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- NAME: George Harrison
- OCCUPATION: Musician
- BIRTH DATE: February 25, 1943
- DEATH DATE: November 29, 2001
- EDUCATION: Liverpool Institute, Dovedale Primary School
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Liverpool, United Kingdom
- PLACE OF DEATH: Los Angeles, California
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George Harrison was lead guitarist of The Beatles as well as a singer-songwriter on many of their most memorable tracks.
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Not long after George Harrison reunited with Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney for the creation of an exhaustive three-part release of the Beatles Anthology, which featured alternative takes, rare tracks,
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and a John Lennon demo called Free as a Bird that the three surviving Beatles completed in the studio. The song went on to become the group's 34th Top 10 single.
From there, however, Harrison largely became homebody, keeping himself busy with gardening and his cars at his expansive and restored home in Henley-on-Thames in south Oxfordshire, England.
Death and Legacy
Still, the ensuing years were not completely stress free. In 1998, Harrison, a longtime smoker, reportedly was successfully treated for throat cancer. A year later, his life was again put on the line when a deranged 33-year-old Beatles fan somehow managed to circumvent Harrison's intricate security system and detail and broke into his home, attacking the musician and his wife Olivia with a knife. Harrison was treated for a collapsed lung and minor stab wounds. Olivia suffered several cuts and bruises.
In May 2001, Harrison's cancer returned. There was lung surgery, but doctors soon discovered the cancer had spread to his brain. That autumn he traveled to the United States for treatment and eventually landed at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He died November 29, 2001 at a friend's house in LA with his wife and son at his side.
Of course, Harrison's work still lives on. Beatle records and Harrison's solo albums continue to sell (in June 2009 EMI released Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison a 19-track anthology of the guitarist's best solo work) and not long after his death, keyboardist Jools Holland put out a CD featuring a track co-written by Harrison and his son Dhani.
In addition, in late 2002, Harrison's final studio album, Brainwashed, a collection of songs he'd been working at the time of his death, was finished by his son and released. And in September 2007, filmmaker Martin Scorsese announced he'd be directing a movie about Harrison's life.
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