George Harrison's son Dhani has admitted he felt a "tremendous responsibility" to release more music from his late father.

When he passed in 2001, George was working on a career retrospective and so, 36-year-old Dhani took over the project and did his best to ensure as much of his dad's work was heard as possible.

Dhani and Olivia Harrison

Olivia Harrison, George's widow explained: "He wanted his music out. George was just embarking on that retrospective of his musical life - he never called it a career, he said that was the wrong word for him - but time ran out and he died.

"Dhani wanted to do it and felt a tremendous responsibility to do it. There's still a huge archive of material that still needs working on. You can't just let tapes degrade and never be heard again."

A revelation from Dhani surprised his mother - the fact he'd learned a lot about his father whilst putting together new compilation 'The Apple Years 1968-75'.

Olivia said speaking to The Times: "I thought George shared a lot with Dhani, much more. Maybe it was a prescient thought of, 'I'm not going to hold anything back'. He really did give him a lot of instruction on everything in life so I don't know what Dhani's thinking about there.

He did express a lot in his music that he didn't express in life. He wouldn't want to talk about things but he would write a song that had more personal revelations in it than I would ever want to say. I would think, 'How could you say that? It's so intimate' but that was his way of expressing himself. Thank goodness he did."

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