Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)

      For the Modern Talking song, see Give Me Peace on Earth.
      "Give Me Love" redirects here. For the Ed Sheeran song, see Give Me Love (Ed Sheeran song).
      "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"

      UK A-side
      Single by George Harrison
      from the album
      Living in the Material World
      B-side "Miss O'Dell"
      Released 7 May 1973
      Format 7"
      Genre Folk rock
      Length 3:25
      Label Apple
      Writer(s) George Harrison
      Producer George Harrison
      George Harrison singles chronology
      "Bangla Desh"
      (1971)      		 "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"
      (1973)      		 "Dark Horse"
      (1974)
      Living in the Material World track listing
      The Best of George Harrison track listing

      "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is a song by English musician George Harrison and the opening track of his 1973 album Living in the Material World. It was released as the lead single from the album in May that year and became Harrison's second US number 1, after "My Sweet Lord". In doing so, the song demoted Paul McCartney & Wings' "My Love" from the top of the Billboard Hot 100, marking a rare instance where two former Beatles held the top two chart positions in America. The single also reached the top ten in Britain and Canada, and in other singles charts around the world.

      "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is one of Harrison's most popular songs, among fans and music critics, and features a series of much-praised slide-guitar solos from Harrison. The recording signalled a deliberate departure from his earlier post-Beatles work, in the scaling down of the big sound synonymous with his 1970–71 collaborations with co-producer Phil Spector. Other musicians on the recording include Nicky Hopkins and Jim Keltner. The lyrics' subject matter is reincarnation, and Harrison described the song as "a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it".[1]

      Harrison performed "Give Me Love" at every concert during his rare tours as a solo artist, and a live version appears on his 1992 album Live in Japan. Marisa Monte, Dave Davies, Elliott Smith, Ron Sexsmith, Sting, James Taylor and Elton John are among the artists who have covered the song. At the November 2002 Concert for George tribute to Harrison, Jeff Lynne performed "Give Me Love", with Andy Fairweather-Low and Marc Mann playing the twin slide-guitar parts.

      Composition

      When discussing how he wrote "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", Harrison stated in his 1980 autobiography: "Sometimes you open your mouth and you don't know what you are going to say, and whatever comes out is the starting point. If that happens and you are lucky, it can usually be turned into a song. This song is a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it."[1] "Give Me Love" continued the precedent set by Harrison in his 1970 single "My Sweet Lord", where he blended the Hindu bhajan with Western gospel tradition,[2][3] and the song repeated another Harrison hit formula by using a three-syllable lyrical hook as its title, like "My Sweet Lord", "What Is Life" and "Bangla Desh".[4] In a further similarity with those earlier songs, he wrote "Give Me Love" very quickly;[5][6] Harrison biographer Alan Clayson describes it as having "flowed from George with an ease as devoid of ante-start agonies as a Yoko Ono 'think piece'".[7]

      Harrison had embraced the theme of karma and reincarnation in the songs "Run of the Mill" and "Art of Dying", both released on his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass.[8] With "Give Me Love", the "starting point" that Harrison referred to led to a statement expressing the singer's vision for life in the physical world, a life devoid of the karmic burden of rebirth:[9][10]

      Give me love, give me love, give me peace on earth
      Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth
      Give me hope, help me cope with this heavy load
      Trying to touch and reach you with heart and soul.      [11]

      These chorus lyrics bear a simple, universal message,[12][13] one that, in the context of the time, related as much to the communal "peace and love" idealism of the 1960s as it did Harrison's personal spiritual quest.[14] The lyrics also imply a deficiency or unfulfilment on Harrison's part,[15] "an acknowledgment of the trials and tribulations he was facing in a more earthly setting", author Ian Inglis suggests.[16] Harrison's musical biographer, Simon Leng, has written of his failing marriage to Pattie Boyd during this period, as well as a possible spiritual "crisis" in reaction to both the acclaim he had received as a solo artist since the Beatles' break-up and the frustrations associated with his aid project for the refugees of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan).[17]

