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George Harrison Biography

(1943–2001)

Related Works

Albums
1968 Wonderwall
1969 Electronic Sound

1970 All Things Must Pass
1972 The Concert For Bangladesh (with other artists)
1973 Living In The Material World
1974 Dark Horse
1975 Extra Texture
1976 Thirty Three And A Third
1979 George Harrison
1981 Somewhere In England
1982 Gone Troppo
1987 Cloud Nine
1992 Live In Japan
Compilations
1977 The Best Of George Harrison
1989 Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989

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Singer, musician, and songwriter, born on February 25, 1943 in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He played lead guitar and sang with the Beatles, and developed an interest in Indian music and Eastern religion, receiving instruction on the sitar from Ravi Shankar, and associating with the religious leader, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Following the break-up of the Beatles, he made a solo album, All Things Must Pass (1970), which included the gospelly hit ‘My Sweet Lord’, later the subject of an expensive plagiarism suit. Later solo albums included Living in the Material World (1973), Dark Horse (1974), and Somewhere in England (1981), and he joined with other artists in the ‘super-group’ The Traveling Wilburys (1988–90), and with Starr and McCartney to produce the Beatles anthology (1995). He formed Dark Horse Records in 1974, and a film company, HandMade Films, in 1978, producing a number of feature films, such as Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), Time Bandits (1981, also writing the music and lyrics), A Private Function (1984), and Withnail and I (1987). He also wrote a volume of autobiography, I Me Mine. George Harrison was severely wounded following a knife attack by an intruder at his Henley home at the end of 1999, and died on November 29, 2001 after a long battle against cancer.