The Beatles Album That George Harrison Called Boring

In many of the charts of the best albums of all time that are periodically published in various music magazines and not in first position, it often stands out “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (read the review here), the masterpiece album released by the Beatles in 1967.

57 years after its publication “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” It is certainly still considered an extraordinary album. The making of the album is mainly due to the genius of Paul McCartney. Certain John Lennon participated making it better with the unforgettable “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” but, as reported by FarOut Magazine, he wasn’t very involved in it.

Not to mention .Ringo Starr who was so bored during the recordings that he learned to play chess in the recording studio. But perhaps the most dissatisfied of the four from Liverpool was George Harrison who contributed to the album with only “Within You Without You” after having participated in the previous year “Revolver” (read the review here) with three songs.

An early song Harrison brought to the studio for “Sgt. Pepper” was
“Only a Northern Song”
a song that would later be included in the soundtrack of
“Yellow Submarine”
. The song was rejected by the band because, as both Lennon and McCartney would later admit, they didn’t think it
George Harrison
he was a great author so they paid little attention to him.

By 1967, Harrison had become a more mature and confident musician. His experiences in India had also transformed him as a man. “After the trip to India, everything else seemed like hard work,” Harrison explained in ‘The Beatles Anthology’. “It was a job, like doing something I didn’t really want to do, and by that time I was losing interest in being a Fab Four.”

Even the part of the job that he enjoyed most, recording live with his bandmates, fell away during the making of the album.

“Sgt Pepper was the only album where things were done a little differently,” explained the musician, who died in November 2001 at the age of 58. “Most of the time… we weren’t allowed to play much as a band. It was an assembly process: just little parts and then overdubs.”

His only contribution to the album, the Indian-esque “Within You Without You”had no participation from the others Beatles. In the opinion of Paul McCartney“George wasn’t very involved in that album. He only had one song. That was really the only time on the whole album that I remember him showing up.”

George Harrison He later wrote some songs considered among the best of the Beatleslike “Something” And “Here Comesthe Sun”featured in the 1969 album “Abbey Road”. But what happened during the recording of “Sgt. Pepper” stayed with him and changed his relationship with the other members of the group. It is therefore not surprising that he defined “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” an album that is “a little tiring and a little boring”.