Readers Poll Results: George Harrison's 10 Best Beatles Songs
The results of our latest readers poll: George Harrison's 10 best Beatles songs.
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03. Here Comes the Sun (1969)
"Here Comes the Sun" kicks off side two of the Abbey Road album.
Perhaps Harrison explains it best in his 1980 autobiography, I Me Mine:
"'Here Comes the Sun' was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'Sign this' and 'sign that.' Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever, by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote 'Here Comes the Sun.'"
Here's a nice live version from 1987 featuring Harrison, Starr, Jeff Lynne and Phil Collins:














