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As ever, The Beatles<\/a> were able to pluck inspired pop from whatever upheaval was thrown at them.<\/p>\n While no one had quite confirmed it yet, everyone knew the Fab Four story was coming to a close when the band entered EMI Studios for the Abbey Road sessions<\/a> in 1969. It\u2019d been a dizzying ride. <\/p>\n Forming a central thread across the decade\u2019s pop evolution, The Beatles\u2019 trajectory served as a narrative for the whole countercultural explosion, thrust from wide-eyed teenybop posterboys to global superstars, Merseybeat chart toppers to the psychedelic vanguard and back around the later roots rock revivalism.<\/p>\n However, the camaraderie was beginning to ebb. The old mop-tops were approaching their 30s, a world away from their Beatlemania unity as the maturer men were beginning to seek pastures anew, away from the band that, in John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison\u2019s case, had been members of in some form since their school days.<\/p>\n Lennon was the Beatle itching to spread his wings the most, lost in his relationship with artist and muse Yoko Ono and eager to explore art and politics too radical for the Fab Four fold. But Harrison\u2019s fatigue had set in earlier. Reportedly, a walkout nearly happened back in 1966, when Beatlemania\u2019s punishing touring schedule prompted Harrison to set out an ultimatum of their cessation of live shows lest he quit. Jump three years, and the Apple Corps venture only added further headaches<\/a> on top of fracturing relationships and delaying the band\u2019s inevitable demise.<\/p>\n For respite, Harrison sought sanctuary in pal Eric Clapton\u2019s garden at his Hurtwood Edge residence in Surrey. Plagued by business woes, unsure of The Beatles\u2019 future, and relieved by the spring sunshine severing an unusually extended winter chilliness into 1969, the seeds of one of his most beloved songs took natural, effortless shape.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026One day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton\u2019s house,\u201d Harrison reflected in 1980\u2019s I, Me, Mine autobiography, \u201cThe relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric\u2019s acoustic guitars and wrote \u2018Here Comes the Sun\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n He was already swinging major songwriting clout by the time Abbey Road was cut. Not only was \u2018While My Guitar Gently Weeps\u2019 standing as grade-A Beatles material, but his immortal \u2018Something\u2019 love song was already floating around among the band in unfinished form. \u2018Here Comes the Sun\u2019 only cemented the \u2018Quiet Beatle\u2019s\u2019 emerging confidence as a contributor to The Beatles\u2019 hallowed songbook, as well as introducing the team to the latest innovations in electronic music.<\/p>\n It was in Los Angeles that Harrison first spotted Dr Robert Moog\u2019s namesake synthesiser. First wielding the modular unit while producing Jackie Lomax\u2019s Is This What You Want?, he forked out for a IIIp model and had it shipped across the Atlantic to his Esher home, where his analogue experiments were captured on 1969\u2019s Electronic Sound solo record.<\/p>\n The Moog was transported over to EMI\u2019s Room 43 and saw, for the first time, a synth on a Beatles record; a magnetic tape keyboard, the electronic instrument\u2019s synthetic tonalities colouring Abbey Road\u2018s<\/a> \u2018Because\u2019, \u2018Maxwell\u2019s Silver Hammer\u2019, and the epic \u2018I Want You (She\u2019s So Heavy)\u2019. Yet, the machine\u2019s glittering patches, low-pass filters and piquant envelope settings all gleam the most cheerfully on \u2018Here Comes the Sun\u2019s\u2019 bright folk pop, acting as the choral of woodwind and chunky bass that elevates Harrison\u2019s lyrical ode to a higher power.<\/p>\n Remarkably, the track was never issued as a single, but would endure as a much-loved number in the Beatles canon, straddling a perfectly accessible line of immaculate songwriting and an all-ages invite not too far away from the likes of \u2018Yellow Submarine\u2019. For many, \u2018Here Comes the Sun\u2019 stands as the definitive Fab Four offering, to this day racking up nearly two billion streams on Spotify, as well as standing as the number one most-played Beatles song on the streaming platform, above even \u2018Yesterday\u2019 and \u2018Hey Jude\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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