The Tragic Backstory of George Harrison’s ‘Got My Mind Set on You’
3 min readNov 25, 2020
After leaving the Beatles, George Harrison had an impressive solo career before his untimely death in 2001 at age 58. Harrison notched five Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Of the five, only one was not original to Harrison: “Got My Mind Set on You.” James Ray released the tune in 1962 with high hopes; it followed his debut hit the previous year, “If You Gotta Make a Fool…
