Within You Without You
| "Within You Without You" | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song by The Beatles | ||||||
| from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ||||||
| Released | 1 June 1967 | |||||
| Recorded | 15 and 22 March and 3 April 1967 | |||||
| Studio | EMI, London | |||||
| Genre | Raga rock, Indian classical music | |||||
| Length | 5:05 | |||||
| Label | Parlophone | |||||
| Songwriter(s) | George Harrison | |||||
| Producer(s) | 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.
Composition
"Within You Without You" 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".
Stephen Stills was so impressed by the lyrics that he had them carved on a stone monument in his yard.[2] John Lennon said it was"one of George's best songs."[3]
Personnel
- George Harrison – lead vocal, tambura, sitar[4]
- 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
Notes
- ↑ Prema Music 2010.
- ↑ Dowlding 1989, p. 175.
- ↑ Sheff 2000, p. 186.
- ↑ MacDonald 2005, p. 243.
Other websites
- "Aina: Reflections". Prema Music. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- "The Beatles: Love - PopMatters Music Review". PopMatters. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 27 December 2006.
- Dowlding, William J. (1989). Beatlesongs. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0-671-68229-6.
- Frushtick, Russ (21 July 2009). "'The Beatles: Rock Band' Expands Its Song List". MTV.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3.
- Mann, William (29 May 1967). "The Beatles revive hopes of progress in pop music". The Times. London. Retrieved 14 July 2008.
- Morse, Steve (12 July 1996). "Global Spirits: Dead Can Dance Make World Music Mystical". The Boston Globe.
- Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying. St Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.