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MONDAY, DEC. 3, 2001
Beatles guitarist George Harrison dies at age 58
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George Harrison, the low-key Beatle whose lead guitar was atop the most celebrated revolution in pop history, died at Thursday at a friend's Los Angeles home. He was 58.
Harrison had battled brain cancer since spring and underwent a last-ditch experimental treatment at a Staten Island, N.Y., hospital.
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He is survived by his wife, Olivia Harrison, and a son, Dhani Harrison — and, in the minds of fans worldwide, by remaining Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
"I am devastated and very, very sad," McCartney told reporters outside his London home Friday. "He was a lovely guy and a very brave man and had a wonderful sense of humor. He is really just my baby brother."
y tour through Harrison's eventful life:
February 1943 - Harrison is born in the Wavetree borough of Liverpool, England. Not until he was in his 40s did Harrison learn he was born at 11:42 p.m. Feb. 24 and not, as legend has it, in the early hours of the 25th.
August 1958 - Paul McCartney introduces Harrison to John Lennon. After he plays a couple
ot licks on the guitar for Lennon. Harrison is invited to join Lennon and McCartney's group, the Quarry Men.
November 1959 - Now calling themselves Johnny and the Moondogs, Lennon, McCartney and Harrison perform on a TV star-search program at the Hippodrome Theatre in Ardwick.
October 1960 - Now living and playing in Hamburg, Germany, and calling themselves The Beatles, the band asks drummer Richard Starkey to sit in for a recording session.
August 1962 - Starkey becomes Ringo Starr and an official member of The Beatles. A month later, the band's first proper recording session takes place at Abbey Road Studios, and "Love Me Do" becomes the band's first single.
May 1963 - The song "From Me to You" tops the U.K. charts and sells more than 650,000 copies. It starts an amazing run of 11 consecutive No. 1 hits from 11 consecutive releases by The Beatles. Beatlemania explodes.
february 1964 - The Beatles arrive in America on Feb. 7, where screaming crowds greet them at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Two days later, with a flu-streaked Harrison, the band appears on The Ed
July 1964 - The Beatles' first movie, A Hard Day's Night. has a world premiere at the London Pavilion.
Sullivan Show, watched by 73 million viewers.
January 1966 - Harrison marries Patti Boyd, whom he met on the set of A Hard Day's Night. McCartney is best man.
McCarthy 1969 - "Something," written by Harrison, becomes the first single released by The Beatles not penned by Lennon/McCartney, Frank Sinatra calls it the greatest love song of the past 50 years.
May 1970 - Harrison begins recording his solo album, All Things Must Pass, with an all-star backing band that includes Ginger Baker, Billy Preston and Eric Clapton. The album's first single, "My Sweet Lord," will be a No. 1 hit in the United States.
January 1971 - All Things Must Pass hits No.1 in the United States. It is the first album by an ex-Beatle to reach No.1.
August 1971 - Harrison organizes "The Concert for Bangladesh" to aid victims of famine and war in Bangladesh. It's the trailblazer for the dozens of large-scale charity concerts for decades to come.
March 1973 - The three-record set
The Concert for Bangladesh, wins Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards.
August 1978 - Harrison and his girlfriend, Olivia Arias, have a son, Dhani. In September, the couple marry at the Henley-on-Thames Register Office.
June 1977 - The Harrisons are divorced.
May 1979 McCartney, Ringo Starr and Harrison play an impromptu set at a belated reception in England for Harrison's exwife, Patti, and Eric Clapton, who were married two months earlier in Tueson, Ariz.
carner August 1979 - Harrison's autobiography, I Me Mine, is published in a limited edition of 2,000 copies. His film company, HandMade Films, picks up the tab from EMI for the Monty Python movie, The Life of Brian. The film becomes one of the biggest moneymakers of 1979. Harrison has a cameo role.
role.
January 1988 - In one of rock's most significant comebacks, Harrison scores a no. 1 hit in the United States with "Got My Mind Set on You." It's been nearly 24 years since he first topped the chart with the Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
Jan. 20, 1988 - Harrison is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame as a Beatle.
Name as a Beatle.
November 1988 - With the album Traveling Wilburys: Volume One, Harrison makes his debut as "Nelson Wilbury" in a group of famous musical characters including Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan.
June 1988 - Harrison reveals he had a cancerous lump removed from his neck a year earlier.
December 1999 - An intruder breaks into Harrison's mansion in Oxfordshire and stabs him several times in the chest. Harrison and his wife fight the intruder and detain him for the police.
Wounds to Harrison and his wife are not severe.
May 2001 Harrison announces he had undergone surgery again for lung cancer and was recuperating in Italy.
Early October 2001 Ahmad son records a rollingick new song. "Horse to
son records a renaissance song. "Horse to the Water," that he co-wrote with his friend Jools Holland's album Small World, Big Band.
October and November 2001 - Harrison receives treatment at Staten Island University Hospital in
New York, and then travels to Los Angeles.
Nov 29 - Harrison dies of lung cancer at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time in a friend's Los Angeles home.
Excerpts taken from the VH1 book Rock Stars Encyclopedia. Wire services contributed to this report
today's Birthday (Dec. 3).
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Today is a 7.
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Ours are good for you with the first try with something you're sending or something you're trying to say. Travel could be complicated, too, but not blocked completely. Persevere.
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KU graduate students...
The Graduate School and University Career and Employment Services proudly invites you to attend the
Graduate Student Career Fair TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4,2001 Kansas Memorial Union, Lawrence Campus
Seminar "Employment Opportunities for Graduate Students" 10AM-11:30AM
Human resource professionals from the business, government and non-profit sector will provide information about searching for non-academic employment.
Employer Career Fair 1:30 PM-3 PM
Exhibitors from business, government and non-profit organizations will be on hand to discuss employment opportunities with current KU graduate students.
Agenda
This event is for those KU graduate students earning their master's professional or doctoral degree. It is free and open to the public.
Here is a list of companies scheduled to attend:
Aquila, Inc., American Express Financial Advisors, Cora Fellows Program in Public Affairs, Defense Finance and Accounting Service Environmental Protection Agency Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Garmin International, Inc., Internal Revenue Service, Midwest Research Institute, Mutual Of Omaha, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Pawnee Mental Health Services, Peace Corps Principal Financial Group Quintiles, Social Security Administration, State of Kansas, Division of Personnel Services, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services United States Secret Service, US Army, US Department of State, US Marine Corps
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