Updated 6:50pm 31 May 2012

Director scours Liverpool archives in search for truth about Beatles star George Harrison

Arnold Grove

Scorsese has already produced a documentary about the life of Bob Dylan up to 1966, No Direction Home, and the highly acclaimed concert film of Rolling Stones, Shine a Light, which was released this year.

For this latest project, he is working alongside Harrison’s widow, Olivia, whom he has asked to co-produce the film.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Star are also thought to have agreed to participate.

Other records sent to Grove Street Films show Harrison’s baptism at Our Lady of Good Health, Wavertree, in March, 1943.

Aside from attending the same primary school as John Lennon, the school records also shows the Harrison family’s move to Speke and his attendance at the former Liverpool Institute.

Better known as Paul McCartney’s LIPA, Harrison left the institute on July 23, 1959.

Photographs of Arnold Grove taken in the early 1970s, the church of his baptism and photographs of the new council houses next to the old Speke village buildings have also been faxed to America.

Mr Roach added: “These documents chart the facts of his early life and rather than listening to myth or reading old newspaper reports the film crew have asked for all the evidence.

“Despite this there is so much we still don’t know about George and the Beatles, for example we have never found any record of where John Lennon was baptised if he was at all.”

The film, which is likely to go into production next year and take several years to complete is thought to have been sparked by the discovery of a lost interview with Harrison last month.

Recorded by journalist Miranda Ward in 1967, Harrison talks frankly about his life, Eastern politics and drugs.

laurasharpe@dailypost.co.uk

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