Posted on 07/05/2015 5:48:58 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
For example: http://solobeatles.com/2012/12/11/georges-original-version-of-it-dont-come-easy/
Whatever the real story, Harrison had at least as much to do with writing the song as Ringo. Even in the "official" version of events, Ringo only wrote the lyrics to the first verse, Harrison wrote, arranged, and produced the rest.
Personally, as much as I like Ringo, it sounds like and probably was originally a Harrison song.
George Harrison.
He had a couple of good tunes in the old days, but clearly Lennon was powerhouse writer.
He was jealous of John. what? Would he rather have been the one to be shot dead and martyred? No, ok so shut up, Paul. Grow up and thank God, or whatever you call Him, that you lived twice as long as he did and got to be a grandfather, etc etc etc.
IIRC George wrote Taxman
How nice would you be if an ex-Beatle has-been stole YOUR wooden leg ;)
Everything in the parody was actually said by Lennon at one time or another. About 90% of it is straight from Lennon Remembers. You can listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVDpPX37fkU Warning: the language -- straight from Lennon's mouth -- would probably make your drill instructor sound like the Church Lady. Definitely NSFW.
I lean to that theory myself.
All things must pass, and you’d better don’t invest your precious 401K dimes into the publishing rights of the Beetles catalog whose value diminishes with our every breath.
I mean, look, somebody here had to look up ‘Tin Pan Alley’! Beatles forever? Elvis forever? Sure, as long as forever lasts until your funeral. (Anticipating responses referring to one’s grandkids liking Laugh Me Do, I say but not their grandkids!)
Yes, but who can forget Linda’s the photogroupie’s backup vocals and piano virtuosity on Macca’s disks?
Neither was. Like Page and Plant, neither was a fraction as good without the other.
As I recall, 25 years on, Sir Paul wanted to change the credit on “Yesterday” from Lennon-McCartney to McCartney-Lennon, as it was basically all his, and Yoko said uh-uh.
From the Beatles era, I prefer John to Paul (”She Said”, “Rain”, “Revolution”, “Ballad of John and Yoko”) but overall prefer them as a team to pretty much anything they did after The Breakup. I’ve also come around to the realization (thanks, immersion-level Beatle fan friends) that George wound up great either way, and Ringo was the beating heart of the whole works, plus he had the first big hit post-Beatles, with “It Don’t Come Easy” (co-written with George, at least).
The actual interview is here:
http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/music/8511/paul-mccartney-interview/
Actually, I recently read that john had moved rightward toward the end. The story I read mentioned some conservative literature on his night stand.
Still a hippie though
No, Ono is a gold-digging, talentless dirtbag who needs to be called out. Thank God she dumped my favorite artist, Al Stewart, before she conned John Lennon. Bob
Neither does the other fiend, Heather Mills.
He hasn’t been the same since the Tories beat his ass in May.
I prefer Ringo’s recording, but here’s the demo:
George Harrison’s “It Don’t Come Easy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvtoM0xiWMk
They both clicked together (imo) and it was just one of those historical things .... like the founders all living at the same time and having the same mindset ... and determination.
I'm also a big Al Stewart fan. Who better to be dumped by than Yoko? She is painful to listen to: "singing" or otherwise.
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