I love them all but....
George Harrison. He is probably the most like me as a person...Pisces, spiritual,mystical, quiet, laid back. I admire the guts and determination it took for him to stick in there and keep pushing his songs when he had to compete with two geniuses who were also extraordinarily productive and raging egomaniacs. But he did. He had the best three songs on the Beatles two last most fully realized albums.
I think he had the strongest solo career, at least in terms of his first and last albums. He lived the closest to his values. He loved and lost but forgave and healed and ended up with a wonderful wife who would brain anyone trying to stab him.
As a person, he is the most admirable of the four. He is my fave.
How dare you post all my thoughts before I had a chance to post them myself. HOW DARE YOU SIR OR MADAM. Beautifully said, all of it.
I am a lifelong George man. It would be ridiculous to downplay the towering accomplishments of the other songwriters (or for that matter the artistry of Ringo, my favorite drummer of all time), but I've always identified with George the most. He always struck me as the most complex and thoughtful. It's like being a cat person or a dog person. I love dogs. Dogs are amazing. I loved mine when I had one, and I want another one now that I don't. But in my heart I'll always be a cat person, because an animal that's independent and cool and will hang out for a while and then go over and mind his own business instead of getting all up in your face and staying there -- that's an animal I can relate to. You're either a cat person or a dog person, and you're either a John, Paul, George, or Ringo person, and I'm a George person. All his defining characteristics are either how I am, or how I wish I could be. He's one of my heroes. And, of course, he was a great guitarist and a genius songwriter. Go Team George.
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