Fab Four reframed
When George Harrison quit the Beatles on January 10, 1969, it was surprisingly undramatic: “I’m leaving …”
John Lennon stopped playing guitar: “What?”
“The band, now,” said Harrison, although adding waspishly on the way out the door later, “See you ’round the clubs.”
Harrison had recently returned from upstate New York, staying with Bob Dylan and the Band where the convivial, relaxed atmosphere contrasted with the fraught dynamic within the Beatles.
That had been thrown into