      During the two bridge sections in "Give Me Love", Harrison subtly blends the sacred term "Om" in the drawn-out phrase "Oh ... my Lord".[18][19] Joshua Greene describes this as an example of a theme found in a number of songs on the Living in the Material World album, where spiritual concepts were "distilled" into phrases "so elegant they resembled Vedic sutras: short codes that contain volumes of meaning".[20] The use of the word "Om" was a further commentary from Harrison on the universality of faith,[21] following on from his "deft" switch from "hallelujah" chorus to the Hare Krishna mantra in "My Sweet Lord".[19]

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      Recording

      Harrison's commitment to overseeing the release of the Concert for Bangladesh album and film prevented him from being able to start on the follow-up to All Things Must Pass until midway through 1972.[22][23] Another delay was caused by producer Phil Spector's unreliability, as Harrison waited for him to turn up for the start of the sessions.[24] Beatles author Bruce Spizer writes that "the eccentric producer's erratic attendance caused George to realize the project would never get done if he kept waiting for Spector",[25] and by October that year, Harrison had decided to produce the album alone.[24]

      As for the majority of Living in the Material World, Harrison recorded the basic track for "Give Me Love" in the autumn of 1972 with the assistance of former Beatles engineer Phil McDonald.[25] The recording location was either FPSHOT, Harrison's new home studio at Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, or Apple Studio in London.[26] In a departure from previous Harrison solo hits, where a line-up of ten or more musicians was standard, "Give Me Love" featured a pared-down arrangement and more subtle instrumentation.[9][26] Another contrast was Harrison's adoption of a production style that some commentators have likened to George Martin's work with the Beatles.[27][28] On "Give Me Love", Inglis notes the same "supple and clear guitar-playing that distinguished 'Here Comes the Sun'" in 1969.[16] Harrison carried out overdubs on the backing track, including the meticulously crafted twin slide-guitar parts, during the first two months of 1973.[29] According to Beatles Diary compiler Keith Badman, an alternative version of "Give Me Love" exists, which Harrison gave to BBC Radio 1 DJ Alan Freeman for promotional purposes.[30]

      The song begins with Harrison's strummed acoustic guitar, similar to the opening of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man",[12] before the entrance of what David Fricke terms the "beaming harmony of doubled slide [guitar]".[31] Aside from Harrison's guitar work, the most prominent instrument on the recording is Nicky Hopkins' piano,[12]double-tracked and played with Hopkins' signature melodic style.[32] The rhythm section of Jim Keltner and Klaus Voormann[26] fully arrives only after the first bridge, creating the song's "bouncy yet soothing" beat.[19] Peter Lavezzoli, author of The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, notes how quickly Harrison's "unique approach" to slide-guitar playing had matured since 1970, to incorporate sitar, veena and other Hindustani musical stylings, and rates the mid-song solo on "Give Me Love" as "one of his most intricate and melodic".[33]

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      Release

      The picture sleeve used in France and other European countries for the "Give Me Love" single, incorporating aspects of Tom Wilkes' design for the Living in the Material World album.

      The release of Living in the Material World was further delayed to allow for other albums on Apple Records' busy release schedule for the first half of 1973:[34] the Beatles' compilations 1962–1966 and 1967–1970, and Paul McCartney & Wings' second album, Red Rose Speedway.[35] In the ensuing years since All Things Must Pass, according to Robert Rodriguez, the public bickering between John Lennon and McCartney and their "subpar" music had done much to diminish the "cachet of being an ex-Beatle".[36] In his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Nicholas Schaffner wrote that, because of the "magnanimous" Bangladesh project compared to the twin "fiascos" of McCartney's Wild Life album and the Lennon–Ono collaboration Some Time in New York City, Harrison's new songs were "guaranteed" a receptive audience.[37]

