McCartney Times

‘Something’ is without doubt one of the top ten Beatles songs and I’ll fight the man who says otherwise even if he has a perm. Purring with romance and sexiness is the ultimate gift that a lover could ask for. Oozing with a sense of ethereality the unfurling verses could give goosebumps to a blade of grass, and then there’s that middle eight that could knock the socks off of Gandhi.

Pattie Boyd was the benefactor of that loving gift, and it is perhaps indicative of the song’s pining clutch that it represents the dying embers of their relationship. As she writes in her memoir, “George wrote a song called ‘Something.’ He told me in a matter-of-fact way that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful and it turned out to be the most successful song he ever wrote, with more than 150 cover versions. George’s favourite version was the one by James Brown. Mine was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in our kitchen.”

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