McCartney Times

It’s no secret that one of the most strained relationships within The Beatles was between Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Compared to the rest of the group, McCartney and Harrison were never particularly close. As McCartney’s creative control over the band increased, Harrison’s frustration with him reached a breaking point. Perhaps no song illustrates this tension more clearly than ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’, a track that Harrison famously disliked, viewing it as a symbol of McCartney’s dominance and creative direction in the later years of the band.Featuring on the band’s Abbey Road album, the track came when the group struggled to continue in their current guise. Harrison had even previously left the band earlier in 1969 after suggesting that his songs (having recently found his zeal for songwriting) were not being given the same attention as the Lennon-McCartney partnership. He returned in the hope of turning the ship around.

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