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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 ...
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics is a set of two books combining the lyrics of songs by the Beatles with accompanying illustrations and photographs, many by leading artists of the period. Comments from the Beatles on the origins of the songs are also included. [1] The book was edited by Alan Aldridge, who also provided many of the illustrations. [2]
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 ...
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]
George Harrison wrote "I Want to Tell You" in the early part of 1966, the year in which his songwriting matured in terms of subject matter and productivity. [2] As a secondary composer to John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Beatles, [3] Harrison began to establish his own musical identity through his absorption in Indian culture, [4] [5] as well as the perspective he gained through his ...
Both Krieger and Densmore believe that the Doors’ debut album from 1967 and their fast, loose last record with Jim Morrison, 1971’s “L.A. Woman,” were their band’s finest recordings.
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 ...