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There are a lot of headaches that go into a rock and roll tour before the musicians even get into the rehearsal room. A lot of money has to be passed around between the managers, lawyers, and venues before they get the right idea for what a concert should look like, and when an artist finally reaches that first show, it\u2019s usually completely different than what they had initially expected when they started putting the setlist together. And for someone like George Harrison <\/a>who didn\u2019t love the idea of touring, he needed to have damn good idea before he took to the road.<\/p>\n Granted, The Concert For Bangladesh was far from a horrible way to start his live career. The whole point of bringing out some of his friends to raise money for a good cause was to take the pressure off of him being a frontman, and given how much charisma everyone from Leon Russell to Billy Preston had during the performance, it wasn\u2019t like Harrison had to carry the load of the entire show every time he got up onstage.<\/p>\n When he eventually started playing, though, people stopped to listen to what he had to say. In the audio from those shows, it\u2019s easy to hear the audience gasp when he starts playing \u2018Here Comes the Sun\u2019<\/a>, and while reuniting with Ringo Starr for tunes like \u2018It Don\u2019t Come Easy\u2019 were bound to be fun, it wasn\u2019t going to compare to listening to tracks like \u2018Something\u2019 finally being heard in a live setting.<\/p>\n Harrison certainly had the flair for playing music again, but his fatal flaw came from overcommitting to performing. So when he finally crashed out during the Dark Horse album, his massive bout with laryngitis made him sound like a husk of what he once was, which makes it downright painful hearing him try to reach the same high notes as \u2018What Is Life\u2019 and cracking up live.<\/p>\n The band did know how to work around him better by this point by giving some tunes to Preston to sing, but that didn\u2019t stop the press from mercilessly tearing into him. Harrison didn\u2019t have to deal with any of the fallout until he got home, but after nearly breaking down before he got home, Harrison felt that it might have been time to hang it up if this was the kind of response he was getting.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think the public were just \u2014 didn\u2019t know what was happening, it was too much for them. Although, the public as a whole enjoyed it. It was always standing ovations \u2014 even for the Indian section. But they got on my case, the press \u2014 some of them anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n George Harrison<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n