Listen to George Harrison's isolated guitar on The Beatles' 'Don't Let Me Down'
George Harrison may well have been one of the integral corners of the most triumphant band to ever grace the earth in The Beatles but he was still riddled with insecurity. The guitarist and songwriter had begun to find his feet in 1969 but was still fairly conflicted about his own guitar playing.
It may have been the Quiet Beatle living up to his name and keeping the spotlight away from him or perhaps that the class of guitarist he rose up with, the likes of Clapton and Hendrix, were just too far out of his league for him to even consider himself in the same bracket. Either way, he was never one to boast about his work on the fretboard.
When you consider this against the fact that alongside John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr he was the lead guitar in some of the most widely loved songs ever written it can be a hard fact to get your head around. Not to mention his impossibly brilliant solo work.
Source: Jack Whatley/faroutmagazine.co.uk
