The Beatles’ last few years together were pretty tense. The band’s latest album, Let It Be, faltered due to arguments, controversies, and public rhetoric. As revealed in Peter Jackson’s Disney Plus documentary, Get Back, George Harrison felt particularly insulted by his bandmates. On one occasion he even saw him stand up and say, “I’m leaving the band now.”
His ex-wife, Patti Boyd, revealed that he had a special disdain for Paul McCartney.
Boyd said Harrison saw McCartney as “difficult.” She continued, “They were tolerant of each other, but I think George basically didn’t like Paul’s character. I just think they didn’t really like each other.”
Things got worse due to the fact that they had a few precious days to write and record another chart-topping album right after the stratospheric success of their twelfth album, Abby Road.
According to Boyd, Harrison was, at the time, “very unhappy.”
Boyd continued, “The Beatles made him unhappy with constant arguments. They were evil to each other. That was really annoying.”
She added that she was “more disturbed” by Harrison’s new spiritual path to Hare Krishna.
The star’s ex-wife, whom Harrison divorced in 1977, has said the rest of the band have marginalized him.
“Like a little brother, he’s been pushed into the background,” she said. “He would come home from the recording and be full of anger. It was a very bad situation that he was in.”
In the end, Harrison finally laughed.
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McCartney was questioned about Harrison’s contribution to the band on The Howard Stern Show years later. During the interview, he admitted that Harrison gave a lot of what people believed in the band.
He said, “I think it was easy to underestimate George because John and I always wrote the most stuff and had the most singles.”
The High Jude singer added, “George was late in terms of writing. He wasn’t interested at first. But then he started caring and boy, did he thrive.”
McCartney noted how much he liked some of Harrison’s songs. Not only did the star write my beautiful lord, he wrote something too, while my guitar cries softly and the sun comes.
“He wrote some of the greatest songs ever,” McCartney added.
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