The backstory behind ‘Here Comes The Sun’ came from a day when George was supposedly playing truant from The Beatles’ London offices, in order to avoid a meeting about the band’s business affairs.
Since their manager Brian Epstein died in 1967, they began to take a more hands-on approach to their accounting and business dealings which George loathed.
Instead, he spent the day with his good pal Eric Clapton, and retreated to the legendary guitarist’s home in Surrey to avoid the “dopey accountants”.
It was a particularly difficult time in George’s life – his relationship with The Beatles was fractured, having recently quit before rejoining; he was arrested for marijuana possession; he had to have his tonsils removed, and he was living an “isolated life” away from his bandmates.
The lyrics for ‘Here Comes The Sun’ was inspired by the end of a particularly long winter, and the April sun finally making an appearance as George and Eric walked around the latter’s garden with a guitar.
George said in a 1969 interview that: “It was just a really nice sunny day, and I picked up the guitar, which was the first time I’d played the guitar for a couple of weeks because I’d been so busy. And the first thing that came out was that song. It just came.”
Eric talked about the moment in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World: “It was one of those beautiful spring mornings. I think it was April, we were just walking around the garden with our guitars. I don’t do that, you know?”
“This is what George brought to the situation. He was just a magical guy… we sat down at the bottom of the garden, looking out, and the sun was shining; it was a beautiful morning, and he began to sing the opening lines and I just watched this thing come to life.”
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