McCartney Times

As The Beatles moved out of their pop megastardom of the early 1960s, new styles and approaches called for a change in their traditional setup. George Harrison had long been employed as the band’s lead guitarist, a designation that saved him from assuming bass duties when Stuart Sutcliffe left the group in 1961. But when the group realized the advantages of spending extended periods in the studio, soon everybody wanted to play lead guitar.

John Lennon had contributed lead lines and solos to ‘You Can’t Do That’ from A Hard Day’s Night but mostly stuck to rhythm throughout the band’s early years. For his part, Paul McCartney didn’t even get to play guitar on a Beatles record until 1964’s Beatles for Sale, which featured McCartney playing acoustic guitar on ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’.

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