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To keep myself awake, just as a joke to pass the time while I waited, I wrote a song about waiting for him in Blue Jay Way.

There was a fog and it got later and later. I felt really knackered with the flight, but I didn’t want to go to sleep until he came. And he said he could find it okay… he could always ask a cop. I told him on the phone that the house was in Blue Jay Way. “Derek Taylor got held up,” Harrison remembered, speaking with Hunter Davies in 1968. ‘Blue Jay Way’ is a rare early song from Harrison to be featured on the band’s album and was written primarily as George Harrison waited for publicist Derek Taylor to arrive at the house, a house situated on, yep, you guessed it, Blue Jay Way. The White Album has often been regarded as being too long and we’d suggest one track to cut off the record would be this contribution from Harrison which not only never seems to go anywhere but, as the name might suggest, takes too long to get there. That doesn’t mean they’re always good though. ‘Long Long Long’Īrguably, by the time The Beatles hit their stride on The White Album, Harrison had shaken off much of his nerves surrounding songwriting and was beginning to contribute with far more regularity. Ranking George Harrison’s Beatles songs worst to best: 22. There’s no doubt that not every song of the guitarist can be considered great, but looking at the rich pickings on offer, it’s hard to argue that he didn’t have the most potent contribution of the Fab Four.Ĭheck it out, below. However, if you’ve ever struggled to find a starting place with Harrison’s contribution to The Beatles, then we’ve got you covered as we rank the guitarist’s songs in order of greatness. Across a collection of 22 tracks, Harrison lays the blueprint for the new sound he would pursue out on his solo adventures. But, in truth, he had been laying the foundations with The Beatles, even if it was being routinely overlooked. Tambourine Man," and was greeted with tremendous applause.With the release of All Things Must Pass, most certainly the best post-Beatles album of the bunch (a bunch which includes Ram and Imagine), Harrison proved himself to be a dynamic and unique songwriter. While there are varying accounts as to what exactly went down during their performance in 1965, especially regarding the reason behind the band's decision to leave after three songs, Dylan did return to the stage with an acoustic guitar to play "Mr.

They performed two songs, but were allegedly booed off stage by the traditionalist, folk-minded crowd when they began "Like a Rolling Stone."Ī pivotal moment in rock history, the musician's decision to pick up the electric guitar unsettled the crowd in which many believed his choice to "go electric" betrayed traditional folk music. Prior to the gig, he had released Bringing It All Back Home and had recorded the majority of Highway 61 Revisited - two works that had introduced electric sounds and rock accompaniment, with the latter featuring his hit " Like a Rolling Stone."ĭylan recruited members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band to join him on stage at the festival to recreate the electric sounds heard on his aforementioned albums. Regarded as an acoustic troubadour and a leading light in the revival of folk music, Dylan shocked audiences when he "went electric" during his Newport Folk Festival headlining performance in 1965.