      Backed by "Miss O'Dell", "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" was issued as a single on 7 May 1973 in America (as Apple R 5988)[38] and 25 May in Britain (Apple 1862).[39] Three weeks later, the song appeared as the opening track on the long-awaited Living in the Material World.[40][41] Apple's US distributor, Capitol Records, mastered the single to run at a faster speed than the album track,[34] in order to make the song sound brighter on the radio, author Bruce Spizer suggests.[42] Although the A-side's running time read 3:32 on the single, "Give Me Love" actually ran to about 3:25.[39] As with all the songs on the album bar the 1971-copyright "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" and "Try Some, Buy Some",[43] Harrison assigned his publishing royalties for "Give Me Love" to the newly launched Material World Charitable Foundation.[27] Unusually for an Apple release by a former Beatle, the single came packaged in a plain sleeve in the main markets of Britain and the United States.[39] A variety of picture sleeves were available in European countries, including a design incorporating Harrison's signature and a red Om symbol,[44] both of which were aspects of Tom Wilkes' artwork for the Material World album.[45][46]

      The single topped the Billboard Hot 100 at the end of June (for one week)[47] and climbed to number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.[48][49] Repeating the feat of January 1971, when "My Sweet Lord" and All Things Must Pass sat atop the Billboard charts simultaneously, "Give Me Love" hit number 1 part-way through Material World's five-week reign on the albums listings.[50]

      "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" replaced Wings' "My Love" at number 1 on the Hot 100 singles chart,[48] and in turn was replaced by Billy Preston's "Will It Go Round in Circles".[51][52] Preston's appearances in the Beatles' 1970 documentary Let It Be and The Concert for Bangladesh ensured that he would long be associated with the band, particularly in mid 1973 when press reports tied him to a possible Beatles reunion following the Los Angeles sessions for Ringo Starr's Ringo album.[53] For the week ending 30 June that year, the Harrison, McCartney and Preston songs were ranked numbers 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100,[54] marking the first time since 25 April 1964 that the Beatles occupied the top two positions on that chart.[55] Schaffner described this period as "reminiscent of the golden age of Beatlemania", due the amount of Beatles-related product dominating the charts in America.[56]

      "Give Me Love" later appeared on the 1976 compilation The Best of George Harrison, as well as 2009's Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison.[57]

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      Reception

      "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" soon became one of Harrison's most popular songs,[58] both from his years with the Beatles and from his subsequent solo career.[59][60] On release, McCartney described it as "very nice", adding: "The guitar solo is ace and I like the time changes."[61]Rolling Stone album reviewer Stephen Holden lauded the song for its '"strong, short-phrased melody whose lyrics are sheer exhortation", and declared the single "every bit as good as 'My Sweet Lord'".[62] Writing in The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, the NME's Roy Carr and Tony Tyler found it bore "more than a distant resemblance" to the Dylan song "I Want You", but praised "Give Me Love" for its "excellent and highly idiosyncratic slide-guitar playing".[63]

      More recently, Allmusic's Lindsay Planer has been another to highlight Harrison's guitar contribution to this "serene rocker", and likewise acknowledges Hopkins' "warm and soulful keyboard runs and fills".[12] Zeth Lundy of PopMatters describes "Give Me Love" as "effervescent" and "a #1 single that remains one of Harrison's most iconic and well-loved".[59] Biographer Elliot Huntley attributes the success of this "heartfelt plea for love and peace" to its "irresistibly catchy chorus, mesmeric slide guitar solo and lyrically dummed-down version of the Harrison 'message'" − a combination that "sweetened the pill" for record-buyers.[13] Robert Rodriguez also identifies Harrison's achievement in "cloak[ing] philosophical concerns in a thoroughly commercial package", which included his "impossibly compelling slide work".[64] In his book on Harrison's musical career, Simon Leng finds more superlatives for the song's guitar lines, which he describes as "almost too euphonious to be true".[26] Leng writes of the track: "Living in the Material World could hardly have reveled in a stronger opening song ... A gorgeous ballad, awash with marvelously expressive guitar statements, 'Give Me Love' retains the emotional power of All Things Must Pass in a compelling three minutes."[26]

      In an interview for the Concert for George DVD release in 2003, Eric Clapton named "Give Me Love" as one of his favourite Harrison compositions, along with "Isn't It a Pity".[65] In 2010, AOL Radio listeners voted "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" fifth in a poll to find George Harrison's best post-Beatles songs.[66] David Fricke includes the song in his list of "25 essential Harrison performances" for Rolling Stone magazine, and describes it as "a soft, intimate hymn, a small-combo reaction to the Wagnerian spectacle of All Things Must Pass".[67]

