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“George was a young man — aged 27 — when he bought [Friar Park]. The garden was derelict and overgrown. It would take a rare person to look at that and say, ‘This is great!’ But he just set about restoring it. It’s really a beautiful, beautiful place and it was just about doing it for the love of it.” - Olivia Harrison, The Sun, June 12, 2009 “He used to say in Liverpool at six they would close the parks [and would be kicked out], and his father told me, he said, ‘When [George] was small he said, “One day I’m going to get my own park.”’ [laughs] And so ‘The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp’ is just… I think about it all the time.” - Olivia Harrison, BBC Radio, November 4, 2020 “As a small boy, Dhani says, ‘I was pretty sure he was just a gardener’ — a reasonable conclusion, since Harrison would work 12-hour days out there, missing family dinners as he pursued his vision, planting trees and flowers. ‘Being a gardener and not hanging out with anyone and just being home, that was pretty rock & roll, you know?’ says Dhani, who understood his father’s affinity: ‘When you’re in a really beautiful garden, it reminds you constantly of God.’” - Rolling Stone, September 15, 2011 (x)