4 Beatles Songs That the “Fifth” Beatle, George Martin, Wasn't a Fan Of
Diehard Beatles fans know the “fifth” Beatle George Martin all too well. More chill fans may not be in the loop. For the uninformed, Martin was the main producer behind the vast majority of the Fab Four’s music. He was with the band when they were nobodies and stayed with them until the end. He was pretty vocal about how much he loved the majority of The Beatles’ music. However, there were a few tracks here and there that he didn’t love. Let’s look at four Beatles songs that George Martin said he wasn’t a fan of!
1. “Within You Without You”
This George Harrison-penned 1967 track from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a pretty great song, but it wasn’t George Martin’s favorite. It wasn’t Harrison’s favorite, either. Harrison admitted that his “heart was still in India” upon returning from a trip there, and he was struggling to come up with inspired music. That much is, unfortunately, evident in “Within You Without You”. Martin described it as a “rather dreary song” that was a bit hamfisted with the Indian classical inspirations from Harrison.
Source: Em Casalena/American Songwriter
