George's solo on All You Need Is Love

Messed up as it is at the end, is a very nice, melodic, and distinctive solo
for the first few bars.

I noticed this as I heard that "All You Need Is Love" soundalike cover for a
Chase credit card commercial tonight. Not that I hadn't noticed it before,
but the cover version aped the guitar part note for note, tone for tone.

appeyroad...

Notice that the imitated guitar solo ends before George's screwup.

And George (his estate) doesn't get a penny for his -- arguably --
distinctive and important musical contribution. Paul and John (his estate)
of course get paid, as does the publisher.

I'm not railing against this as an "injustice," just struck me as
interesting tonight. Interesting what law, precedent, and agreement deem a
valuable, original, and distinctive musical contribution to be... or not...

Jeff...

Why is it messed up at the end? Fits the song.

mdspiro...

The same can be said about almost every Lennon-McCartney Beatles song
ever released that had a great George Harrison guitar part. Examples
are too numerous to list. It's always the songwriters who make the big
bucks.

John Doole...

His estate will get performance royalties from airplays. These will not be
as much as the roylaties the songwriters get and rightly so. That's because
what George (and Ringo) did comes under the broad heading of arrangement,
and arrangement is not the same thing as composition. The people who write
the songs get the biggest royalties.

crw59...

sounds like the Beatles were more 2 managers and 2 worker bees...