29/11/2025
On this day in 1970, the George Harrison single “My Sweet Lord” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #72 (November 28)
Released as a double A-side in the US with “Isn’t It a Pity”, the single from his triple album “All Things Must Pass” was Harrison's first as a solo artist, and topped charts worldwide; it was the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK. In America and Britain, and the song was the first #1 single by an ex-Beatle.
It went to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Ireland, Mexico, and New Zealand.
The recording features producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound treatment and heralded the arrival of Harrison's slide guitar technique, which one biographer described as "musically as distinctive a signature as the mark of Zorro".
Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Gary Brooker, Bobby Whitlock, Peter Frampton, and members of the group Badfinger are among the other musicians on the recording.
Later in the 1970s, "My Sweet Lord" was at the centre of a heavily publicised copyright infringement suit due to its alleged similarity to the Ronnie Mack song "He's So Fine", a 1963 hit for the New York girl group the Chiffons.
In 1976, Harrison was found to have subconsciously plagiarised the song, a verdict that reverberated throughout the music industry.
Click on the link below to watch:
https://youtu.be/nrCSqbqDYrk?si=8ETSMUdkCbOQr66G
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