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Something (Beatles song)

"Something" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles
from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George
"Something"
Harrison, the band's lead guitarist. Together with his second
contribution to Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun", it is
widely viewed by music historians as having marked
Harrison's ascendancy as a composer to the level of the
Beatles' principal songwriters, John Lennon and Paul
McCartney.[2][3] Two weeks after the album's release, the song
was issued on a double A-side single, coupled with "Come
Together", making it the first Harrison composition to become
a Beatles A-side. The pairing was also the first time in the
United Kingdom that the Beatles issued a single containing
tracks already available on an album. While the single's
commercial performance was lessened by this, it topped the 1989 UK reissue picture sleeve
Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as charts in
Single by the Beatles
Australia, Canada, New Zealand and West Germany, and
peaked at number 4 in the UK. from the album Abbey Road
A-side "Come Together"
The track is generally considered a love song to Pattie Boyd,
(double A-side)
Harrison's first wife, although Harrison offered alternative
sources of inspiration in later interviews. Owing to the Released 6 October 1969
difficulty he faced in getting more than two of his compositions Recorded 2 May, 5 May, 16
onto each Beatles album, Harrison first offered the song to Joe July, 15 August
Cocker. As recorded by the Beatles, the track features a guitar
1969
solo that several music critics identify among Harrison's finest
playing. The song also drew praise from the other Beatles and Studio EMI and Olympic,
their producer, George Martin, with Lennon stating that it was London
the best song on Abbey Road. The promotional film for the Genre Rock, pop[1]
single combined footage of each of the Beatles with his
Length 2:59
respective wife, reflecting the estrangement in the band during
the months preceding their break-up in April 1970. Harrison Label Apple
subsequently performed the song at his Concert for Songwriter(s) George Harrison
Bangladesh shows in 1971 and throughout the two tours he
Producer(s) George Martin
made as a solo artist.
The Beatles singles chronology
"Something" received the Ivor Novello Award for the "Best
"The "Something" "Let It Be"
Song Musically and Lyrically" of 1969. By the late 1970s, it had
Ballad of / "Come (1970)
been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most
John and Together"
covered Beatles composition after "Yesterday". Shirley Bassey
had a top-five UK hit with her 1970 recording, and Frank Yoko" (1969)
Sinatra regularly performed the song. Other artists who have (1969)
covered it include Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Booker T. & the
Song sample
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"Something" as the 17th-most performed song of the twentieth
century, with 5 million performances. In 2000, Mojo ranked file · help
"Something" at number 14 in the magazine's list of "The 100
Music video
Greatest Songs of All Time"; it was ranked 110th on Rolling
Stone 's 2021 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In "Something" (https://www.youtube.c
2002, a year after Harrison's death, McCartney and Eric om/watch?v=UelDrZ1aFeY) on
Clapton performed it at the Concert for George tribute at YouTube
London's Royal Albert Hall.
Contents
Background and inspiration
Composition
Pre-Abbey Road recording history
The Beatles' Get Back/Let It Be rehearsals
Harrison solo demo
Joe Cocker demo
Recording and production
Release
Selection for single release
Promotional film
Reception
Contemporary reviews
Commercial performance
Retrospective assessments and legacy
Cover versions
Shirley Bassey
Frank Sinatra
Other artists
Harrison tributes
Live performances by Harrison
Personnel
Charts and certifications
Beatles version
Shirley Bassey version
Certifications (Beatles version)
Notes
References
Sources
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Further reading
External links
Background and inspiration

