If you watch the Anthology, there's a great bit where George gets confused about which songs were on which of these two albums.

Revolver unleashed the full power of what pop & rock music could amount to. Probably more groundbreaking than even Sgt Peppers. It's a ride of incredibly diverse songs yet there's a cohesion that makes it all gel. A multitude of color on a single mosaic.

Mine as well. They struck the best balance between innovation and composition, without filler to get through contractual obligations, going too "fruity", as George said, or weirdness for its own sake, without the musical quality to hold it up.

Funny. My two favorite Beatles albums and my favorite Beatle. And my least favorite Beatles album is the one that he didn’t like. Sgt. Pepper’s.

​@@nikolatesla1967hot damn!! I love your description of Revolver. I think Revolver is better than Sgt. peppers. I got addicted to "Love you to" years ago and I also think RS and R are my favorite studio albums. (Magical Mystery Tour, I like just as much I think, though it's more like a soundtrack or playlist or something 😊)

Yeah it gives an added dimension to the album as well, like most Harrison tracks

Way back then, though I always played an album as one piece, start to finish, I always looked forward to that track. The songs they 'let George have' as a vocalist are often among my favorites.

I like don't bother me it's one of my favorites off the album

Most of the songs George disliked were ok but I do agree with some of his feelings toward Sgt. Peppers album and Abby Road though I liked a few of the songs on each one. However the best songs on Abby Road were were contributions by George. . I've just never much appeal in Sgt. Peppers very appealing appealing except for the ballad by Paul called Shes Leaving home

yes, I have always loved that song -- wasn't it his first song for the Beatles?

Yeah . Good song

An example of how history his been distorted. This was written in 1963, and it wasn't any worse than most Lennon/McCartney songs of the time. George was pretty much at their level from the very beginning. Not only late, as it is commonly believed.

It is a lame song. One of the 20 weakest of the Beatles.

​@@Kermit_T_FrogLol. George wrote about 6 songs in the Beatles that reached the level of the songs written by Lennon and McCartney.

@@fitless I didn't mean to say say that it was as good as the better Lennon/McCartney songs.Just that it was at the level of their lesser ones. His first attempt was a WHOLE lot better than "Love Me Do" or even "Please Please Me.".

Yeah it's a cool tune, very ethereal and moody

Platinum Weird Version goes haaaaard

I love "Long, Long, Long". It's the best song of white album, it's a very dreamlike song

Gotta give Ringo props on “Long,…” His drumming delivers the perfect counterpoint.

I like "Dear Prudence"#1, but "Long Long Long" a close second. @@Menestro de gustibus es non disputantem est (or something like that - meaning 'what you like can not be disputed.' lol

That's great to read. I'm 42 and this song also is a musical memory of when i had 7 years old

That was the biggest surprise for me from these 6 songs, even more so than "Not Guilty" or "Don't Bother Me", two of George's songs... I'd consider "Do You Wanna Know A Secret" as one of the best from their debut album, tying with "PS. I Love You"

Wait Lennon sang that song not Harrison.

​@@billwren5033lol no it's George lol John does the do da do's 😊 top song

George's singing style is slightly detached and slightly irreverent. It's perfect! That detachment is what made George the coolest Beatle of all. His version of Roll Over Beethoven shines for almost the same reason - but it's more excited detachment, like he's just having fun with it.

Piggies is underrated.

@@xanderk84 Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes The Sun, Within You - I’d rate Something as the best song they did and Here Comes The Sun as fourth, and While My Guitar … in the top 10. Piggies is an underrated masterpiece that should be in their top ten. Within You … stands right with A Day In The Life at second.

Savoy truffle is my favorite George song

Long Long Long is magic

Here comes the Sun is the most played Beatles song on Spotify, by quite a margin.

Yeah its a really great song.. the whole LP is indeed magical still

Have you ever heard the demos of that song? It was nothing, the final production including the idea of the sitar made the song. And that was all done by George Martin. George had ideas but wasn't able to execute them. Also with Something and All Things must pass he struggled for days. Without the help from John and Paul we never would have known these songs.

