1970 05 02 George Harrison with Howard Smith, Giving money away, thoughts on Paul
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- WABC 95.5 FM New York 2nd May 1970. A trip to New York, The George Album, Compromises and Sacrifices, The Company's in great shape, Giving money away, Insane mail, A production album, Thoughts on Paul, Nobody's perfect, Outdated Images, God Consciousness, Instant Peace. BC088
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George always gave considered answers. His memory too always seemed particularly sharp and mindful. Greatly missed.
The most interesting Beatles interview I've ever heard.
Maybe the most interesting interview by anyone, period.
Great mind, great heart, great soul. I listen to and learn from George. Always in my mind and heart.
Great interview. Harrison was so thoughtful and only 27 years of age at the time. Compare that with how 27 year olds talk today. Most sound like 12 year olds.
Yeah it’s odd. Many may talk like 15-year-olds. But *some* of them are more adult than many of my 50-ish friends. You can’t generalize a whole generation just because corporate-backed social media has pushed them their whole life to be self-obsessed and shallow.
I get what you’re saying, it’s so true.
Extended adolescence these days.
George Harrison is very mature, he is choosing his answer's carefully, and looking past the moment of question as is asked, is somewhat putting George on the spot.
In moment's he does show his personal feeling's about how it pans out for him, but he generally is being very nonchalant with his answer's, as if he is in the 3rd person.
Quite a good interview from that particular time.
Following this interview, John Lennon conceded that he had made the wrong decision to agree to Alen Kline managing 'Apple Corp', which is why 'The Beatles' ended up going their separate way's.
As Lennon said, he'd made a huge mistake, and Paul was right, but he couldn't see that at the time.
As George says in this interview, they, all needed time to get through this period of stress and anxiety, that they all were going through.
Like what happens in business, it was a business deal gone wrong.
Fortunately as history has shown, these 4 guys did love each other, had absolute faith and total respect in each other, as it all has sorted itself out in the wash, time heals most woon's.
George's philosophy on life is how all of us should look at life, he had this out look, spiritual, or other wise, that we all only get one go at it, and to make the best of it while we have it, whatever that is, we do with it. It is very simple.
As he said in one of his interview's, that came a little later after this one, " there is no tomorrow, (future) because it hasn't happened, there is no past, because it has past, no good worrying or dwelling over it, we only have now, this moment, then it it is gone".
He was wise beyond his time!
i love that george referenced the song all things must pass before recording the album
And he referenced the writing on his wall of Friar Park "Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, You know his faults, now let his foibles pass" which would go on to be used as a lyric in his song "The Answers at the End"
Interesting how many great fans of Alan Klein are on here. Good old George, he was always right.
George at 27 already knew his blueprint and he walked the walk not only buying a mansion and donating it to the Krishna’s to use as a temple in the early 70’s but in his will, he left around £300 million for different charities and to the Krishna’s. Utterly amazing.
Yeah and he cheated on his wife constantly, mostly having affairs with his best friends wifes. He felt this was fine because this life doesn't matter and he was just waiting to go to a supernatural place with many armed blue skinned gods.
@@KeizerHedorah
Lots of things happen on the journey of life.
Your comment is snarky & judgy so someone could say you’re a jerk- but I don’t know you….& I wasn’t privy to George’s life up close.
It was the 60s & free love💕 there were drugs and money etc..
But this doesn’t cancel out what good he did.
@LollieVox my comment is the truth, learn how to deal with it without calling names like a child.
Looks like you edited your comment to be more "nice" lol.
Do you feel superior now? Leaving a judgmental comment in a YT comment section gives you pleasure?
@@FRANKSNAKE71so, it's OK to mention the good things he did but not the bad things.... Hypocrite....
Always well thought out and well spoken. At 55 it's embarrassing this guy was this mature at like 29 LoL
He was 27
I that mature at 14
@@supremajullibeama6249 that comment proves you’re not that mature right now
George once said " The Beatles were like hot house tomatos, force grown in a short time" Maybe maturing quickly is the result but I agree he was a true gem of a human.
