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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.
Several versions were recorded during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, on 24, [2] 26, [3] 27, [4] 28, [5] and 29 January 1969, [6] at Apple Studio.The 51-second version on the album is an extract taken from the 26 January version, [3] [1] which was a 15-minute jam that evolved from a loose "Like a Rolling Stone" jam.
"Dig a Pony" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.The band recorded the song on 30 January 1969, during their rooftop concert at the Apple Corps building on Savile Row in central London.
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]
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 ...
"Beware of Darkness" was one of the more recent songs included on All Things Must Pass, George Harrison's first post-Beatles solo album, and his first to consist of songs. [1] [2] When playing it to Phil Spector, his co-producer, in May 1970, he introduced it as "the last one I wrote, the other day".