"Dear One" | |
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Song by George Harrison | |
from the album Thirty Three & 1/3 | |
Released | 19 November 1976 |
Genre | Rock, pop |
Length | 5:08 |
Label | Dark Horse |
Songwriter(s) | George Harrison |
Producer(s) | George Harrison with Tom Scott |
"Dear One" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1976 on his album Thirty Three & 1/3. The song was inspired by, and dedicated to, Paramahansa Yogananda, whose 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi was a great influence on Harrison. Aside from keyboard player Richard Tee, Harrison plays all the instruments on the recording.
Harrison wrote the lyrics to "Dear One" in 1976 during a vacation to the Virgin Islands, shortly before starting work on Thirty Three & 1/3. [1] In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison says that he believes the song is the only one he ever wrote in open A tuning. [1] The lyrics are directed to Premavatar Paramahansa Yogananda, [2] author of Autobiography of a Yogi, who Harrison called "a great influence on my life". [1] While in India in 1966, [3] Harrison was given a copy of Yogananda's book by Ravi Shankar's brother, after which, author Peter Doggett writes, Harrison "read every Indian spiritual text he could find". [4]
Apart from American musician Richard Tee on organ, Harrison played all the instruments on the recording: acoustic guitars, synthesizers and percussion ( hi-hats). [5] As with the song " See Yourself", Harrison dedicated "Dear One" to Yogananda on the credits to the Thirty Three & 1/3 album. [6]
In his Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Colin Larkin describes the track as a song that "could have come straight off of The Beatles' Abbey Road". He adds: "'Dear One' weaves a haunting, Indian-influenced melody with a big pop chorus to create an intensely moving song of devotion." [7]
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"Dear One" | |
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Song by George Harrison | |
from the album Thirty Three & 1/3 | |
Released | 19 November 1976 |
Genre | Rock, pop |
Length | 5:08 |
Label | Dark Horse |
Songwriter(s) | George Harrison |
Producer(s) | George Harrison with Tom Scott |
"Dear One" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1976 on his album Thirty Three & 1/3. The song was inspired by, and dedicated to, Paramahansa Yogananda, whose 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi was a great influence on Harrison. Aside from keyboard player Richard Tee, Harrison plays all the instruments on the recording.
Harrison wrote the lyrics to "Dear One" in 1976 during a vacation to the Virgin Islands, shortly before starting work on Thirty Three & 1/3. [1] In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison says that he believes the song is the only one he ever wrote in open A tuning. [1] The lyrics are directed to Premavatar Paramahansa Yogananda, [2] author of Autobiography of a Yogi, who Harrison called "a great influence on my life". [1] While in India in 1966, [3] Harrison was given a copy of Yogananda's book by Ravi Shankar's brother, after which, author Peter Doggett writes, Harrison "read every Indian spiritual text he could find". [4]
Apart from American musician Richard Tee on organ, Harrison played all the instruments on the recording: acoustic guitars, synthesizers and percussion ( hi-hats). [5] As with the song " See Yourself", Harrison dedicated "Dear One" to Yogananda on the credits to the Thirty Three & 1/3 album. [6]
In his Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Colin Larkin describes the track as a song that "could have come straight off of The Beatles' Abbey Road". He adds: "'Dear One' weaves a haunting, Indian-influenced melody with a big pop chorus to create an intensely moving song of devotion." [7]
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