The Beatles: 10 Incredible Rarities You Can Listen To Right Now
7. You Know What To Do
It wasn’t always easy being the third best songwriter in The Beatles. In 1970 George Harrison released All Things Must Pass, an epic, Phil Spector produced triple album. Fans and critics were shocked by the wealth of quality material at the guitarists disposal. In truth he’d been stockpiling songs for a couple of years, unable to get more than a couple of tracks on any given Beatles album thanks to the prolific talents of Lennon and McCartney.
This problem stretched back all the way to 1964 when the band recorded but ultimately rejected Harrison’s second ever composition, You Know What To Do. Later, when asked why George didn’t get a second track on a Beatles album until 1965, producer George Martin would claim Harrison, “got discouraged some time ago when none of us like something he’d written.”
His band mates and producer were a tough crowd but they weren’t the only ones. After it was finally released as part of the Anthology series, Ultimate Classic Rock named it the worst of all The Beatles’ releases tracks. Check out Anthology 1 to judge for yourself.