McCartney Times

When you’re in the band surrounded by the most raucous external racket in history, then being considered ‘The Quiet One’ is a tough fate to befall you. Tom Petty might have rubbished the moniker saying, “he never shut up,” but as a young man trying to make headway as a songwriter, there is no doubting that George Harrison’s position was somewhat compromised in The Beatles.

“George got stuck with being the Beatle that had to fight to get songs on records because of Lennon and McCartney,” Bob Dylan once said of Harrison. “Well, who wouldn’t get stuck?” He added: “If George had had his own group and was writing his own songs back then, he’d have been probably just as big as anybody.”

And as for John Lennon and Paul McCartney themselves, they openly admitted that they were sceptical about sharing their songwriting thrones. “There was an embarrassing period when George’s songs weren’t that good and nobody wanted to say anything,” Lennon said regarding the period around the White Album. This was further added to by McCartney, who separately revealed: “I thought until this album that George’s songs weren’t that good.” While Ring Starr, as usual, was simply keeping his nose out of things having returned from his hiatus.

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