Rock biographer Philip Norman: 'It took me years to understand the paradox of George Harrison'

After books on Lennon and McCartney, the author turns to the contradictory 'quiet Beatle' - whose acid tongue and sexual buccaneering coexisted with his mantras and prayer wheels George Harrison died on 29 November, 2001 after a four-year battle with cancer, aged 58. The 9/11 atrocities were only two months earlier but despite the continuous grim developments from the still-smouldering wreckage of New York's World Trade Center and President George W Bush's retaliatory "war on terror", his passin...