Wanna Know a Secret

I'd like to write this post about George Harrison.  If this seems strange to you to start with George, imagine how much worse it was in the early 80s when I first got into the Beatles.  John had just been killed and got the most attention.  Paul had just spent a decade with a ton of hit records in the 70s and was still a force, at least commercially, having hit records with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.  George was mostly the invisible man.  Everyone knew about All Things Must Pass, but that seemed long ago.  It didn't help that unlike John and Paul, George had always seemed to avoid the spotlight. He seemed most happy just playing his guitar and writing songs.  He didn't do a lot of interviews and he didn't tour.  Books that I read in that period always focused on the relationship between John and Paul and either underplayed George's contribution as a Beatle or outright said that he was just lucky to be in the band, similar to Ringo.  J...

Welcome to Wanna Know a Secret Hello everyone!!  My name is Danny and I am a HUGE fan of the Beatles.  My obsession, and yeah that's what it was and is, started when I was about 12.  I wore out my Mom's cassette (young people, it's an ancient listening device, ask your grandparents) of the Beatles 1962-1966 ... aka The Red One.  I knew most of the songs on the 1st side because of my Mom, but it was the 2nd side that fascinated me.  Specifically Nowhere Man.  The whole thing.  The lyrics.  The lead vocal.  Those harmonies.  I had never heard guitars that sounded like that. And that wonderful chime at the end of the solo .... I didn't know what a harmonic was at that time .... I kept rewinding it (ask your grandparents again what "rewind" is). I also consumed books and articles about them.  Philip Norman's "Shout!" was the 1st book I read.  I now know it is a flawed book, deeply biased against everyone but John, but I'll give Nor...