George Harold Harrison, the youngest of the Beatles, was born on February 25, 1943. He had two brothers, Harold Jr. and Peter, and a sister, Louise. His mother, Louise, was a housewife and his father, Harold, a bus driver. George's initial interest in the guitar came slowly. Her mother remembers starting to find paper covered with drawings of guitars among her school stuff. So she bought George an old second-hand guitar from one of his classmates for three pounds. George tried to teach himself to play, but his progress was slow. He would sometimes stay up all night playing until his fingers bled. George attended Dovendale Primary School, two grades behind John Lennon, and then attended Liverpool Institute, one grade behind Paul McCartney. George and Paul took the same bus to school and soon discovered they had music and guitars in common. George and his brother Peter had formed a Skiffle band and, because they were so young, they had to sneak out of the house to play their first engagement. Paul introduced the skinny, spotty George to the Quarrymen, who was only 14 at the time. Not old enough to join the group, George hung out with the boys and came to idolize John, doing everything he could to emulate him. George stood at the back of the room at all their concerts with his guitar. On a few occasions he filled in for the regular guitarist who didn't show up, and the boys were also welcomed into George's house by his mother to practice and for an occasional "buttie jam".&...