The best advice George Harrison gave his son was “Keep your head down. There’s enough trouble that will find you without having to go looking for it,” the 39-year-old multi-instrumentalist and film composer says in a phone interview. Dhani Harrison has inherited his dad’s predilection for operating quietly and deflecting attention—as much as a musician in earth’s most popular rock band could do so.
Notably, Harrison the younger is not trying to follow in the footsteps of his world-famous father. That would be a fool’s errand, as Julian Lennon could tell you. Instead, Harrison is forging a distinctly 21st-century path toward a rewarding middle ground between electronic music and rock.
