James Taylor

A look at how James Taylor inspired George Harrison to write the classic Abbey Road Beatles anthem 'Something' that John Lennon later called his favourite.

I had played this song for George and Paul as my audition, and I think it had just sort of stuck in his mind. Despite the sadness of what she writes afterwards, it is always important to remember the beauty of the prelude in a relationship and not the final chapter. Oozing with a sense of ethereality the unfurling verses could give goosebumps to a blade of grass, and then there’s that middle eight that could knock the socks off of Gandhi.