McCartney Times

It’s easy to forget just how young George Harrison was when he died – merely 58, in fact. Two years earlier, he’d been violently attacked by a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, a person who broke into his home in Friar Park and stabbed the former Beatles musician in the chest. If it wasn’t for his wife incapacitating the attacker with a fireplace poker, who knows what would have happened.

Harrison would later say that he felt the knife go into his chest, his lungs exhale, and the blood began to fill his mouth. He was hospitalised with over 40 stab wounds, many to the lungs, a section of which were later removed. While his injuries were downplayed by his family to the press, in 2001, he began receiving treatment for various forms of cancer. Those closest to him believed that the attack in 1999 had sparked something that could no longer be extinguished. In 2001, he left the world with the final words: “Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.” Three years later, Paul McCartney sat down to write a song that his friend and former Beatles bandmate would be proud of.

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