Something (Beatles song)
“Something” is a song by the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison, the band’s lead guitarist. The song is described as a love song to Harrison’s first wife, Pattie Boyd. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists. Shirley Bassey had a top-five UK hit with her 1970 recording.
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“Something” is a song by the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison, the band’s lead guitarist. The song is described as a love song to Harrison’s first wife, Pattie Boyd. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists. Shirley Bassey had a top-five UK hit with her 1970 recording. Other artists who have covered it include Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, James Brown, Smokey Robinson and Johnny Rodriguez. In 1999, Broadcast Music Incorporated named \”Something\” as the 17th-most performed song of the twentieth century, with 5 million performances. In 2000, Mojo ranked it at number 14 in the magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2002, a year after Harrison’s death, McCartney and Eric Clapton performed it at the Concert for George tribute at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and West Germany, and peaked at number 4 in the UK. The opening lyric was taken from the title of \”Something in the Way She Moves\”, a track by Harrison’s fellow Apple Records artist James Taylor. In early 1969, Harrison told his friends that the song was about the Hare Krishna deity Krishna; in 1976, he said of his approach to writing love songs: “All love is part of a universal love When you love a woman, you see the God in her that you see that you’re in love with” In 1996, he told a journalist that he wrote the song about the Hindu deity because he presumed it’s the body of the woman he was writing about.
In his autobiography, I, Me Mine, he recalls working on the melody on a piano, at the same time as Paul McCartney recorded overdubs in a neighbouring studio at Abbey Road Studios. Harrison performed the song at his Concert for Bangladesh shows in 1971 and throughout the two tours he made as a solo artist. The track features a guitar solo that several music critics identify among Harrison’s finest playing. It received the Ivor Novello Award for the \”Best Song Musically and Lyrically\” of 1969. It also drew praise from the other Beatles and their producer, George Martin, with Lennon stating that it was the best song on Abbey Road, with Harrison saying that it might have been a melody from another song. In her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Today, Boyd recalls: \”He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me… I thought it was beautiful …” Boyd discusses the song’s popularity among other recording artists and concludes: “My favourite was the one by Georgearrison which he played to me at Kinfauns. Long, Long” Harrison later cited alternative sources for his inspiration for \”Something”, according to later sources.
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