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The story goes that George Harrison had a tough time breaking into The Beatles songwriting clique. The band had been dominated by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and the band’s producer George Martin for so long that, by the time Harrison had found his rhythm with creation, he had to break his way into the fold forcefully. It left countless songs he’d written for the band on the scrap heap and left Harrison, for some time, contemplating how to jump over the ring-fenced hallowed ground of songwriting immortality.

As the ‘Quiet Beatle’, George Harrison did a lot of his talking in his head. Perhaps more so than any musician before or since, he pondered the biggest question of them all: What is the purpose of life? It led Fyodor Dostoyevsky to proclaim that it is about “finding something to live for,” it prompted Kurt Vonnegut to say, “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different,” and it called for Karl Pilkington to posit, “There isn’t a meaning of life, or if there is don’t worry about it, you’re here now, get on with it! It does my head in!” All of which are valid, but the more opinions you can get on this sort of thing, the better.

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