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The verses of "I Me Mine" are in the key of A minor while the chorus is in A major. [27] This technique of parallel minor/major contrast is common in the Beatles' songwriting and had been employed by Harrison in his 1968 songs "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" [27] and "Savoy Truffle".
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 ...
On 13 November 2003, the completed Let It Be...Naked album had its world premiere with a two-hour radio special from Infinity Broadcasting. [10] [11] The special featured: a 50-minute documentary of the original Get Back/Let It Be sessions, including interviews with all four Beatles; [citation needed] an uninterrupted broadcast of the new Let It Be...
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 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 ...
Although the Beatles did not formally record the song, a 1969 solo demo by Harrison appears on their compilation Anthology 3 (1996) and as a band undertook over 70 takes of the track. An early version from the All Things Must Pass sessions was released on Harrison's posthumous compilation Early Takes: Volume 1 in 2012.
"All Those Years Ago" was the first recording on which Harrison, McCartney and Starr all appeared since the Beatles' "I Me Mine" (1970), and their last recording together until "Free as a Bird" (1995). Other musicians performing on the track include Al Kooper and Ray Cooper.