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George Harrison Facts
| Sign | Pisces |
| Born |
Feb 25, 1943 Liverpool, Merseyside |
| Died |
Nov 29, 2001 Beverly Hills, CA |
| Age | Died at 58 |
| Total Facts | 56 |
Was an ace Monopoly player.
Was called "my archangel" by Srila Prabhupada, founder of the Hare Krishna movement.
Was the first of The Beatles to produce a "solo" album, with his soundtrack album to Joe Massot's film Wonderwall (1968) (Paul McCartney had earlier composed the score for The Family Way (1966), but did not produce or play on the recordings). Songs were recorded both in India (featuring Ashish Khan and guests) and England; the English tracks featured Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Peter Tork (each performing under pseudonyms) and former Beatles rivals The Remo Four, from Liverpool.
When Lorne Michaels offered The Beatles $3000 to appear on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), Harrison actually took him up on the offer and performed on the show. The joke was that Michaels was offering $750 per Beatle, and Harrison wanted the full $3000. As a tribute, this appearance was re-aired as part of "Weekend Update" the Saturday after Harrison died.
Wrote an autobiography titled "I Me Mine" in the late 1970s (which he described in the introduction as "the small change of a short lifetime"), and included reproductions of the original handwritten lyrics to nearly all his songs. The book was originally issued as an exclusive leather-bound edition by Genesis Books for about $350 per copy; a less-expensive hardback edition was later published by Simon and Schuster.
Wrote the introduction to a biography on sitarist Ravi Shankar.