Vietnam was going on at the time fighting in the far east George in effect was introducing the world to an instrument from the east the sitar.

the Sitar has a percussive quality that's irresistible. in 'GET BACK' on DISNEY+, Lennon's sharp mind reacts when someone says "we were talking last night,,," where John inserts "about the space between us all, and the people who.. ..?" the guy was sharp. another gem is in the 'Anthology' DVD, where Lennon is trying to accommodate Paul's dictatorial ways, and says, " really, anything you'd like..., Any time at all, really. ".making reference to an old BEATLE song, sarcastically. these guys were the best. when they had a meeting in Sept. '69, on tape, for Ringo, whose absent, Lennon declares out of the blue, that George, going forward, should have 4 songs on any LP's to come. so, he really wasn't totally ready to hang it up, and did, in fact appreciate George's talent. so don't believe the crap that's out there. w/ a 3rd songwriter taken seriously, they realistically, could've gone on for another couple years. they were not by any means, washed up.

Not true! If you read about the Wonderwall soundtrack, George produced, worked out all the arrangements (with a collaborator), and wrote most - if not all - of that album. He worked directly with the Indian musicians, explaining what he wanted verbally or by singing the melodies. This is an indication that Harrison was really stretching and learning as a composer, but it was certainly his effort that made it possible.

If I had to pick the ten best post-Beatles songs by the four of them, they would all be Lennon and Harrison ones.

Best comment I've ever read about the Beatles and I believe it to be accurate

It didn't dawn on me until a few years ago that George's songs always stood out more than John's and Paul's. In my youth I never looked at the credits on an album. But years after I realized it was George's songs I liked to most

"You're asking me will my love grow/I don't know. You stick around now it may show/I don't know". How romantic!

He also nainly wrote the music for It to It Don’t Cone Easy, which is obvious really, basically sounds like a Harrison track with Ringo singing lead

He also mainly wrote the music for It to It Don’t Come Easy, which is obvious really, basically sounds like a Harrison track with Ringo singing lead

Say what? George gets PLENTY of credit for being a brilliant songwriter!

"It's All Too Much" is probably the closest thing on a recording that one can get to an LSD trip. I rate it as one of the very best songs of the entire Beatles catalog.

Yup. It's All Too Much & Hey Bulldog are definitely underrated.

@@sdql_observer9811 I love that song. It was recorded around the same time as "All you need is love." I also think "Only a Northern Song" is one of Harrison's and the Beatles' greats. It's so sarcastic and grounded in the reality of their everyday lives than most of their latter-day songs were and it is more psychedelic than anything recorded for "Pepper", which it was actually recorded for. I'm glad it was left off "Pepper" though.

Hey Bulldog ranks with the best of the Beatles rockers. So John Lennon!

It's Only A Northern Song was supposed to be on Sgt Pepper, I read somewhere. I'm glad Within You Without You is one there - it fits perfectly.

He sings incredibly out of tune in Dont bother me

@@leonardoiglesias2394 He's not out of tune at all. He's just nasally George !

@@leonardoiglesias2394 That George sings out of tune here and there doesn't matter one bit. The human element of soul comes through in it and all of the Beatles recordings. That's what made their records magical.

@@SoLaRe60 yes, true. I have to admit. Still, there are a couple of terrible songs in the album All things must pass…

'All Things Must Pass' is another great George song that they should have finished I think it's better than about half of the rest of the stuff on the White Album.

My least favourite Beatles song. Awful oompah music, as I observed when watching Get Back (again) with a bandmate yesterday. What was Paul thinking? For the greatest of the four genii who made up the greatest band in history, he couldn't half back a stinker once in a while.

@@gavinbrockis Most of his solo career stinks. It's clear he needed Lennon and co around him to keep him in check, but in the last couple of years they all gave up and just let him do what he wanted.

@@gavinbrockis100%. Yes, what was Paul thinking? He’s a strange man.

@@gavinbrockis The Benefit Of Mr Kite sounds pretty cheesy to me and it's a Lennon song.

