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Former member of The Beatles Harrison released his hit song My Sweet Lord in 1970 through the band’s label, Apple. The song was his first ever single as a solo artist and was a great success. In both the UK and the USA it was the first number-one single from an ex-Beatle. The track was also the best-selling single in 1971. It did come with a massive amount of controversy, however. On this day, February 19, 1981 Harrison was ordered to pay more than half-a-million dollars for subconsciously plagiarising it.
George Harrison was a prolific songwriter in his own right, but he spent The Beatles years very much in the shadow of Lennon/McCartney. He was granted one or maybe two songs per album, which ultimately left him with quite a back catalogue of unreleased material.
And so, when the split finally came, George was first out of the blocks with a triple album called All Things Must Pass. The song selected to be a single from this album was My Sweet Lord, which George had composed a couple of years earlier having heard a song called Oh Happy Day by the Edwin Hawkins Singers.