But that would be to ignore some excellent music, as the Beatles Reunited series might have shown. George produced a couple of stinkers ( Going Troppo!), and after All Things Must Pass no real classics, so it is indeed easy to overlook his solo career. McCartney produced more hits (and Ringo as many UK Top 10 hits as George) Lennon created more material for discussion. Harrison’s solo career after All Things Must Pass isn’t always appreciated. Fucking cigarettes! He died on 29 November 2001, at the age of only 58. By then George was already battling throat cancer, which had been diagnosed in 1997. I wonder whether Geldof thought to invite him to appear at Live Aid…Īnd George was the first Beatle to die of natural sources (if we discount Stu Sutcliffe, of course), though he almost became the second Beatle to be murdered, when in 1999 he was stabbed 40 times by an intruder. And George sort of invented charity concert festivals. He was the first Beatle to release a solo album, and the first have a solo UK #1 hit, in January 1971 with My Sweet Lord (I’ve discussed before what I think of the plagiarism charges brought by the publishing company who owned the rights to He’s So Fine), and the first to release a bona fide classic album, the three-LP set All Things Must Pass.

George was perhaps the most innovative of the three innovators, even though some of these innovations I could do without. That’s the man who wrote the best songs on The Beatles’ perhaps best album, Something and Here Comes The Sun (a time when the other two struggled to finish their songs). I won’t be the first person ever to marvel at the circumstance that George Harrison was only the third-best songwriter in The Beatles. On 25 February we mark the 80 th anniversary of the birth of George Harrison. Among the essentials: 'Bump n' Grind ,' 'Ignition ,' 'Step in the Name of Love. physical-product appearance of the non-album singles 'I Believe' and 'Hair Braider' finally get them here, though this might be the last place they'd look. Those who have been holding out for the U.S. In fact, three of his studio albums through Untitled are unrepresented here. Only 14 tracks in length, it couldn't possibly provide all the hits. Ironically, it's just as likely to appeal to casual listeners as those who own all of the singer's proper studio albums, since it provides an incomplete mix of hits and rarities. Kelly volume is far from a 'very best of' compilation. Like a lot of the releases in Legacy's Playlist series, the R.

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