Barely a week into recording what would become The Beatles’ final album Let It Be, George Harrison was ready to quit.
He was no longer willing to fulfil a subservient role in the band, and by lunch on January 10, 1969, things came to a head.
When? ‘Now. You can replace me. Put an ad in the New Musical Express and get a few people in. See you round the clubs.’
‘It was very uncomfortable,’ says Let It Be producer Glyn Johns. ‘To watch this begin and be there in the immediate aftermath was very unpleasant.’
Harrison and McCartney had had a fractious relationship since meeting at the Liverpool Institute.
The junior partner by eight months, George chafed at Paul’s domineering streak, and grew increasingly angry at being treated like a glorified session-man. Harrison’s friend and fellow guitarist Peter Frampton recalls being with Harrison in 1971.
‘I’d put on Paperback Writer and say, “I love the guitar on that,” and he’d say, “Oh, that’s Paul.” I put all these other Beatles tracks on: “Oh, that’s Paul.” It wasn’t until then I realised he had been stifled. It was very frustrating for George...’
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