The Beatles Rejected This Song Three Times Before It Became One of George Harrison's ...

When people think of The Beatles, they largely think of Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Because that pair delivered most of the band’s top-selling hits, they became the central songwriting force within the group. But, that being said, they weren’t the only successful songwriters in The Beatles. George Harrison also delivered his fair share of hits when given the opportunity by his fellow bandmates. There was one song that was rejected not once but three times by his fellow Beatles but ultimately became a hit for George Harrison in his solo career. Find out which song that was below.

One factor in The Beatles’ breakup was the fact that Harrison felt creatively pushed out of the loop by McCartney and Lennon. The pair all but steamrolled over everyone else in the room, at least according to some perspectives. Harrison managed to scrape a few songs through, but one that didn’t make the cut was “Isn’t It A Pity.”

“Isn’t it a pity? / Isn’t it a shame? / How we break each other’s hearts / And cause each other pain,” he sings in this somber track, touching on the breakdown of a relationship and heartache. Many listeners attribute this song to his feeling of being in a fracturing band, but it has endless applications.

“It was a chance to realize that if I felt somebody had let me down, then there’s a good chance I was letting someone else down,” Harrison once said of this track, adding, “It’s just an observation of how society and myself were or are. We take each other for granted — and forget to give back. That was really all it was about.”

Source: americansongwriter.com/Alex Hopper

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