Timeline George Harrison: All Things Must Pass

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• 1943 George Harrison born in Liverpool Youngest Beatle The son of a bus conductor.
• 1958 George Harrison joins the Quarrymen Aged 14 Auditions for John Lennon on the top deck of a bus.
• 1965 George Harrison plays sitar on Norwegian Wood Indian music The first use of sitar on a Western pop record.
• 1966 George Harrison studies sitar with Ravi Shankar India Weeks in India learning from Ravi Shankar.
• 1968 George Harrison records While My Guitar Gently Weeps With Eric Clapton Clapton plays the solo on the White Album.
• 1969 George Harrison's Something on Abbey Road Most covered Frank Sinatra calls it the greatest love song of the last 50 years.
• 1970 George Harrison releases All Things Must Pass Triple album A triple album with My Sweet Lord — the best solo Beatles album.
• 1971 George Harrison organises the Concert for Bangladesh Madison Square Garden The first major charity rock concert.
• 1976 George Harrison loses the My Sweet Lord plagiarism case He's So Fine A court rules he subconsciously copied the Chiffons' song.
• 1978 George Harrison founds HandMade Films Life of Brian Mortgages his home to fund Monty Python's Life of Brian.
• 1988 George Harrison tops the charts with Got My Mind Set on You Cloud Nine His last number one.
• 1988 George Harrison forms the Traveling Wilburys Supergroup With Dylan, Petty, Orbison and Jeff Lynne.
• 1999 George Harrison attacked at home Friar Park Survives a knife attack by an intruder.
• 2001 George Harrison dies Lost to lung cancer — November 29, 2001 George Harrison died of lung cancer on November 29, 2001, aged 58, at a friend's home in Los Angeles. He had been diagnosed in 1997. His final album Brainwashed was completed by his son Dhani and released posthumously in 2002.
• 2002 Concert for George Royal Albert Hall A memorial concert a year after his death.
• 2004 George Harrison inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Solo induction Inducted as a solo artist.