How George Harrison - who had strong Irish connections - was far from the quiet Beatle

By the time The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, George Harrison was already on the lookout for other pursuits. What had started out as fun in nightclubs in Liverpool and Hamburg had turned into drudgery for the guitarist.

"They [the fans] gave their money and they gave their screams," he later said of the period. "But The Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us."

The band had gone from being cheeky chappies from Merseyside to the poster boys of teenage immorality. There were many, particularly in the United States, who simply didn't like them and what they supposed them to represent. Their concerts were picketed by the Ku Klux Klan, their records were burnt and death threats became the norm. On top of that was the fact that they couldn't hear themselves play.

"I always really enjoyed it, in our early days, before we got too famous, we used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time," Harrison once told an interviewer. "And it was fun... but then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes."

Source :-  independent

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