@@user-qb1sm3rk9r did you think I was implying that Lennon was immune? Absolutely not. Paul is (as in my original comment) the greatest of all the Beatles, but (as in my original comment) had a blind spot for some dodgy stuff on occasion. Having said that, Mr Kite is clearly 'in character' and even then is not half the stinker that MSH is 😉 IMO obvs!

Dont bother me is good along with I need you (guitar reverb), If I needed someone, My guitar gently sleeps are his best song. THERE IS A GOOD REASON WHY MORE OF GEORGE'S MUSIC are not on more Beatles albums. Never will get the George love but he is right about Abbey Road not being good. Also John is the best writer and Paul songs are often too lame, silly. I know Paul's the best musician and has the highest IQ and is a nice guy whereas John often wasn't - but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

@@commanderdancody But he's absolutely right. The artist is rarely the best judge of their own work. They can't be. And besides, there might be millions of others that house a different opinion to the artist. Millions of different angles that no one artist can possibly encompass. That's art. Once it's out there in the public domain, the artist's view may be interesting {it usually is}, but they have to share that piece of art with all those that engage with it.

@@commanderdancodyJohn actually had this belief too, one of his famous quotes was how the ownership of music was a false idea created by corporations but once a song or songs are released it belongs to everyone. Yoko Ono still believes that, she encouraged DJ to take her songs and remix them freely with no input or interference from her.

​@@commanderdancody a lot of musical artists hold this view. Some don't

@@grimtraveller7923 You're using public domain wrong. Public domain is when an artist loses the right of ownership to the work, meaning anyone can copy and monetarily profit from it. Usually the copyright lasts for the lifespan of the artist plus 70 years. I think you mean under public scrutiny or public inspection or exposure.

@@Crunkboy415 No Crunk, I'm not using "public domain" wrongly. I'm not using it in its legal sense {I do know about copyright _ I'm a musician}, I used it in its literal sense - the domain of the public. For example, this quote of mine is now going into the public domain. That is, it is now out there for everyone to read.

Monty Python surely took a lot of influence from Beatles (and of course both groups leaned heavily on The Goons).

I prefer John's version to the original. I'm serious!

Yet it was George who was so close to the Pythons that he funded their fantastic movie The Life of Brian.

Its superb i agree. 👍

One of mine as well, it's gorgeous!

One of the best songs on the White Album

It's a choon

Agreed. The anti-religion bias in many critics has caused them to be dismissive of some of George's work. It's a beautiful song.

It took me a while to warm up to "Within You, Without You". But I did learn to love it.

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@@beatleographer_10-51 I was nine when Sgt. Pepper was released in 1967 and at the time I didn't like "Within You Without You" because I didn't understand it. It was long and I thought sitars had an annoying sound. Because I was so young in the 60s, I took another look at The Beatles in 1977 at 19 and bought all of their albums. It gave me an appreciation for a lot of material I didn't understand as a kid. Tracks like "I Want You (She's So Heavy,)" "Across The Universe," " Helter Skelter, " " While My Guitar Gently Weeps." and The White Album in general. It's the one Beatles album I never get tired of.

I didn't care for that one at all.

@@DesertScorpionKSA Are you hiding yourself behind a wall of illusion? Having trouble glimpsing the truth? Is it far too late? Not if you realize that life flows wthin you without you. (Hippies laughing like donkeys)

Always in my top 10

São espetaculares! 👏👏👏💖💖💖

I prefer Paul's alguns

The granny music made Paul's solo career what it is. Mostly terrible.

Diversity is strength

@@TibetanFox68 people like to sing along. Paul's deal with devil expired in 1986. All the albums and sing since are worse then rings rotcrapiture

I've heard that they all hated Maxwell's Silver Hammer but it wasn't John who was in the accident. I'll leave it there.

That's a good point about John being literally unavailable to work on "Maxwell."

I think you will find he copied My Sweet Lord from The Chiffons.

@@puckf17yes, John and Yoko were in a car accident. Google it.

I disagree. He did not consciously copy anything. He took some melodic elements and the call-and-response format - possibly subconsciously remembered - from a trivial pop tune and made an artistic statement on a much higher level. He should have won that court case.@@dj71162

lol

I definitely like it. Also Do You Want to Know a Secret. 😊

@@Mick_Ts_Chick Yes. I’ve always loved that song too and thought George sang it really well.

@@Mick_Ts_Chick BTW, love Sweet too!

@@solfly6 Nice! They're my second favorite group after the Beatles.

@@solfly6 I'm definitely a George girl!

I've heard.that John was very complimentary of George's contributions to the White Album, as well. To my ears, George put out the best of the band from '68 onward into their first prominent solo albums.

No he thought Maxwells Silverhammer, Obladi Bla da and Lady Madonna were the best ones

Your right

I agree with you. Don't Bother Me is a great song and original and distinctive. I listened to it nearly every morning of elementary school

​@@ephraimlessellI agree with you both. Don't bother me is one of my early Beatles favorites.

Finally someone to see things as I do. Don't bother me is a moody Beat-Punker of the highest order and showed early what he was capable of and in stark contrast to the often saccarine stuff John & McCartney were churning out.

This is one of the only early Beatles song I love.

@@b0ttermanearly Beatles is miles better than their psychedelic stuff

lol

Totally agree! Not a typical love song like many of the other original (non-cover) songs on that record... for his first released song, it is pretty amazing! I was like the George of one of my previous bands (except that I was writing far more music than the other two, but they had a closer bond like Lennon-McCartney and would co-write hits, whereas I was far more experimental in my writing)... one of the many reasons I left to form my own band, and eventually went solo

@@thomascraymer8712neither is little child or not a second time or all I’ve got to do or any of the covers on the album

@@Monkforilla I'd consider "Little Child" and "All I've Gotta Do" as love songs, maybe just "Not A Second Time" from the three you mentioned is not a typical love song... and yeah I was just referring to the original songs on that album, not the covers (obviously "Money" or "Roll Over Beethoven" are not love songs)

@@thomascraymer8712 little child ain’t typical, all I’ve got to do was innovative as it talked about “calling on the phone” which landline phones didn’t even become common in England until 1971 even then it was less than 50% of households that had them

@@Monkforilla Ok in that context I guess "All I've Got To Do" wasn't common for the time, of course since then there have been many songs about calling on the phone

Another thing about George Harrison that many seem to have forgotten was what a talented vocalist he was while still with the Beatles. His compositions were very thoughtful & unpretentious, which it why it was a shame they weren’t supported in a unified spirit! But it speaks volumes about greed, control-freakishness, & secret deals between “partners” and other parties as inevitable sources of division. I’m glad he had his own opportunities to stand in his own right-however short-lived. Palace might be considered “fruity” by some today. 🥰 But I loved every note. 🎼🎶🎤 Long-live George & John’s memories-but especially George’s. (John’s a big boy, he’s always had willful independence! Both departures left big voids.💐) 🌸♥️❤️‍🩹🧡💛❤️‍🩹 🌼

Well they were VERY unified early on but John and Paul had no secret deal, they just emerged as the natural songwriters because they took it upon themselves to do it. George probably would have never written songs if it wasn't for their model. But George did come into his own in that environment and ended up being an equal. By the late period of the Beatles, a pecking order had been established. George got some due but too bad a few gems like All Things Must Pass were passed over for fare such as Why don''t We Do it in the Road, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, etc. But I feel so fortunate to have been around at a time where those 4 guys came together and created so much great music, together and independently. @@ahnraemenkhera7451

George was early adopter of using synthesizers in rock/pop music, he added Moog synthesizer parts (and played it himself) on Abby Road album

@@ahnraemenkhera7451 Listen more closely to George's vocals. They are not smooth. There are small gaps in between words. John and Paul were much smoother.

Couldn't agree more !! When I was 8yrs old my Dad would play my brothers Abbey Rd album, starting with 'Here Comes The Sun' every Saturday & Sunday morning !! It's a 'forever' song 😊

That's a good news for Johann Sebastian Bach. He feared people would end up forgetting him over time.

As well as "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." These were The Beatles, but George & Ringo were treated like side men. It reminds me of the way Don Felder was treated by The Eagles, appearing by album #3 and a part of the corporation by #4. But Frey and Henley cut him out in the 90s. The industry is ugly.

no

he was arguably the best, but don’t discount McCartney and Lennon. I think McCartney’s RAM album was fantastic and rivaled All Things Must Pass.

Don't think I would rank his solo work as better than Paul's, but would say its as good or better than johns. Definitely proved he could hold his own with those guys and his songwriting talents were underutilized in the beatles.

George came into his own but his solo career isn’t as good as Paul’s imo. George has ATMP which is top tier but Paul has Ram. Imo Ram is better but they’re both rated similarly with critics. After that George has Brainwashed, LITMW, Cloud Nine, and his Self Titled which are good to great. The rest of his albums aren’t that good and for the most part boring. After Ram, Paul has Band on the Run, Chaos and Creation, Flaming Pie, Venus and Mars, Tug of War, McCartney II, Electric Arguments, etc. Paul has way more good to great albums and I could have listed more. Paul also experimented more than George and influenced indie pop, lofi, DIY, electronica, and bedroom pop.

Its all subjective, of course. And sometimes hard to compare, since paul and ringo put out a lot more. But I would kund of agree that paul doesn't get enough credit for his artistic risks. We think of him as the pop music beatle, but even his pop stuff is subtley experimental if you listen carefully.

Strictly speaking, Paul only plays lead guitar on the title track and "Good morning, good morning." And "She's leaving home" is the only track Harrison doesn't appear on. There again, McCartney isn't on "Within you Without you" except for a piece of dubbed laughter on the end. And that was from a 1965 session. George said it was the concept of Pepper that didn't interest him. He felt that they weren't playing as a band, rather it would be Paul playing piano and Ringo keeping the tempo then lots of overdubs. As he put it "For me it became a bit tiring and a bit boring. I had a few moments in there that I enjoyed, but generally I didn't really like making the album much."

Maybe he just didn't like many of the songs. It is nowhere near as good an album as the critics and the diehard fans make it out to be. Being first to do something (and sometimes other groups like the Byrds, the Kinks or the Yardbirds got there quicker anyway) doesn't make that something the best.

@@TibetanFox68 It wasn't even the best album of 1967, let alone the best of all time, or even the Beatles' best. That would be Revolver.

I knew only myself and four others felt the vibe. Here's to the Dark Horses.

I'm not even convinced that he didn't like the song. 'Fruity' isn't necessarily an insult, and it seems to me that it was more a case that he was annoyed with the amount of time they had to spend on it.

Yes, Paul could write some childish songs. Obladi oblada...always hated it.

John hated Maxwell s Silver Hammer. He died stating this.

Er...fruity is an insult. It was then and is now. @@elvisleeboy

@@colinjames2469 Not at all. George was English, and the English often use the term 'fruity' to describe something that is 'bouncy', suggestive or twee. Innuendo is often described as 'fruity language'. Honey Pie and When I'm Sixty Four are examples of songs designed to evoke the fruity songs of the twenties and thirties. The dictionary definitions are easily available to you.

Totally agree

@alanlake4614 Abbey was the finest finally a Band could Ever ask for, George had arguable the best 2 songs on the Album. Oh my, there are people out there that this would be their desert isle album. It also showed that they were able to use Modern recording techniques and sound quality is top notch. but you are entitled to YOUR opinion. Of course I like 95 precent of all their stuff, and esp. like the early Beatles, but I lived thru that time period. I remember Abbeys release like OCT. of 69. The White album other than my Guitar gently weeps would be my least listened to album.

Agree completely don’t bother me is my fav to

No you are wrong it's shite

I went to see George Martin speak at Berklee College Of Music in Boston and he told the same story and yes, it WAS Only A Northern Song.

Maybe George had less energy than John and Paul but he did write some of their best songs: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, Here Comes the Sun, and Taxman. I Love Piggies too.

@@xanderk84 you're so right.

@@xanderk84 George certainly had less of an ego as the other two had.

Sgt Pepper and White Album weakest? Along with Abbey Road I think these are two of their best

I wouldn't say he wasn't interested in White Album. I believe he said on Get Back that he liked the way they approached and recorded it.

@@oscarNL I meant on a relative basis, per album. he was pretty checked out by WA time, with Paul issues, india interests, etc.

@@progfellow cool. it's all subjective, I mean its music right? I think the general consensus would mostly agree with me.

⁠@@timothysullysullivan2571Music taste truly is subjective, yes, but considering how often Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road make “best ever” lists (and I mean “best album ever” lists, not just “best Beatles” lists), I don’t believe the general consensus does agree with you

Fair enough.

Pretty sure they did hate Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.

They are all on the record saying they hated Maxwell! John eventually refused to be involved

@@WeirdScienceComics show me the quotes where they ALL used the word "hated" regarding this...easy for you to find and present this. As you claim to know...

@@SoupA150 Ok... John Playboy Interview 1980 - "I hate it! He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was and it never could've been… we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole album." Ringo told Rolling Stone in 2008: "The worst session ever was 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer.' It was the worst track we ever had to record. George told Crawdaddy Magazine in 1977 "Sometimes Paul would make us do these really fruity songs. I mean, my God, 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' was so fruity. The rest of us hated it...John hated it so much he skipped out on recording"

I disagree. There were 3 great writers in the Beatles. And Ringo weighed in with 2 greats !!

Yes, I agree! George wrote great songs during the Beatles and on his own. I loved, Do You Want To Know A Secret. A great mellow and innocent song. I never liked Ringo's songs. They are silly and stupid! He may be an interesting drummer, maybe, but not a good song writer.!

@@sjcaplan18 I love "Don't pass me by." And "Octopus's garden" is one of the great insights into what was going on with the Beatles during the recording of the White album, and Ringo's reaction to it all. Brilliant "George-style" writng. Also very John-style in that it takes a journey into the interior of the mind.

@@grimtraveller7923 "Octopus' Garden" is a song for 2 year-olds. It's horrendous.

@@kellykarcher7179 '"Octopus' Garden" is a song for 2 year-olds. It's horrendous"' I'll say two things to that. Firstly, so what if it was written for 2-year-olds ? Does that mean no one outside of that age can enjoy, like or love it ? Secondly, the Beatles legitimized the notion of serious artists writing all kinds of songs, serious songs, love songs, spiritual songs, frivolous songs, fun songs, sound collages, message songs, drug songs {Who would have thought that “Got to get you into my life” was a drug song ?}, political songs, social observation songs, songs about one’s background, family happenings, one’s children, to name but a few. Now, of course, people had written on those subjects for many years beforehand, but we’re talking serious artists of the pop and rock {ie recording} age. The Beatles helped lead the way in making every kind of song and subject fair game for an album. And they became past masters in disguising heavy lyrical meaning and insight in what seemed like fun pop. Octopus’ Garden is one of those. You say it’s for 2-year-olds. You might not think that if you were aware of its genesis, all that went into its creation. It is basically underscored by the rancour that became the overriding atmosphere in the making of the White album when Ringo actually quit the band. It’s ironic that he was the first Beatle to quit the band. Inside less than two years, George, then John then Paul had all followed suit. And the Beatles were no more. It’s interesting that when Paul, George or John wrote songs reflecting their dissatisfaction within the Beatles, they’re hailed as masterful. You never give me your money, Only a Northern song, Not Guilty, Wah-Wah, I want you {She’s so heavy}, I Me Mine, Two of us and a number of others are mined from exactly the same root as Octopus’ Garden. And personally I think they’re all great songs. Ringo was pissed off, he wrote about it and typically of him, he put a positive spin on a shitty period in their history. 2-year-olds the world over have probably loved Octopus’ Garden. But I would stake my life on the fact that millions more outside of that group have loved and still love the song. I’m one of them and I’m 60. I first heard it on the TV show Sesame Street when I was 8 or 9-ish. But I first got into it when I was 13 and for me, it has long been an Abbey Road highlight. In fact, I got into it before I’d even heard Abbey Road. Beatle songs like Yellow Submarine, All together now and Goodnight all are about or aimed towards children, yet every one of them and more, succeed on numerous levels…..because that’s what the Beatles did best. George recognized where Ringo was coming from with this song and marvelled in a 1969 interview that Ringo was getting really cosmic. John began speaking of all of the Beatles having songwriting space on future albums. And really, Ringo’s lyric reflects the ethos and mindset of the 1960s counterculture better than just about anything else the Beatles wrote. These are the lyrics of a dreamer who sums up the attitudes of his generation so well in the lines “We would be so happy, you and me / No one there to tell us what to do.” I’ve yet to meet a 2-year-old that could grasp that kind of wisdom !

