'Here Comes The Sun' by The Beatles: The making of George Harrison's sunshine masterpiece
Is 'Here Comes The Sun' the most popular Beatles song of modern times?
If you include 'Now and Then', The Beatles recorded a total of 213 different songs. 25 of them were covers of rock 'n' roll classics, pop standards and country hits. The bulk of the other 188 were compositions by the immortal songwriting team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Alongside a trio of curios with full band co-writes – namely Let It Be's 'Dig It' and 'Maggie Mae' and Magical Mystery Tour's 'Flying' – George Harrison wrote just 22 of the songs officially released by The Beatles.
But if you go on to Spotify and look up The Beatles and look at their top ranked songs, one track is way out in front of all the others.
'Here Comes The Sun' has racked up over 1.5 BILLION listens in the ten years since The Beatles belated came to the platform.
John Lennon's 'Come Together' is languishing in second place with a mere 811 million spins. Read on to find out how this not-even-a-single became such a hit. Who wrote 'Here Comes The Sun'?
We just made a big song and dance about the song being one of George Harrison's, but you do have to be careful with songwriting credits.
Some of the songs listed as Lennon-McCartney weren't exactly that. 'Yesterday' was entirely written by Paul McCartney while 'Please Please Please' me was one of John's solo efforts, for example.
Source: goldradio.com/Mayer Nissim
