George Harrison once said that the Beatles songs written by his bandmates Paul McCartney and John Lennon were 'not the greatest.'
,"I enjoyed things like 'Strawberry Fields [Forever].' I enjoyed the ones which were inventive, which were new. I enjoyed 'Norwegian Wood', because I felt where it was coming from."
Both of those songs are credited to Lennon-McCartney, though Lennon was the primary songwriter for both.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Harrison once said that he knew his own songs weren't so great initially because he didn't have as much experience writing as Lennon and McCartney coming into the band.
"They'd had a lot of practice. They'd written most of their bad songs before we'd even got into the recording studio," Harrison said, according to."I had to come from nowhere and start writing, and have something with at least enough quality to put on the record alongside all the wondrous hits. It was very hard.
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