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
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.
father men thinking
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.
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.
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.
names use term
I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.