@@robertrussell9336 He really was a true gem of a human even with his human flaws which were many.
For a forest to be green, each tree must be green - Maharishi
Very insightful. Amazing interview! John and George are very honest and down to earth individuals
Fantastic. Thanks so much for posting this.
It seems from what George said here that one of the problems the Beatles had was to bring in individual songs using the other Beatles as backing musicians instead of thinking of it as a "Beatles" track. When you write a track for the Beatles, you want it to be inclusive of all the Beatles, their mistake which George actually had the solution for, was to force their own songs to be Beatle songs when they should've been on a solo album. When you write to be Beatles, it works so much better, like they did from 64 to 66. But even then songs like For No One and Yesterday should've been on a Paul McCartney solo album. They just didn't think of it until it was already too late. Sad to think had they all discussed this in Abbey Road maybe they could've stayed together while doing separate solo albums, to be not Beatles. A shame Paul and Ringo wasn't there when George was telling John in Get Back they should do solo albums to free up their song backlog. This way Beatle tracks are Beatle tracks, not a George track or a John track.
But they were also tired of being in each others’ pockets. You can’t discount that they all wanted to live their own lives, have families and do their own projects.
I think all the albums are perfect except I me mine got butchered as a Beatle song.
what a Brain. He was really smart and aware of things and people.
So wise - haven’t heard this before - the most open and honest of the four. Shame they chose Allen Klein - or rather he chose them…
George, like John, could be very contradictory. Saying one thing Tuesday and doing the opposite Thursday, you know? But if you really listen he is spot on here; he's saying we're just a rock n' roll band, we're all well off with big houses and cars and even if there's brotherly "bitchiness" involved deep down they all loved each other. And ONE DAY, they will get things together if that is what they want to do. Of course that's where the pain and sadness comes in: by 1994 they had largely solved their business squabbles and felt the project they'd discussed off & on since 1972, a reunion for their own autobiographical documentary, could finally be tackled. But of course, Lennon had been murdered over 10 years earlier. So even with all that lingering sadness & pain, I think it took all 4 camps to truly cut the shit and truly do it right, and thank God they did. Yoko giving Macca that "Free As A Bird" demo removed any kind of bitterness or judgement I had for the woman and I'm just a second generation (born in 1975) fan. I imagine Apple and the three Beatles felt similarly...for a time, lol.
I always loved what a straight shooter George was . Never minded telling exactly how he felt.
In retrospect, it's clear The Beatles made a crucial mistake forming Apple Corps as a four-way partnership, with each of them owning a 25% vote in business decisions. Had they agreed to proceed by consensus, Paul's veto of hiring Allen Klein to run Apple would've saved them all a lot of grief, and possibly even helped preserve The Beatles in the face of their solo careers.
Consensus worked wonderfully with their albums.
If you think having Allen Klein running Apple would have been a good thing then maybe take a look at his history of theft and corruption of other artists and imagine what Apple would have looked like.
@@jesse2d - Not sure who your reply is directed to, but my original comment argues that The Beatles would have better served by enabling Paul to veto their business arrangements with Allen Klein.
That the idea to find a manager they all agreed on was never on the table (Robert Stigwood???), tells you a McCartney led Beatles was something the other 3 dreaded.
"After Brian died, we collapsed. Paul took over and supposedly led us. But what is leading us, when we went round in circles? We broke up then. That was the disintegration." John Lennon 1971.
There's also a surprising quote from Ringo Starr in 1969, that I am having trouble finding (!!!!! it's my fault, bookmarking lack) where he says McCartney was leading them, even though McCartney denies it. Starr rarely comments on such things.
