Maybe I’m Amazed, Paul McCartney
…He should have done more work with George Harrison, post-Beatles breakup.
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Maybe I’m Amazed, Paul McCartney
…He should have done more work with George Harrison, post-Beatles breakup.
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I’ve always thought that one of the biggest weaknesses in Paul’s solo work (John’s too, maybe moreso) is the widespread lack of a strong lead guitar.
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Also, the live version from Wings Across America is worth a listen.
I don’t think there was much love lost between George and Paul when the Beatles broke up. Listeners make jokes about Ringo being the weak link in the Beatles because of his Hard Day’s Night hangdog persona, but he was a steady reliable drummer take after take (after take).
But reading longtime Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick’s recent autobiography, it was clear that Paul and George Martin really viewed Harrison as the band’s weakest player, until he came on so strong with “Something” and “Here’s Comes the Sun” right at the end of the line. That’s why when the surviving band members reunited to overdub on top of John’s demos for the Beatles Anthology series in the 1990s, George’s friend Jeff Lynne (an excellent producer in his own right) served as producer, and not George Martin, as demanded by Harrison.