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Subject: George Harrison helps float Natural Law Party
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 4:13:44 PDT
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	LONDON (UPI) -- Former Beatle George Harrison helped launch the
earthbound aspirations of the Natural Law Party in his first full-length
British concert since performing with the Beatles in 1969.
	Playing to an audience of more than 5,000 people in the Royal Albert
Hall Monday night, Harrison wooed fans with classic Beatles numbers and
other songs he has written over the past 25 years.
	He was joined briefly on stage by fellow Beatle Ringo Starr for a
rousing verson of ``Roll Over Beethoven,'' eclipsing other musicians who
included former Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh and Gary Moore.
	The evening, billed as an ``Inspiration to the Youth of Great
Britain,'' was the first of three nights of benefit concerts to
celebrate the formation of the Natural Law Party, founded just three
weeks before Thursday's general election.
	The party claims to be the first political group in the world
promising to ``create the supreme quality of life -- Heaven on Earth ...
within six months,'' and is linked to the worldwide movement founded by
transcendental meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whom the Beatles
visited in India in 1968.
	The party, which is running candidates for 313 House of Commons
seats, has promised to use Hindu mysticism to create a modern-day
paradise, offering lower taxes and a country free of disease, crime,
pollution and stress.
	References to the upcoming election were few, but Harrison and his
friends played a upbeat version of the Beatles composition, ``Taxman,''
replacing the names of former Prime Ministers Edward Heath and Harold
Wilson with those of current Prime Minister John Major and opposition
Labour leader Neil Kinnock.
	``I believe this party offers the only option to get out of our
problems and create the beautiful nation we would all like to have,''
Harrison said before the concert.
	Resplendent lighting accompanied more sentimental numbers such as 
``While My Guitar Gently Weeps,'' ``Something in the Way She Moves,''
and ``Here Comes the Sun.''
	Harrison last performed with the Beatles in 1969 on the roof of the
Apple Records building in central London. The group officially broke up
two years later. Since then, his only other public performance in
Britain was a brief appearance with Ringo Starr at a Prince's Trust
charity concert in 1987.
	``The general election should be a celebration of democracy and our
right to vote,'' Harrison said. ``The Natural Law Party is turning this
election into a wonderful, national celebration and I am with them all
the way.''
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