The comedian Eric Idle, best known for being a member of Monty Phyton, was a close friend of the late legendary Beatles guitarist George Harrison, who even helped the comedy group to make some of their famous movies. Idle gave more details in an interview with Adam Buxton, about when Harrison was attacked by a crazy intruder back in 1999. The attacker was a 34-year-old paranoid schizophrenic that was later on found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was sentenced to indefinite confinement in a psychiatric hospital, but was discharged a few years later in 2002, eight months after Harrison passed away from cancer at the age of 58. Eric Idle gives details of when George Harrison was attacked by an intruder "He (Harrison) was very disturbed. I have never, ever seen him more disturbed. It was really shocking, because they fought for 20 minutes. (He was stabbed about 40 times) with a butcher's knife, and bleeding to death. (It was a) crazed guy, off his meds and I think he'd been looking for Paul (McCartney). He couldn't find Paul, so it's easier to find Henley. And he came over the wall, smashed in the window, and George, I think, came out because George was the bold one, who told the Hell's Angels to fuck off. He was always the one who came and said, 'No, you've got to fuck off' out of Abbey Road." "I think he did the same thing. He went at the top of the stairs and told him to fuck off, you know. And then he yelled 'Hare Krishna!' and the guy came at him up the stairs with a knife. It would have been wiser, perhaps, to lock the door and call the police. So I think Liv (Harrison's wife, Olivia) called the police, but it took them about 20 minutes to get there, and this all-out attack took place, and I think Liv, in the end, bashed him over the head with a Tiffany lamp, and they were all passed out when the police arrived and blood everywhere. It was like a scene from a horror film." He continued: "I know he was very shaken. They had a puja [a Hindu ceremony during which prayer is offered to one or more deities]. We went round and went through the attack, bit by bit, up the stairs and still blood on walls and things. It was like really awful and shocking and kind of therapeutic," Eric Idle said (Transcribed by Classic Rock). After EMI Films withdrew funding for the Monty Python classic Life of Brian just a few days before production was set to begin, George Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brien arranged financing through the formation of Handmade Films. The film was a major success: made on a $4 million budget, it grossed over $20 million at the box office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUUUVRVvWG0&t=2sThe post Eric Idle gives details of when George Harrison was attacked by an intruder appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.