George, you will always be in our hearts and minds.

If you feel like you want to have a lasting tribute to George in your own backyard plant a "Khali Ginger Lily"
(also known as Hedychium Gardnerianum Ginger Lily). George once mentioned this Lily as one of his favourite plants and it would be a fitting tribute to our George who loved his garden so much to plant one of these in his honour.
(Thanks to Joanna MacCarthy for this idea on how to honour our George)

CONCERT FOR GEORGE
A rundown of the performers and what they performed

1st part of show presented by Ravi Shankar (with his daughter Anoushka)
Ravi Shankar told the audience " I strongly feel that George is here tonight. How can he not be here when all of us who loved him so much have assembled all together to sing for him and play for him".
Three Indian Pieces
Jeff Lynne: The Inner Light

Intermission

Monty Python:(Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones & Neil Innes): Sit On My Face" & "The Lumberjack Song"(Monty Python apparently appeared in waiters outfits with long white aprons to sing "Sit On My Face" then turned around to reveal their bare bums!)
Jeff Lynne: I Want To Tell You
Jeff Lynne and Eric Clapton: If I Needed Someone
Gary Brooker: Old Brown Shoe
Jeff Lynne: Give Me Love
Eric Clapton: Beware Of Darkness
Joe Brown: Here Comes The Sun
Joe Brown: That's The Way It Goes
Sam Brown with Jools Holland: Horse To The Water
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Taxman
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: I Need You
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison: Handle With Care
Eric Clapton & Billy Preston: Isn't It A Pity
Ringo: Photograph
Ringo: Honey Don't
Paul & Ringo: For You Blue
Paul, Eric Clapton & Jeff Lynne: Something
Paul: All Things Must Pass(Paul told the crowd "Olivia just said that with Dhani on stage it looks like we all got old and George stayed young)
Eric Clapton & Paul: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Billy Preston: My Sweet Lord
Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton & Dhani Harrison: Wah Wah
Joe Brown: I'll See You In My Dreams (Olivia came out on stage during this final number, a song which was written by Joe Brown. He used to play this song for George and was honoured that it had been chosen to close the show)

Other onstage muscos included: Katie Kissoon & Tessa Niles, Jim Horn, Ray Cooper, Andy Fairweather Low, Emil Richards, Tom Scott, Henry Spinetti, Chris Stainton, Benmont Tench, Albert Lee & Jim Capaldi. Strings were arranged by Michael Kamen.
At the end of the evening Dhani told the audience "I just want from the bottom of my heart to thank all the musicians, you are my dad's best friends, he loves you. God bless you all".

For those of you who are interested you can purchase from the Official George Harrison website a t-shirt from the concert and also the concert program which was given to all ticket holders at the show.

Some Thoughts on George
By Carol Cleveland

When the report came through about the "last supper" that George and Paul and Ringo had, it started me thinking about several things. The first was the very long-lived hope among some fans that somehow rock musicians can provide the leadership to a new world of social justice, truth, and beauty. I have always felt that this was a delusion: that you can be a great musician, but it's unlikely you'll also have the time and energy to be a great political leader. You will have to choose whether to lead or make music, and if your talent is for music, that's probably where you should stay. I have always felt that the role musicians can play is to provide us with anthems, with unifying songs to keep our spirits and hopes up *while we do the work*. I feel some perfectly sincere fans expected John Lennon to be a sort of secular savior, and that he hated the exaggerated expectations as much as he wanted to use whatever influence he had to make a difference on the issues closest to his heart. I think I see evidence that we expect some sort of miraclulous help for our confusion of Paul McCartney, simply because he is still here, and probably of Bob Dylan, another sixties survivor. But when I contemplate the lives of the Beatles today, I think that they have all been leaders, each in his own way according to his individual lights about what's important: Paul as a vegetarian and animal rights activist, George about the importance of the search for God, Ringo by performing a very difficult task, kicking alcohol, and then getting on with "what he does," make music. And some of the most obvious ways they have led have nothing to do with politics. I want to draw your imaginative attention to that last lunch in a house on Staten Island. Paul has said in interviews for years how happy he is that his last conversation with John was cheerful, and said that if George had not made it up with John, he bet George regretted it. Having learned this lesson, they appear to have made sure that if they had to say goodbye to George, he was going to leave knowing how they felt about him. It seems to me that the pattern of how these four men have spent their energy is pretty clear, and it is a pretty good pattern for anyone to follow. While they were in the Beatles, they gave 1000% to it, as Ringo said. Once the Beatles were no more, each one of them seems to have ranked family first, music (their work) second, and being citizens of the world third. That is one hell of a good prescription for a life that is successful in the best sense of the word. All of them had a tidy sum of money at an early age, and none of them was satisfied with that as a measure of success. If the measure of the success of your life is how many people mourn you when you go, and how many people love you, and how many people heard your message, then they will all die very successful human beings. These guys will have people singing their songs, and picking apart the lyrics for any meanings they missed the first time around, until the sun sets on the human race. So by all means look to them for leadership: if you are religiously inclined, be serious about it. If you have grave doubts about what we are doing to the earth and our fellow creatures in order to get a hamburger to our tables, look into vegetarianism and ecology; if your drug of choice is living your life instead of you, reverse that relationship. Above all, get your priorities straight: and if you want some models for that, you could do a lot worse than look at John, and Paul, and George, and Ringo. I see George sitting up for six hours and *entertaining* his friends, when he hadn't a month to live. I see his friends laughing when they weren't crying, and celebrating one of the great adventures of the century: the wild and very disciplined ride called the Beatles. They came into our lives with such style and such a zest for life: it looks as though when they leave it, they're going out with the same style. Way to go, George!

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