Harrison musical biographer Simon Leng observes that , in the " counseling " Harrison gives Dylan in " Behind That Locked Door " , he anticipates his own " slough of despond " during 1973 – 75 . This self-styled " naughty period " of Harrison 's coincided with the failure of his marriage to Boyd and a fall from grace with music critics following his 1974 " Dark Horse Tour " – a tour on which , similar to Dylan in 1969 , Harrison defied public expectation and attempted to break from his Beatle past . In the final verse to " Behind That Locked Door " , he asks for Dylan 's support in such a scenario : Musically , the song is set in a slow , country-waltz time signature with , as Leng observes , melody and lyrics working " in tandem " . Within each couplet , a rising musical figure presents the " problem " ( " '' Why are you still crying ? '' " ) , while the second line consists of a " falling melodic consolation " ( " '' Your pain is now through '' " ) . In his 1980 autobiography , Harrison offers little comment about " Behind That Locked Door " , aside from identifying the inspiration behind the song and admitting : " It was a good excuse to do a country tune with pedal steel guitar . " Dylan 's set at the festival was roundly viewed as anticlimactic , if not a " Midnight Flop ! " , in the opinion of one British tabloid . Having recently told '' Rolling Stone '' editor Jann Wenner that he would return to touring that autumn , Dylan abandoned the idea and also cancelled the proposed live album from his Isle of Wight performance . Showing support for Dylan in the fallout from his comeback , in a late 1969 interview Harrison included the American singer in his personal list of essential contemporary rock artists , saying : " The Beatles , the Stones , Bob Dylan , Eric Clapton and Delaney & Bonnie , and that 's it . Who needs anything else ? " Inglis highlights " Behind That Locked Door " as an example of how Harrison 's songwriting reflects his " fondness " for family and close friends . Dylan 's reluctance to perform live again was only broken by his friendship with Harrison , when the latter persuaded him to play at the Concert for Bangladesh shows in New York in August 1971 . Although Dylan had been noncommittal about playing at that event until the last minute , a mutual friend of his and Harrison 's , journalist Al Aronowitz , had assured Boyd , " Bob would n't let George down " ; another performer at the shows , drummer Jim Keltner , has said that Dylan felt a special closeness towards Harrison as a result of the Concert for Bangladesh . Four years later , while Harrison was dejected following what author Elliot Huntley terms the " tsunami of bile that the '' Dark Horse '' album had unleashed " , he spent considerable time with Dylan in Los Angeles . According to Mukunda Goswami , speaking in a 1982 interview with Harrison , Dylan became a regular visitor to the Los Angeles Radha Krishna temple and embraced the practice of chanting
Dark Horse Tour
George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's 1974 North American tour
Behind That Locked Door