By 1969, George Harrison had found his musical chops by the time Abbey Road and Let It Be were around the corner, and, after a few successful moments on those projects, he was now keen to enact his songwriting skill on the Beatles’s records more persistently.
The conversations, or perhaps more pertinently the lack of them, led to George temporarily quitting the band. He stormed out of the Get Back sessions. Though he left the studio, he wroteg one of the best tracks in the band’s extensive back catalogue.
George Harrison had begun to work out his musical style by the turn of 1969. Having spent much of the latter part of the previous year with Bob Dylan and The Band, working on tracks like ‘I’d Have You Anytime’ and with his work on The Beatles so widely loved, Harrison had hope for the future of the Fab Four. The select few of his songs chosen to appear on the previous albums had been well received, and now he wanted more.
George was hopeful: “I can remember feeling quite optimistic. I thought, ‘OK, it’s the New Year and we have a new approach to recording.’”
That new approach was Get Back, a multimedia proposition that would record rehearsals for a live concert of new material, ready-made for a TV special. It would see the band return to basics and reconnect with their music in a rawer way. However, things didn’t go smoothly, and Macca was quickly taking on the role of conductor: “At that point in time, Paul couldn’t see beyond himself,” Harrison told Guitar World in 2001. “He was on a roll, but … in his mind, everything that was going on around him was just there to accompany him..”
George began to pitch new tracks such as ‘Let It Down’, ‘Isn’t It A Pity’, and even the iconic ‘Something’.
On January 8th, Harrison debuted another classic in ‘I, Me, Mine’ It was here that things became more than a little heated.
George turned to his bandmates and suggested they advertise for his replacement and that he would “see you round the clubs”. Later, in 1987, Harrison admitted: “I just got so fed up with the bad vibes,” he told Musician magazine. “I didn’t care if it was the Beatles, I was getting out,” he added.
“I think if George doesn’t come back by Monday or Tuesday, we ask Eric Clapton to play,” John told Get Back director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. “We should just go on as if nothing’s happened.”
That day, arriving at his Surrey home, George reaching for his guitar and wrote one of his most treasured tracks, ‘Wah Wah’. Though it was named in part as a reference to the guitar effects pedal, later Harrison admitted in his biography that it was saying: “You’re giving me a bloody headache,” to his bandmates. The bleating sound and Harrison’s power make this song a classic on its own.
Greorge would eventually return to the session, but soon enough, the band were irreparable, and the Fab Four went their separate ways. Harrison’s All Things Must Pass is widely regarded as the finest post-Beatles album and the first song he would set about recording for his new project? ‘Wah Wah’, George Harrison’s declaration of independence.
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