![]() He’s writing all kinds of songs and once the door opens, the floodgates open.” George’s love of Indian music was another influence – particularly with the complex timing of the instrumental passage at the end of each chorus. This song is just the way he’s progressing, you know. John saw a much older influence, commenting in 1969: “It reminds me of Buddy Holly, in a way. George explained: “It was a bit like ‘If I Needed Someone,’ you know, the basic riff going through it, you know all those ‘Bells Of Rhymney’ Byrds type things. “Here Comes The Sun” was the last song that George would present to the group, though John was absent for its recording, having been hospitalized by a car crash in Scotland. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric’s acoustic guitars and wrote ‘Here Comes The Sun.’” George completed the song while holidaying in Sardinia, returning just two weeks before work began on the song at EMI’s studios on Abbey Road on July 7 – Ringo’s 29th birthday. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton’s house. As George recalled in his autobiography, I Me Mine: “‘Here Comes The Sun’ was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: ‘sign this’ and ‘sign that.’ Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever, by the time spring comes you really deserve it. And it was while relaxing with Eric in the garden that the seeds of “Here Comes The Sun” were planted. In April, George absented himself from an Apple meeting, choosing instead to head 20 miles south to his friend Eric Clapton’s house in Ewhurst, Surrey. Though George returned to the fold when sessions moved to Apple Studios on January 21, he no longer pushed for any of his songs to be included in the eventual live show the group would perform on the roof of their building ( the legendary “rooftop concert”). I think the first couple of days were OK, but it was soon quite apparent that it was just the same as it had been when we were last in the studio, and it was going to be painful again.” ![]() I thought, OK, it’s the New Year and we have a new approach to recording. But I can remember feeling quite optimistic about it. For me, to come back into the winter of discontent with The Beatles in Twickenham was very unhealthy and unhappy. As he recalled in Anthology, “I had spent the last few months of 1968 producing an album by Jackie Lomax and hanging out with Bob Dylan and The Band in Woodstock, having a great time. After such a positive experience in the US, George found the Twickenham sessions a step too far. At one stage, George told John that he was thinking of making a solo record, by way of using up the songs he had accumulated – a venture John actively encouraged.īy the following Friday, January 10, George had had enough and declared that he was leaving the band. George’s inability to get the group engaged on his new compositions would prove a source of frustration for the youngest Beatle. ![]() ![]() This was a theme that would recur throughout the “Get Back” sessions. But while George enthusiastically pitched in to help on John’s “Don’t Let Me Down,” when George tried to engage John on his song “Let It Down,” John struggled with its chord structure, choosing instead to play some old Chuck Berry tunes. On that first morning at Twickenham, John and George played each other their latest songs. By the time The Beatles regrouped at Twickenham film studios on January 2, 1969, George had a backlog of songs, including “All Things Must Pass” and “Isn’t It A Pity,” the latter dating back as far as the Revolver sessions in 1966. ![]()
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