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| Everyone's favorite Beatle. |
Volumes have been written about George Harrison, variously referred to as "the quiet Beatle," "the spiritual Beatle," "the baby Beatle," and the like. In fact, he was the most misunderstood member of the band, the one who had to continuously vie with Lennon and McCartney to get his songs on albums.
Despite the fact that he started writing songs belatedly (a pre-fame Lennon/Harrison collaboration "Cry for a Shadow" gave the group a rare early instrumental), he went on to pen some of the band's most enduring classics, among them "Something," his first song to go on an A-side of a Beatles record and a number that was erroneously credited to Lennon and McCartney by Frank Sinatra, who pronounced it the greatest love song ever written.
Born February 25, 1943, Harrison was the youngest of the foursome, which made his untimely death from lung cancer on November 29, 2001, particularly poignant.
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