Looking inside the George Harrison Grammy Museum exhibit (pictures)

"George Harrison: Living in the Material World," an exhibit featuring items connected with his life, is now on view at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. We have some pictures of the exhibit provided by the museum in the slideshow.

See pictures from "George Harrison: Living in the Material World" in the slideshow at left.
Also see a video report on the exhibit from the Los Angeles Times at left.

View slideshow: "George Harrison: Living in the Material World"

The exhibit is the first major museum exhibit to explore Harrison's life and was done in cooperation with Olivia Harrison, opened the week following the premiere of the HBO film of the same name. The opening week was highlighted, according to the Los Angeles Times, by a VIP only reception hosted by Harrison's widow, Olivia, and attended by a lot of familiar names, including fellow Beatle Ringo Starr and wife Barbara Bach, ELO leader and Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne, actor Edward James Olmos and drummer Jim Keltner.

The exhibit features items provided by the Harrison estate, including handwritten song lyrics, stage costumes and outfits, including ths creme colored suit he wore during "The Concert For Bangladesh," his passport and sketchbooks and journals.

One of our regular readers, who we know as Rock Singer, saw the exhibit last night.

"The George Harrison exhibition which just opened was really something to see, not only did the Grammy Museum procure many of George's hand written lyrics, some tailored made coats as well as the most famous guitars that he played throughout his career with and without the Beatles.

"My favorite part of the exhibit was off to the side, four small mixing board where you could remix George's song "This is Love." I couldn't resist it and had to try. I only wished I could have kept a personal copy of the remix that I made myself.

"Yeah I'm no Jeff Lynne but it was fun trying."

In the pictures, you can see a display case from "The Concert For Bangladesh," a case of early Beatles items and the entrance to the exhibit. At left is a video done by the Los Angeles Times of the exhibit.

The exhibit will be on display until March 25, 2012.

(Thanks to Rock Singer for the comments.)

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