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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Seth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Description: Seth Rogovoy's latest book for Oxford University Press is called Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison (Oxford University Press, 2024). Often, biographies of musicians put the story of the subjectâs life front and center, letting the music recede into the background. For a musician like George Harrison, this would be a mistake. George, the lead guitarist of the Beatles, sometimes referred to as the âquiet one,â was one of his generationâs greatest guitarists. He quietly steered the Fab Four in directions that made them legendary, through his innovative use of sitar or his thoughtful, self-reflective song-writing that contr...