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The story behind The Beatles song ‘Octopus’s Garden’

    The story behind The Beatles song ‘Octopus’s Garden’

By the time 1969 rolled around, The Beatles must have almost felt bulletproof from a musical standpoint.They had nothing left to prove, delivering hit after hit, album after album, yet

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The last 1960s band George Harrison actually liked

    The last 1960s band George Harrison actually liked

When you were part of the biggest band of the decade – and, indeed, of all time – it’s perhaps easy to dismiss everyone else’s efforts at glory just as

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The album that made George Harrison nervous to record

    The album that made George Harrison nervous to record

When The Beatles split up at the end of the 1960s, and fans soon realised that a growing shitstorm between John Lennon and Paul McCartney was at the heart of

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The musician Jeff Lynne thought would be “too posh”

    The musician Jeff Lynne thought would be “too posh”

The Traveling Wilburys were lightning in a bottle. A one-time affair that could only happen under the right circumstances. But even then, it took Jeff Lynne a second to understand

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Ranking every song George Harrison ever wrote for The Beatles

    Ranking every song George Harrison ever wrote for The Beatles

“I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s

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The only songs Paul McCartney and George Harrison collaborated on

    The only songs Paul McCartney and George Harrison collaborated on

Amongst the sea of fans of The Beatles are pockets of people who revel in the salaciousness of their intra-band

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The artist George Harrison called one of the best guitarists

    The artist George Harrison called one of the best guitarists

George Harrison has always been the archetype for what a lead guitarist is supposed to be.The definition of a guitar

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How George Harrison saved Tom Petty’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’

    How George Harrison saved Tom Petty’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’

During the lengthy and at times, gruelling recording sessions of The Beatles, George Harrison’s fingers would have likely been in

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The song George Harrison waited a quarter century to play

    The song George Harrison waited a quarter century to play

George Harrison never had that many aspirations as a solo artist. Despite needing to get as far away from The

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Who did George Harrison say had “the best” Beatles songs?

    Who did George Harrison say had “the best” Beatles songs?

It’s impossible to pit any Beatles song against another. The Fab Four created their own sonic identity on every single record, and while not every one of them could be

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