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"Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Written by lead guitarist George Harrison, it was his second composition in the Indian classical style, after "Love You To", and inspired by his stay in India in late 1966 with his mentor and sitar teacher Ravi Shankar.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.Released on 26 May 1967, [nb 1] Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music.
In 1988 they released a four-track EP called The Early Years, containing cover versions of The Rolling Stones' "Citadel", Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive", The Beatles' "Within You Without You" and Gong's "Blues for Findlay". Those recordings trace to as far as 1985–1986.
The American Doom Metal band Trouble released a cover of the song on their 1995 album Plastic Green Head. In 2007, Oasis set "Within You Without You" to the music of "Tomorrow Never Knows" as their contribution to the BBC's 40th anniversary tribute to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. [21]
For the Beatles' 2006 remix album Love, created for the Cirque du Soleil stage show, the song was segued onto the end of "Here Comes the Sun". [118] [119] This mashup begins with Harrison singing "Here Comes the Sun" over the tabla part from "Within You, Without You" [120] and ends with Indian instrumentation from "The Inner Light". [121]
The lyrics also mention Harrison's composition "Within You Without You" from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. After the first chorus, the lyric goes “Here today, not alone” which is a reference to the 1982 Paul McCartney song “ Here Today ”, which was written as a tribute to former bandmate John Lennon after he ...
The following year, readers of Q voted "With or Without You" the 17th-greatest song in history. [44] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed "With or Without You" as the 40th best single of the 1980s. [45] Music television network VH1 ranked the song number 13 on the "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" countdown in its series The Greatest. [46]
The Music Circle had its own London-based musicians, some of whom played on Harrison's Indian-style compositions for the Beatles, including "Within You Without You" from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The AMC is recognised as having introduced yoga into Britain, through the Angadis' hosting of classes by visiting guru B.K.S ...