{"id":31110,"date":"2024-12-26T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-26-1970-george-harrison-landed-at-1-with-my-sweet-lord\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T18:03:49","slug":"on-this-day-dec-26-1970-george-harrison-landed-at-1-with-my-sweet-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-26-1970-george-harrison-landed-at-1-with-my-sweet-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 26, 1970: George Harrison landed at #1 with \u2018My Sweet Lord\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-24\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Dec. 26, 1970 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>George Harrison\u00a0<\/strong>landed at #1 with the song \u201cMy Sweet Lord,\u201d which went on to spend four weeks in the top spot.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The chart-topper, produced by Harrison and\u00a0<strong>Phil Spector<\/strong>, made Harrison the first former member of\u00a0<strong>The\u00a0Beatles\u00a0<\/strong>to score a solo #1 in the U.S. The track, which was released as a double A-side single with \u201cIsn\u2019t It a Pity,\u201d also went to #1 in several other countries, including the U.K. and Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy Sweet Lord\u201d was featured on Harrison\u2019s album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">All Things Must Pass<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which was his first solo album\u00a0following the Beatles&#8217; breakup. He later released an updated version of the tune, \u201cMy Sweet Lord (2000),\u201d for the 30th anniversary reissue of the album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Dec. 26, 1970 &#8230; George Harrison\u00a0landed at #1 with the song \u201cMy Sweet Lord,\u201d which went on to spend four weeks in the top spot.\u00a0 The chart-topper, produced by Harrison and\u00a0Phil Spector, made Harrison the first former member of\u00a0The\u00a0Beatles\u00a0to score a solo #1 in the U.S. The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-26-1970-george-harrison-landed-at-1-with-my-sweet-lord\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}