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“Something“ is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison, the band’s lead guitarist, and is widely viewed by music historians as having marked his ascendancy as a composer to the level of the Beatles’ principal songwriters, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. 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 Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and West Germany, and peaked at number 4 in the UK.
“Something“ is described as a love song to Pattie Boyd, Harrison’s first wife, although Harrison offered alternative sources of inspiration in later interviews. Due to the difficulty he faced in getting more than two of his compositions onto each Beatles album, Harrison first offered the song to Joe Cocker. As recorded by the Beatles, the track features a guitar solo that several music critics identify among Harrison’s finest playing. The song also drew praise from the other Beatles and their producer, George Martin, with Lennon stating that it was the best song on Abbey Road.[2] The promotional film for the single combined footage of each of the Beatles with his respective wife, reflecting the estrangement in the band during the months preceding their break-up in April 1970. Harrison subsequently performed the song at his Concert for Bangladesh shows in 1971 and throughout the two tours he made as a solo artist.
“Something“ received the Ivor Novello Award for the “Best Song Musically and Lyrically“ of 1969. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles composition after “Yesterday“. Shirley Bassey had a top-five UK hit with her 1970 recording, while Frank Sinatra regularly performed the song. Other artists who have covered it include Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, James Brown, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Smokey Robinson and Ike & Tina Turner. In 1999, Broadcast Music Incorporated named “Something“ as the 17th-most performed song of the twentieth century, with 5 million performances. In 2004, it was ranked at number 278 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time“, while two years later, Mojo placed it at number 7 in the magazine’s list of the Beatles’ best songs. In 2002, a year after Harrison’s death, McCartney and Eric Clapton performed it at the Concert for George tribute at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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