George Harrison Claimed the BBC Could've Been Better
George Harrison claimed the BBC could’ve been better. The former Beatle was never afraid to reveal his true opinions about things.
It says something about George’s personality that he could call out the wrongs of the BBC on the BBC. During a 1969 interview with David Wigg on BBC Radio, George explained that he wished the broadcast corporation’s radio division was more like American radio.
“The thing is that you can set a high standard and it doesn’t necessarily have to be a hit,” George said. “You know, this is one thing. I don’t know, the market for hits is … you know, I just can’t figure it out, I know when the Beatles put out a single it’s a ‘hit.’ But I don’t know if … sometimes I feel that if somebody else had put out the same thing but done in their way it mightn’t be a hit.
“I don’t know. It’s very difficult. I’ve really decided I haven’t got a clue what’s commercial and what isn’t. And that’s the problem, you know, trying to decide what is and what isn’t a single. I think the American idea is really good where they just put out an album and the stations over there, you know, they have a lot of independent stations, unlike Britain, you see.
Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com