But when you look at McCartney's track record when leading them, he led them into one disaster after another. Magical Mystery Tour, the film, was rejected by the American market. This is a first. Because America would sell anything The Beatles came up with. Twice over if they could. This is not a success. This is a failure to cut off your primary market. The creation of Apple, which Harrison clearly states is McCartney's idea, disaster. The sessions for "The Beatles" would result in Ringo Starr quitting the band. How one gets Ringo Starr to quit a band I do not know. The "Get Back" sessions would result in a poorly planned project, in an unworkable rehearsal space, and ANOTHER member quitting. Harrison. The film "Let It Be" failed at the box office as well. Dismally.
They would rather go with a known shark in Klein, than continue with a McCartney led Beatles. And they knew he was a shark back in 1966. His history with The Beatles goes back to 1964. He announced his intentions to manage them in June 1966. In November 1966 he claims he has two of them as clients (it is believed it's Harrison & Lennon), even though the only Beatle in town to negotiate with Klein is McCartney all throughout September through November 1966, and the only Beatle who did not deny the claim was McCartney, cuz now he's out of town when it hits the newspapers. Harrison, Lennon, Starr and Brian Epstein all said Klein was talking bullshit. One author has suggested it's MCCARTNEY that brings in Klein to begin with. Because McCartney is the only one unhappy with Epstein's management. And Epstein knows it. I'm inclined to believe there might be some truth to this, because something funny is going on! Plus how does a Beatle go off grid for 2 months when he lives in the centre of London.
Harrison was about to cash in when he started his solo career. McCartney suing the other 3, tying up earnings in court receivership, stopped that huge turnaround in his songwriting fortunes. And because he was an alright guy, he let Billy Preston OUT of his Apple contract, allowing Billy to avoid the whole court receivership that surely would have killed his career. As an Apple CEO, he can do this.
It's a shame McCartney didn't let Badfinger out of their contracts.
Love this! Thanks for posting it.
I noticed on the Get Back doc they didn’t compliment each others songs at all.
I also felt they butchered I Me Mine
It was so good in the vibe of Norwegian wood. I guess that was the sacrifice & compromise he speaks of.
This is just simply priceless. Wow! (it fades out, does the rest of the interview exist?)
It's so strange, at points in this interview, he sounds like one of the other three.
Totally meant to be, The Beatles.
I think the point of “Give Peace a Chance” is that you can get only what you can imagine vividly and hold firmly in mind. (Lennon makes that point more explicitly, of course, later in “Imagine”). You’ll notice that the verses for Peace are just random spoken babble. That’s presumably by careful design. Lennon wants us to remember just one simple sentence with a simple melody so that we can easily sing it ourselves.. He’s doesn’t want us distracted. He was donating a practically useful slogan for protest marches. The protest marches were supposed to be the vehicle of change, not the recording. The recording was just a practical method of disseminating the slogan. George appears not to understand this.
3:50 That's what supposedly Mark Lewisohn heard in the tape J,P and G recorded at the meeting for Ringo.
Never heard this before, thanks. Do you have the rest of it?
Accept that we're not perfected.
Hare Krishna George!
'the George album' .. ALL THINGS MUST PASS .. little did we know 🙂but now we know more . hari krsna . . a soul does not die . we never go far away .
Imagine being the person who received that money off George Harrison in the post!!😂.x
I loved George and the rest of the Beatles. But there was a lot of jealousy within the group and after their breakup. History will show who was the most successful and influential one.
How can history show that when two got 60+ year careers, one got 35 years, and one got only 17 years, with 5 taken off?
I can't help thinking what a similar situation was going on with the Stones, what with his songwriting lack of confidence paralleling Jones's, and the whole Alan Klein debacle.
Constant street jack hammering in the background. LOL! So, New York!
Paul voted present rather than yes or no. That’s when John lunged at Paul
He speaks a lot of sense. So good he kept away from the bitchiness and let it pass as it all did. Klein did a lot of good except he was a bit rough on Apple staff and whatever it was that happened to Badfinger.
