GIVE ME
LOVE
GEORGE
HARRISON
SONGWRITER:
GEORGE HARRISON
COUNTRY: U.
K.
ALBUM: LIVING
IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
LABEL: APPLE
RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK
ROCK
YEAR: 2012
George Harrison: Living in the Material World is a 2011 documentary film
directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the life of The Beatles George Harrison.
It earned six nominations at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two Emmy
Awards for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding
Nonfiction Special.
The film currently holds an 85% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes,
based on 34 professional reviews.
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is a song by English
musician George Harrison, released as the opening track of his 1973 album Living
in the Material World. It was also issued as the album's lead single, in May
that year, and became Harrison's second US number 1, after "My Sweet Lord".
In doing so, the song demoted Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love"
from the top of the BillboardHot 100, marking the only occasion that two former
Beatles have held the top two chart positions in America. The
single also reached the top ten in Britain, Canada, Australia and other
countries around the world.
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is one of its author's
most popular songs, among fans and music critics, and features a series of
much-praised slide-guitar solos from Harrison. The recording signalled a
deliberate departure from his earlier post-Beatles work, in the scaling down of
the big sound synonymous with All Things Must Pass and his other co-productions
with Phil Spector over 1970–71. Aside from Harrison, the musicians on the track
are Nicky Hopkins, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann and Gary Wright. In his lyrics,
Harrison sings of his desire to be free of karma and the constant cycle of rebirth;
he later described the song as "a prayer and personal statement between
me, the Lord, and whoever likes it".
George Harrison MBE(25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English
musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer who achieved international
fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet
Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular
music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned
spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs
were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965
onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group
included "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My
Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something".
Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django
Reinhardt; Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences.
By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest
in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use
of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Having
initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he
subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. After the
band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must
Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single,
"My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist,
the slide guitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian
musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid.
In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the
Beatles Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and
co-founding HandMade Films in 1978.
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul
Oh
My Lord . . .
Please take hold of my hand, that
I might understand you
Won't you please
Oh won't you
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul
Oh
My Lord
Please take hold of my hand, that
I might understand you.
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