Paul McCartney Wrote a Song That Sounded Like Something George Harrison Would've .
Paul McCartney wrote a song that sounded like something his former bandmate, George Harrison, would’ve written. It’s surprising considering how long Paul pushed George’s songwriting aside while they were bandmates. Paul didn’t appreciate George’s musical contributions and claimed only he and John Lennon were The Beatles’ songwriters.
A couple of years after George died in 2001, Paul wrote “Friends To Go.” It appeared on his 2005 album, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard. Paul later confessed to Gary Crowley (per The Paul McCartney Project) that when he started writing the song, it morphed into something George would’ve written.
“Funny thing about some songs is when you’re writing them you can think you’re someone else,” Paul said. “I mean when I was doing ‘Long and Winding Road’ I thought I was Ray Charles. In actual fact my record of it, the Beatles’ record of it, is nothing like Ray Charles at all. But in my mind, I was being him. I was playing Ray.
Source: cheatsheet.com
