10 Songs That Prove George Harrison’s Solo Years Were Better Than You Think
4. That’s The Way It Goes
In The Sixties George wrote Taxman, an angry song decrying all the income tax he had to pay on his pop star earnings. By 1982 he was writing in resigned tones about men who worry about stocks and shares. How silly to worry about money, he seems to say, from the comfort of the home studio on his Friar Park estate.
Another track where George resists contemporary musical influences there is however a Hawaiian influence to his slide guitar playing here and on the rest of his Gone Troppo album. The use of a gamak also gives the track a more familiar Indian tone.
In 2002 a memorial concert, the Concert For George was held featuring Ravi Shankar, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and others. Most of the songs played at the event were covers of George’s better known Sixties and Seventies efforts. That’s the Way It Goes was one of only a couple of Eighties numbers to be featured.