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Old George Harrison lyrics turned into new song
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 4 November 2009
Talking of The Beatles, a Merseyside-based songwriter called Dean Johnson has turned some previously unknown George Harrison penned lyrics into a new song. The lyrics were written by Harrison in the late sixties, but never used by the Fab Four or Harrison himself, and instead they were handed over to the band’s biographer Hunter Davies.
He seemingly forgot about the words until relatively recently. He mentioned them in an interview on BBC Radio Merseyside, and it was a presenter from that station, Spencer Leigh, who passed on the lyrics to Johnson urging the songwriter to use them as the basis for a new track. That track has been written and was aired by the BBC station recently, and you can see Johnson’s performance at this URL:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcJVnDlxdtg
Commenting on the project Leigh set him, Johnson told reporters: “I found it unbelievable, tremendously exciting and, above all, a complete honour. My brief was to follow George’s sentiment through to its conclusion”. When asked what the Harrison lyrics were about, he adds: “The lyrics are of a personal nature and were first thought to be a song of unrequited love but, in hindsight, they seem to allude to George’s uneasy relationship with John Lennon. This is substantiated by first-hand observations by Hunter Davies and by people close to Harrison”.
