Performed by: Cheap Trick; Patti Smith; Sonic Youth; The Beatles
Written by: George Harrison
Credits: Harrison, George (Songwriter); SONY/ATV TUNES LLC (Publisher)
Within You Without You
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| "Within You Without You" | ||||
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| Song by The Beatles
from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
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| Released | 1 June 1967 | |||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 15 March 1967 22 March 1967 3 April 1967 |
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| Genre | Indian classical music, raga rock | |||
| Length | 5:05 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Writer | George Harrison | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band track listing | ||||
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"Within You Without You" is a song written by George Harrison and released on The Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It features only Harrison and a group of uncredited Indian musicians, although producer George Martin arranged the string section, and Harrison and assistant Neil Aspinall played the tambura. According to Prema Music, dilrubha player Amrit Gajjar played on the track.[1] It is the second of Harrison's songs to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music, after "Love You To", and Harrison's only composition on Sgt. Pepper. "Within You Without You" was written on a harmonium at the house of long-time Beatles friend Klaus Voormann, while "there were lots of joints being smoked".
The song, originally written as a 30-minute piece and trimmed down into a mini-version for the album, is in Mixolydian mode.[2] The laughter at the end was Harrison's idea to lighten the mood and follow the theme of the album. Sped up to C#, an instrumental version at the original speed and key appears on the Anthology 2 album.
The song was also included on the 2006 remix album Love. For this album, George Harrison's lyrics and melody were mixed over the rhythm of "Tomorrow Never Knows". The blending of these two songs is considered the most effective form of mashup on the album.[3] All of the music for Love was remixed and remastered by the Beatles producer Sir George Martin and his son Giles. The Love remix is one of the songs in The Beatles: Rock Band.[4] The original version was also released as downloadable content along with the rest of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in November 2009.
Stephen Stills was so impressed by the lyrics that he had them carved on a stone monument in his yard.[5]
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Personnel
- George Harrison – lead vocal, tambura, sitar[6]
- Session musicians – swarmandal, dilruba, tabla
- Erich Gruenberg, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman, Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothstein Jack Greene – violin
- Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford, Peter Beavan – cello
Cover versions
| Year | Artist | Release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Peter Knight and his Orchestra | (single) | Orchestral version |
| 1988 | Sonic Youth | Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father | Originally released on a various artist's tribute album; re-released in 2007 on the deluxe edition of Daydream Nation |
| 1999 | Angels of Venice | Angels of Venice | Instrumental version |
| 2003 | Big Head Todd and the Monsters | Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison | Various artists tribute album |
| 2004 | Thievery Corporation | The Outernational Sound | Instrumental version |
| 2007 | Glenn Mercer | Wheels in Motion | |
| 2007 | Les Fradkin | Guitar Revolution | Instrumental version |
| 2007 | Patti Smith | Twelve | |
| 2009 | Cheap Trick | Sgt. Pepper Live | |
| 2009 | Easy Star All-Stars | Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band |
In 1996, Dead Can Dance released Spiritchaser that includes "Indus", a song with a melody very similar to "Within You Without You". After the similarity was discovered, they obtained Harrison's permission to use it and gave him partial songwriting credit after pressure from the record company.[7]
Notes
- ^ http://www.premamusic.com/lakshmi/aina.html
- ^ William Mann (May 29 1967). "The Beatles revive hopes of progress in pop music". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article1830434.ece. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ "The Beatles: Love - PopMatters Music Review". PopMatters. 2006-12-15. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/8835/the-beatles-love1/. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
- ^ Russ Frushtick (21 July 2009), 'The Beatles: Rock Band' Expands Its Song List, mtv.com, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1616628/20090721/beatles.jhtml retrieved 09-08-2009
- ^ Dowlding, William J. (1989). Beatlesongs. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.. p. 175. ISBN 0-671-68229-6.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3.
- ^ Morse, Steve (July 12, 1996). "Global Spirits: Dead Can Dance Make World Music Mystical". The Boston Globe.
References
- Beatles-Discography.com Beatles Songs - W, retrieved Jan. 31, 2005
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