Dhani Harrison
Dhani Harrison
Dhani Harrison is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and singer-songwriter who is the only child of George Harrison and Olivia Harrison. Harrison debuted as a professional musician assisting in recording his father's final album, Brainwashed, and completing it with the assistance of Jeff Lynne after his father's death in November 2001. Harrison formed his own band, thenewno2, in 2006...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth1 August 1978
CityWindsor, England
stars dad want
I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.
dad play age
I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.
song sorry dad
I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'
thinking hype buying
I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.
cinema close-friends knows
I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.
apples iphone design
If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.
used composer stills
Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
children parent only-child
I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
two woody huskies
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
band littles prototype
Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.
song taco-bell bells
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
love teenager prodigies
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
Everyone's seen the Beatles.
fans huge
I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan.