And McCartney, that dude. Was reluctant to even say those two songs didn't suck. The way McCartney was towards Harrison was awful. Lennon wasn't much better, but by 1969, at least he was starting to realise how much they had undermined him. They made careers out of telling people Ringo Starr and George Harrison just didn't matter. Within the first 2 years of their breakup, it was Ringo and George that were kicking all kinds of ass in the charts.

Wow. Sad to hear how mean spirited they were. , Man, Something and Here Comes the Sun are two of the Beatles best songs, certainly two of their best of the late period. Something was beloved by Sinatra, who recorded it.

In their last meeting as Beatles (Ringo was not present) McCartney tells Harrison his songs only got good in that year (1969). Anything before that he doesn't think is anywhere near the quality of his or Lennon's. If that's the case, the people at record companies who insist what the opening track of your new album should be, would not have chosen TAXMAN to be the opening song on the latest Beatles album. They know Beatles mean money. They know Lennon & McCartney means money. So why are they opening their brand new album for 1966 with a HARRISONG. Especially if he is nowhere near the talents of Lennon or McCartney. Especially by McCartney's estimations. Because it's the obvious song on that album to open the damn thing up with. @@written12

Yes he was apart from sleeping with his best friends wife's lol

Amen 🙏

@@adamkidson4444 And dozens (hundreds?) of others.

And now Ringo is worth a paltry 350 mil

George didn't write it. Ringo wrote it with "assistance" from George.

Struggling Ringo? After The Beatles he was the 2nd or 3rd most productive Ex Beatles behind Paul or George. John Lennon was the one who was struggling because of Yoko.

@@cjones3957wrong. Ringo admitted George wrote it.

​@@mrsbluesky8415 I'm just going by this sentence in Wikipedia: Starr subsequently acknowledged that Harrison helped write "It Don't Come Easy".[4][nb 2] He discussed the song's creation during his appearance on VH1 Storytellers in 1998.

I liked Ringo's version better.

@@flamindigo Same. George and Ringo could have had one of the coolest partnerships in history if they kept making stuff like this.

@@flamindigo I dig BOTH versions.

I prefer George's.. All, the Beatles were geniuses! Paul, John, George and Ringo Still sad, after all these years, about the passing of George and murder of John... 😞😢

❤❤❤❤all things may pass

I think this like part of a baseball trade. A player to be named later being Maureen Starkey... All that said, anyone who had ever listened to the original release new this was Georges. There was never another Ringo song where hare Kristina was mentioned, lol. It was just a voice swap that was double tracked

"It’s unmistakably George’s trademark sound on this song. " About 1:38 or so, it becomes glaringly apparent. Even on Ringo's version. I may be a bit biased though, as I've always gravitated toward Harrison's works.

There’s no doubt that George had a signature sound and style to his guitar playing, and one of the sounds that he became identified with can be heard on the intro to both his and Ringo’s version of this song… The intro guitar (with its “watery” sounding effect), was the result of running George’s guitar through the rotating speaker of a Leslie cabinet, (which is most commonly used on Hammond B3 organ, and a part of the classic Hammond “sound”) can also be heard on George’s guitar on Cream’s “Badge”, as well as on Abbey Road’s “Octopus’s Garden”. This effect became one of the things that defined George’s signature guitar sound in the late 60’s and early 70’s. FWIW 🙏

In my opinion, clearly, the bridge, or shall we call it C-part, that goes with the lyrics like "Forget about the past and all your sorrows The future won't last, it will soon be your tomorrow" is by Geo.

@@MegaPlexy I believe that the whole song was written solely by George; music, lyrics, and arrangement…this I believe to be fact. In my opinion, George gave the song to Ringo to record, not only because they were the best of friends, but also because George knew how few Beatles songs Ringo sang on, and he knew that Ringo would have a hit with it. 🙏

Una gran canción escrita por George, una gran voz y excelente ejecución en la guitarra lider.

I agree. But Ringo did it justice and also made it a big hit. It solidified an already close relationship so everyone won. 👍

GH was a class act…. Sadly, I cannot say the same for Lennon or McCartney!

Stále je mūj nejoblíbenější í Beatle..

Yup! U got that right!

I much prefer George's version to Ringo's! 😍🕉️

​@@maryromanek6683 Agreed. Ringo always sounds about a half-octave off key.

@@jonathanmorrisey5771 That's INTENTIONAL, And besides Ringo wrote 90% of the song.

And a gardener 😊

All things must pass , but George is possibly the exception. His hand made films brought Monty Python to the Silver screen. His concert for Bangladesh originated the concept of the Live Aid Concerts , as Ravi Shankar said "How can George not be here ?".

And Handmade films.

@@randycoursey7230 Right, he was a pretty important film producer. Even if he'd only financed the Life of Brian that would have been significant.

When stars the likes of Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty defer to George as the leader of the band that says it all.

Suits it best..? I don't know, I think that's probably only because we're used to hearing Ringo sing it. And there's no doubt Harrison would have re-recorded his vocal had he decided to put it out. A lot of performance issues w/ it.

I like this version better, from the original writer!

This song and photograph sung by Ringo is really great. Ringo is the greatest surprise after the Beatles, even if he got a lot of help with songwriting.

​@@la7dfaI've seen Ringo's All Star Band 3x, and I would fully concur---

Here George sings it in his classic introspective fashion, whereas Ringo has more fun with it. I like them both; Ringo's just a shade more.

Hello 👋 Karen, how are you doing? Hope you are fine.

The only difference between George and the other two Beatles is that Paul and John had the almighty God of muse speaking through them. And it was feeding them songs while they were asleep because John said many times he would wake from asleep and he would have a song all pretty much finished from a dream he had. I don't think George possessed this gift . But George could get off with a good one every once in awhile. If you watch the documentary carefully you could see that Paul was writing a song while he was performing another song and a third one was trying to come through also so he had three songs going on at one time. That is almost unheard of in the songwriting community. Paul and John were blessed. George I feel had to work at it. 😁

​​@@chriskroll4166, what's interesting to note, if you look into the world histories of high achievers and genius level creative arts, the majority of them are naturally born as left handed. I've studied this for over 25 years now, as a left-hander myself. Just start thinking of all the popular names you can think of, that are the geniuses throughout the world. You'll notice the list contains a higher percentage of naturally born left-handed individuals. Ironically, I saw recent news which states that George Harrison was originally born left-handed, as Catholic nuns forced him to write handed. This now confirms that three of The Beatles were naturally born, as left handed. From my studies what I see in John Lennon, is that he acts like he has the brain of a naturally born left-handed type. It is possible, although nobody's research this enough, but he could have been born left-handed and no one's ever noticed. There is one of the biggest controversies and misunderstandings in the world of why any right-handed idiot would force a naturally-born left-hander to write right-handed. [It is of course caused by social and religious stigmatizing. In the old archaic world a person observed to be writing left-handed was thought of as being demonized by the devil or evil. Believe it or not, there are people today that still force their left-handed children to write right-handed. My youngest grandson is a natural-born left-hander; he's a musical genius and an art visual artistic genius, just like his left handed grandfather. And yet his father recently forced him to write right-handed, into his tenth year of life, a few years ago.] You can research this, looking at medical papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Lancet. I studied it almost 20 years ago, when I was hired into a University to teach as an adjunct professor of Astronomy. They put us as new faculty through a special class about the human brain, so we could better understand our students. This is where the teacher in the class, a lady nurse, whose husband was a brain surgeon, had disclosed this controversial information to me. It's believed in some medical circles to be the doctor Norman Geschwind Theory. Dr Geschwind studied women's amniotic fluids in the early 1980s at a large Medical University in the state of Maryland. He found that there's a high presence of testosterone within some mother's amniotic fluids, specifically at 6 weeks after conception. He observed this high testosterone to suppress the left hemisphere of the brain, and allowing the right brain hemisphere to slightly out -row and become more active than the left hemisphere. There's also extra neurological wiring growing across from the right hemisphere through the corpus callosum into the left hemisphere brain, and this causes the preference of left-handedness to occur, [eight and a half weeks before birth.] I don't want to run on here in one of my lengthy essays, so you can read into this yourself, or do the research. But many of the famous people you've heard of over the years of history in the performance arts, acting, comedians, sports figures, scientists, artists, many of the greatest leaders of the world names, as you can imagine; these figures are shown to be at genius levels, and this stays with the person's persona for life. Unfortunately left-handers also suffer a higher incidence of autism Asperger's dyslexia and bipolar disorders. But it does not necessarily affect all left handers in this way. They rewrote many of the medical books a few years ago and redefined Asperger's disorder. They now medical term it as a trait of left-handed people.

acually the documentary was directed by michael lindsey hogg, peter jackson just took the whole material lindsey hogg filmed back then and made a new extended edit

They were such Dickheads towards George...

McLennon hahahahaha never heard that.

McLennon were egotistical Jerks...

