Riffs n Rhythms Podcast on Instagram: "Remembering the “Quiet Beatle” . Today in 2001, ,Beatles guitarist George Harrison died in Los ,Angeles of lung cancer at age 58. Although most of the Beatles’ songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions - most notably “Taxman”, “Within You Without You”, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, “Here Comes the Sun”, and “Something”. Harrison was a man of many interests and pa