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Today's Birthday February 25: Beatle George Harrison (1943-2001).
Known as the quiet Beatle, George Harrison spent his life avoiding the media glare.
Born on February 25, 1943 into a close-knit working-class family in Liverpool, Harrison took up the guitar as a teenager and in 1958 joined a local band called The Quarrymen with school friend Paul McCartney.
Despite the reservations of group founder John Lennon, the young Harrison became a fully fledged member of the group.
By 1961, and after a number of name changes, The Quarrymen had become The Beatles, with Harrison on lead guitar.
He went to write the hit Beatles songs Something, Taxman, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Here Comes the Sun.
In 1968, Harrison's fascination with sitar music led to Wonderwall Music, the first solo album by a Beatles member.
Following the release of Abbey Road in the autumn of 1969, Harrison performed in Europe.
In 1970, the year The Beatles disbanded, Harrison released All Things Must Pass, which featured appearances by Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Ringo Starr. The triple album became a No 1 hit.
The following year Harrison took a break from recording his own work, contributing to John Lennon's Imagine.
Two years later he was back on the circuit, releasing Living In The Material World and the No 1 hit Give Me Love.
Harrison's Gone Troppo in 1982 was a commercial failure and the star took time out before returning to the music scene in 1987 with Cloud Nine, which did well internationally.
Harrison was also a film producer, co-founding HandMade Films to finance the Monty Python project Life Of Brian.
In 1988 he formed the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, although all performed under pseudonyms.
In 1999, Harrison was stabbed multiple times at his home near Henley-on-Thames by a mentally unstable intruder.
Harrison began work on a new album in 2000 but died from lung cancer a year later, aged 58.
He is survived by his second wife, Olivia Arias Harrison, and his son Dhani.
