{"id":236586,"date":"2025-10-31T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236586\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:50:11","slug":"the-guitarist-john-lennon-wanted-to-replace-george-harrison-in-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236586\/","title":{"rendered":"The guitarist John Lennon wanted to replace George Harrison in The Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

Fri 31 October 2025 16:00, UK <\/p>\n

Graham Nash once said that the universe brought The Beatles<\/a> together, and there are millions of fans around the globe who would agree with him. <\/p>\n

When discussing the track \u2018A Day In The Life\u2019, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s one of the greatest songs ever written. It\u2019s one of the most adventurous songs ever recorded.\u201d <\/p>\n

Detailing further, he continued, \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019ll ever be another Beatles; I think that the universe put those four kids in the right place at the right time and gave them the right talent, to be able to move the hearts, minds and spirits of billions of people, and continue to this day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sun Ra, the experimental jazz saxophonist, believed that he was sent from another planet by superior beings to bring otherworldly music to the people. While there aren\u2019t a great deal of people who believed this side of Sun Ra, even those who were pessimistic believed that if the universe did try to send us a message, they would do so in the style of music, given that music is such a universal language.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes sense to me that if the Creator sent anyone here, it would be a person who had mastered music, the planet\u2019s universal language<\/a>,\u201d said Ahmed Abdullah, Sun Ra\u2019s trumpeter, \u201cSound is the beginning of all creation, the Nomma, the Om, and the Nam that direct our lives, the basis for what Sun Ra called a Sound Government.\u201d<\/p>\n

No matter how much you agree or disagree with the idea that the universe is purposefully putting musicians together, there is no escaping the fact that The Beatles coming together and making such influential music in the way that they did is a great example of serendipity. All of them brought out the best in each other, for a period, which lasted long enough for them to make great music and develop into musicians who would change the world as we know it. <\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t change an element of The Beatles and get the same outcome; however, when tensions were getting high within the band, certain members did want to tamper with the legendary line-up. An interview with John Lennon, which took place during a specifically tense period when the band was recording\u00a0Let It Be,\u00a0saw Lennon float the idea of replacing one of the band members. George Harrison had threatened to quit the band, and Lennon said they should fire him and replace him with Eric Clapton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the unearthed interview, John Lennon says that George Harrison\u2019s attitude towards the band was a \u201cfestering wound\u201d and that the band \u201callowed it to go deeper and we didn\u2019t even give him any bandages\u201d. <\/p>\n

Harrison left the band because he felt as though his music was never given any attention and was constantly put on the back burner by band members. Rather than address his concerns, Lennon said, \u201cI think if George doesn\u2019t come back by [next week] we ask Eric Clapton to play.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harrison wound up returning to the band in six days, just before the deadline to bring Clapton on board. Clapton had worked with the band prior (recording the guitar on their classic \u2018While My Guitar Gently Weeps<\/a>\u2019) but whether or not he would have been able to fill in for the remainder of Let It Be remains to be seen. Thanks to Harrison\u2019s return, we will never know.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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