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George Harrison was the lead guitarist of the Beatles. He also served as the band's scout for new American releases, was particularly knowledgeable about soul music, and played a significant role in steering the group toward Indian classical music and folk rock. Most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two of his compositions.
All Things Must Pass, released in 1970, is widely regarded as Harrison's best and most successful solo work. The triple album topped the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. It produced the number-one hit single "My Sweet Lord" and the top-ten single "What Is Life", and was co-produced by Phil Spector.
The Concert for Bangladesh took place on the 1st of August 1971 at Madison Square Garden in New York, drawing over 40,000 people to two shows. Harrison organised it at the request of Ravi Shankar to raise money for refugees during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The concert, album and film together generated around $13.5 million, though the funds were frozen for nearly a decade by an IRS audit.
Harrison first used a sitar on the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" in 1965, which according to scholar Peter Lavezzoli "opened the floodgates for Indian instrumentation in rock music." He formally studied the instrument with Ravi Shankar from June 1966, spending six weeks in India after the Beatles' final tour. He continued incorporating Indian instruments including the tambura, swarmandal and tabla across Beatles recordings and his solo work.
Harrison co-founded HandMade Films in 1978 with Denis O'Brien to finance Monty Python's Life of Brian after EMI Films withdrew its funding. Harrison mortgaged his own home to back the production, which grossed $21 million in the United States. He served as executive producer for 23 HandMade films, including Time Bandits, Mona Lisa and Withnail and I.
George Harrison died on the 29th of November 2001 at a property belonging to Paul McCartney on Heather Road in Los Angeles, California. He was 58 years old. The cause was non-small cell lung cancer that had spread to his brain, which Harrison publicly attributed to decades of smoking. His ashes were scattered in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers near Varanasi, India, according to Hindu tradition.