George Harrison healed a rift with his sister days before his death, US newspapers said. The former Beatle had become estranged from his older sister, Louise, 70, a naturalised American, after she opened a bed and breakfast in her home in Illinois called Hard Day's Nite, a venture that reportedly "appalled" him.
But the pair had settled their differences, New York's Daily News reported, after Louise drove from her home to New York, where Harrison, 58, was receiving cancer treatment.
Louise had not spoken to her brother for four years but made the 1,600km journey when she learned he was gravely ill. A source close to the family said: "He was very clear about what he wanted and what he didn't want. He didn't want to see his sister. But finally, probably because his wife, Olivia, encouraged him, they spent a half hour together. They reconciled."
Louise Harrison had emigrated from Liverpool to Benton, Illinois, with her then husband, Gordon Caldwell.
She championed the Beatles' singles in the US, but in 1995 she and a group of her neighbours turned her former home, where Harrison had slept in 1963, into a bed and breakfast with a Beatles museum.