• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Margie ClaymanMargie Clayman

Marietta, OH

  • About Me
  • Marketing
  • Librarianship
  • Random Musings
  • Contact Me

Are you like George Harrison?

December 3, 2010 by Margie Clayman 4 Comments

I have been listening lately to One, interspersed with my holiday music. One was the CD George Martin produced a few years ago that mashed up different Beatles songs, enhanced others – really a pretty amazing work of art.

As I was listening to it in my car today, George Harrison’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps came on. It made me think about his experience with the Beatles and the solo career that came afterwards.

For most of the reign of the Beatles, everything was Lennon/McCartney. George was thrown in with Ringo as “one of the other guys.” And, to be truthful, when he first started, he wasn’t on top of his craft. He was given a lot of covers to sing. You couldn’t really blame him. He had John AND Paul to compete with for space and attention. His songs were always kind of different from the regular Beatles fare, though, especially as he started getting into Indian music and culture.

Eventually, George Harrison forged his own sound, his own reputation, and I would argue that in some ways he outshines Paul in the recreation of his own persona beyond Beatle George.

The Social Media space is filled with a lot of figures that seem like John Lennon and Paul McCartney.  They’ve partnered up with each other and their talent, as a group and individually, is formidable. Are you going to let that stop you in your tracks? Or are you going to forge your own unique style and become your own person, your own brand, your own reputation?

Are you like George Harrison?

Filed Under: Marketing Talk

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Dawn Westerberg says

    December 3, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Love this post Margie!

    With all the volleying between Lennon and McCartney during The Beatles and the fierce competition upon the break up of The Beatles – I agree, it freed up George to really spread his wings and do a lot of different stuff.

    Harrison was the pioneer of the mega charity concert with a Concert for Bangladesh way back in 1971.

    He collaborated with some of the greats – Clapton, Dylan. And I wonder if that was easier for him to do because he was never the star.

    Thanks for a great Beatles-related post!

    Reply
  2. Pamela Grow says

    December 5, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    Love this Margie! George definitely began to shine and come into his own as a soloist. I suspect he was thought of as the “baby” by Lennon/McCartney. Sometimes we need to leave the comfort of our own “families” (such as a traditional job) to really come into our own as well. George always struck me as the soul of the Beatles. Thanks for posting.

    Reply
    • Margie Clayman says

      December 5, 2010 at 10:25 pm

      Thanks. So glad you enjoyed 🙂

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Dawn’s World Weekly News 12 03 2010 | Dawn Westerberg Consulting LLC says:
    December 3, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    […] Two-fer from @MargieClayman and both posts absolutely delighted me. First, Are You Like George Harrison? – as always any reference to The Beatles grabs my undivided attention.  The second is How […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Previous Post: « How to blog like Keyser Söze
Next Post: 10 People on the move »

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Seeing Double: African American Literature
  • Book Review: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  • Book Review: Land of Lincoln, by Andrew Ferguson
  • The portrayal of the infertile woman in entertainment
  • Chapter 3: A Weird Thing Happened Today

Recent Comments

  • Delores Baskerville on Are you locking out blog subscribers?
  • frank c tripoli on Book Review: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  • Lyv on #30Thursday number 10 (we’re in the double digits?!?)
  • Fitoru on New Recipes, 2013
  • Anna Wyatt on Help me petition to deactivate driver-side airbags for Little People

Archives

  • February 2021
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2017
  • October 2016
  • July 2016
  • April 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • February 2014
  • December 2013
  • October 2013
  • August 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • June 2007
  • April 2007

Categories

  • Book Reviews
  • Crafts and Charity
  • Gardening for Renters
  • Marketing Talk
  • Molly Maggie McGuire
  • Musings
  • PassionPlayers
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Footer

marjorie.clayman@gmail.com

   

Margie Clayman © 2022