McCartney Times

The Beatles were so jam-packed with talent that it’s often easy to forget the talent in the band’s quieter half: George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The pair were credited on a paltry list of Beatles tracks but showed their vocal and musical talents ubiquitously. Although Harrison was limited to the odd album track through the band’s rise to popularity, his strengths began to breach the canopy in the late 1960s, with notable hits like ‘Taxman’, ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and ‘Something’ accumulating under his belt. Harrison’s passion for skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll endeared him to his schoolmate Paul McCartney in 1957 but winning over John Lennon, who was two years his senior, would be a more difficult task. Before Harrison was accepted to join the Quarrymen in 1958, he first had to audition for Lennon. Oddly enough, the audition took place on the top deck of a double-decker bus, where Harrison sealed the deal by playing the riff from Bill Justis’ instrumental rhythm and blues classic, ‘Raunchy’.

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