The most neglected George Harrison song
Each individual Beatle could have just retired from public life after the Fab Four split, and one would understand why. It would be a tragedy, to be clear. I don’t want to consider a world without Plastic Ono Band, ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’, ‘My Sweet Lord’ and… the Thomas the Tank Engine narrations, I guess, but how in Christ’s name do you follow up the literal Beatles?! The sheer pressure that was on each individual Fab to succeed was intense, but for George Harrison, I can imagine the external pressure wasn’t the issue.After all, this was a man who spent the latter half of his time in The Beatles throwing a strop because none of his songs were being used on the records. He saw himself as a songwriter on par with John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and on the strength of his best moments, he wasn’t far off. ‘Something’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’ and ‘Within You Without You’ are some of the finest songs The Beatles ever created, and he wanted more opportunities to prove that.
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