George Harrison said you can hear traces of two of his Beatles songs in his 1987 tune, “When We Was Fab.” The former Beatle wrote it with Jeff Lynne (who George once called a Beatle copycat ...

George Harrison said he did something uncharacteristic while writing his 1987 song, “When We Was Fab.” He wanted to evoke the spirit of The Beatles in the song.

“No [I couldn’t have written When We Was Fab in 1974],” Harrison once said. “I would have been too hung on the past, you know, The Beatles. But now it’s good.

George Harrison said his 1987 song, “When We Was Fab,” doesn’t only pay homage to his former group, The Beatles. The tune also evokes the spirit of everyone who was fab in that period.

George Harrison wanted to evoke the good times he had with The Beatles in his song, “When We Was Fab.” However, not all of the tune’s lyrics stem from fond memories.

George Harrison’s “When We Was Fab” features Ringo Starr on the drums. It took 16 or 17 tracks for George to complete “When We Was Fab.” The tune was a minor hit in multiple countries.

George Harrison surprised the world with 1987’s Cloud Nine, his first album since 1982’s Gone Troppo, but he shocked fans even more with “When We Was Fab” and its music video.The guitarist ...

George Harrison wrote and released a few songs that indirectly ... To make the tribute really hit home, he enlisted Starr on drums and Paul McCartney on backing vocals. “When We Was Fab” from ‘Cloud ...

When Harrison sings “And we did it all,” wonder and gratitude are evident in his voice. The accompanying video added to the feeling with a trove of winks and nods to the Beatle mythos.

“When We Was Fab” wasn’t the only time Jeff Lynne had the chance to work on a Beatles-type song with George Harrison. In 1995, he helped the surviving Beatles (Harrison, Starr, and Paul ...

Fans view George Harrison’s lead guitar as a key element in the Fab Four ... in the early 1990s with hits like “When We Was Fab” and “Got My Mind Set on You,” followed by ...

George Harrison: When He Was Fab. How the youngest Beatle felt about fame and spirituality. By. ... We had a great laugh, really, although we were like caged animals for most of the time.