George Harrison.

Was a member of The Traveling Wilburys along with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra.

On December 30, 1999, an intruder broke into his Oxfordshire mansion, stabbing him multiple times in the chest. Harrison and his wife fought the intruder and detained him for the police. While recovering in hospital, George received a fax from Tom Petty complimenting his good fortune with his wife, asking, Aren’t you glad you married a Mexican girl?

Was a longtime friend of Weird Al Yankovic. Yankovic wrote a parody of Got My Mind Set on You called This Song’s Just Six Words Long, released on the album Even Worse.

The only one of The Beatles whose childhood was not marred by personal tragedy.

A controversy arose after Harrison’s death when it turned out his death certificate listed a bogus address; it was revealed he had died at Paul McCartney’s Los Angeles house, whose address they wanted to keep secret. McCartney described the late Harrison as my baby brother.

The first song he wrote was Don’t Bother Me while he was sick in hospital. He said later that it was an exercise to see if he could write a song.

Was the second of The Beatles to become a vegetarian, after Ringo Starr but before Paul McCartney. According to his first wife Pattie Boyd, Harrison would allow neither meat nor fish to be brought into his house.

Former schoolmate of Paul McCartney; the two got acquainted riding the same bus every day, carrying their first guitars. After McCartney joined John Lennon’s Quarrymen, Harrison began turning up at their shows and filled in when other members weren’t available. Lennon objected to having a kid join the band, but McCartney persuaded him.

A good deal of confusion as to his real birthday was solved when a family birth record noted him as being born shortly before midnight around 11:50 P.M. on February 24, 1943. He had believed his birthday was February 25 for his entire life.

George met Pattie Boyd on the set of A Hard Day’s Night 1964. She was engaged at the time, but George kept asking her out until she gave in. They were married in 1966.

In 1978, The Rolling Stones album Some Girls was withdrawn from stores after several stars whose photos appeared on the original cover threatened to sue. The album was re-released with a censored cover; Harrison’s photo appears on both versions. He joked publicly that he would sue the Stones if they removed his photo.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Beatles on January 20, 1988.

After eight years being idle, he decided to tour in 1974 despite a bad voice due to some throat problems. The tour was a critical and commercial disaster, with unfair severe criticism for the opening act of Ravi Shankar and Friends, Harrison’s voice which was called Dark Hoarse, and his preaching. He was so disillusioned and angry that he never toured in America again, only going to Japan in 1992 for a very large sum and Eric Clapton’s back-up band.

At a party in the early 1970s, John Bonham spotted George Harrison and wanted a photo taken with him. George thought Bonham was going to play a prank, so he struck first by taking a cake and splatting it on Bonham’s head. First came gasps, and then came laughter as an amused Bonham picked up Harrison and threw him into a swimming pool, much to the hilarity of the guests.

He was voted as the 11th of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone.

The remaining members of The Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, appeared in the only music video All Those Years Ago, about the death of their own singing partner, John Lennon.

Though the guitar chord 7th + sharpened 9th became known as The Hendrix Chord through its heavy use on Foxy Lady and Purple Haze, the 7#9 was actually used several months earlier by Harrison on Taxman from The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver.

A devout Monty Python fan.

Overcame both hepatitis in the mid-1970s which caused a delay in the release of his album Thirty-Three and 1/3 and a cocaine addiction in the early 1980s.

First musician of the pop era to introduce the sitar when he played it on Norwegian Wood from The Beatles’ album Rubber Soul 1965. This was the first time the Indian instrument had been played on a pop single. Rivals The Rolling Stones soon followed with sitar accompaniment on their hit Paint It Black 1966.

In early 1956, he had an epiphany: while riding his bicycle, he heard Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel playing from a nearby house, and the song piqued his interest in rock and roll. He often sat at the back of the class drawing guitars in his schoolbooks and later commented that he was totally into guitars.

Son Dhani Harrison born August 1, 1978 was a student at Brown University.

Got a job as an apprentice electrician at age 16 but didn’t have the interest to continue it. With one son a mechanic and another a groundskeeper, father Harry hoped his sons would go into business together once George finished his apprenticeship. Harry let George quit to become a working musician when The Beatles began to get weekly bookings, figuring he was young and could still start over if music didn’t work out.

Originally submitted his album Somewhere In England in 1980 with a psychedelic cover and four rather downbeat songs. Warner Brothers rejected the album and ordered a new cover and four new, more upbeat songs. Around this time John Lennon died, and Harrison decided to rearrange his song All Those Years Ago as a tribute to Lennon and sing it himself. Starr had recorded percussion, and Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, and Denny Laine recorded backing vocals. The album was released to critical and commercial excitement, and All Those Years Ago became Harrison’s first top-ten hit in eight years.

Was very good friends with Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Tom Petty, Phil Collins, Neil Young, Paul Simon, David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Billy Preston, Neil Aspinall, Neil Innes, Carl Perkins, and Roger McGuinn.

Before the breakup of The Beatles, he purchased and restored the buildings of Friar Park, a 120-room Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames.

During the escalation of Beatlemania from 1964 to 1966, Harrison got through flights by taking uppers and drinking whiskey and coke. Decades later, his memories of this time focused almost entirely on the horrors of airplanes, airports, cars, and crowds.

Was called my archangel by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, founder of the Hare Krishna movement.

Together with Eric Clapton, he wrote the Cream hit Badge. He also played the song’s lead guitar track up to the bridge.

By late 1986, after a substantial break, Harrison felt the desire to make music again. He asked former Electric Light Orchestra lead vocalist and guitarist Jeff Lynne to co-produce a new album, Cloud Nine, with him. The album went platinum, 17 years after his 1970 multi-platinum album All Things Must Pass.

George’s 1968 custom Fender Telecaster Rosewood guitar serial number 235594 used in Let It Be 1970 and for The Beatles’ final live roof-top performance was bought at auction in 2003 by actor Ed Begley Jr..

In 1979 he was co-founder, executive producer, and principal partner of HandMade Films, a position he held until 1994.

In January of 2002 the re-release of My Sweet Lord reached number one in the UK, replacing Aaliyah’s More Than A Woman. It was the first time there were two consecutive posthumous number one hits in the UK.

Treated for throat cancer in 1997, which went into remission the next year.

Though he was the shyest of The Beatles, Harrison loved comedy and often associated with Monty Python through the 1970s.

Attended the funeral of Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney’s first wife, on June 8, 1998.

He was the youngest member of The Beatles.

He and The Beatles were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.