George Harrison would have turned 75 this Sunday (February 25th). To celebrate, the 2002 tribute to him, Concert for George, is being reissued today (Friday) in numerous configurations, including, for the first time, vinyl.
Concert for George was organized by his friend Eric Clapton at London's Royal Albert Hall on November 29th, 2002, the first anniversary of Harrison's death from cancer:
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Among those people who took the stage that night were Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Jim Capaldi and Ravi Shankar:
While we'll never know what George thought, perhaps he did offer up a clue when discussing organizing a show along the lines of what Clapton did: