George Harrison's Abbey Road (1969) masterpiece, "Here Comes the Sun," currently has 1,843,025,190 streams on Spotify, more than any other Beatles song; in second place is "Let It Be" with 957,259,543, while "Come Together" is in third place with 965,933,617. But while "Come Together" and "Let It Be" were both released as singles, from Abbey Road and Let It Be, respectively, "Here Comes the Sun" was not.
As the numbers prove, a song can become a classic without ever spending any time on the charts. But considering how beloved "Here Comes the Sun" has always been, why wasn't it released as a single in the first place?
"We've been so used to Lennon/McCartney compositions and of course people have been commenting this week about 'Something' and 'Here Comes the Sun,' which are your own compositions. How did this all happen? It's so unusual for you to contribute so much to an LP," Wigg said.
"I mean, the last album we did had four songs of mine on it," he explained. "I thought they were alright. So I thought these, 'Something' and 'Here Comes The Sun' was ok...maybe a bit more commercial but as songs not much better than the songs on the last album. But I've been writing for a couple of years now. And there's been lots of songs I've written which I haven't got 'round to recording. So, you know, in my own mind I don't see what the fuss is, because I've heard these songs before and I wrote them, you know quite a while back. And it's really nice that people like the songs, but..."
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"The only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, well if [John Lennon and Paul McCartney] can write them, I can write them," Harrison replied.
Over half a century later, the masses are clearly still listening to "Here Comes the Sun."
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