You Know It Dont Come Easy Best Album Version

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George's "I Dig Love" and Derek & The Dominos "Roll It Over" (recorded during the ATMP sessions) also sound very similar at some point.
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I always thought the guitar solo on It Don't Come Easy sounded like Clapton but might be George. Anyone know?
Ringo said he started it, had a couple of verses and George finished it off. I believe I read this in Beatlefan.
edit: Should of read the whole thread, someone already mentioned this
I trust that second guy (heh).
George and Ringo should have issued "It Don't Come Easy" as "The Beatles", paying John and Paul back for the Ballad of John and Yoko!
Free money for John & Paul, not sure they would care.
I love how Ringo says this as though writing 2/3 of the lyrics would have been the hard part, not the melody, chords, arranging, producing, playing...
When I first heard the verse, "You got to pay your dues if you wanna play the blues and you know it don't come easy. You don't have to shout or leap about, you can even play them easy", I said, "Yeah, Ringo wrote that!"
It's been awhile since I read it, he may have said he wrote the music too, forget exactly how he said it. I imagine he had something simple like the songs he presented in Let It Be and George spiced it up and finished it off.
I hear Tom Evans and thought Peter Ham was singing on it. If it's Joey Molland on it i've only heard Joey mention session work with Lennon on Imagine LP.
quote="Holy Diver, post: 8789299, member: 20672"]I believe Badfinger, or members of, are on the backing tracks. Great tune, whoever wrote or played on it.[/quote]
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This makes sense remembering his version at the Concert for Bangladesh!
"It Don't Come Easy" was first taped on February 18, 1970 during the sessions for Ringo's first solo album Sentimental Journey . Although Ringo is credited on the record solely as the composer, George Harrison assisted him with writing the song. With Beatles producer George Martin initially handling production, George Harrison plays acoustic guitar at the sessions and directed the other musicians – Stephen Stills (piano) and old Beatles friend Klaus Voormann (bass). After a basic track was completed, George added two electric guitar parts and the song was mixed into stereo on February 19. At this point the song was titled "You Gotta Pay Your Dues."
Since Sentimental Journey was an album of standards heard during his childhood in the 1940′s, "You Gotta Pay Your Dues" was not intended to be included, however, Ringo was interested in releasing it as his first single as a solo artist. Additional work was done on the song, including a redone lead vocal track and two bass parts, on February 19. Ringo eventually decided he was still not satisfied with it however, and by March 8, 1970 decided to completely remake it and rename it as "It Don't Come Easy." Instead of George Martin, George Harrison now filled the roll as producer and guitarist along with Klaus Voormann and Stephen Stills, the band now included Beatles assistant Mal Evans on tambourine and Ron Cattermole on sax and trumpet.
Interestingly, instead of continuing on with the final touches on it, Ringo became involved with his next project – the country album Beaucoups Of Blues which was recorded during the final week of June 1970 at a time when Ringo was also contributing drum work on George Harrison's upcoming All Things Must Pass triple album set. In the U.S., the title track from Beaucoups Of Blues became Ringo's first solo single, even though "It Don't Come Easy" had already been recorded.
Finally in October of 1970, some final overdubs were added to "It Don't Come Easy" but the release of the single was pushed back to April 1971. These days, the finalized version is readily available on Ringo's compilation CD Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo .
This week's BROW shares an early take from these sessions with George Harrison providing a guide vocal for Ringo's benefit. The instrumental backing is similar to the released version but the horns are yet to be added. During the guitar break, backing vocalists Pete Ham and Tom Evans from the group Badfinger add the line "Hare Krishna." This can be heard in the final version too, however it is buried deep in the mix there. After the guitar break the official version goes immediately into the third verse. In this version, however, a repeat of the song's opening guitar phrase and an added section with more background vocals form George Harrison, Tom Evans and Pete Ham follows the guitar break before going into the third verse, making the song about a half-minute longer. Additionally, a nice live performance of this tune with Ringo on vocals can be found.

http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/201...ome-easy-1970-demo-wgeorge-harrison-on-vocal/
George wrote it and gave Ringo credit because he felt guilty about sleeping with Ringo's wife.
I've read that happened around 1973.
I've heard that was rumored to have happened around that time, but nobody who would have known what actually happened or didn't happen has said anything about it.
Did anyone read Patti's book here, supposedly George declared his love for Maureen at a get together of the 4. A few weeks later Patti caught George & Maureen in bed together, at least that's how the story goes.
I haven't read it, but that statement would verify it.
According to wikipedia, this is from her book.
Boyd said her decision to end their marriage and leave Harrison was based largely on his repeated infidelities, culminating in an affair with Ringo Starr 's wife Maureen , which Boyd called "the final straw". [
The affair happened towards the end of the Beatle era
Not according to Patti's book?
Free money anyway--they were all paid on how both Beatles and solo work did according to their contract.