SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE MOVES
THE BEATLES, GEORGE HARRISON
SONGWRITER: GEORGE HARRISON
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: ABBEY ROAD
LABEL: APPLE RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL
YEAR: 1970
George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November
2001) was an English musician, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer
who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
Sometimes called "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 include
"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.
Harrison
released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer. In
1988, he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling
Wilburys. A prolific recording artist, he was
featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger,
Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston,
and collaborated on songs and music with Dylan, Eric Clapton,
Ringo Starr and Tom Petty,
among others. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100
Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a
member of the Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004.
Harrison's first marriage, to model Pattie Boyd in 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. The following year he married Olivia Arias,
with whom he had a son, Dhani.
Harrison died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after
surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his Friar Park home. His remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered
according to Hindu tradition in a private ceremony in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers
in India. He left na estate of almost £100 million.
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by
the English rock band the Beatles,
released on 26 September 1969 by Apple
Records. Named after the
location of EMI Studios in London, the cover features the group walking across the street's zebra crossing,
an image that became one of the most famous and imitated in popular music.
The album's
initially mixed reviews were contrasted by its immediate commercial success,
topping record charts in the UK and US. The lead single "Something" / "Come
Together" was released in October and topped the US charts.
The album incorporates genres such as blues, rock and pop,
and makes prominent use of Moog
synthesizer, sounds filtered through a Leslie speaker,
and tom-tom drums.
It is the Beatles' only album recorded exclusively through a solid-state transistor mixing desk, which afforded a clearer and brighter sound than the
group's previous records. Side two contains a medley of shorter song fragments. The
sessions also produced a non-album single, "The Ballad of John and Yoko"
backed with "Old Brown Shoe".
Producer George
Martin returned on the condition that the
Beatles adhere to the discipline of their earlier records. They found the
album's recording more enjoyable than the preceding Get Back sessions, but personal
issues still permeated the band. Production lasted from February to August
1969, and the closing track "The
End" marked the final occasion that all four members
recorded together. John Lennon privately
left the group six days before the album's release; Paul McCartney publicly declared the
band's break-up the following April.
Upon
release, detractors found Abbey Road to be inauthentic and bemoaned
the production's artificial effects. Since then, many critics
have hailed the album as the Beatles' finest; in particular,
"Something" and "Here
Comes the Sun" are considered among the
best songs George Harrison wrote for the group. The album has also been ranked as one of the
Beatles' best-selling, including a multi-platinum certification by the RIAA. Shortly
after its release, a satirical interpretation of the cover photograph fuelled
rumours in the US of McCartney's purported death.
EMI Studios was also renamed Abbey
Road Studios in honour of the album. In 2020, it
was ranked fifth in Rolling
Stone's list of the greatest albums of all time.
Something in the way
she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave
her now
You know I believe and how
Somewhere in her
smile, she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave
her now
You know I believe and how
You're asking me will
my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave
her now
You know I believe and how.
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