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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since their manager Brian Epstein<\/a> died in 1967, they began to take a more hands-on approach to their accounting and business dealings which George loathed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, he spent the day with his good pal Eric Clapton<\/a>, and retreated to the legendary guitarist’s home in Surrey to avoid the “dopey accountants”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eric talked about the moment in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World<\/em>: “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?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Posted from: https:\/\/www.smoothradio.com\/features\/the-story-of\/here-comes-sun-beatles-lyrics-meaning\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n