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      Live version

      Harrison performed "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" throughout both his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar and his 1991 Japanese tour with Eric Clapton, and during his 1992 benefit show for the Natural Law Party.[68] The latter took place at London's Royal Albert Hall on 6 April that year[69] and was Harrison's only full concert as a solo artist in Britain.[70] In the 1974 shows, the song usually appeared midway through the set and featured Billy Preston's synthesizer and a flute solo from Tom Scott instead of the familiar slide-guitar breaks.[71] Although widely bootlegged,[72] no version of the song from this tour has been released officially.[73]

      The Japanese tour in December 1991 was Harrison's only other tour as a solo artist.[74] His 1992 album Live in Japan contains a version of "Give Me Love" from this tour,[75] recorded at Tokyo Dome on 15 December 1991.[76] Again, Harrison delegated the solos to a fellow musician: in this case Andy Fairweather-Low reproduced the slide-guitar parts from the original studio recording.[77] Ian Inglis notes the "impressive interplay", particularly towards the end of the song, between Harrison and his backup singers,[78]Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon.[77] This live version of "Give Me Love", along with the accompanying concert footage, was subsequently included in the Living in the Material World reissue in September 2006, as part of a deluxe CD/DVD package.[28][79]

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      Cover versions

      Lindsay Planer writes that two covers of the song "worth noting" include a version by Bob Koenig, released on his Prose & Icons album in 1996, and one by Brazilian singer Marisa Monte from the same year.[12] Monte's version appeared on her album Barulhinho Bom,[80] later released in English-speaking countries as A Great Noise.[81] In 1998, "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" was one of a number of Harrison songs that composers Steve Wood and Daniel May adapted for their soundtrack to the documentary film Everest; part of the piece "The Journey Begins" incorporates "Give Me Love".[82] Harrison had agreed to the adaptations by Wood and May on the understanding that no advance publicity would mention his connection.[83]

      Artists other than Harrison who have performed the song live include Elliott Smith[84] and, in April 2002, Sting, James Taylor and Elton John.[85] These three musicians performed "Give Me Love" at the Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert, held at Carnegie Hall in New York City.[85] In what Planer describes as a "stirring reading",[12]Jeff Lynne performed the song at the Concert for George on 29 November 2002, exactly a year after Harrison's death.[86] Lynne was supported by a band comprising Harrison's friends and musical associates, including Clapton, Fairweather-Low, Marc Mann, Keltner, Dhani Harrison, Niles and Kissoon.[87]

      Dave Davies of the Kinks contributed a version of "Give Me Love" to the Songs From the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison compilation in 2003,[88] and later released a version on his 2006 album Kinked.[89] In 2010, Broadway actress Sherie Rene Scott featured "Give Me Love" in her autobiographical musical Everyday Rapture as the show's final number.[90] Canadian singer Ron Sexsmith has included the song in his live performances; a version by him appeared on Harrison Covered, a tribute CD accompanying the November 2011 issue of Mojo magazine.[91]

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      Personnel

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      Chart positions

      Chart (1973) Peak
      position
      US Billboard Hot 100[92] 1
      US Billboard AC[92] 4
      Dutch Singles Chart[44] 7
      French Singles Chart[93] 7
      Norwegian VG-lista Singles Chart[94] 7
      UK Singles Chart[95] 8
      Canadian RPM 100 Singles Chart[96] 9
      New Zealand Singles Chart[97] 9
      Belgian Singles Chart[93] 27
      German Media Control Singles Chart[98] 28
      Japanese Oricon Singles Chart[99] 37
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      Notes

