Wirral songwriter completes George Harrison Beatles song 40 years on

Nov 2 2009

By Jade Wright, Liverpool Echo

IT’S not every day you find yourself writing a song with a former Beatle. But Wirral singer/songwriter Dean Johnson found himself doing just that when he was asked to complete a fragment of a song originally written by George Harrison at the height of Beatlemania. The original 10 lines were given to biographer Hunter Davies by George for inclusion in his Beatles biography published in the late 1960s, but were put aside and forgotten until recently. They were picked up by BBC Radio Merseyside’s Spencer Leigh, who suggested that maybe a contemporary songwriter could make the fragment into a song. He approached Dean. Full story at Liverpool Echo website - click here