BEGINNING OF DESTRUCTION: The Angry Song George Harrison Wrote About The Beatles’ Split

It didn’t begin with anger — it began with silence.

Decades after The Beatles’ breakup, Paul McCartney sat alone at his piano under a single, soft light, the audience before him unaware of what was coming. And then, he began to play George’s song — the one born not from peace, but from frustration; the one written in the shadow of the Lennon-McCartney storm, when George Harrison — the so-called Quiet Beatle — fought tirelessly to be heard.

Long before that night, George’s guitar had become his confession. His solos were small revolts wrapped in melody, his lyrics quiet challenges to a system that often overlooked him. When he wrote “Taxman,” it wasn’t just a clever critique of the British government — it was a breaking point. A declaration that even his deeply held peace had its limits.

**“I was fighting for air,”** George once admitted — a truth too raw for the stage, yet too honest to ignore.

And now, all these years later, Paul’s voice gave that fight a new ending. With each line, the defiance George once channeled seemed to soften in Paul’s delivery — not as rebellion, but as reconciliation. The anger melted into grace, the old wounds eased into something almost holy.

As the final note faded, there was no immediate applause — only a silence that felt deeper than sound. A stillness that held the weight of years, understanding, and what felt, at last, like forgiveness.