'What is life' - George Harrison

On the 29th of November 2001, Former Beatles guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer aged 58. Following the breakup of The Beatles Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys. The youngest member of The Beatles, (aged 16 when he joined), his compositions include ‘Taxman’, ‘Here Comes the Sun’, ‘Something’, and ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. Harrison released the acclaimed triple album, All Things Must Pass, in 1970, from which came the worldwide No.1 single ‘My Sweet Lord.’ He was the co-founder of Handmade Films, collaborated with Madonna and the members of Monty Python. An accomplished gardener, Harrison restored the grounds of his 120 roomed English home Friar Park. www.thisdayinmusic.com
Listen to 'What is life'

"What Is Life" is a song by George Harrison and is the first track on side two of his 1970 soloalbum All Things Must Pass. It was released as the second single from that album in the United States on February 15, 1971 with another album track, "Apple Scruffs," as the B-side. On March 27, "What Is Life" peaked at #10 in the Billboard Hot 100, making Harrison the first member of the Beatles to log two Top 10 solo hits on that chart.^[1]

The song was written for Billy Preston in 1969, but Harrison decided not to ask Preston to record the song during his "funky" phase, seeing the song as too much of a "catchy pop tune".^[2]

The song was co-produced by George Harrison and Phil Spector, who also produced, among other of Harrison's best known songs, My Sweet Lord.

In choosing personnel for recording, he chose mostly British performers, and all of them were successful in the music business, such people as Pete Ham, Joey Molland, and Tom Evans, all of the rock band Badfinger, and guitarist Eric Clapton, who at the time, was performing withDerek and the Dominoes.

An instrumental outtake version of the song appears on the 2001 re-release of All Things Must Pass. Featuring a piccolo trumpet and oboe, it was discarded because Harrison "didn't like the feel".

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