George Harrison began writing "Something" in September 1968,
during a session for the Beatles' self-titled double album, also
known as "the White Album".[4] In his autobiography, I, Me
Mine, he recalls working on the melody on a piano, at the same
time as Paul McCartney recorded overdubs in a neighbouring
studio at London's Abbey Road Studios.[5] Harrison suspended
work on the song,[6] believing that with the tune having come to
him so easily, it might have been a melody from another song.[7]
In I, Me, Mine, he wrote that the middle eight "took some time to
sort out".[8]
Harrison identified Ray Charles
The opening lyric was taken from the title of "Something in the
as one of his sources of
Way She Moves", a track by Harrison's fellow Apple Records
inspiration for the song.
artist James Taylor.[9][10] While Harrison imagined the
composition in the style of Ray Charles,[11] his inspiration for
"Something" was his wife, Pattie Boyd.[12][13] In her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Today, Boyd
recalls: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was
beautiful ..." Boyd discusses the song's popularity among other recording artists and concludes:
"My favourite [version] was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in the kitchen at
Kinfauns."[14]
Having begun to write love songs that were directed at both God and a woman, with his White
Album track "Long, Long, Long",[15] Harrison later cited alternative sources for his inspiration for
"Something".[16] In early 1969, according to author Joshua Greene, Harrison told his friends from
the Hare Krishna Movement that the song was about the Hindu deity Krishna;[17] in an interview
with Rolling Stone in 1976, he said of his approach to writing love songs: "all love is part of a
universal love. When you love a woman, it's the God in her that you see."[18] By 1996, Harrison had
denied writing "Something" for Boyd.[10] That year, he told a music journalist that "everybody
presumed I wrote it about Pattie" because of the promotional film accompanying the release of the
Beatles' recording, which showed the couple together.[10]
Composition
In the version issued on the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road, which was the first release for the
song,[19] "Something" runs at a speed of around 66 beats per minute and is in common time
throughout. It begins with a five-note guitar figure, which functions as the song's chorus, since it is
repeated before each of the verses and also closes the track.[20] The melody is in the key of C major
until the eight-measure-long bridge, or middle eight, which is in the key of A major.[21][22]
Harrison biographer Simon Leng identifies "harmonic interest ... [in] almost every line" of the
song, as the melody follows a series of descending half-steps from the tonic over the verses, a
structure that is then mirrored in the new key, through the middle eight.[23] The melody returns to
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C major for the guitar solo, the third verse, and the outro.[21]
Leng considers that, lyrically and musically, "Something" reflects "doubt and striving to attain an
uncertain goal".[23] Author Ian Inglis writes of the confident statements that Harrison makes
throughout regarding his feelings for Boyd.[24] Referring to lines in the song's verses,[25] Inglis
writes: "there is a clear and mutual confidence in the reciprocal nature of their love; he muses that
[Boyd] 'attracts me like no other lover' and 'all I have to do is think of her,' but he is equally aware
that she feels the same, that 'somewhere in her smile, she knows.'"[24] Similarly, when Harrison
sings in the middle eight that "You're asking me will my love grow / I don't know, I don't know",[25]
Inglis interprets the words as "not an indication of uncertainty, but a wry reflection that his love is
already so complete that it may simply be impossible for it to become any greater".[24] Richie
Unterberger of AllMusic describes "Something" as "an unabashedly straightforward and
sentimental love song" written at a time "when most of the Beatles' songs were dealing with non-
romantic topics or presenting cryptic and allusive lyrics even when they were writing about love".[1]
Pre-Abbey Road recording history
The Beatles' Get Back/Let It Be rehearsals
Harrison introduced "Something" at a Beatles session on 19 September 1968, when he played it to

George Martin's stand-in as producer of The Beatles, Chris Thomas, while the latter was working
out the harpsichord part for Harrison's track "Piggies".[4] Despite Thomas's enthusiasm for the
new composition, Harrison chose to focus on "Piggies".[26] He told Thomas that he intended to
offer "Something" to singer Jackie Lomax,[4] whose debut album Harrison was producing for Apple
Records.[27] "Something" was not among the tracks released on Lomax's album,[28] much of which
was recorded in Los Angeles following the completion of The Beatles.[29]
After Harrison rejoined the Beatles in January 1969 for their Get Back film project (later released
as Let It Be), "Something" was one of many recent compositions that he offered to the group.[30]
Leng describes this period as a prolific one for Harrison as a songwriter, comparing it with John
Lennon's peak of creativity over 1963–64,[31] yet Harrison's songs received little interest from
Lennon and McCartney amid the tense, uncooperative atmosphere within the band.[32][33] Martin
was also unimpressed by "Something" at first, considering it "too weak and derivative", according
to music journalist Mikal Gilmore.[32]
The Beatles rehearsed the song at Apple Studio on 28 January.[34] With the proceedings being
recorded by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the planned documentary film,[35] tapes reveal
Harrison discussing his unfinished lyrics for "Something" with Lennon and McCartney, since he
had been unable to complete the song's second line, which begins "Attracts me ..."[36] To serve as a
temporary filler, Lennon suggested "like a cauliflower", which Harrison then altered to "like a
pomegranate".[4][37] In their study of the available tapes, Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt write
that the Beatles gave the song two run-throughs that day, which was the only occasion that they
attempted it during the Get Back/Let It Be project.[38]
Harrison solo demo
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Following the Beatles' brief efforts with "Something" on 28 January,[39] Harrison talked with
Lennon and Yoko Ono about recording a solo album of his unused songs, since he had already
stockpiled enough compositions "for the next ten years", given his usual allocation of two tracks
per album,[40] and to "preserve this, the Beatle bit, more".[41] Lennon offered his support for the
idea,[41] similarly keen that his and Ono's recording projects outside the Beatles could continue
without jeopardising the band's future.[39] On 25 February 1969 – his 26th birthday – Harrison
entered Abbey Road Studios and taped solo demos of "Something", "Old Brown Shoe" and "All
Things Must Pass",[42][43] the last two of which had also been rejected recently by Lennon and
McCartney.[44]
With Ken Scott serving as his engineer,[45] he recorded a live take of "Something", featuring
electric guitar and vocal.[46][47] By this point, Harrison had completed the lyrics, although he
included an extra verse, sung to a counter-melody, over the section that would comprise his guitar
solo on the Beatles' subsequent official recording.[23] This demo version of "Something" remained
unreleased until its inclusion on the Beatles' outtake collection Anthology 3 in 1996.[48][nb 1]
Joe Cocker demo
In March 1969, Harrison gave "Something" to Joe Cocker to record,[51] having decided that it was
more likely to become a hit with Cocker than with Lomax.[52] Referring to this and similar
examples where Harrison placed his overlooked songs with other recording artists, Ken Scott has
rebutted the idea that he lacked confidence as a songwriter in the Beatles, saying:
I think he was totally confident about the songs. The insecurity may have been, if the
Beatles kept going, "How many songs am I going to be able to get on each album?", and
with the backlog sort of mounting up ... [to] get it out there, and get something from
it.[53]
Assisted by Harrison, Cocker recorded a demo of the song at Apple.[4] While musicologist Walter
Everett suggests that this was the same recording of "Something" that appeared on the Joe Cocker!
album in November 1969,[51] Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn writes that Cocker subsequently
remade the track.[4]
Recording and production

The Beatles undertook the recording of Abbey Road with a sense of George's "Something"
discipline and cooperation that had largely been absent while making was out of left field. It
the White Album and Let It Be.[55][56] Having temporarily left the was about Pattie, and
group in January 1969 partly as a result of McCartney's criticism of his it appealed to me
musicianship, Harrison exhibited a greater level of assertiveness because it has a very
regarding his place in the band, particularly while they worked on his beautiful melody and
compositions "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun".[57] In addition, is a really structured
like Lennon and McCartney, Martin had come to fully appreciate song ... I think George
Harrison as a songwriter, later saying: "I first recognised that he really thought my bass-
had a great talent when we did 'Here Comes the Sun.' But when he playing was a little bit
brought in 'Something,' it was something else ... It was a tremendous busy. Again, from my
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work – and so simple."[58] side, I was trying to

contribute the best I
The group recorded "Something" on 16 April before Harrison decided could, but maybe it
to redo the song, a new basic track for which was then completed at was his turn to tell me
Abbey Road on 2 May. The line-up was Harrison on Leslie-effected I was too busy.[54]
rhythm guitar, Lennon on piano, McCartney on bass, Ringo Starr on
drums, and guest musician Billy Preston playing Hammond organ. On
5 May, at Olympic Sound Studios, McCartney re-recorded his bass part – Paul McCartney,
and Harrison added lead guitar.[51] According to EMI engineer Geoff 2000
Emerick, Harrison asked McCartney to simplify his playing, but
McCartney refused.[59] At this point, the song ran to eight minutes, due
to the inclusion of an extended, jam-like coda led by Lennon's piano.[9]
After taking a break from recording,[60][61] the band returned to "Something" on 11 July, when
Harrison overdubbed what would turn out to be a temporary vocal.[51][62] With the resulting
reduction mix, much of the coda, along with almost all of Lennon's playing on the main part of the
song, was cut from the recording. The piano can be heard only in the middle eight, specifically
during the descending run that follows each pair of "I don't know" vocal lines.[51][nb 2] On 16 July,
Harrison recorded a new vocal,[66] with McCartney overdubbing his harmony vocal over the
middle eight and Starr adding both a second hi-hat part and a cymbal.[51]
Following another reduction mix, at which point the remainder of the coda was excised from the
track, Martin-arranged string orchestration was overdubbed on 15 August, as Harrison, working in
the adjacent studio at Abbey Road, re-recorded his lead guitar part live.[51] Writing for Rolling
Stone in 2002, David Fricke described the Beatles' version of "Something" as "actually two moods
in one: the pillowy yearning of the verses ... and the golden thunder of the bridge, the latter driven
by Ringo Starr's military flourish on a high-hat cymbal".[58] Leng highlights Harrison's guitar solo
on the recording as "a performance that is widely regarded as one of the great guitar solos", and
one in which Harrison incorporates the gamaks associated with Indian classical music, following
his study of the sitar in 1965–68, while also foreshadowing the expressive style he would adopt on
slide guitar as a solo artist.[67]
Release
Selection for single release
They blessed me with Apple Records issued Abbey Road on 26 September 1969,[68] with
a couple of B-sides in "Something" sequenced as the second track, following Lennon's "Come
the past, but this is Together".[69] Lennon considered "Something" to be the best song on
the first time I've had the album.[10][70] Having ensured that "Old Brown Shoe" was chosen
an A-side. Big deal, as the B-side for the Beatles' single "The Ballad of John and Yoko",
eh?[4] according to his later recollection,[71] Lennon now pushed Allen Klein
to release "Something" as a single from Abbey Road. Coupled with
"Come Together", the single was issued on 6 October in America (as
– George Harrison to
BBC reporter David Apple 2654) and 31 October in Britain (as Apple R5814).[69][72]
Wigg, 8 October 1969
The release marked the first time that a Harrison composition had been
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afforded A-side treatment on a Beatles single,[73] as well as the only time during their career that a
single was issued in the UK featuring tracks already available on an album.[74] In a 1990 letter to
Mark Lewisohn, Klein rebutted a claim made by Lewisohn in his book The Complete Beatles
Recording Sessions, that the single was intended as a money-making exercise: Klein said it was
purely a mark of Lennon's regard for "Something" and "to point out George as a writer, and give
him courage to go in and do his own LP. Which he did."[4][nb 3] Following the Beatles' break-up in
April 1970, Harrison's ascendancy as a songwriter would continue with his triple album All Things
Must Pass,[76][77] building on the promise of White Album tracks such as "While My Guitar Gently
Weeps"[78] and his two contributions to Abbey Road.[79][80]
Promotional film
The promotional film for "Something" was shot in late October

1969, not long after Lennon privately announced that he was
leaving the band. By this time, the band members had grown
apart. As a result, the film consisted of separate clips, edited
together, featuring the Beatles walking around the grounds of
their homes with their respective wives.[81] Harrison's segment
shows him and Boyd together in the garden at Kinfauns; in
author John Winn's description, Harrison appears "solemn"
while Boyd is seen "smiling sweetly" and "sporting leather and
Harrison and Boyd in the
fur coats". Winn also comments on the attractiveness of all the
"Something" film clip
wives in contrast to the unkempt appearance of McCartney,
especially, who had sunk into depression at the realisation that
the Beatles were over.[81] The four segments were edited and compiled into a single film clip by
Neil Aspinall.[82] Writing in The New York Times following Aspinall's death in 2008, Allan Kozinn
said: "What Mr. Aspinall's idyllic film avoided showing was that the Beatles were at that point
barely on speaking terms. In the film, no two Beatles are seen together."[82]
In 2015, following restoration overseen by Apple's Jonathan Clyde,[83] the "Something" promo film
was included in the Beatles' video compilation 1 and its expanded edition, 1+.[84] Rolling Stone
journalist Rob Sheffield comments on the significance of the clip, with regard to the band's history:
[E]ach couple projects a totally different vibe – George and Patti peacocking in their
hippie-royalty finery, Paul and Linda on the farm in Scotland with Martha the
sheepdog, Ringo and Maureen goofing around on motorbikes, John and Yoko serene in
their matching black robes. Each Beatle looks like he's found what he was looking for –
but they're heading for four separate futures.[85]
In her review of 1+, for Paste, Gillian Gaar says that with the Beatles' promotional films of their
singles, from "Love Me Do" to "Something" (the last one they made during their career), "you can
see the development of the promo clip, progressing from a short film that simply served up a
straight performance to a piece of work that was striving to be something more artistic."[86]
Reception
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Contemporary reviews
Time magazine declared "Something" to be the best track on Abbey Road,[87] while John
Mendelsohn wrote in Rolling Stone: "George's vocal, containing less adenoids and more grainy
Paul tunefulness than ever before, is one of many highlights on his 'Something,' some of the others
being more excellent drum work, a dead catchy guitar line, perfectly subdued strings, and an
unusually nice melody. Both his and Joe Cocker's version will suffice nicely until Ray Charles gets
around to it."[88] Writing in Saturday Review magazine, Ellen Sander described "Something" as
"certainly one of the most beautiful songs George Harrison has ever written" and added: "He feels
his way through the song, instinctively cutting through its body and into the core, emoting so
clearly and so gracefully that at the moment he peals 'I don't know, I don't know,' it is shown that
even what is not known can be understood."[89]
According to Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner, "Something" showed Harrison following

McCartney's populist approach and some "long-haired music critics" were repelled by the song's
use of lush MOR-style orchestration.[90] An outspoken critic of Abbey Road, The New York
Times 's Nik Cohn derided it and "Here Comes the Sun" as "mediocrity incarnate".[91] By contrast,
Lon Goddard of Record Mirror described the song as "another beautiful Harrison composition" in
the style of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", saying that "It leaps scales in its heavy orchestral
arrangement, then drifts down to George's simple but effective guitar style."[92]
In his review of the single, Derek Johnson of the NME lauded the track as "a real quality hunk of
pop" with a "strident lead guitar which exudes a mean and moody quality". Johnson stated his
regret that Harrison "isn't featured more regularly as a singer", and concluded of "Something": "It's
a song that grows on you, and mark my words, it will – in a big way!"[93][94] As guest singles
reviewer for Melody Maker, Keef Hartley said it was "probably the best track" on Abbey Road,
adding: "What I was waiting for was that guitar solo because George Harrison is just about the only
guitar player I know of who can plan a solo so it doesn't sound as though it is planned."[95]
Commercial performance
Although its commercial impact was lessened by the ongoing success of the parent album,[96]
"Something" / "Come Together" was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) on 27 October.[97] During the single's chart run on Billboard in the US,
"Something" peaked at number 3 until the magazine changed its practice of counting sales and
airplay separately for each song; following this change on 29 November,[98] the single topped the
Billboard Hot 100,[99][100] for one week.[101] "Come Together" / "Something" became the Beatles'
eighteenth number 1 single in Billboard, surpassing Elvis Presley's record of seventeen.[102] In the
other US national charts, Record World listed "Something" / "Come Together" at number 1 for two
weeks and "Come Together" / "Something" for the remaining three weeks at number 1,[103] while
in Cash Box magazine, which continued to rank each song separately, "Something" peaked at
number 2 and "Come Together" spent three weeks at number 1.[104]
As the preferred side, "Something" was number 1 in Canada (for five weeks), Australia (five weeks),
West Germany (two weeks), New Zealand and Singapore.[79] The combined sides reached number
4 in Britain.[105] There, the release was highly unusual,[4] given the traditional preference for non-
album singles.[106] In addition, according to former Mojo editor Paul Du Noyer, "so enormous were
sales of Abbey Road that demand for the single was inevitably dampened."[10]
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Along with "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" was included on the Beatles' 1973 compilation
album 1967–1970,[107] thereby giving Harrison two of the four tracks representing Abbey
Road.[108] In 1976, Capitol sequenced it as the opening track of The Best of George Harrison, a
compilation that, against Harrison's wishes, combined his best-known compositions from the
Beatles era with his hits as a solo artist.[109][110] The song was subsequently included on the band's
themed compilations Love Songs and The Beatles Ballads.[111]
On 17 February 1999, "Something" was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.[112] In its 2014 list
titled "The Beatles' 50 Biggest Billboard Hits", Billboard places the double A-side single in sixth
place, immediately after "Let It Be" and ahead of "Hello, Goodbye".[113][nb 4]
Retrospective assessments and legacy

Along with "Here Comes the Sun", the song established Harrison as a Harrison and Apple
composer to match Lennon and McCartney.[115][116] Writing in his book publicist Derek Taylor
Revolution in the Head, author and critic Ian MacDonald described had a standing joke.
"Something" as "the acme of Harrison's achievement as a writer". Whenever either of
MacDonald highlighted the song's "key-structure of classical grace and them had an idea,
panoramic effect", and cited the lyrics to verse two as "its author's they would quip "This
finest lines – at once deeper and more elegant than almost anything his could be the big one."
colleagues ever wrote".[9] "Something", written
in mid-1968 on a
Like Lennon, both McCartney and Starr held the song in high regard. piano in Abbey Road
[117][118] In the 2000 book The Beatles Anthology, Starr paired
during a break from
"Something" with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as "Two of the work on The Beatles,
finest love songs ever written", adding, "they're really on a par with really did become the
what John and Paul or anyone else of that time wrote"; McCartney said big one for
it was "George's greatest track – with 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'While Harrison. [114]
My Guitar Gently Weeps'".[54] Among Harrison's other peers, Paul
Simon described "Something" as a "masterpiece" and Elton John said:
"'Something' is probably one of the best love songs ever, ever, ever – Author Ian
written ... It's better than 'Yesterday,' much better ... It's like the song MacDonald
I've been chasing for the last thirty-five years."[119]
In a 2002 article for The Morning News, Kenneth Womack included Harrison's guitar solo on the
track among his "Ten Great Beatles Moments".[120] Describing the instrumental break as "the
song's greatest lyrical feature – even more lyrical, interestingly enough, than the lyrics themselves",
Womack concluded: "A masterpiece in simplicity, Harrison's solo reaches toward the sublime,
wrestles with it in a bouquet of downward syncopation, and hoists it yet again in a moment of
supreme grace."[121][122] Guitar World included the performance as the magazine's featured solo in
June 2011.[123] Later that year, "Something" was one of the two "key tracks" highlighted by Rolling
Stone when the magazine placed Harrison at number 11 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists".
[124][nb 5]
In July 1970, "Something" received the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically"
of 1969.[127] In 2005, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) named it as the 64th-greatest
song ever. According to the BBC, the song "shows more clearly than any other song in The Beatles'
canon that there were three great songwriters in the band rather than just two".[6] The Beatles'
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official website states that "Something" "underlined the ascendance of George Harrison as a major
songwriting force".[128]
"Something" became the second most covered Beatles song after "Yesterday".[58][129][130] In 1999,
Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) named it as the 17th-most performed song of the twentieth
century,[131] with 5 million performances.[132] In 2000, Mojo ranked "Something" at number 14 in
the magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time".[59] It was ranked 273rd on Rolling
Stone 's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time",[133] 278th on the magazine's revised list
in 2010,[134] and 110th in 2021.[135] In 2006, Mojo placed it 7th in the list of "The 101 Greatest
Beatles Songs",[136] while four years later, the track appeared at number 6 on a similar list
compiled by Rolling Stone.[59][129] In 2019, the staff of Entertainment Weekly ranked "Something"
at number 5 in their list of the Beatles' best songs.[137]
Cover versions
Shirley Bassey
Among the song's many cover versions, Welsh singer Shirley "Something"
Bassey recorded a successful version of "Something".[138] It
was released in 1970 as the title track to her album of the same
name.[139] Also issued as a single, it became Bassey's first top-
ten hit in the UK since "I (Who Have Nothing)" in 1963,
peaking at number 4 and spending 22 weeks on the chart.[140]
The single also reached the top twenty in other European
countries[141] and peaked at number 6 on Billboard 's Easy
Listening (later Adult Contemporary) chart.[142]
Bassey said she had been unaware of the song's origins when
recording "Something".[139] She later suggested that she and
Harrison could become a singer-and-songwriter pairing on the A-side label of the UK single
scale of Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach.[10] After reading
Single by Shirley Bassey
these comments in 1970,[143] Harrison wrote "When Every
Song Is Sung" with Bassey in mind, although she never from the album Something
recorded the composition.[144] B-side "Easy to Be Hard"
Released June 1970
Frank Sinatra Genre Pop, easy listening
Length 3:35
Frank Sinatra was particularly impressed with "Something",
calling it "the greatest love song of the past 50 years",[6][145] Label United Artists
despite having long disapproved of the Beatles.[4] According to Songwriter(s) George Harrison
Du Noyer, he "especially admired the way the lyric evokes a Producer(s) Johnny Harris, Tony
girl who isn't even present".[10] Aside from performing Colton
"Something" numerous times in concert,[146] Sinatra recorded
the song for a single in October 1970[147] and then for his 1980 triple album Trilogy: Past Present
Future.[148]
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During his live performances, Sinatra was known to mistakenly introduce "Something" as a
Lennon–McCartney composition.[146] By 1978, he had begun correctly crediting Harrison as its
author.[149][nb 6] Harrison went on to adopt Sinatra's minor lyrical change (in the song's middle
eight, singing "You stick around, Jack ...") in his live performances over 1991–92.[151] In The
Beatles Anthology, Harrison says he viewed Sinatra as being part of "the generation before me"
and so only later came to appreciate the American singer's adoption of the song.[54]
Other artists
Harrison's composition began accumulating cover versions almost

immediately after the release of Abbey Road, starting with Joe
Cocker's recording.[138] The song became a standard and was readily
adapted by artists in a wide range of styles, including easy-listening
and instrumental jazz.[1] In Nicholas Schaffner's description, the
many interpretations made the song ubiquitous "from the Borscht
Belt to the dentist's waiting room".[152]
Lena Horne recorded "Something" in the jazz style for her 1970 album
with guitarist Gabor Szabo, titled Lena & Gabor.[153] An instrumental
version by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, from their Abbey Road tribute
album McLemore Avenue,[154] peaked at number 76 on the Billboard
Hot 100 in August 1970.[155] The R&B groups the O'Jays[1] and
James Brown's recording Smokey Robinson and the Miracles also covered it, as did easy-
was Harrison's favourite listening stars such as Bert Kaempfert and Liberace.[138] Fulfilling
cover version of Harrison's hopes, Ray Charles issued a version on his 1971 album
"Something". Volcanic Action of My Soul.[129]
Referring to the song's adoption by easy-listening artists, Harrison

later said: "When even Liberace covered it [in 1970], you know that it's one of them that ends up in
an elevator ..."[10][156] Harrison attributed its popularity among other artists to the easily mastered,
five-note melody. Du Noyer partly refutes this explanation, saying that it was equally a vehicle for
"the most advanced vocalists" such as Peggy Lee, along with Sinatra and Bassey.[10]
"Something" was one of the very few Beatles songs that Elvis Presley
chose to play;[157] Lewisohn highlights his interpretation among the At the time I wasn't
"dozens of high-profile covers".[4] Presley performed it on his 1973 particularly thrilled
Aloha from Hawaii TV special, the recording from which appeared on that Frank Sinatra did
the accompanying bestselling album.[158] A version from Presley's "Something" … I was
August 1970 Las Vegas concert season subsequently appeared on the more interested when
box sets Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters Smokey Robinson did
it and when James
(1995)[159] and Live in Las Vegas (2001).[160] In 1974, a recording by
Brown did it. But I'm
Johnny Rodriguez reached number 6 on Billboard 's Hot Country
very pleased now,
Singles chart[161] and number 85 on the Hot 100.[162] In Canada,
whoever's done it. I
Rodriguez's single peaked at number 11 on the RPM country chart.[163]
realise that the sign of
a good song is when it
By 1972, over 150 artists had recorded "Something".[164][165] In his
has lots of cover
1996 Harrison biography The Quiet One, Alan Clayson said the song
versions.[54]
had attracted "nearly 200 cover versions".[138] In 1972, Harrison told
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music journalist Mike Hennessey that the Robinson and Cocker

