It was also a number one hit in Canada, Australia, West Germany, New Zealand and Singapore. 'Something' - paired as a double-A side with 'Come Together', peaked at number one in the US. The song ran to eight minutes, due to an extended, jam-style coda led by Lennon's piano, but this was later removed. The line-up featured Harrison on rhythm and lead guitar, Lennon on piano, McCartney on bass, Ringo Starr on drums, and Billy Preston on Hammond organ. The Beatles finally recorded 'Something' on April 16, 1969, and it was completed on May 2.
The original version was eight minutes long.Musicologist Walter Everett has claimed that this was the same recording that appeared on the Joe Cocker! album in November 1969, but Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn says that Cocker later remade the track. Helped by Harrison, Cocker recorded a demo of the song at Apple. In March 1969, Harrison gave the song to Joe Cocker to record. George Harrison recorded a beautiful demo.Harrison's songs at this time received little interest from John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and Martin was also unimpressed by 'Something' at first, considering it "too weak and derivative".īy the time Abbey Road's recording began, Harrison was more assertive with his work, and his songs 'Something' and 'Here Comes the Sun' were included. George Harrison first introduced 'Something' at a Beatles session on September 19 1968, when he played it to George Martin's stand-in producer, Chris Thomas.ĭespite Thomas's enthusiasm for the song, Harrison chose to focus on his song 'Piggies' instead, and wanted to give it to singer Jackie Lomax. He told journalist Paul Cashmere that "everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie" because of the promotional film released alongside the Beatles' recording, which showed the couple together. In 1996, Harrison denied writing 'Something' for Boyd. He reportedly told his friends from the Hare Krishna Movement that the song was about the Hindu deity Krishna. Harrison also revealed other inspirations for the song. In her 2007 autobiography, Boyd said: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. Harrison wrote the song in the style of Ray Charles, but his main inspiration is thought to be his wife, Pattie Boyd - later the inspiration for second husband Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight'. The opening line was lifted from the title of 'Something in the Way She Moves', a song by Harrison's Apple Records mate James Taylor. Harrison initially abandoned the song, believing that as the tune came to him so easily, he might have accidentally stolen the melody from another song.
In his autobiography, he remembered writing the melody on a piano, at the same time as Paul McCartney recorded tracks at London's Abbey Road Studios.
George Harrison began writing the song in September 1968, during a session for the Beatles' self-titled double album, later known as the White Album. Something In The Way She Moves (Remastered)
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