Not only were his private and public roles changing significantly, but the Saturn-Uranus opposition landing on his natal Sun and making a square alignment (or 90 degree angular relationship) to his natal Saturn-Uranus conjunction brought out the pioneering innovator in Harrison. The beginning strains of the Beatles' greatest effort at that point in time, Rubber Soul, introduced a sound to the listening public that had never made it on a pop record, the unmistakable twang of the sitar. Although so identified with the sixties era that satires from This is Spinal Tap to Austin Powers have rendered the Eastern drone cliché, it was quite a musical epiphany for the record-buying public at the time. Harrison, through his musical experimentation and questing spirit, had nonchalantly and involuntarily bridged two worlds with some claiming him to be the inadvertent pioneer of world music.

Lastly, the Saturn-Uranus alignment manifested in some of its more problematic possibilities at this time. 1964 and 1965 were not without its freak accidents, bizarre mishaps, and chaotic behavior. In the summer of 1964, Harrison sustained minor injuries in a car accident that wrecked his newly purchased Jaguar. In the same time frame, Harrison's guitar fell off a new car only to be smashed by oncoming traffic. Finally, and uncharacteristically, Harrison found himself in the middle of altercations with those invading his privacy—tossed drinks in faces, verbal forays, and a punch or two on occasion. Saturn and Uranus as a transiting energy has a high degree of stress and strain associated with it; the tension of Beatlemania must have been immense for Harrison at the time with very few, if any, outlets for normalcy and down time. It is not uncommon, then, for the nervous system overload associated with Saturn-Uranus to manifest in abnormal and strange behavior.