26 September, 1969.

Here comes the sun indeed, I can see it poking above the rooftops. What’s more the temperatures are getting slightly milder and it really does feel like Spring is on the doorstep.

Written by George Harrison in the garden of Eric Clapton’s country home, allegedly whilst Harrison was avoiding a meeting with record label Apple, this is one of his most memorable songs with the Beatles, along with While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Something, and featured on the 1969 album Abbey Road.

John Lennon doesn’t appear on the track as he was recovering from a car accident at the time, although some suggest that Lennon was avoiding playing on Harrison’s compositions at the time due to differences between the two. When you consider that following his recovery Lennon was back with the Beatles in the July of 1969 and this was recorded in the August, you can see why rumours would start to circulate. Not to mention that Lennon announced to the other members that he was leaving the Beatles just days before the album was released.

The track was released as the B-Side to Oh! Darling in Japan but was never released as a single in the UK. It would be 2010 before the song would make an entry on the UK charts, following the release of the group’s back catalogue on iTunes, when it spent four weeks on the charts and peaked at number fifty-eight.