George was highly insulted (and more than a little bit enraged) when Capitol Records here in The States issued his Greatest Hits album featuring one side of solo recordings and another side of tunes he had written for The Beatles.
George felt that his solo material should have been deemed strong enough to stand on its own.
(In all fairness, similar Greatest Hits LPs released at the same time by Paul McCartney and Wings, John Lennon and even Ringo Starr didn't dip back into The Beatles' well for material. It really was quite the slap in the face!)
But today, George's songs (Harrisongs!) have proven to be every bit as popular than those written by the well-esteemed songwriting duo of Lennon and McCartney ... so much so that George's "Here Comes The Sun" remains the most downloaded Beatles song to date. ("Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" are pretty high up on the list, too!) And much of his solo catalog has since been embraced as well.
In honor of what would have been George's 76th birthday,
here are his SWEET 16 BIGGEST SOLO HITS:
1) My Sweet Lord (1970) #1
2) Got My Mind Set On You (1988) #1
3) Give Me Love (1973) #1
4) All Those Years Ago (1981) #2
5) What Is Life (1971) #7
6) Blow Away (1979) #12
7) Bangla-Desh (1971) #13
8) Dark Horse (1975) #15
9) Crackerbox Palace (1977) #17
10) You (1975) #19
11) When We Was Fab (1988) #23
12) This Song (1977) #25
13) Ding Dong Ding Dong (1975) #36
14) Isn't It A Pity (1970) #46 also charted as the B-Side of
My Sweet Lord
15) Deep Blue (1973) charted as the B-Side of Bangla-Desh
16) Wake Up My Love (1982) #53
