My Sweet Lord, a song written by one of the Fab Four, George Harrison, was his first single as a solo artist. Born in Liverpool, England, he first attended school at Dovedale Infants, just off Penny Lane. Later on, he attended the Liverpool Institute, a smart school where he was regarded as a poor student. His contemporaries described him as someone who would sit alone in the corner. In the mid-1950s, he met Paul McCartney, also a Liverpool Institute student, and later played lead guitar in the band called the Quarry Men, that eventually became The Beatles.
My Sweet Lord was the first number one hit Harrison after the Beatles broke up in 1970. Harrison released a number of albums that were critically and commercially successful, both as solo projects and as a member of other groups. Throughout the 1990s, Harrison, a former smoker, endured an ongoing battle with cancer, having growths removed first from his throat, then his lungs. There was also a 1999 attempt on his life by a crazed fan who stabbed him at his home in Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames. Harrison’s lunch was punctured during that attack. George passed away at a home of a friend in Los Angeles, ...
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