How George Harrison made his last number 1 hit, "Got My Mind Set On You"

Friday, February 28, 2020

This week marks what would have been George Harrison's 77th birthday. Back in February 1988, the Quiet Beatle marked the occasion with a bona fide hit record, "Got My Mind Set on You," which was soaring among the American radio airwaves at the time.

Harrison had first heard the song much earlier during his inaugural visit to the United States in September 1963 — some five months before the Beatles' bravura appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." As George later recalled, "I'd been to America before, being the experienced Beatle that I was. I went to New York and St. Louis in 1963, to look around, and to the countryside in Illinois, where my sister [Louise] was living at the time. I went to record stores. I bought Booker T and the MGs' first album, 'Green Onions,' and I bought some Bobby Bland, all kind of things."

Source: salon.com