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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.
"What Is Life" is a song by the English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. In many countries, it was issued as the second single from the album, in February 1971, becoming a top-ten hit in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, and topping singles charts in Australia and Switzerland.
As with most of the songs on his Living in the Material World album, George Harrison wrote "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" over 1971–72. [4] During this period, he dedicated himself to assisting refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, [5] by staging two all-star benefit concerts in New York and preparing a live album and concert film for release. [6]
"So Sad" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison that was released on his 1974 album Dark Horse.Harrison originally recorded the song for his previous album, Living in the Material World, before giving it to Alvin Lee, the guitarist and singer with Ten Years After.
This performance is known as "The Pirate Song", co-written by Harrison and Idle, [194] and the recording is only available unofficially on bootleg compilations such as Pirate Songs. [192] Commenting on the parallels with Harrison's real-life reluctance to play the pop star, Simon Leng writes, "there was great resonance within these gags."
Harrison had begun writing "World of Stone", "Grey Cloudy Lies" and the soul-pop love song [53] "Can't Stop Thinking About You" in 1973. [54] He started "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)" in Hawaii over Christmas 1974, while holidaying with his new girlfriend (later his wife), Olivia Arias , [ 55 ] [ 56 ] a secretary at Dark Horse's LA ...
"Something" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 studio album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist.Together with his second contribution to Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun", it is widely viewed by music historians as having marked Harrison's ascendancy as a composer to the level of the Beatles' principal songwriters, John Lennon and ...
"I Dig Love" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. A paean to free love , it marks a departure from the more profound, spiritually oriented subject matter of much of that album.