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George Harrison
Solo artist Liverpool United Kingdom The Beatles
George Harrison is an artist from Liverpool. George Harrison has 143 chart appearances on 67 radio countdowns from 24 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “My Sweet Lord”, which appears on 46 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted George Harrison most often is Q104.3 (New York, NY), with 26 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1987.
Liverpool's George Harrison, born 25 February 1943, spent the '60s as the Beatles' lead guitarist and the quiet one, stuck behind the Lennon and McCartney songwriting machine but still slipping at least one of his own onto most of the albums, and what songs they were: "Taxman", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Something", "Here Comes the Sun". He was the band's scout, too. He steered them toward folk rock through his love of Bob Dylan and the Byrds, discovered the sitar on the set of Help! and put it on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", and led the group into Transcendental Meditation in 1967.
When the Beatles broke up, he came out swinging. All Things Must Pass, a triple album, was hailed by the critics and gave him his biggest hit in "My Sweet Lord", with "What Is Life", "Isn't It A Pity", "Wah-Wah" and "Beware of Darkness" alongside, all shot through with the weeping slide guitar that became his signature. In 1971 he and Ravi Shankar staged the Concert for Bangladesh, a forerunner of Live Aid.
He founded Dark Horse Records in 1974, co-founded HandMade Films in 1978 to get Monty Python's Life of Brian made, scored with "All Those Years Ago" in 1981 and "Got My Mind Set On You" from Cloud Nine in 1987, and co-founded the platinum-selling Traveling Wilburys in 1988. He died of cancer on 29 November 2001, at 58, and Brainwashed, with "Any Road", followed in 2002. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice, with the Beatles in 1988 and on his own in 2004.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by George Harrison on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Sweet Lord | 46 | #5 | – | – | |
| 2 | What Is Life | 33 | #64 | – | – | |
| 3 | All Things Must Pass | 10 | #217 | – | – | |
| 4 | Got My Mind Set On You | 19 | #25 | – | 1987 | |
| 5 | Give Me Love, Give Me Peace on Earth | 6 | #388 | – | – | |
| 6 | Give Me Love Give Me Peace | 3 | #301 | – | – | |
| 7 | Isn't It A Pity | 4 | #613 | – | – | |
| 8 | Isn't It A Pity (version one) | 2 | #356 | – | – | |
| 9 | All Those Years Ago | 5 | #496 | – | – | |
| 10 | Give Me Love | 3 | #489 | – | – | |
| 11 | Dark Horse | 1 | #457 | – | – | |
| 12 | Wah-Wah | 3 | #424 | – | – | |
| 13 | If Not For You | 1 | #389 | – | – | |
| 14 | Awaiting On You All | 1 | #623 | – | – | |
| 15 | When We Was Fab | 1 | #1023 | – | – | |
| 16 | Any Road | 1 | #765 | – | – | |
| 17 | Crackerbox Palace | 1 | #841 | – | – | |
| 18 | Here Comes the Sun | 1 | #469 | – | – | |
| 19 | Beware of Darkness | 1 | #850 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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