Concert will mark musical legend
Seaford-based Alex Eberhard will be leading the All Things Must Pass Orchestra in their first concerts for three years.
They will be offering their celebration of the remarkable legacy of the late, great George Harrison on May 18 at Brighton Komedia and on May 19 at The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre in Havant.
They come bearing approval and encouragement from the man who really matters, George’s son Dhani whom they met when Alex and fellow guitarist Bernd Rest did a duo performance near Henley last year – not far from where George lived.
Dhani booked a table at the restaurant where Alex and Bernd were gigging and embraced Alex warmly after the performance. As Alex says, it was a funny thought that two Austrians should be playing George Harrison in England to George Harrison’s son.
“The place we played was The Crooked Billet, a gastro pub, and the landlord got in touch with me because it is also a music venue.
“He sent me a clipping from an old newspaper from the 1990s, a little article saying that George Harrison had been stopped playing there by the police because of the neighbours!
“George Harrison and his family frequently would go there for a meal and at some point Gary Moore’s wife had a birthday there and Gary Moore and George Harrison were jamming and the neighbours complained. They didn’t know that it was George Harrison playing.”