George Harrison's songwriting evolution: The Quiet Beatle's considerable impact on the group’s sound
SalonThis weekend marks George Harrison's 80th birthday, a milestone that he would never glimpse. During my recent interview with Harrison's first wife Pattie Boyd, we discussed her memories of George, especially his "slow burn" as a songwriter toiling in the shadows of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. We also made time to reflect on the couple's March 1964 "meet-cute" on a railway car during the film shoot for "A Hard Day's Night," the Beatles' first feature film. An aspiring model, she accepted a walk-on part in "A Hard Day's Night," which placed her in George's orbit for a day-long shoot on their mobile film set. Latter Beatles-era songs such as Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun," "Something," and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," among others, routinely rank among the upper echelon of the Beatles' achievements.
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