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Liverpool, United Kingdom (1970 – 2001)

George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) born in Liverpool, UK, was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, along with mainstream success as a solo artist. Sidelined by the overwhelming songwriting talents of his Beatles band mates, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Harrison, with his distinctive, eastern-oriented style of music, never felt he was able to fully express himself as a member of the band. As tensions within the band heightened towards the end of the 1960s, Harrison began to work on his debut solo album, All Things Must Pass. The album, released in 1970, contains the two-time number one hit, My Sweet Lord.

Harrison is also credited for creating music benefits, notably the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. Harrison played beside Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr, and Leon Russell to a crowd of 40,000 in Madison Square Garden, New York. The show raised over $240,000 benefiting the George Harrison Fund for Bangladesh relief.

Harrison had a son named Dhani Harrison with his wife, Olivia. Dhani Harrison is also a successful singer/songwriter. They became part of the Hinduism culture and began to chant mantras of Krishna. George Harrison was perhaps one of the most spiritual of musicians of modern times


Harrison went on to release several successful solo albums, and in the late 1980s collaborated with Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty, in a group called Traveling Wilburys. The group released two albums.
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