George Harrison Always Said He Wasn't Going to Make Another Album but Was Never Serious

George Harrison always said he wouldn’t make another album, but he was never serious. He wasn’t fooling himself or his fans.

In 1976, George named his newest album Thirty Three & 1/3 after his age. He told the BBC that he didn’t expect to continue in the music industry for much longer. George said he’d retire at 37.

“I suppose back in the 60s I gave myself to about 36,” he said. “So, still got a couple of years, but I think I’ll probably be around 37 or 38 at the moment that I feel and suppose I could stop. But I don’t know, it’s like George Burns once said that the only thing to retire for, the only reason is to do something better and if you enjoy doing what you’re doing… If I hadn’t been a guitar player, I don’t know what I would’ve done.”

By the following year, George started disliking what he was doing. George felt the music industry sucked all the creativity out of artists. They cranked out music that sounded the same on a conveyor belt. So, George stopped making tunes. He told Rolling Stone that he didn’t write a single song throughout 1977.

Source: Hannah Wigandt/cheatsheet.com

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