      1. ^ a b Harrison, p. 246.
      2. ^ Leng, p. 157.
      3. ^ The Editors of Rolling Stone, p. 180.
      4. ^ Leng, pp 153, 209.
      5. ^ Madinger & Easter, pp 434, 444.
      6. ^ Harrison, p. 162.
      7. ^ Clayson, p. 322.
      8. ^ Schaffner, p. 142.
      9. ^ a b Kevin Howlett, booklet accompanying Living in the Material World reissue (EMI Records, 2006; produced by Dhani & Olivia Harrison).
      10. ^ Allison, pp 79, 82.
      11. ^ Harrison, p. 245.
      12. ^ a b c d e f Lindsay Planer, "George Harrison 'Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)'", Allmusic (retrieved 8 March 2012).
      13. ^ a b Huntley, p. 90.
      14. ^ Allison, p. 142.
      15. ^ Allison, p. 22.
      16. ^ a b Inglis, p. 38.
      17. ^ Leng, pp 126, 137–38.
      18. ^ Allison, pp 122, 142.
      19. ^ a b c Tillery, p. 111.
      20. ^ Greene, p. 194.
      21. ^ Greene, pp 194–95.
      22. ^ Leng, p. 123.
      23. ^ O'Dell, p. 234.
      24. ^ a b Madinger & Easter, p. 439.
      25. ^ a b Spizer, p. 254.
      26. ^ a b c d e Leng, p. 126.
      27. ^ a b Clayson, p. 323.
      28. ^ a b John Metzger, "George Harrison Living in the Material World album review", Music Box, vol. 13 (11), November 2006 (retrieved 16 December 2012).
      29. ^ Madinger & Easter, pp 439–40.
      30. ^ Badman, p. 104.
      31. ^ The Editors of Rolling Stone, p. 201.
      32. ^ Leng, pp 124, 125.
      33. ^ Lavezzoli, pp 194, 198.
      34. ^ a b Madinger & Easter, p. 440.
      35. ^ Badman, pp 94–95, 98.
      36. ^ Rodriguez, pp 258–59.
      37. ^ Schaffner, p. 159.
      38. ^ Castleman & Podrazik, p. 125.
      39. ^ a b c Spizer, p. 250.
      40. ^ Spizer, pp 249, 253–54.
      41. ^ Rodriguez, p. 258.
      42. ^ Spizer, p. 249.
      43. ^ Schaffner, p. 160.
      44. ^ a b George Harrison − Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), dutchcharts.nl (retrieved 9 September 2009).
      45. ^ Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages, "Living in the Material World", 2006 (retrieved 17 December 2012).
      46. ^ Spizer, p. 256.
      47. ^ Castleman & Podrazik, p. 353.
      48. ^ a b Badman, p. 103.
      49. ^ Schaffner, p. 167.
      50. ^ Castleman & Podrazik, pp 353, 364.
      51. ^ Rodriguez, pp 258, 260.
      52. ^ Jillian Mapes, "George Harrison's 10 Biggest Billboard Hits", billboard.com, 29 November 2011 (retrieved 16 December 2012).
      53. ^ Rodriguez, pp 72–74.
      54. ^ "Billboard Hot 100", Billboard, 30 June 1973, p. 64 (retrieved 15 December 2012).
      55. ^ Castleman & Podrazik, pp 347–53.
      56. ^ Schaffner, p. 158.
      57. ^ Inglis, pp 65, 128.
      58. ^ Lavezzoli, p. 194.
      59. ^ a b Zeth Lundy, "George Harrison: Living in the Material World", PopMatters, 8 November 2006 (retrieved 27 June 2012).
      60. ^ Allison, p. 132.
      61. ^ Badman, p. 99.
      62. ^ Stephen Holden, "George Harrison, Living in the Material World" album review, Rolling Stone, 19 July 1973 (retrieved 31 March 2012).
      63. ^ Carr & Tyler, p. 106.
      64. ^ Rodriguez, p. 260.
      65. ^ Eric Clapton interview, Concert for George DVD, Warner Vision, 2003 (directed by David Leland; produced by Ray Cooper, Olivia Harrison, Jon Kamen & Brian Roylance).
      66. ^ Boonsri Dickinson, "10 Best George Harrison Songs", AOL Radio, April 2010 (retrieved 8 March 2012).
      67. ^ The Editors of Rolling Stone, pp 195, 201.
      68. ^ Madinger & Easter, pp 447, 481–82, 484–85.
      69. ^ Badman, pp 478–79.
      70. ^ Leng, pp vii, 272.
      71. ^ Leng, pp 167, 168–69, 171.
      72. ^ Madinger & Easter, pp 446–47.
      73. ^ Leng, p. 170.
      74. ^ Rodriguez, p. 60.
      75. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewhine, "George Harrison Live in Japan", Allmusic (retrieved 17 December 2012).
      76. ^ Madinger & Easter, p. 483.
      77. ^ a b Leng, p. 270.
      78. ^ Inglis, p. 109.
      79. ^ Discography / Living in the Material World, georgeharrison.com (retrieved 22 January 2013).
      80. ^ Alvaro Neder, "Marisa Monte Barulhinho Bom", Allmusic (retrieved 19 December 2012).
      81. ^ John Dougan, "Marisa Monte A Great Noise", Allmusic (retrieved 8 January 2010).
      82. ^ Badman, p. 588.
      83. ^ Badman, p. 589.
      84. ^ David Greenwald, "Elliott Smith – The Complete Live Covers", Rawkblog (retrieved 23 January 2013).
      85. ^ a b "Sting Strips for Charity, Elton Puts on Pearls", Fox News, 15 April 2002 (retrieved 15 September 2012).
      86. ^ Inglis, pp 124, 155.
      87. ^ Inglis, p. 125.
      88. ^ Johnny Loftus, "Various Artists Songs From the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison", Allmusic (retrieved 8 January 2010).
      89. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "Dave Davies Kinked", Allmusic (retrieved 8 January 2010).
      90. ^ William Ruhlmann, "Sherie René Scott Everyday Rapture", Allmusic (retrieved 22 January 2013).
      91. ^ Michael Simmons, "Cry for a Shadow", Mojo, November 2011, p. 86.
      92. ^ a b George Harrison > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles, Allmusic (retrieved 26 August 2009).
      93. ^ a b George Harrison (Song artist 225), Tsort pages (retrieved 5 March 2012).
      94. ^ George Harrison − Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), norwegiancharts.com (retrieved 9 September 2009).
      95. ^ "Artist: George Harrison", Official Charts Company (retrieved 14 April 2013).
      96. ^ "RPM 100 Singles, 21 July 1973", Library and Archives Canada (retrieved 5 March 2012).
      97. ^ Search: "George Harrison", Flavour of New Zealand/Steve Kohler, 2007 (retrieved 21 October 2012).
      98. ^ Single – George Harrison, Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), charts.de (retrieved 3 January 2013).
      99. ^ "George Harrison: Chart Action (Japan)", homepage1.nifty.com (retrieved 28 December 2012).
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      References

