George Harrison begins a 45-date tour with a concert at Pacific Coliseum, the first former Beatle to perform in North America since the band broke up four years earlier.
The Dark Horse tour, co-headlined with Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, attracted huge crowds but also negative reviews due to Harrison sermonizing and reworking several Beatles’ songs, a perceived over-emphasis on Shankar’s music, the show’s two and a half hour length, and the heavy-smoking Liverpudlian’s vocal troubles, which earned it the nickname “Dark Hoarse Tour.”
