I Me Mine by George Harrison

In early 1979, Gary Wright and I (Chris Agajanian) were on our way to meet up with George at his beautiful home in Bel-Air, California, one of which was destroyed in the mudslide of 1980. The reason for the get-together was to discuss a trip we were planning to South America, and Brazil in particular.

We were sitting around the dinner table, Olivia was busy doing work in the other room, and we were discussing a time that we should meet up in Sao Paulo. George’s good friend, Emerson Fittipaldi, who at the time was one of the best racing car drivers in the world, invited George to the Grand Prix of Brazil. And George, having never been to Brazil, and being the huge racing fan that he was, accepted. I had always wanted to meet Emerson, and loved Formula One, so for me, I was in. Gary was excited to go to South America to record some South American rhythms and percussions that he might use on his next album. So, over the next couple of days, Gary and I got Warner Records involved and the trip started coming together.

Once that was settled George said, “Hey you guys, do you want to get my new book that I just finished?” Gary said sure, and I said of course. So, he got up and started walking towards the back room and stopped and said, “Oh, by-the-way, they’re $600.00, do you still want one?” Gary said, no that’s okay, and I said absolutely!

Then George comes back with a yellow legal pad which had three pages that were numbered in the margin from 1 to 100. He said, “Alright, what number do you want?” I noticed the first 10 numbers were blank and the rest of the numbers on that page were filled with names, so I said, what about one of those numbers, pointing to the first 10 and George said, no those are my personal numbers, so thinking for a bit, I said, well our racecar number is #98, how about that? And George turns to the third page, which had only a few names on it and said, no, #98 is taken. I thought wow, who would want that number. So, I said, George can I see the name on line 98, and I looked and didn’t recognize the name. I knew that George had just finished his “Thirty Three & 1/ॐ “album when he was 33 years old.

And knowing the significance and the spiritual meaning of the number 33, that it is also referred to as the “Jesus Year” since He lived on this earth until he was 33, the Ohm sign, and that 33 is considered a Master Number, I said, what about #33? So, George went back to the first page and there amongst all the names was a blank space next to the number 33. Out of all the numbers in the world of Numerology, the Master Number Numerology 33 is said to be one of the most spiritually inclined numbers, and for that number to be obtainable, I was totally amazed, so I said, I’ll take it.

As a side note, the number 33 had always shown up in my life, time after time, so much so that I stopped making mention of it, I just enjoyed it when it would show up. But I do feel it appropriate I mention it here; When I was 33 years old, I had my first child. She was born exactly at 3:33 in the afternoon on September 4th, 1982. It wasn’t but a few years later that in a dream I was told to add up my daughter’s birthdate, when I awoke, I added 9+4+19+82 together, I wasn’t totally surprised… I was just gratified.

So, George writes in my name, without asking how to spell it, gets up, takes his legal pad back and returns with a little black and white picture and says, “Chris, would you like a picture of my new little boy?” I said sure, what’s his name. He replied, “Dhani, not the way you think it would be spelled. He is named after the sixth and seventh notes of the Indian music scale, ‘dha’ and ‘ni’. It’s a raga.” When I returned home, I looked up the meaning of the word raga, it is a group of melodic structures with musical themes, considered in the Indian tradition to have the ability to “color the mind” and affect the emotions of the listener.

Dhani Harrison (born Aug 1, 1978) with his father George (born Feb 25, 1943)

Photo taken in Friar Park Studio #649