versions were among his favourites.[164] In later interviews, he said that – George Harrison,
the best cover version was a recording by James Brown,[156][166] in 2000
which the singer declares "I got to believe in something!" over the main
riff.[138] Harrison commented that the recording was relatively obscure
in Brown's catalogue: "It was one of his B-sides. I have it on my jukebox at home. It's absolutely
brilliant."[167]
Harrison tributes
Bruce Springsteen opened his first show after Harrison's death on 29 November 2001 by playing
"Something", followed by a rendition of Harrison's solo hit "My Sweet Lord".[168] Elton John gave a
solo performance of the song at New York's Carnegie Hall in April 2002, as part of a one-hour
Harrison tribute during the eleventh annual Rainforest Foundation concert.[169]
In honour of Harrison's fondness for the instrument, Paul McCartney played a ukulele rendition of
"Something" throughout his 2002–03 world tour[170] and included the track on his Back in the
U.S. live album.[171] At the Concert for George, held at London's Royal Albert Hall on 29 November
2002,[172] he and Eric Clapton performed a version that began with McCartney alone on ukulele,
then reverted to the familiar rock arrangement with Clapton taking over as lead singer and backing
from Starr, Preston and others.[173] Following its appearance in David Leland's film Concert for
George (2003) and on the accompanying live album, this performance of "Something" was
nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.[174]
Bob Dylan also played the song live during his November 2002 concerts, as a tribute to Harrison.
[175][176] McCartney continued to perform "Something", adopting the Concert for George mix of
ukulele and rock backing.[177] A version with this musical arrangement was included on his 2009
album Good Evening New York City.[178]
Live performances by Harrison

Harrison played "Something" at the two Concert for Bangladesh shows, held at Madison Square
Garden in New York on 1 August 1971.[179] His first live performance as a solo artist, he was backed
by a large band that included Starr, Preston, Clapton and Leon Russell.[180][181] The version used
on the live album and in the 1972 concert film was taken from the evening show that day, when
Harrison played it as the final song before returning to perform "Bangla Desh" as an encore.[182]
Harrison included "Something" in all of his subsequent, and rare, full-length concert
appearances.[183] For his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar, he had been reluctant to
feature any material from the Beatles' catalogue,[184] but at the urging of Shankar and Preston
during rehearsals, he added "Something" to the setlist.[185] To the disappointment of many fans, he
chose to alter some of the song's lyrics (such as changing the first line to "If there's something in
the way, remove it").[186] Further distancing himself from the Beatles' legacy, Harrison told
journalists at the start of the tour that he would join a group with Lennon "any day" but rejected
the idea of working again with McCartney, since he preferred Willie Weeks as a bassist.[187]
MacDonald comments that this statement was likely in reference to McCartney's "too fussily
extemporised" bass part on the Beatles' 1969 recording.[9] With Boyd having left Harrison for
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Clapton earlier in 1974,[188] Larry Sloman of Rolling Stone described the reworked "Something" as
"a moving diary of his love life".[189]
A version from Harrison's December 1991 tour of Japan with Clapton – Harrison's only other tour
as a solo artist[190] – appears on the Live in Japan double album (1992).[191] Inglis writes of the
track having "extra poignancy" by this time, "in that the woman for whom it was written had been
married to, and divorced from, Harrison and Clapton in turn".[192] Inglis adds: "It is not a new
interpretation of the song, but it does suggest a new perspective, in which words and music are
used by two close friends to reflect on the lives they have led."[193]
Personnel
According to Walter Everett[51] and Bruce Spizer:[194]
The Beatles
▪ George Harrison – lead vocal, lead guitar, rhythm guitar

▪ John Lennon – piano
▪ Paul McCartney – bass guitar, backing vocal
▪ Ringo Starr – drums
Additional musicians
▪ Billy Preston – Hammond organ

▪ George Martin – string arrangement
Charts and certifications
Beatles version Certifications (Beatles version)
Certified
Region Certification
units/sales
United Kingdom
Silver 200,000
(BPI)[211]
United States
2× Platinum 2,000,000^
(RIAA)[112]
^Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Sales+streaming figures based on certification
alone.
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Peak
Chart (1969–1970)
position
Australian Go-Set National Top 40

