George Harrison is often referred to as the “quiet Beatle” and sometimes sadly even as the “forgotten Beatle” and that’s due to the fact that he was in the same band as the greatest songwriting team in popular music history. Lennon/McCartney were good enough to overshadow almost anyone but that being the case Harrison wrote many great songs with The Beatles and that’s what this article is set to highlight.
He was the youngest Beatle which explains his “late blooming” as a songwriter in comparison to his band mates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. When the Beatles recording session happened in January of 1970 Harrison was only 26 years old.
Harrison’s best known Beatles compositions are probably his pair of tracks from the Beatles final album Abbey Road; “Here Comes the Sun” & “Something.” And while these songs are certainly great and no doubt belong in the list of Harrison’s best 10 Beatles songs I want to get past these tracks and other well known Harrison compositions like “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from the White Album and “Taxman” from...