"Try my best to do something with them again.. " Interesting!!! This is G at his absolute most positive. And I love how in casual conversation he quoted 2 of his ATMP songs!!
My 12 year old thinks He's 27 😀
I just let it be, he'll grow up in good time and laugh at His younger self - Just like His dad did! 😄x
“You don’t get peace by talking about peace.” .. true, but still John and Ringo really did bring people to think about their cause. They were all doing great. You needed John grabbing headlines saying “War is over if you want it.” And you also needed people checking out Harrison’s ideas saying, hmm maybe meditation is a way i could make a positive change.
Both are important. And i’m thankful we had them in the 60s and 70s, showing that. Before our whole culture turned into worship of money from the 80s onward.
Because now as humanity faces nightmare consequences of climate change, we really do need a new way to perceive value. Money isn’t going to save us, money is going to bury us.
Because there was no "worship of money" in the 60s😂😂
George Harrison (Liverpool, 25 de febrero de 1943-Los Ángeles, 29 de noviembre de 2001) fue un músico multiinstrumentista, compositor, cantautor, productor musical, productor cinematográfico, actor, filántropo, activista pacifista, ecologista, guitarrista y cantante británico de la banda de rock The Beatles.
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Unfortunately Alen Klein a part of George got sued for My Sweet Lord. The guy was a pirate in the end.
This one wasn't going to be unanimous. There was never going to be 4/4.
Klein was bad from the beginning it’s just that Paul was the only one that saw it.
Pirate is an excellent word to describe Klein. He stole the publishing rights to Sam Cooke and the Rolling Stones 1960s catalogue.
Paul eventually won the law suit saying that important decisions had to be unanimous. The court agreed with Paul.
They should have looked for a new manager acceptable to all 4. The 3 against 1 was probably very hurtful to Paul and the others should have known that.
Eastmans would have done them much better. Freakin Klein.
I thought it was all of them had to agree to any changes and not majority rule.
Until the Allen Klein decision, it was that way. John and George carried the day and convinced Ringo to vote for Klein. I can understand them not wanted Paul's father-in-law to manage them, but it's a shame no one brought up a third party--such as Prince Robert Loewenstein, say, who was already looking into Klein's dealing with The Rolling Stones by late 1968.
Paul should never had recommended his in-laws to manage the Beatles- a huge mistake, but he was right about Klein
I don’t understand, were John and Paul stopping George from making a solo album, during the times of the Beatles?
Yoko being blamed for the bands break up on April 10, 1970, is the farthest from the truth I believe. I think this Harrison interview is the best evidence of what really drove the end of The Beatles as a business. In a sense, no longer making money from live shows revealed how little money they made off their catalog. The catalog of course was not owned by them and traded hands, eventually being purchased on August 14, 1985 cunningly by Michael Jackson after an infamous dinner with McCartney. Paul gave him advice which was an came to haunt him. Not owning the catalog put a strain on the "Beatles" relationship. The band was like a fragmented business controlled by opportunistic partners, run by lawyers and mangers. Unfortunately they ended up killing the golden goose. They were the biggest band in the world and had 10 years easily in them in top form. They left at the top of their creative genius which is rare to see in rock history. If the Beatles had better people fending for them from the start, and not suffered with Epstein's death among other issues, Beatle history would be different. The only way out of all these legal matters really was to simply walk away from the band and they did in a haste really. Take care of people who take care of you is the lesson but greed and lack of negotiation skills may be the key that was missing.
Thank you for this. So true.
💯 proof that Paul was most at fault..
Who's thr gentleman beside Harrison in the photo, is that Howard Smith?
Yes, that's Howard Smith.
It’s a member of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
9:20
One of the groups members wife family or Allan K👀
22:15
Should have listened to Paul.
So George was giving the same amount of tracks as Paul and John on each album and is complaining. The real truth is that his songs were always subpar compared to the others until Abbey Road. All 4 Beatles always voted on the best songs for each album along with George Martin's input. George's songs were just not as good as the others. Simple as that.
