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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 ...
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.
According to the band's press officer, Derek Taylor, all four Beatles had abandoned their religious upbringings by 1964. In an interview for The Saturday Evening Post, in August of that year, he stated that the Beatles were "completely anti-Christ. I mean, I am anti-Christ as well, but they're so anti-Christ they shock me which isn't an easy ...
In his 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison describes "Piggies" as a social commentary. [10] He intended it as a light-hearted satire [ 11 ] on consumerism and class distinction. [ 2 ] Through its theme of social strata within a community of farm animals (in this case, one consisting entirely of pigs), [ 12 ] [ 13 ] the song references ...
Newsweek made reference to Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" comments in an issue published in March, [22] and the interview had appeared in Detroit magazine in May. [23] On 3 July, Cleave's four Beatles interviews were published together in a five-page article in The New York Times Magazine, titled "Old Beatles – A Study in Paradox". [24]
In his 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, George Harrison says that the song's chord changes influenced the music of his Beatles song "Long, Long, Long", which he wrote and recorded in October 1968 for the album The Beatles, also known as "The White Album". Harrison wrote: "I can't recall much about it except the chords, which I think were coming ...
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 ...
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]