaries.” He was like “What? What are you talking about? You’re Martin Scorsese. Why don’t you make some more?” He said “No, no. The only thing that I’d be interested in doing would be a George Harrison documentary.” And my mom’s friend said, “Well, that’s funny ‘cause I was just speaking with Olivia Harrison and she wants to do a documentary.” It literally came together just like that. [Martin and my mom] spoke on the phone and it was on.
GQ: I’ve read that you and your mother were quite inspired by Scorsese’s Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home. Dhani Harrison: We love that documentary. You know that thing when Bob is standing there and is like [Editor’s note: at this point Harrison makes his best effort to recite a scene in the film where Dylan, reading a store sign, mumbles jibberish.] ”I need someone to cut my clips, wash my clothes, wash my dog, deliver me back to the cigarettes, animal my soul.” That’s classic.
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“Scorsese interviewed everyone three times. He interviewed me twice for about two hours each time. Then only used, what, 10 seconds. He’s very thorough. He gets to the core of things. I think he’s an incredible person.”
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“Scorsese interviewed everyone three times. He interviewed me twice for about two hours each time. Then only used, what, 10 seconds. He’s very thorough. He gets to the core of things. I think he’s an incredible person.”
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“My earliest memory of my dad is probably of him somewhere in a garden covered in dirt, somewhere hot, a tropical garden, in jeans, khakis, covered in dirt just continuously planting trees. I think that’s what I thought he did for the first seven years of my life. I was completely unaware that he had anything to do with music. I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing ‘Yellow Submarine’, and I didn’t understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were in The Beatles?’ And he said, ‘Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.’” - Dhani Harrison
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“I had a dream that I saw him and that was what I said to him in the dream, so I guess that’s what would be the question. “Where’ve you been since I last saw you?” And he answered, so I can tell you the answer as well which was “Here the whole time.” Which doesn’t really help me in any way but you know.”
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“My earliest memory of my dad is probably of him somewhere in a garden covered in dirt, somewhere hot, a tropical garden, in jeans, khakis, covered in dirt just continuously planting trees. I think that’s what I thought he did for the first seven years of my life. I was completely unaware that he had anything to do with music. I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing ‘Yellow Submarine’, and I didn’t understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were in The Beatles?’ And he said, ‘Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.’” - Dhani Harrison
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Interviewer: What would you ask your father if he were around?
Dhani: ”Where have you been?”
“I had a dream that I saw him and that was what I said to him in the dream, so I guess that’s what would be the question. “Where’ve you been since I last saw you?” And he answered, so I can tell you the answer as well which was “Here the whole time.” Which doesn’t really help me in any way but you know.”
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