The Beatles Hit George Harrison Almost Didn’t Release: “That’s Too Easy”

George Harrison didn’t get a plethora of cuts while with the Beatles. Paul McCartney and John Lennon pretty much had a monopoly on the songwriting. However, the cuts he did get proved to be timeless classics. There was one Harrison-penned song in particular that nearly didn’t receive a wide release. Find out which titular Beatles song fans almost missed out on, below.

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The Beatles Hit George Harrison Almost Didn’t Release: “That’s Too Easy”

“Something” was one of Harrison’s shining moments in the Beatles. It has fascinated guitar players for decades and remains a Beatles staple. Nevertheless, Harrison didn’t believe in the song when it first came to him.

“I just put it on ice for six months because I thought, ‘That’s too easy’,” Harrison once said.

Something in the way she moves

Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way she woos me

I don’t want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

This ballad is a little black and white. It has little surprises in its simplistic melody. However, sometimes there doesn’t need to be anything flashy to make a song great. Sometimes all that is required are some well crafted lyrics and a memorable chord progression. Harrison certainly achieved that here.

Somewhere in her smile she knows

That I don’t need no other lover

Something in her style that shows me

I don’t want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

Harrison was inspired to write this song after hearing James Taylor’s “Something In The Way She Moves.” The Beatle references the song in his opening lines. Sentimentally, the two songs are very similar, but Harrison’s song has a melancholy twist to it.

“I felt hugely flattered,” Taylor once said. “I had played this song for George and Paul as my audition and I think it had just sort of stuck in his mind. But he didn’t realize that. I think all music is reiteration. I think we just pick stuff up and use it again. I mean, there are just 12 notes.”

You’re asking me will my love grow

I don’t know, I don’t know

You stick around, now it may show

I don’t know, I don’t know

Something in the way she knows

And all I have to do is think of her

Something in the things she shows me

I don’t want to leave her now

You know I believe and how

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