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By the time The Beatles broke up, no one would have been happier than George Harrison<\/a>. <\/p>\n It did sting knowing that the band of brothers was going to be going their separate ways and working on their own music, but having been kept down for so long, Harrison finally wanted the chance to have his voice be heard on All Things Must Pass. \u2018The Quiet One\u2019 had been itching to break his silence for so long, but he knew that once the fallout of everything, he was never going to get the same bug to return to being Fab for much longer.<\/p>\n Then again, Harrison wasn\u2019t the kind of person who hit the ground running at the same time that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were composing their first tunes. He certainly had a handle on what being a songwriter meant when he started to work up \u2018Don\u2019t Bother Me\u2019 for the band\u2019s second record, but since his bandmates already had hundreds of songs under their belt, he clearly had his work cut out for him before he landed on a great song.<\/p>\n But for a while, Harrison\u2019s songs would always be considered the undiscovered gems on many of the mid-period Beatles records. \u2018I Need You\u2019 is still one of the finest ballads of that period of their career, and for an album that went in as many directions as Rubber Soul did, \u2018If I Needed Someone\u2019 is one of the more perfect jangle pop songs to come out of the post-Byrds era of rock and roll.<\/p>\n Revolver might have been the first time when Harrison\u2019s songs started to match his bandmates, but it was always going to be an uphill battle to get any of them on a record. Not everyone was as interested in using Indian textures as he was, and even when working on The White Album, it took bringing in Eric Clapton for everyone to be on their best behaviour when working on \u2018While My Guitar Gently Weeps\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n If there was one person who kept him at bay for so long, though, it was McCartney. The bassist may not have been outwardly hostile towards Harrison in any capacity, but the passive-aggressive nature in the studio wasn\u2019t going to be ignored, either. He tried as hard as he could to be the boss of certain sessions, so if he was playing his own lead guitar on his songs and telling Harrison what to play, it\u2019s not like the guitarist was going to be leaving on the best of terms with his old friend.<\/p>\n