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** Music/ElectricLightOrchestra frontman Jeff Lynne was a huge fan of Music/TheBeatles, whose influence can be seen all over ELO's material. The year after ELO dissolved, Lynne got to co-produce Harrison's comeback album ''Cloud Nine'' and joined him as a member of Music/TheTravelingWilburys.

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** Music/ElectricLightOrchestra frontman Jeff Lynne was a huge fan of Music/TheBeatles, whose influence can be seen all over ELO's material. The year after ELO dissolved, Lynne got to co-produce Harrison's comeback album ''Cloud Nine'' Nine'', and the year after that, he joined him as a member of Music/TheTravelingWilburys.


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* ReferencedBy: Music/WeirdAlYankovic's [[Music/EvenWorse "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long"]] parodies Harrison's rendition of "Got My Mind Set On You" by James Ray, riffing on the song's repetitive lyrics.
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** Music/ElectricLightOrchestra frontman Jeff Lynne was a huge fan of Music/TheBeatles, whose influence can be seen all over ELO's material. The year after ELO dissolved, Lynne got to co-produce Harrison's comeback album ''Cloud Nine''.

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** Music/ElectricLightOrchestra frontman Jeff Lynne was a huge fan of Music/TheBeatles, whose influence can be seen all over ELO's material. The year after ELO dissolved, Lynne got to co-produce Harrison's comeback album ''Cloud Nine''.Nine'' and joined him as a member of Music/TheTravelingWilburys.

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* PromotedFanboy: In his diaries, Creator/MichaelPalin explicitly refers to Harrison (at the time of the making of ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'') as "the Seventh [[Creator/MontyPython Python]]". Palin notes this is a view shared by Creator/JohnCleese.

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In his diaries, Creator/MichaelPalin explicitly refers to Harrison (at the time of the making of ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'') as "the Seventh [[Creator/MontyPython Python]]". Palin notes this is a view shared by Creator/JohnCleese.Creator/JohnCleese.
** Music/ElectricLightOrchestra frontman Jeff Lynne was a huge fan of Music/TheBeatles, whose influence can be seen all over ELO's material. The year after ELO dissolved, Lynne got to co-produce Harrison's comeback album ''Cloud Nine''.
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* ArtistDisillusionment: Of all the Beatles, he was the one hit the hardest with this when the group's fame became overbearing. Allegedly he said "That's it! I'm not a Beatle anymore!" after they played their final concert in San Francisco in 1966.

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* ArtistDisillusionment: Of all the Beatles, he was the one hit the hardest with this when the group's fame became overbearing. Allegedly he said "That's it! I'm not a Beatle anymore!" after they played their final concert in San Francisco in 1966. It hit him again after the failure of ''Gone Troppo'', which Harrison described as "halfhearted" and a key factor in his decision to step away from music for five years.



* SequelGap: ''Brainwashed'' released a whopping 15 years after ''Cloud Nine'', by which point he was already dead.

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* SequelGap: ''Cloud Nine'' ended a 5-year gap since the release of ''Gone Troppo'', owed to Harrison's ArtistDisillusionment motivating him to step away from the music industry for a while. In turn, ''Brainwashed'' released a whopping 15 years after ''Cloud Nine'', by which point he was already dead.
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* ExtremelyLongProduction: ''Brainwashed'' started production in 1988 and wasn't finished and released until 2002, one year after Harrison's death and roughly 14 years after he began working on it.

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* ExtremelyLongProduction: ExtremelyLengthyCreation: ''Brainwashed'' started production in 1988 and wasn't finished and released until 2002, one year after Harrison's death and roughly 14 years after he began working on it.
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* ExtremelyLongProduction: ''Brainwashed'' started production in 1988 and wasn't finished and released until 2002, one year after Harrison's death and roughly 14 years after he began working on it.
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* SequelGap: ''Brainwashed'' released a whopping 15 years after ''Cloud Nine'', by which point he was already dead.
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* AllStarCast: The 2021 SurrealMusicVideo for the reissue of "My Sweet Lord" stars Creator/FredArmisen and Creator/VanessaBayer, with appearances by, among many others, Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/PattonOswalt, Music/WeirdAlYankovic, Creator/DarrenCriss, Creator/RosannaArquette, Music/RingoStarr, [[Music/{{Eagles}} Joe Walsh]], Creator/JonHamm, Creator/TaikaWaititi, the cast of ''Series/ThreeBusyDebras'', Creator/TimAndEric, Music/GarfunkelAndOates, plus Harrison's widow Olivia, son Dhani, and footage of George himself.
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** George was pressured by EMI to rush to finish ''Dark Horse'' in time for its scheduled release date and accompanying tour[[note]]which was disastrous enough to dissuade him from ever touring again, except on one tour with Music/EricClapton and his band that ended up being recorded and released on ''Live in Japan'', George's sole solo live album[[/note]], despite being stricken with laryngitis at the time (as well as throughout the tour), leading to its extremely scratchy, gritty vocals and the [[FanNickname nickname "Dark Hoarse"]] from the critics.

