![]() “I get tired of being Beatle Ted / Talking to the dead / Every time some bobby’s getting blown.” “I get tired of being Beatle Jeff / Talking to the deaf,” he complains, in his poetic sneer. “Nowhere to Go,” cowritten with his friend Bob Dylan in 1968, lays out his disenchantment with the rock-star hustle. The demos are full of major songs, many of which would have fit perfectly on the album. They banged out 30 songs that day the next day he did 15 more solo acoustic demos for producer Phil Spector. The first day of demos was George at Abbey Road, backed by two trusted old friends - Ringo on drums and Klaus Voorman on bass. The world was still in shock from Abbey Road, the Beatles’s biggest album yet, where he stole the show with “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun.” As John admitted in NME, “George has got songs he’s been trying to get on our records since 1920. “I think there may be what you’d term a little bitchiness,” George said diplomatically in an April 1970 radio interview. In May 1970, when he first cut demos for the album, it was still an open question whether the Beatles were over, and George was the one taking the high road. Even in the tossed-off jams or folkie dirges, you can hear his fierce determination not to get trapped in the past. ![]() ![]() But this is where he found his voice and took it to an epic scale. It wasn’t his first solo album - he’d already released the synth experiment Electronic Sound and the Wonderwall soundtrack. ![]()
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