Paul was the first to arrive after flying in from London with fiancee Heather Mills. Drummer Ringo drove over from a hotel nearby after jetting in a few days earlier. Frail, George was on medication and ate a vegetarian meal and drank only water.
According to the British tabloid, Sunday People, Harrison was in high humor throughout the luncheon, recalling early adventures from their days together, including how he had thought his fellow Beatles were asleep when he lost his virginity in their shared Hamburg hotel room, only to have them cheer and clap when he had finished.Starr, who had flown in from Boston, where his 31 year-old daughter was being treated for a brain tumor, left after lunch when Harrison went for treatment on Staten Island, but McCartney insisted on remaining, spending the rest of the afternoon with the Harrisons. “It was a spirited affair,” said Dr. Gil Lederman, who treated Harrison, “not a somber one.
There were lots of laughs and lots of fun. There were tears, but George remained very much a man of dignity. At the end, after both Paul and Ringo had left, he was fine and calm. He was a very happy man. This meeting meant so much to him. For me, it was a unique phenomenon to be there. The whole experience was an incredible one. These were the icons of my life – some of the most important people of the 20th century.”He spent the rest of the day with him and his wife Olivia, cherishing their last moments together. Harrison died two weeks later at a McCartney’s home in Los Angeles on November 29th at age 58 from metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. He was cremated at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, his funeral was held at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in the Pacific Palasades, California, and his ashes were scattered in the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers near Varanasi, India, by his close family in a private ceremony according to Hindu tradition. He left almost £100 million in his will.
