It seems George searched far and wide for tranquility. The widow of George Harrison has talked of his lifelong hunt for tranquility after his time with the Beatles left him “shellshocked”.
George, who died from lung cancer in 2001, was always known as the quiet Beatle, something his widow Olivia knew only too well. Speaking to the Daily Express, she said: “He was shellshocked from the whole Beatles experience. Literally shellshocked. “He hated loud noises. And imagine if all day, every day, for five or six years, people were screaming at you when you opened your door, jumping on the hood of your car, looking in the window.
“And then there were the death threats.
“He wanted to be far away. And he wanted sunshine.”
George hunted out the furthest corners of the globe, said Olivia.
“George was always on a quest to get as far away as he could.
We found Hawaii and built a house there. But he wanted to keep going.
“We went to Tasmania, New Zealand, Australia.
“I had the feeling that he travelled the planet simply to look for solitude. It was about ‘how far away can I get?’”
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