George Harrison

George Harrison MBE (b.25 February 1943 – d.29 November 2001) was a British musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame in pop culture as a guitarist in The Beatles. He achieved success as a solo artist after the group split, most notably with the song My Sweet Lord, and also enjoyed a renaissance in the late 1980s as member of The Traveling Wilburys.

The youngest of the four Beatles, also known as 'the quiet Beatle', is was also well-known for being the first to embrace Eastern culture in the 1960s, in particular transcendental meditation, integrating elements of Indian music into the Beatles' canon. Although the vast majority of Beatles songs were famously written by Lennon & McCartney, Harrison's notable contributions to the song writing for the group include While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something and Here Comes the Sun.

Post-Beatles, he organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, founded his own record company in 1974 and film production company Hand Made Films, in 1978, famous for the Monty Python film The Life of Brian (1979).

Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, survived by second wife Olivia (née Arias) and their son Dhani (b.1978).