George

Here's a little Something to mark what would have been George Harrison's 65th birthday.

It was 39 years ago today, on his 26th birthday - a couple of weeks after having his tonsils out, and a couple of days after The Beatles started work on Lennon's "I Want You (she's so heavy)", that George went into EMI Studios with Ken Scott engineering and recorded demos of three of his latest songs.

In January, during the "Get Back/Let It Be" sessions, The Beatles had rehearsed all three of the songs as well as other new George tunes, but the only proper recording of one of his songs had been "For You Blue" (which he would record a new lead vocal for a year later). They would begin recording "Old Brown Shoe" and "Something" in April.

Here are the February 26, 1969 demos, as they appear on Purple Chick's Abbey Road Deluxe:

OLD BROWN SHOE (demo take 2)

ALL THINGS MUST PASS (demo take 2)

SOMETHING (demo take 1)

SOMETHING (demo take 1 with overdubs)

Happy birthday, George.