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It’s no secret that one of the most strained relationships within The Beatles was between Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Compared to the rest of the group, McCartney and Harrison were never particularly close. As McCartney’s creative control over the band increased, Harrison’s frustration with him reached a breaking point. Perhaps no song illustrates this tension more clearly than ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’, a track that Harrison famously disliked, viewing it as a symbol of McCartney’s dominance and creative direction in the later years of the band.
Featuring on the band’s Abbey Road album, the track came when the group struggled to continue in their current guise. Harrison had even previously left the band earlier in 1969 after suggesting that his songs (having recently found his zeal for songwriting) were not being given the same attention as the Lennon-McCartney partnership. He returned in the hope of turning the ship around.
McCartney explained: “I like the idea of not letting go of each other…You know, when you have somebody you love so much. In many cases it’s a relative, and even though they go, you don’t want to let go — that’s what people say when somebody dies. They’re in your memory, always in your heart. And, yes, that’s certainly true of me and the boys. He said looking at photos of Lennon or Harrison was still “bittersweet”.
The sweet is ‘How lucky was I to have those men in my life’. But the fact that they’re not here is bitter. I see photos of George and remember how we went hitchhiking, sitting by the road, buying ourselves creamed rice. John and I went hitchhiking too. We ended up in Paris.
“All the memories flood back…But, oh God, it’s sad these guys are not here. It’s a bitter pill you just have to swallow and then get on with the sweetness, you know? That’s the way I do it.”
The new music video for The Beatles’ “final” song, ‘Now And Then’ was shared yesterday (November 3). Directed by Peter Jackson, it featured newly unearthed footage of the members.
The new track – dubbed the last single by the band to feature all four original members – arrived earlier this week (November 2), following months of hype.
Titled ‘Now And Then’, the highly-anticipated project was first teased by McCartney back in June when he confirmed that he was working on a new track with the drummer.
It stems from a demo tape recorded by late bandmate Lennon and was completed with the help of AI – which lifted the songwriter’s vocals off the initial recording and allowed the surviving members to work with them.
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