George Harrison Something Inspiration ~repack~ -

For George, love for a person was a reflection of love for the divine. “Something in the way she moves / Attracts me like no other lover” could just as easily be about the pull of consciousness or truth. He found the sacred inside the secular. Perhaps the most inspiring part of this song is that George almost didn't give it to The Beatles. He thought it was too simple. He had been so beaten down by the Lennon/McCartney juggernaut that he assumed his "little tune" wasn't good enough.

George heard Taylor’s “Something in the Way She Moves” and loved the phrasing. Rather than steal, he transformed it. He took a folk phrase and placed it over a jazz-tinged, bluesy bed. That alchemy—taking an outside influence and filtering it through your own soul—is the secret to originality. You cannot separate George Harrison from his spirituality. While the song is about a woman, listen closely to the arrangement. The use of the droning strings and the slow, meditative tempo feel less like a pop song and more like a bhajan (Hindu devotional song). george harrison something inspiration

By 1968, during the Abbey Road sessions, George felt like a visitor in his own marriage. The line “You’re asking me will my love grow / I don’t know, I don’t know” isn’t a lack of passion—it is brutal, poetic honesty. He was capturing the fear of losing someone while still being captivated by them. The most famous riff in Beatles history—that descending, aching guitar hook—almost didn’t happen. George admitted he was messing around on the piano (an instrument he wasn’t known for) when the chord progression fell out. But the inspiration for the song’s structure came from an unlikely source: a demo by a then-unknown singer-songwriter named James Taylor. For George, love for a person was a