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\u201cDo as I say, not as I do\u201d was largely the code by which George Harrison lived during the early years in The Beatles.<\/a> Not in the usual sense of the idiom whereby he was in the presence of behaviour not worth following, but rather to play the chords laid out by John and Paul, and not bother trying to replicate their greatness.<\/p>\n After all, why would he rock the boat? It was creatively impervious and commercially prolific, delivering hit after hit, and pound after pound into his bank account. If anything, Harrison had the easiest job of the lot \u2013 enjoy the stardom, receive the praise and go on about his career without the burden of delivering the songs it was built upon.<\/p>\n But we all know there\u2019s more to musicianship than that. Unless you\u2019re a commercial robot, you simply can\u2019t be satisfied with a career that doesn\u2019t allow you to exercise your own creativity, and Harrison was no different. Any burgeoning sense of songwriting creativity he did have was in the right environment, for the studio shared with Lennon and McCartney would have been fertile soil for Harrison\u2019s greatness to grow. <\/p>\n \u201cTo get it straight, if I hadn\u2019t been with John and Paul, I probably wouldn\u2019t have thought about writing a song, at least not until much later,\u201d he told Guitar World in 1992, remembering the early days of the band. \u201cThey were writing all these songs, many of which I thought were great. Some were just average, but obviously, a high percentage were quality material. I thought to myself, if they can do it, I\u2019m going to have a go.\u201d<\/p>\n When he got into his groove, Harrison delivered some of The Beatles\u2019 finest moments. \u2018Something\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Here Comes The Sun\u2019 are two songs steeped in the legacy of the band and it was Harrison we had to thank. But that thankyou came with a lot of questions, the most important one being, \u201cwhy have you been hiding these songs for so long?\u201d <\/p>\n Well, there\u2019s no one reason to attribute the lack of Harrison songs to, really. Ultimately, he worked in the shadow of music\u2019s most prolific songwriting partnership and with the inevitable sense of ego that would have existed in the studio, taking album real estate away from the pair would have been a difficult task.00<\/p>\n But in the earlier years of the band, it can certainly be pinned down to a lack of confidence. Lennon and McCartney had proven from the very first album that they could pen world dominating songs and they had the ability to churn them out with relative ease. The fanbase quickly turned into a pack of wolves, waiting to gobble up musical genius and ready to spit out anything less than worthy. For a young Harrison, the weight of that expectation undoubtedly wore heavy. <\/p>\n He explained this himself, saying, \u201cI used to have a hang-up about telling John and Paul and Ringo I had a song for the albums, because I felt at that time as if I was trying to compete. I don\u2019t want the Beatles to be recording rubbish for my sake just because I wrote it \u2014 and on the other hand, I don\u2019t want to record rubbish just because they wrote it. The group comes first.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"George](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748605394_782_George-Harrison-1967-Musician-The-Beatles-Far-Out-Magazine-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n