In general, yes..
In Peter Jackson’s Get Back film, it’s apparent that John was the better guitar player, playing leads while George struggles to find the chords
🙄 So wrong. John of course had great feel and imagination. Paul, too. But George was a better musician. He showed up, learned a tune he didn’t write, and played a legendary solo people still sing along with… after literally only knowing the song for an hour in the studio. 1-2 takes, usually first take.
He learned sitar, which is incredibly difficult for someone who didn’t grow up with that music. As a result, you can hear in George’s playing from Abbey Road onward, he had a rare sensitivity for inflection and melodic expressiveness. Partly because he learned sitar, and you could hear all of that in his blues/rock playing. John was busy taking drugs with Yoko while George was finding new ways to play guitar (and organ) that were more and more expressive.
George wasn’t struggling to “find the chords” in Get Back. He was working, with great musical intelligence, at finding the *perfect version* of that chord. On a song he didn’t write.
I’ve been a professional musician for 30 years, and your “insight” is just wrong. Any professional musician will tell you the same thing. I suspect Paul would tell you you’re wrong too; do you think you know George’s playing better than him?
Watch the video again. John plays with confidence. Lead and rhythm. George is watching John’s hands, trying to keep up.
George is following John (and Paul) when it's his song, of course he would, that's what good musicians do.
There is no better or worse, especially on that level, just different.
That’s simply not true.x
George had great technique and melody feel in his playing for as simple as it was. The songs did not need to be virtuosic most of the time. Just like Ringo.
he was quite the bore
Wdym lol
@@supremajullibeama6249 boring
You are quite the fool.x
He was quite wise and open and positive in spirit beyond his years at only 27! Bored are only the boring. As they say. I am hanging on to every word he says. Always loved his laconic speech inflections. His voice was very singularly George.
There is no such thing as boring, bore etc
Wah wah wah ever since I saw “Get Back” I just see George as a bitchy whiner.
His two songs on Abbey Road are the best he ever did and better than any on his solo albums.
Most likely because of Paul’s input on those songs.
I was surprised how passive aggressive he was in Get Back. But I don't blame him, one bit. Patience of a saint, w J & P.
Nah George did alot and felt unappreciated by Paul. His solo album was the best of the three.
How was he bitchy in get back explain ...
@@supremajullibeama6249 In the whole first part he had a bad attitude, like he didn’t want to be there.
When Billy Preston showed up showed up his attitude changed , like he wanted to show he’s a nice guy.
Then once Billy wasn’t around he became disagreeable again.
He would mock Paul during the “Long and Winding Road” segment and was disagreeable about going on the roof.
Once Ringo said he had no problem going on the roof, George was ok with it,
I think part of the problem was after hanging out with Clapton and Dylan he came back with a worse attitude than before.
And he really seemed more jealous of John and Paul’s relationship.
Watch him during the “Two of Us” segment at the end of part one, right before he walked out.
At this same time Patty left him, because he had Clapton’s ex girl friend living with them,
and Patty had enough.
He even said that he joined Krishna because he could have multiple concubines so he wanted his cake and eat it too.
Not really the nice guy he portrays himself as.
@@islandhorizonvideos8230 agreed he was an bit of bastard but the same could be said about any of them. People get burnt out on other people's bs and the less we need somebody the less likely we are to tolerate it. They needed each other in the beginning and were happy to finally be succeeding, that can wash away a lot of sins but like anything the novelty wears off. With all of that George was too good in his own rite to be treated like a side man any longer.
Words words words .... Nice teaching, George, but did you really live as you taught? No, I don't think so. Your'e not Jesus Christ, even if you want us to believe it.
That's an idiotic thing to say.
@@lawsonj39 No, it's very relevant to say so.
It's to much and only a northern song are master piece as good as anything john or paul put out
Totally agree.
No
Finally someone to speak my language.
Love It's All Too Much; Only a Northern Song, not so much.