1
Singles[195]
Austrian Singles Chart[196] 11
Canadian RPM 100 Singles[197] 1
Irish Singles Chart[198] 3
New Zealand Listener Chart[79] 1
Norwegian VG-lista Singles[199] 2
Swedish Kvällstoppen Chart[200] 5
UK Singles Chart[105] 4
US Billboard Hot 100[201] 1
US Billboard Easy Listening[202] 17
US Cash Box Top 100[201] 2
West German Musikmarkt Hit-Parade[203] 1
Peak
Chart (2015)
position
Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)[204] 11
Peak
Chart (2019)
position
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs

12
(Billboard)[205]
Shirley Bassey version
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Peak
Chart (1970–71)
position
Australian Go-Set National Top 60

47
Singles[206]
Austrian Singles Chart[207] 19
Belgian Ultratop Singles Chart[208] 11
Dutch MegaChart Singles[141] 10
French SNEP Singles Chart[209] 34
Irish Singles Chart[210] 13
UK Singles Chart[140] 4
US Billboard Hot 100[142] 55
US Billboard Easy Listening[142] 6
West German Media Control Singles

40
Chart[141]
Notes
1. The Anthology 3 track omits a piano overdub that was present on the acetate from Harrison's
birthday session.[49][50]
2. Lennon later reprised the piano chords from the discarded coda in his 1970 song "Remember".
[63][64] Music critic Richie Unterberger describes this coda as "unclassifiably strange" and at
odds, in melody, mood and time signature, with Harrison's composition.[62] The version of
"Something" with the piano-led jam was one of several tracks considered but passed over for
inclusion on the three Anthology albums.[65]
3. Allan Steckler, Klein's colleague, dismissed another claim made by Beatles biographers, that
Klein was merely attempting to win Harrison's support. Steckler said: "Klein believed in
George's talent and wanted to enhance his reputation as a songwriter."[75]
4. Additionally, "Something" is placed again at number 30, representing the song's performance
before the November 1969 Hot 100 rule change.[113]
5. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters named their 1995 song "Oh, George" after Harrison[125] and
based his guitar solo on Harrison's playing on "Something".[126]
6. Harrison recalled that when he appeared with Michael Jackson on a BBC radio show, in
1979,[150] the show's host referred to "Something" and Jackson said, surprised: 'Oh, you wrote
that? I thought it was a Lennon–McCartney."[10]
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▪ Aspden, Peter (23 September 2019). "Something – Sinatra called it 'the greatest love song of
the past 50 years' " (https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/something.html). ft.com. Retrieved
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External links
▪ Full lyrics for the song at the Beatles' official website (https://www.thebeatles.com/something)
▪ "Something" singles at Discogs (http://www.discogs.com/Beatles-Something/master/54558)
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What inspired George Harrison to write this song?

What inspired George Harrison to write this song?

How was the song received commercially and critically?

How was the song received commercially and critically?

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Rodriguez. In 1999, Broadcast Music Incorporated named

Background and inspiration

Pre-Abbey Road recording history

The Beatles' Get Back/Let It Be rehearsals

Harrison introduced "Something" at a Beatles session on 19 September 1968, when he played it to

Harrison solo demo

Joe Cocker demo

Recording and production

work – and so simple."[58] side, I was trying to

Selection for single release

The promotional film for "Something" was shot in late October

According to Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner, "Something" showed Harrison following

Retrospective assessments and legacy

Harrison's composition began accumulating cover versions almost

Referring to the song's adoption by easy-listening artists, Harrison

music journalist Mike Hennessey that the Robinson and Cocker

Live performances by Harrison

▪ George Harrison – lead vocal, lead guitar, rhythm guitar

▪ Billy Preston – Hammond organ

Charts and certifications

Beatles version Certifications (Beatles version)

^Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Australian Go-Set National Top 40

Austrian Singles Chart[196] 11

Canadian RPM 100 Singles[197] 1

Irish Singles Chart[198] 3

New Zealand Listener Chart[79] 1

Norwegian VG-lista Singles[199] 2

Swedish Kvällstoppen Chart[200] 5

US Billboard Hot 100[201] 1

US Billboard Easy Listening[202] 17

US Cash Box Top 100[201] 2

West German Musikmarkt Hit-Parade[203] 1

Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)[204] 11

US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs

Shirley Bassey version

Australian Go-Set National Top 60

Austrian Singles Chart[207] 19

Belgian Ultratop Singles Chart[208] 11

Dutch MegaChart Singles[141] 10

French SNEP Singles Chart[209] 34

Irish Singles Chart[210] 13

US Billboard Hot 100[142] 55

US Billboard Easy Listening[142] 6

West German Media Control Singles

Retrieved 18 February 2015. 10. Du Noyer, Paul (January 2002). "George

▪ The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology (https://archive.org/details/beatlesanthology0000un

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