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Unearthed recordings show John Lennon threatened to replace George Harrison with Eric Clapton Harrison temporarily quit the band, feeling his songs didn’t get enough attention Lennon’s Harrison discussion is among more than 120 hours of unheard audio

The title of The Beatles’ final album Let It Be suggested serenity and acceptance. But newly unearthed recordings from January 1969 prove that the Fab Four’s swansong followed more of a Long and Winding Road.

In fact the incendiary clips tell how John Lennon threatened to replace George Harrison with Eric Clapton when he temporarily quit the band.

The sudden departure of Harrison –who felt that his songs didn’t get as much attention as those of Lennon and Paul McCartney – worried McCartney and Ringo Starr. But Lennon, while sympathetic, was practical.

Harrison’s attitude had been ‘a festering wound,’ he said, ‘and we allowed it to go deeper and we didn’t even give him any bandages…’ He added: ‘I think if George doesn’t come back by (next week) we ask Eric Clapton to play.’

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