In November 2, 1974. George Harrison kicks off his Dark Horse two-month tour in Vancouver, BC. On October 1975 George Harrison's last album for Apple Records entitled: "Extra Texture (Read All About It), is released. Harrison and Paul Simon are the musical guests on Saturday Night Live in 1976, which the show originally offered the Beatles $3,000.00 for (that's $750.00 for each member of the fab four). George took Lorne Michaels (producer of the show) offer, and performed on the show with his hit song: "Here Comes The Sun". On November 27 of 1976, "The Best of George Harrison" enters the charts, with one side of the album containing Harrison's most popular Beatles songs, and on the other side, George's original song solo hits. "Thirty-three & 1/3", which includes "This Song" and "Crackerbox Palace", gets released, December 11, 1976. In 1979, George Harrison privately published an autobiography entitled: "I Me Mine",(which he described in the introduction in the book as, "the small change of a short lifetime". The bio also included reproductions of the original handwritten lyrics to almost all of his songs. Genesis Books, originally issued an exclusive leather-bound edition of the book which sold for about $350.00 a copy, and Simon and Schuster, published a lesser expensive hardback edition.
George Harrison's tribute song to the late John Lennon: "All These Years Ago", is released May 23, 1981. In November of 1987, Harrison releases: "Cloud Nine", after a five-year hiatus, which is his first platinum album since "All Things Must Pass". This album yielded a song: "Got My Mind Set On You" (a cover of an oldie recorded by Rudy Clark), and on January 16, 1988, becomes a huge world wide hit. Jeff Lynne of ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) produced the album, which also had a top 25 hit: "When We Was Fab".
Harrison joined Lynne in the Traveling Wilburys in 1988, the group that also included: Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. They also released: "Volume One", which becomes a worldwide hit album. In late 1990, they release their second album: "Volume 3".
December 18 of 1991-George finishes a 13-day tour in Japan, and marks his first concert tour since 1974. He releases: "Live in Japan" in July of 1992, a double-disc, that documents his concert tour in Japan from the previous year.
Harrison stayed mostly out of the news, after touring in the early 90's. He later joined Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr for 1995's new Beatles songs: "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love". In June 1998, George and Ringo attended Linda McCartney's funeral, which marked the first time that the surviving Beatles had made an appearance in public together in almost three decades. This is the same year that Harrison announces that he has throat cancer.
Then, on December 30, 1999, George is stabbed by a knife that nearly misses his heart and nearly killed by a mentally ill former heroin addict, after breaking into his Friar Park estate in Oxfordshire and is saved by his wife, Olivia, who managed to hit the deranged intruder over the head with a poker and a table lamp. Harrison is hospitalized with a punctured lung.
George remastered his album: "All Things Must Pass" for a January 2001 re-release, including five extra tracks which included: "My Sweet Lord 2000", which introduced his son, Dhani, with whom he had been working on a new album in the studio with.
By mid-2001, George Harrison, furthered his treatment for cancer, this followed previous treatments for throat and lung cancer. Harrison dies of cancer in Los Angeles on November 29, 2001.
"Brainwashed" which is George Harrison's final album is released-November 19, 2002.