Agreed. When I heard it on Anthology 3, I couldn’t believe it hadn’t made it onto and album.

I'm sure he loves you too

Painful.

The melody of "My Sweet Lord" was copied. A U.S. circuit court judge ruled and wrote: "Did Harrison deliberately use the music of "He's So Fine"? I do not believe he did so deliberately. Nevertheless, it is clear that "My Sweet Lord" is the very same song as "He's So Fine" with different words, and Harrison had access to "He's So Fine". This is, under the law, infringement of copyright." George then wrote a self-righteous follow-up: "This Song".

This sounds much more in line with reality. This idea that John & Paul thought of George as a child and overlooked his contributions, while it has some truth to it, is quite overblown.

These are all top tier songs!

kansas city/heyheyheyhey; honey don't; don't pass me by; honey pie; another girl; boys

More than a few, mostly penned by Paul. No one would have missed "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" or "Wild Honey Pie."

I agree with you about "Not Guilty". My takeaway from this video is that George didn't like recording it over and over again in numerous takes and then it not getting on the White Album. He must have liked it enough to record it again for his 1979 "George Harrison" album, although this version is bland and not a patch on the Anthology 3 version.

@@Stanvansandt Or that Revolution 9 'thing'.

I don't consider that a song. It's an avant garde art piece. It takes a real connoisseur of post modern art to appreciate that - that's not me. @@robertcapek2425

​@@StanvansandtI would totally have missed Why Don't We do it in the Road. But Wild Honey Pie? Yeah, I'm with you there. I could also have done without Glass Onion & Revolution #9. On a 30 track album 2-4 filler tracks is not bad at all. Any album that has more than 2-4 non-filler tracks is a good album!

He literally talked shit about Paul in TV interviews lmao he was a very bitter person

No. Neither of you knew him, so stop. Thank you

I'm just finishing "WONDERFUL TONIGHT", Pattie Boyd's book and George could be quite the a-hole, which surprised me. You wouldn't have wanted to be married to the guy.

Absolutely correct! George knew a great song and some of them weren't great.

@@metoo6507lots of people talked crap about Paul, Eric Clapton for one, Paul never showed George and respect

I'd say the answer would be a resounding 'yes'! George's objection was with the quality of the source tape, not the song itself. The technology is now able to separate John's vocals and a remixing was done. The result is undeniable. I think that both John and George would be pleased with the result.

yep, everyone does

I must disagree. George’s solo career is full of very Beatlesque tracks, more so even than Macca’s. ”Simply Shady”, ”Blow Away”, ”Beautiful Girl”, ”Crackerbox Palace” just to mention a few.

Not a great writer.

​@@drubbus Yes he is.

I love George, but his solo output is always over hyped by his followers. By any measure he was far behind Paul or John, and barely beats Ringo for third place. I love his music, but his legacy is just as it should be.

​​@@handle-schmandleconsidering the entire decade of the 70s and beyond, yes. But ATMP was clearly the greatest solo debut of any of the 4, and was practically on par with another highly anticipated 1970 album release, namely, the Let it Be album. (Fwiw, I'm not a George fanboy; he's great, but will always remain in the shadow of John & Paul, but give credit where credit's due)

You know, I'm not so sure it would. The Beatles didn't do many duffers and clunkers, but they had their share.....