John Lennon said George Harrison looked like asthmatic | Music News

Despite having written some of essentially the most stunning love songs on the planet and urging “all you need is love,” The Beatles have been usually vicious toward each different and aimed even more hostility and negativity as former bandmates.

According to George Harrison, John Lennon had a brutal response to his triple album, All Things Must Pass, his first solo document following The Beatles’ cut up.

Lennon allegedly went additional in his bashing, saying Harrison looked like an “asthmatic Leon Russell” on the well-known album’s cowl.

During his time in The Beatles, Harrison was not inspired to write songs, but when he began flexing his songwriting skills more, he still acquired little to no reward.

Eventually, he had a construct up of songs he’d penned over the years and once The Beatles cut up, he had enough to fill an total album, or three.

Harrison in contrast this expertise to being “constipated” musically, a blockage that was finally launched when he embarked on recording his triple solo album shortly after the band’s dissolution.

Despite this liberation, years of being marginalized left Harrison questioning the standard of his songs on the album and a sense of paranoia had taken root.

In a 1977 interview with Crawdaddy, Harrison candidly mentioned the recording of All Things Must Pass. He shared with the publication: “It was a really nice experience making that album – because I was really a bit paranoid, musically. Having this whole thing with the Beatles had left me really paranoid.”

He went on to say: “I remember having those people in the studio and thinking, ‘God, these songs are so fruity! I can’t think of which song to do.’ Slowly I realized, ‘We can do this one,’ and I’d play it to them and they’d say, ‘Wow, yeah! Great song!’ And I’d say, ‘Really? Do you really like it?’ I realized that it was okay… that they were sick of playing all that other stuff.”

All Things Must Pass turned out to be a commerical and important hit with tunes like My Sweet Lord, Wah-Wah, and What Is Life?

Not even the suggestions Harrison obtained from his former bandmate dampened its success.

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Harrison informed Crawdaddy: “I remember John was really negative at the time, but I was away and he came ’round to my house, and there was a friend of mine living there who was a friend of John’s.

“He [John] noticed the album cowl and said, ‘He should be f—— dangerous, placing three information out. And look at the image on the entrance, he seems to be like an asthmatic Leon Russell.’ There was alot of negativity going down.

“I don’t care about that. F— it– we’ve been through the thing. I felt that whatever happened, whether it was a flop or a success, I was gonna go on my own just to have a bit of peace of mind.”

Harrison added that he wasn’t apprehensive about how it could go over, saying: “I felt it was good music, whether people bought it or not. I was concerned that the musicians who played on it were concerned. It was good.”

The guitarist concluded: “Even before I started I knew I was gonna make a good album because I had so many songs and I had so much energy. For me to do my own album after all that– it was joyous. Dream of dreams.”

During a 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon said Harrison’s album was “all right,” adding: “I don’t know… I think it’s all right, you know. Personally, at home, I wouldn’t play that kind of music, I don’t want to hurt George’s feelings, I don’t know what to say about it. I think it’s better than Paul’s.”

All Things Must Pass wasn’t just “all right.” The album featured the first No. 1 single by an ex-Beatle (My Sweet Lord). Lennon didn’t earn a No. 1 hit until 1974, with his and Elton John’s Whatever Gets You Thru the Night.

By 1973, the triple album had also sold more copies than Lennon’s Imagine and many also consider it to be the most successful album by an ex-Beatle, which is wild onsidering Harrison only recorded it as a reaction to leaving The Beatles.

Still, Harrison’s son, Dhani, thinks Lennon’s comment about the album was a huge oops moment. During an interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music Hits (per NME), Dhani said: “There might’ve been an oops moment. Like, ‘Oops. S—. Maybe that song was good.’

“But I think they were all just very happy for each other,” he continued. “How may you not be pleased if you had a bandmate who left your band and then went and did that? How may you not be pleased for them?”