10 Musicians Who Turned Down Iconic Songs

2. All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

As George Harrison tells it, his triple album All Things Must Pass was the result of years of creative constipation. While he might not have even considered writing songs in the early days of the Beatles, his first steps writing his own material was starting to feel stifled with the Lennon/McCartney machine, never really giving him all that much time to share his own stuff. The Beatles might have gotten classics like Here Comes the Sun and While My Guitar Gently Weeps, but the Get Back documentary sheds some light on the classics that the Fabs passed on.

When running through songs that would originally end up on Let It Be, you can see George having the basic skeleton of All Things Must Pass ready to go, sheepishly showing it to the rest of the band and getting almost no attention from the rest of the group. There was still that collaborative spirit though, with John Lennon suggesting the lyric about your mind being able to blow the clouds away, which George just accepts wholeheartedly.

With all of the attention being on Paul and John though, it makes sense why George would get pissed and storm out halfway through these sessions, being frustrated with not being taken seriously as a songwriter and always having to play third fiddle to every other songwriter in the band. John and Paul might have wanted to connect like they did back in the day, but they didn't realize the monster doing the lead lines. All this time, George was stockpiling, and it made for one of the greatest albums to ever come out of an ex-Beatle.

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