of the group, but the deepest and longest-lasting bond begun that night was with George Harrison. Their two reclusive personalities meshed ..." The connection developed in May 1966, when Harrison, Lennon and Paul McCartney visited Dylan in his London hotel, midway through his controversial world tour with backing band the Hawks. According to musicologist Ian MacDonald, Dylan's relationship with Lennon was a testy, competitive one at times, and Dylan was "cooler" towards McCartney, whose best-known songs he regarded as "sell-outs to soft pop"; but in producer Bob Johnston's estimation, Lennon, Harrison and McCartney entered the hotel suite as members of the Beatles and departed as three distinct individuals, such was Dylan's philosophical influence on fellow songwriters at the time. Following his creative peak in mid 1966 with the Blonde on Blonde double album, Dylan retired to Bearsville, New York, accompanied by the Hawks (soon to become the Band), in order to recuperate from a motorcycle crash and raise a family with his wife, Sara Lownds. Little was heard from him throughout 1967–68, a situation that added to his mystique as music critics and fans awaited his return. Commenting on "I'd Have You Anytime" in 1976, Harrison said that two statements in Dylan's Blonde on Blonde track "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" had especially resonated with him: "what price you have to pay to get out of / Going through all these things twice" and "Oh mama, can this really be the end". While Dylan was dismissive of the Beatles' landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Harrison remained an avowed fan of Dylan's work – Blonde on Blonde being the only Western music that Harrison took with him to India in February 1968. Following the sessions for the Beatles' White Album, Harrison worked in Los Angeles for much of October and November 1968, producing the debut solo album by Jackie Lomax, one of the first signings to the Beatles' Apple record label. Harrison and his wife, Pattie Boyd, then spent Thanksgiving with the Dylans while staying in the Catskills as guests of manager Albert Grossman. Despite Dylan's excitement at their arrival, Harrison found him withdrawn and seemingly lacking in confidence. Music journalist John Harris comments that, unlike in their previous meetings, "there were no hangers-on [this time], Dylan's head was clear, and the protective barriers of cool could come down – which, eventually, they