George Harrison Said the 1970s Destroyed Most of the Innovative People of the 1960s
George Harrison believed the 1970s destroyed most of the innovative people of the 1960s. He’d come out of the 1960s “shell-shocked” from his time with The Beatles. However, he recognized that the decade brought a cultural revolution and many great things. Then, there was nothing left in the 1970s.
Being a Beatle wasn’t always easy. Once Beatlemania started, the Fab Four had a hard time getting to places without being mobbed by hoards of fans. Touring was exhausting. George and The Beatles experienced unimaginable things over a short amount of time.
During an interview with Creem Magazine, George said the years that followed The Beatles were challenging because they were all “shell-shocked” from the 1960s.
In 1979, George told Rolling Stone, “The Beatles fortunately did that hit-and-run. But every year we were Beatling was like twenty years; so although it might only have been five or six years it seemed like eternity. That was enough for me, I don’t have any desire to do all that.
“It might have been fun for everybody else, but we never saw the Beatles… We were just four relatively sane people in the middle of madness. People used us as an excuse to trip out, and we were the victims of that.
Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com