      • Dale C. Allison Jr., The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison, Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ISBN 978-0-8264-1917-0).
      • Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970–2001, Omnibus Press (London, 2001; ISBN 0-7119-8307-0).
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      • The Editors of Rolling Stone, Harrison, Rolling Stone Press/Simon & Schuster (New York, NY, 2002; ISBN 0-7432-3581-9).
      • Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3).
      • George Harrison, I Me Mine, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA, 2002; ISBN 0-8118-3793-9).
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      • Ian Inglis, The Words and Music of George Harrison, Praeger (Santa Barbara, CA, 2010; ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3).
      • Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ISBN 0-8264-2819-3).
      • Simon Leng, While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison, Hal Leonard (Milwaukee, WI, 2006; ISBN 1-4234-0609-5).
      • Chris O'Dell with Katherine Ketcham, Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved, Touchstone (New York, NY, 2009; ISBN 978-1-4165-9093-4).
      • Robert Rodriguez, Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles' Solo Years, 1970–1980, Backbeat Books (Milwaukee, WI, 2010; ISBN 978-1-4165-9093-4).
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      • Bruce Spizer, The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, 498 Productions (New Orleans, LA, 2005; ISBN 0-9662649-5-9).
      • Gary Tillery, Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison, Quest Books (Wheaton, IL, 2011; ISBN 978-0-8356-0900-5).
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