That is a very funny use of ‘underrated’

​@@janetownley I agree. "Underrated" is one of the most overused, trite and stupid comments on KZfaq. Also most commonly incorrect. I routinely give thumbs down to such comments when untrue. To me it says the commenter is lazy, ill-informed or seeking likes. It says, "Only I am capable of appreciating the true excellence of "X." In the case of George Harrison the statement is patently false.

Maybe

Only fair, since he banged one off into Ringo's missus.

They both worked on the song but it started with Ringo . He has sole credit for it.

Ringo's version wasn't "bootleg"...George recorded this to teach Ringo more or less how it went. Both are brilliant but I adore George's more

@@karaamundson3964 The version I heard and was referring to was from a Russian George Harrison bootleg a friend burned me a copy of. And if that isn’t cool enough it had three songs from George’s only tour from 1974. Anyway if there’s a clear and crisp version of the song I’ve never heard it. Regardless I prefer George’s version myself. I don’t know if George was just oblivious to how good the song was or was just feeling generous that day. Either way it’s the best song any of the other three tossed Ringo’s way ( check out John’s ‘Cookin’ (In the Kitchen of Love) if you doubt it 🙄).

I am going to marry him in heaven lol!!!

This version is much better. He was a much better singer than Ringo . He sang with more Emotion.

It's called double tracking a vocal:)

good call by you peace

Very lovely song I did grew up with . God bless you Mr George ,for ever and ever !!!

What does that even mean

Pre- chorus pedal era. Double or triple tracked guitars , at least one thru a rotating Leslie organ speaker cab, and/or Univibe (early phaser). Could also have 'manual' flanging added..that is done post- performance in the studio. But yes, agree 1000% :)

It’s 100% a Leslie rotating speaker cab. George used one quite a bit in this period.

Yes, You can hear it distinctly!!

I don't think he was overlooked. His guitar and unerringly tasteful contributions were everywhere. John generously gave him Do You Want to Know a Secret and I'm Happy Just to dance with You so that he could be featured. When George came up with Taxman it was placed as the opening cut to arguably their greatest album with a great arrangement and Paul's fabulous guitar. John acknowledged the brilliance of his songs on Abbey Road and they were featured most prominently. Each Beatle was exactly where he belonged with the possible exception of Paul who was overly indulged in the granny department.

No he wasn't.

My favorite Beatle to and he wrote the songs i related to the best. Peace N Love ❤

Like JPJ was to Zep, George was the Beatles X factor.

Like JPJ was to Zep, George was the Beatles X factor.

Like JPJ was to Zep, George was the Beatles X factor.

Like JPJ was to Zep, George was the Beatles X factor.

Like JPJ was to Zep, George was the Beatles X factor.

ABSOLUTELY!

Ringo's other great song is Photograph also written by George.

Agreed. Although it did not reach number one like Photograph or Sweet Sixteen... I remember 'The No No Song' (Hoyt Axton) on AM radio! Best LP is Beaucoup of Blues. ...and the single 'Coochy, Coochy' (Ray Wylie Hubbard does a cover featuring Ringo - look it up, it's great)

And, even now, when I hear this song I get a tear at the beautiful souls behind it. Lotta truth in it, for a pop song.

Totally agree!!💯

It was?

You mean the song that he plagiarized: he’s so fine

Yep..he claimed he subconsciously used the melody..still had to pay over $580 k..

​@@sethtenrecWell, This song-- There ain't nothing tricky or funny about it----You can be a hater, but I'm sure George didn't willfully plagiarize anything---

@@thomasfoss9963 well, one thing we know for sure now, is that Eric Clapton (totally uncredited) played the guitar part on While my Guitar Gently Weeps (obviously, the title draws attention to the guitar playing as well). Meanwhile, George basked in the glory of how “improved his guitar work was” and was happy to keep quiet about the fact that it wasn’t him. Simply a low-character individual all the way around.

@@sethtenrec I never heard George profess to anyone that he was a great guitar player, but he did become a great slide guitar player!!! He wrote many great songs along the way, culminating with All Things Must Pass--- Clapton never really gave Duane Allman credit for all his sessions with him-- Jimmy Page and Zeppelin have been sued a dozen times now for stealing songs, and melodies in their careers, while the Stones have remained relatively unscathed in lawsuits--- My only beef with the Stones is how they treated Brian Jones, and never paid any royalties to Mick Taylor, for the years he played lead guitar with them---

@@user-vq3tr8nj7g Me too... 🙂🙂

I also love What is Life by Harrison, in addition to this great one.

George had SO many great songs-- Something, While My Guitar, My Sweet Lord, It Don't Come Easy, Old Brown Shoe, Isn't it a Pity, Here Comes the Sun, etc, etc, etc---