Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. This song was released on George's first solo album, "All Things Must Pass".
"In the fog and in the rain
Through the pleasures and the pain
On the step outside you stand
With your flowers in your hand."
2. George made what he called in an interview a "fun" song--making a joke of having been sued for his song "My Sweet Lord." What song was this? A few lyrics to help:
"This riff ain't trying to win gold medals
This riff ain't hip or square
Well done or rare
May end up one more weight to bear"
3. You can find this song on "33 & 1/3"
"Someone's driving a 450
And his friends are so wild
They're still in their stick shifties
But they feel they have much more style."
4. In an interview, George himself said that the video to this song should be called, "Spot the Loony!" What song is he talking about? Here's the hint:
"I was so young when I was born
My eyes could not yet see
And by the time of my first dawn
Somebody holding me . . . they said,"
5. This song is dedicated to a very famous singer who recorded on the Motown label:
"Throughout my lifetimes I'd hesitate
I'd feel some joy
But before I'd show my thanks it became too late
But now all the way I want to find the time
Stop and say
I thank you Lord for giving us each new day"
6. George released this song on his "All Things Must Pass" album. He had begun to feel that if he treated people in a bad way, they were going to do the same to him.
"Some things take so long
Now how do I explain?
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same"
7. This song was released on "Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989".
"If your hair should fall
If your shares should crash
You'll get by even without getting a rash"
8. George wrote this song as sort of a joke, to sound as though it was an old Beatle song.
"And while you're in this world
The fuzz gonna come and claim you
But you mo' better wise
When the buzz gonna come and take you away"
9. This next song George wrote about how he felt being in show business and being, in his words, "too famous."
"Now we like to air condition - though the air has no ozone ring
Still they're chopping down the forest
For McDonald's and the Burger King
Eating cows with such persistence - doesn't offer much resistance"
10. A lot of people thought that this next song was written about George's first wife, Patti:
"You thought you had got me in your grip
Baby looks like you was not so smart
And I became too slippery for you
But let me tell you that was nothing new."
11. This song appeared on the album "George Harrison":
"------- ------- ------- -------
For being on your street
Getting underneath your feet
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No use handing me a writ
While I'm trying to do my bit."
12. This is one of George's best songs. He hated gossip, so he wrote this song about it:
"It's white and black like industrial waste
Pollution of the highest degree
You wonder why I don't hang out much
I wonder how you can't see."
13. This beautiful song is also on the album "33 & 1/3".
"And when I saw the way that she smiled at me
I knew it there and then that she was A-one
And then I felt the way she was touching me
Was something I had known I was waiting upon."
14. This song was written for a good friend of George's who became famous in the world of sports.
"The people were intrigued
His wife held back her fears
The headlines gave acclaim
He'd realized their dreams."
15. This last song appears on the album "Cloud 9":
"Since our problems have been our own creation
They also can be overcome
When we use the power provided free to everyone.."
Source: Author
kennell
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