George Harrison’s $1 Billion Secret: Here Comes The Sun

Get the new Beatles Rewind eBook FREE at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZD1QM92 gVisit my Beatles Store at Amazon: https://amzn.to/3LlPVOI As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. See my archive of Beatles stories and videos: https://beatlesrewind.substack.com/archive Spring, 1969. Eric Clapton’s garden in Surrey, England. George Harrison is playing hooky. He’s supposed to be at yet another soul-crushing business meeting at Apple Corps, the Beatles’ increasingly dysfunctional company headquarters, signing contracts and listening to accountants drone on about tax implications and licensing agreements. Instead, he’s wandering around his friend’s garden with an acoustic guitar, soaking up what turns out to be record-breaking April sunshine, and writing a song that will become—decades later—the most popular Beatles recording in history. 🌤️ Not “Hey Jude.” Not “Let It Be.” Not “Come Together” or “Yesterday” or any of the Lennon-McCartney juggernauts that dominated the charts and the culture and the band’s reputation. “Here Comes the Sun,” written by the “quiet Beatle,” the junior partner, the guy who was lucky to get two songs per album while John and Paul split the rest. The guy who had to fight for every scrap of recognition, who watched his bandmates dismiss his compositions, who eventually quit the band temporarily because he was so tired of being treated like he didn’t matter. 💔