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"I Me Mine" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. Written by George Harrison, it was the last new track the group recorded before their break-up in April 1970. The song originated from their January 1969 rehearsals at Twickenham Film Studios when they were considering making a return to live performance ...
Pianist Nicky Hopkins (pictured in 1973), whose playing features prominently on "The Light That Has Lighted the World" and other songs from Material World. In a December 1971 interview for Disc and Music Echo, Nicky Hopkins – "the world's best-known anonymous pianist", as that magazine termed him – had talked of his plans to start work on his own solo album early the following year. [16] "
I, Me, Mine is an autobiographic memoir by the English musician George Harrison, formerly of The Beatles. It was published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by Genesis Publications , with a mixture of printed text and multi-colour facsimiles of Harrison's handwritten song lyrics.
As reproduced in I, Me, Mine, Harrison's original handwritten lyrics show the song title as "For You Blues". [22] The song was named "George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)" when the Beatles recorded it in late January 1969, and then "Because You're Sweet and Lovely" when mixing began on the unreleased Get Back album two months later ...
[32] [51] In I, Me, Mine, he states: "I was sticking my neck out on the chopping block because now I would have to live up to something, but at the same time I thought 'Nobody's saying it; I wish somebody else was doing it. ' " [20] Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Studios), where Harrison recorded "My Sweet Lord"
George Harrison wrote "Old Brown Shoe" in January 1969 [2] [3] on a piano rather than guitar, his main instrument. [4] The song's rhythm suggests the influence of ska. [5] In his 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison says that the lyrical content started as a study in opposites and addresses "the duality of things". [1]
Jane’s Addiction playing Stanhope, New Jersey in 1991. From left, Dave Navarro on electric guitar, a Greek goddess on fruit, Eric Avery on bass guitar, and singer Perry Farrell on mouth.
In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, George Harrison recalls that he was inspired to write "The Inner Light" by Juan Mascaró, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge University. [2] [3] Mascaró had taken part in a debate, televised on The Frost Programme on 4 October 1967, [4] during which Harrison and John Lennon discussed the merits of Transcendental Meditation with an audience of academics and ...