Creed & Culture author Robert Dean Lurie suggests that of the four Beatles, George Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania.

All I got to do is to, to love you / All I got to be is, be happy / All it’s got to take is some warmth to make it blow away. . . .

That’s the chorus of George Harrison’s bubbly 1979 single “Blow Away,” an update of sorts to his Beatles hit “Here Comes the Sun.” At the close of the 1970s, the respite from the “long, cold, lonely winter” had become less assured. There is a pleading tone in Harrison’s voice as he sings “be happy” that infuses “Blow Away” with pathos.

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