Martin Scorsese’s new documentary about George Harrison, Living in the Material World, hasn’t been going long when its subject says something that made me laugh out loud, and at the same time explained all that followed.
Speaking of his first attempt at writing music — a song called ‘Don’t Bother Me’ — he said he thought he’d have a go, because he figured that if John and Paul could write songs, how hard could it be?
It’s always been the mathematics of The Beatles that has puzzled me, the sheer improbability that someone as brilliant as Paul McCartney should have teamed up with someone as good as John Lennon and then asked George Harrison to be their guitar player. What are the chances?
Well, it turns out, as Harrison’s statement suggests, that they were not independent variables.
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