Tom Petty knew his friend George Harrison very well. He saw the best and the worst of the former Beatle as a friend and bandmate since the late 1980s. Petty admitted that George had a cynical side ...

George Harrison claimed people didn’t know he was funny because he wrote some religious songs during his time with The Beatles. They couldn’t have been farther from the truth. During his first ...

George thought it was funny that Paul suddenly wanted to write songs with him after being around for 30 years. However, George knew another reason why Paul wanted to write songs with him out of ...

However, George’s version is by far the most famous. Whether or not its music video was funny, “Got My Mind Set on You” became George’s final No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.

George said The Traveling Wilburys stayed anonymous on their second album, Vol. 3, to “prolong the anonymity for as long as possible.” They added new names: Spike (George), Clayton (Lynne ...

In 1990, George joined the George Formby Society. In All About the Banjo Uke, the president of GFS wrote that he’d restored George’s gold-plated and engraved Ludwig banjo uke.

During a 1990 interview with Sunday Sunday, George spoke about how funny Orbison was and how people rarely got to see that side of the musician. All they knew was that he wrote some pretty sad songs.

It was recorded at George’s home, Friar Park, and released through his new record label, Dark Horse Records, in 1974. However, Apple Records still represented George.