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Dennis

I had that Beatles album.  Remember "Paul is dead".......

Quote from: PaulineMi on June 16, 2013, 11:48:02 AM
I had that Beatles album.  Remember "Paul is dead".......

Yep, and 'Something' also involves Pattie Boyd..... ;D

Many believe that Harrison's inspiration for "Something" was his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd. Boyd also claimed that inspiration in her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Tonight, where she wrote: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me."

However, Harrison has cited other sources of inspiration to the contrary. In a 1996 interview he responded to the question of whether the song was about Pattie: "Well no, I didn't [write it about her]. I just wrote it, and then somebody put together a video. And what they did was they went out and got some footage of me and Pattie, Paul and Linda, Ringo and Maureen, it was at that time, and John and Yoko and they just made up a little video to go with it. So then, everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie, but actually, when I wrote it, I was thinking of Ray Charles."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something)

Dennis

Quote from: BallAquatics on June 16, 2013, 02:34:24 PM
Many believe that Harrison's inspiration for "Something" was his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd. Boyd also claimed that inspiration in her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Tonight, where she wrote: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me."

However, Harrison has cited other sources of inspiration to the contrary. In a 1996 interview he responded to the question of whether the song was about Pattie: "Well no, I didn't [write it about her]. I just wrote it, and then somebody put together a video. And what they did was they went out and got some footage of me and Pattie, Paul and Linda, Ringo and Maureen, it was at that time, and John and Yoko and they just made up a little video to go with it. So then, everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie, but actually, when I wrote it, I was thinking of Ray Charles."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something)

Dennis

Yep, many theories ...but these are the two songs where her name does come up...

LOL  Yes, after she left him to live with an alcoholic drug addict, he probably wouldn't say he had written it for her, even if they both knew that he had.....

Dennis