Such a lovely audience for The Beatles
Updated on 07 May 2009
Beatles song lyrics, written by George Harrison and never seen before, are unveiled at the British Library.
The lyrics were written in early 1967, just before the fab four produced their seminal work, the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The lions’ share of Beatles' lyrics were written by Lennon and McCartney, but George Harrison came up with the hits Here Comes The Sun, Something, and I Need You.
He was a couple of years younger than John and Paul, and while he was a brilliant musician, he didn't have as much experience as they did at songwriting as the formidable duo.
But this is a previously unseen lyric which Harrison gave to the Beatles biographer Hunter Davies back in 1967, on the back of directions to the house of the band's manager Brian Epstein.
It's only eight lines long, a love song to some unknown woman. It includes the lines -
'your (sic) so unaware of thew pain that I bear
and jealous for what you can't do'
Davies, who often picked up scraps of paper from the floor of Abbey Road studio and kept them as souvenirs, had the lyrics of Help and Yesterday in his home, before he donated them to the British Library.
But now he's also donated the Harrrison lyric too.
The biographer believes it is proof that in the early days, Harrison was simply honing his skills as a lyric writer, while Lennon and McCartney came up with the majority of the writing.
