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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Callum Crumlish & Aaron Curran

Fears of 'being murdered' made George Harrison quit The Beatles

Despite drawing massive crowds, the Beatles stopped live shows at the height of their fame in the late 1960s.

This came as somewhat of a relief to George Harrison, who had developed a massive fear of being "shot dead". This fear partly stemmed from backlash the band faced after John Lennon infamously quipped that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus".

Harrison had been known as the "quiet Beatle" due to being less outspoken in public and to the press than Paul McCartney or John Lennon. According to The Express, Lennon's "Bigger than Jesus" claim was the beginning of Harrison's fears.

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