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The Beatles<\/a> were some of the greatest songwriters to ever set foot on this round ball we call Earth, and therein lies the problem. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen I heard The Beatles, I knew what I wanted to do,\u201d said Ozzy Osbourne in an interview with Blabbermouth. \u201cMy son says to me, Dad, I like The Beatles, but why do you go so crazy? The only way I can describe it is like this, \u2018Imagine you go to bed today and the world is black and white, and then you wake up, and everything\u2019s in colour. That\u2019s what it was like!\u2019 That\u2019s the profound effect it had on me.\u201d<\/p>\n In this small quote, Osbourne captures the magic of The Beatles incredibly well, they had a sound that was delightfully infectious, one which allowed the public to re-engage with music and start having fun again, and this might sound like a somewhat ambiguous assessment of the Fab Four, but in post-war Britain, fun was still being rationed out as the country tried to get back on its feet following the devastation that World War II had brought with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n In walk The Beatles, a band who were made up of complete individuals who were capable of working together in wonderful harmony. \u201cI remember Keith Richards saying to me, \u2018You had four singers. We only had one,\u2019\u201d said Paul McCartney when discussing what made the band such a stellar outfit. It wasn\u2019t just that they were all singers, though, but songwriters as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n This worked in the bands\u2019 benefit during the early days, as they had pressure on them to write great songs (and a lot of them at that), so having this many minds contributing to the band\u2019s overall sound meant they were able to overcome whatever creative hurdles were placed before them. The joy lay in their differences, not their similarities. This was great at first, but it led to friction within the band later down the line, as they wanted to take The Beatles in different directions and couldn\u2019t agree on what that direction actually was.\u00a0<\/p>\n This was particularly an issue for George Harrison, who was constantly writing songs for the band but receiving pushback as it was felt his style of writing didn\u2019t quite suit the quintessential Lennon-McCartney sound, which The Beatles had built their entire identity around. As the band grew more experimental in their output, what that Lennon-McCartney sound actually was became harder and harder to understand, and as such, Harrison was left even more confused as to why his music wasn\u2019t getting recorded.\u00a0<\/p>\n When the band were working on the album Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it had become clear that Harrison was struggling to find motivation in what The Beatles were doing. He would always try to write songs to be included on different projects, but his offering of \u2018Only a Northern Song\u2019, which he wrote for the Fab Four\u2019s concept album, fell way short of the mark. Even producer George Martin said<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m disappointed that George didn\u2019t bring something better,\u201d when discussing the track. It ended up being left off of Sgt Pepper and eventually found a home on the band\u2019s later release, Yellow Submarine.\u00a0<\/p>\n