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The one artist who missed out on joining The Traveling Wilburys

    The one artist who missed out on joining The Traveling Wilburys

Sometimes, the Traveling Wilburys seem like a fever dream. If you took a blow to the head and started telling your friend about a band that consisted of Bob Dylan,

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“It was a bit of a number for me to have to dare to tell George Harrison not to play guitar. It was like an insult”: Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison’s proposed guitar parts for Hey Jude | Guitar World

    “It was a bit of a number for me to have to dare to tell George Harrison not to play guitar. It was like an insult”: Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison’s proposed guitar parts for Hey Jude | Guitar World

Even in the Beatles’ ever-ubiquitous catalog, Hey Jude occupies a special place.Written by Paul McCartney as a pick-me-up for John Lennon’s son, Julian, in the wake of his parents’ divorce,

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How George Harrison and Bob Dylan saved John Fogerty’s career

    How George Harrison and Bob Dylan saved John Fogerty’s career

Looking through the pantheon of 20th-century music, it is easy to see a heavy conglomerate of stars from the 1960s. The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell, and

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The Paul McCartney song that George Harrison hated with a passion

    The Paul McCartney song that George Harrison hated with a passion

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

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The George Harrison song that took five years to release

    The George Harrison song that took five years to release

For any songwriter, a tune usually never arrives fully formed. Even if a song ends up birthing itself out of

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The first sign George Harrison wanted to leave The Beatles

    The first sign George Harrison wanted to leave The Beatles

George Harrison was never meant to stay in The Beatles by the end of the 1960s. He had developed into

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The Beatles track created like “like a million other songs”

    The Beatles track created like “like a million other songs”

The story of how some songs were created is thrilling. The perfect coming together of inspiration and happenstance, an artist

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The musician who showed George Harrison how to write songs

    The musician who showed George Harrison how to write songs

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness taught to them by some other 1960s musical icon.

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Paul McCartney names his favourite George Harrison song

    Paul McCartney names his favourite George Harrison song

The break-up of The Beatles inevitably resulted in the silver lining of some stellar solo material. While the glory days

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The doomed solo tour that George Harrison hated performing

    The doomed solo tour that George Harrison hated performing

It is no secret that The Beatles detested the experience of touring. Although travelling the world, sharing your music with legions of adoring fans, and crafting a dedicated live show

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