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button.gif (123 bytes) February 25, 1943 - November 29, 2001
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BIGGEST LP: All Things Must Pass (1970)
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GRAMMY AWARDS: 11 (+ Lifetime Achievement Award)
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ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE: 2004

 
RECENT TIMELINE

button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Dark Horse."
Year-End Chart Position: # 161

button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "You."
Year-End Chart Position: # 172

button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison hit the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Ding Dong, Ding Dong."
Year-End Chart Position: # 254

1981...# 55 Singles Artist of the Year

May
George Harrison - "All Those Years Ago" (Single)button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison hit the Top 40 with "All Those Years Ago."
from the Somewhere In England
ARC chart run: 22 - 13 - 8 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 21 - 26 - off
Year-End Chart Position: # 51
available for download at
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June
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Top 10 with "All Those Years Ago."

1988... # 58 Singles Artist of the Year

September
George Harrison - "Got My Mind Set On You" (Single)button.gif (123 bytes) The video for "When We Was Fab" was nominated for 6 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year, Best Concept Video, Best Special Effects, Breakthrough Video, Best Art Direction, and Viewer's Choice, and "Got My Mind Set On You" was nominated for Best Male Video and Best Special Effects.

1994...

March
George Harrisonbutton.gif (123 bytes) Harrison was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("My Back Pages" with Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton).

1998...

June
button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison has stated that he has been winning a struggle with throat cancer since last summer. Harrison first noticed a lump on his neck and the cancerous lump was removed followed by radiation therapy. Harrison said, "I'm not going to die on you folks just yet. I am very lucky... It reminds you that anything can happen... that's the nature of life. Life... there's an old saying... life is like a raindrop on a lotus leaf."

1999...

December
George Harrison - The Best Of Dark Horsebutton.gif (123 bytes) Harrison his wife were attacked in their London home by an intruder wielding a knife - Harrison was stabbed and was in stable condition. Harrison was stabbed 4 times in the chest and his wife suffered minor head injuries. The man accused of the stabbing was described as having mental problems and an obsession with The Beatles.

2000...

November
George Harrison - 'Living In The Material World'button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison's attacker from last December was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital.

2001...

March
button.gif (123 bytes) All Things Must Pass was certified 6x platinum.

May
George Harrison - Cloud Ninebutton.gif (123 bytes) Harrison had a cancerous growth removed from one of his lungs after what was reported as a successful operation."

November
button.gif (123 bytes) On November 29th, Harrison lost his battle with cancer.

December
button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison topped the Billboard Internet Sales chart with All Things Must Pass.

2002...

January
George Harrison - Brainwashedbutton.gif (123 bytes) Harrison also topped the UK Singles chart for a week and the Canadian Singles chart with his classic "My Sweet Lord."

November
button.gif (123 bytes) A collection of tracks Harrison recorded before his death was released - Brainwashed (available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3).

December
button.gif (123 bytes) Brainwashed was certified gold.

2003...

December
Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All-Timebutton.gif (123 bytes) Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: # 437: All Things Must Pass.

2004...

February
button.gif (123 bytes) Harrison won a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance ("Marwa Blues"), and was also nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Any Road") and Best Pop Vocal Album (Brainwashed).
button.gif (123 bytes) The box set Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 was released.

button.gif (123 bytes) March 15: Harrison was posthumously was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. Tom Petty inducted Harrison and said of the late performer: "He was a man who lived every minute of his life. He had a very keen sense of humor, sense of spirit - years before Live Aid, he invented the idea of rock and roll giving back to the people."

George Harrison - 'Let It Roll: The Songs Of George Harrison'button.gif (123 bytes) # 408 on the Top Pop Artists of the Past 25 Years chart.

2009...

June
button.gif (123 bytes) Let It Roll: The Songs Of George Harrison was released. (Billboard peak: # 24)

2012...

May
George Harrison - 'Early Takes Volume 1: Music From The Martin Scorsese Picture 'Living In The Material World''button.gif (123 bytes) Early Takes Volume 1: Music From The Martin Scorsese Picture 'Living In The Material World' was released (available for download at Amazon.mp3).

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