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It tends to get a little bit complicated when talking about the relationship between George Harrison<\/a> and Paul McCartney. <\/p>\n Both of them were boyhood friends who happened to be half of one of the biggest bands in the world, but even up until Harrison passed away<\/a>, there was a slight coldness that came out every single time they tried to get on the same page. The lasting effects of their breakup had really done a number on both of them, but McCartney didn\u2019t understand the depth that his old friend had in some respects until it was too late.<\/p>\n But by the time The Beatles were reuniting in the 1990s, no one needed to call each other\u2019s legacies into question by any stretch. All of them had carved out the greatest examples of how one manages a solo career, and had one of them not been included in their reunion on \u2018Free as a Bird\u2019 and \u2018Real Love\u2019, it would never have had the same magic as they did when those harmonies appeared all over again.<\/p>\n If you want to know about the real frostiness, you have to look at where both Harrison and McCartney started. Macca may have been the one to suggest that Harrison join the band, but even up until the end of their tenure together, he was still treating Harrison like the younger brother who had to be ostracised. It could have been completely unintentional, but all you need to do is see the footage in Get Back to realise that Harrison is being sidelined whenever McCartney and John Lennon start playing together.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t necessarily anyone\u2019s fault that they couldn\u2019t communicate properly, but the real problem came when Harrison put out\u00a0All Things Must Pass<\/a>. No one could have realised that he had this many classics in storage for all of those years, and while McCartney was able to pop back into the studio with his old friend when working on songs like \u2018All Those Years Ago\u2019 as a tribute to Lennon, he did get a bit of a reality check when he showed up at the Concert for George after Harrison\u2019s death.<\/p>\n The night featured McCartney paying tribute with a tender tribute to Harrison with \u2018Something\u2019, but everyone seemed to freeze when he didn\u2019t know the song \u2018All Things Must Pass\u2019, with Eric Clapton recalling<\/a>, \u201cPaul had to admit that he didn\u2019t know \u2018All Things Must Pass\u2019, and that was an awful thing to confront. It was huge humble-pie stuff for Paul to be among these people, who he may have thought had a better relationship with George than he did. But I believe Paul missed George as much as \u2014 if not more than \u2014 anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n Given that Harrison had performed the song during the Get Back sessions, though, it\u2019s shocking to think that McCartney wouldn\u2019t have remembered. Granted, time plays funny tricks on everyone\u2019s memory, but getting to hear the beauty of the song in his rendition sounds like it\u2019s coming from someone who finally understands all the potential that he had ignored for so many years.<\/p>\n But even if McCartney knew what Harrison was capable of, maybe the title track of his debut LP was almost too perfect for the band\u2019s breakup. None of them wanted to believe that it was the end of the road for all of them, but Harrison was the one facing down the whole thing with bravery and a willingness to be honest with his audience that most people would have been too afraid to confront at the time.<\/p>\n
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