George Harrison Cause Of Death: How did George Harrison die?

English musician, and film producer, George Harrison died on 29 November 2001, at a friend’s Los Angeles home, following a battle with lung cancer. He was 58 years old at the time.

He died in the company of his wife Olivia, his child, Dhani, and others who chanted verses from the Bhagavad Gita.

Harrison achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called “the quiet Beatle”, Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles’ work.

Although the majority of the band’s songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions.

His songs for the group include “Taxman”, “Within You Without You”, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, “Here Comes the Sun” and “Something”.

Harrison also released several best-selling singles as a solo performer.

Harrison died two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his Friar Park home.

His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India.

He left an estate of almost £100 million.