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** George was pressured by EMI to rush to finish ''Dark Horse'' in time for its scheduled release date and accompanying tour[[note]]which was disastrous enough to dissuade him from ever touring again, except on one tour with Music/EricClapton and his band that ended up being recorded and released on ''Live in Japan'', George's sole solo live album[[/note]], despite being stricken with laryngitis at the time (as well as throughout the tour), leading to its extremely scratchy, gritty vocals and the [[FanNickname nickname "Dark Hoarse"]] from the critics.vocals.

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* UncreditedRole: He made an uncredited guest appearance on Music/{{Cream}}'s song "Badge".

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He made an uncredited guest appearance on Music/{{Cream}}'s song "Badge"."Badge".
** Besides producing it, Music/RingoStarr has acknowledged that George helped write "It Don't Come Easy" as well, but didn't seek a writing credit. One little giveaway is that "Hare Krishna" is dropped into the backing vocals during the guitar solo at one point.
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* CreatorBreakdown: The record ''Dark Horse'', recorded not long after his wife Patti Boyd left him for his best friend Music/EricClapton. He sank into alcoholism, blew out his voice during rehearsals, and generally just seemed uninspired. ''Extra Texture (Read All About It)'' was viewed in a similar light. However...

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* CreatorBreakdown: The record ''Dark Horse'', recorded not long after his wife Patti Boyd left him for his best friend Music/EricClapton. He sank into alcoholism, blew out his voice during rehearsals, and generally just seemed uninspired. The followup ''Extra Texture (Read All About It)'' was viewed in a similar light. However...
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* ArtistDisillusionment: Of all the Beatles, he was the one hit the hardest with this when the group's fame became overbearing.

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* ArtistDisillusionment: Of all the Beatles, he was the one hit the hardest with this when the group's fame became overbearing. Allegedly he said "That's it! I'm not a Beatle anymore!" after they played their final concert in San Francisco in 1966.



* CreatorBreakdown: The record ''Dark Horse'', recorded not long after his wife Patti Boyd left him for his best friend Music/EricClapton. He sank into alcoholism, blew out his voice during rehearsals, and generally just seemed uninspired. However...

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* CreatorBreakdown: The record ''Dark Horse'', recorded not long after his wife Patti Boyd left him for his best friend Music/EricClapton. He sank into alcoholism, blew out his voice during rehearsals, and generally just seemed uninspired. ''Extra Texture (Read All About It)'' was viewed in a similar light. However...
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* CreatorRecovery: ''Thirty-Three & 1/3''. In the wake of ''Dark Horse'', he plunged into putting together his own record label (also called Dark Horse) to be distributed by Creator/AAndMRecords, which recharged him a bit. In doing so, he started working closely with A&M assistant Olivia Arias, then based on their shared musical and spiritual interests, they fell in love, and he was motivated to start detoxing from alcohol and drugs. This all led to a noticeably more upbeat and exuberant album that was well-received, with "Crackerbox Palace" becoming a bit of a comeback hit. George and Olivia ended up marrying in 1978.

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* CreatorRecovery: ''Thirty-Three ''Thirty Three & 1/3''.1/ॐ'' . In the wake of ''Dark Horse'', he plunged into putting together his own record label (also called Dark Horse) to be distributed by Creator/AAndMRecords, which recharged him a bit. In doing so, he started working closely with A&M assistant Olivia Arias, then based on their shared musical and spiritual interests, they fell in love, and he was motivated to start detoxing from alcohol and drugs. This all led to a noticeably more upbeat and exuberant album that was well-received, with "Crackerbox Palace" becoming a bit of a comeback hit. George and Olivia ended up marrying in 1978.

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* CreatorBreakdown: The record ''Dark Horse'', recorded not long after his wife Patti Boyd left him for his best friend Music/EricClapton.

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* CreatorBreakdown: The record ''Dark Horse'', recorded not long after his wife Patti Boyd left him for his best friend Music/EricClapton. He sank into alcoholism, blew out his voice during rehearsals, and generally just seemed uninspired. However...
* CreatorRecovery: ''Thirty-Three & 1/3''. In the wake of ''Dark Horse'', he plunged into putting together his own record label (also called Dark Horse) to be distributed by Creator/AAndMRecords, which recharged him a bit. In doing so, he started working closely with A&M assistant Olivia Arias, then based on their shared musical and spiritual interests, they fell in love, and he was motivated to start detoxing from alcohol and drugs. This all led to a noticeably more upbeat and exuberant album that was well-received, with "Crackerbox Palace" becoming a bit of a comeback hit. George and Olivia ended up marrying in 1978.

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