Something

Double post today, since crazy events yesterday prevented me from posting. 

Yesterday's song was "Something", by George Harrison. It's the second most covered Beatles song after "Yesterday". Not only was it the only Harrison composition to reach the top of the (American) charts while he was still with The Beatles, but "John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the band's principal songwriters, both praised 'Something' as among the best songs Harrison had written, or the group had to offer." 

George began working on the song during the White Album recording sessions. According to Wikipedia:

The song's first lyrics were adapted from the title of an unrelated song by fellow AppleJames Taylor called "Something in the Way She Moves" and used as filler while the melody was being developed. The song's second line, "Attracts me like no other lover," was the last to be written; during early recording sessions for "Something", Harrison alternated between two placeholder lyrics: "Attracts me like a cauliflower" and "Attracts me like a pomegranate." artist

Which I find hilarious. Also hilarious? The disputed inspiration for his song. 

Many believe that Harrison's inspiration for "Something" was his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd. Boyd also claimed that inspiration in her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Tonight, where she wrote: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me."

Meanwhile, George had insisted in 1996 that when he wrote the song, he'd been "thinking of Ray Charles". I tend to side with Georgie, especially since Pattie Boyd called her autobiography Wonderful Tonight (after the Eric Clapton song about her--Clapton, the guy who she cheated on Harrison with). Maybe that's just me being petty on George's behalf, but who knows? :P

Finally, there was a promotional video for the song. According to Wikipedia:

The promotional video for "Something" was shot shortly before the break-up of the band. By this time, the individual Beatles had drawn apart and so the film consisted of separate clips of each Beatle walking around his home, accompanied by his wife, edited together.

Kind of a sad fact, considering it's a love song. 

That's it for "Something". On to today's song!

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Heard It Tally: 41

Songs Completed: 173