George Harrision on Politics and Celebrities

George called out the government’s work in ‘Piggies’ In his song “Piggies,” George sings about men in “starched white shirts” who rule the world with their own selfish intentions. George told Mark Rowland in 1989 (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters), “It was a much sort of gentler thing, and it was before that kind of consciousness. It was just an awareness that the big guys up there, they’re the ones who are in the stuffed white shirts–’starched white shirts.’ [Laughter] It was a social comment because it’s still the same. “Like Phil Collins has that song [‘Another Day in Paradise‘] about people sleeping in the streets, but still everybody else is all tucked away cozy in their big government offices. It’s just a portion of the money that’s being just squandered on ridiculous things like the military… “See, we should have like a big international, I suppose it would be the United Nations Army, who would go around and instead of bullying innocent people, they go aroun