THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

737-George Harrison-My Sweet Lord.

1971-Number 1 single.When re-released in 2002, it was Number 1 again.

Best Bit-At 2.38.George Harrison was the first of the Beatles to have a solo Number 1 single-Ringo is still waiting for his.

George Harrison wrote ‘My Sweet Lord’ in praise of the Hindu God Krishna,while at the same time intending the lyrics to serve as a call to abandon religious sectarianism through his deliberate blending of the Hebrew word ‘Hallelujah,’with chants of Hare Krishna, and Vedic prayer.

‘My Sweet Lord’ was the best selling single in the UK in 1971, and after Harrison’s death in 2001, was re-released, and became a UK Number 1 single for the second time in January 2002. Artists who are rumoured to have played on the song include,Eric Clapton (acoustic guitar,) Peter Frampton (acoustic guitar,) Billy Preston (piano,) and Ringo Starr (drums.)The song was co-produced by Harrison, and Phil Spector, using his ‘Wall of Sound’ production (see also best songs 192 and 782.)

The song was also the subject of a long drawn out court case involving ‘Bright Tunes,’who owned the rights to ‘He’s So Fine,’ a song written by Ronnie Mack (1940-1963,) the song had been a Billboard Number 1 in 1963 for The Chiffons. Bright Tunes claimed that Harrison had deliberately plagiarised Mack’s song, which Harrison denied. The initial action was filed on February 10th, 1971, and in September 1976 the court found that Harrison had subconsciously copied ‘He’s So Fine,’but not deliberately, Harrison had to pay $587,000, with the majority going to Mack’s immediate family, incidentally the Holland Dozier Holland song ‘Jimmy Mac’ was inspired by the death of Ronnie Mack.Commenting about the court case in 1977 Harrison (see also best songs 726) said,’Look I’d be willing, every time I write a song, if somebody will have a computer, and I can just play any new song into it, and the computer will say,’Sorry,’ or ‘OK,’ The last thing I want to do is keep spending mu life in court,’

‘I really wanna know you (Hallelujah,) my my my Lord (Hare Krishna.)