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Post by paulhillman on Jun 20, 2016 10:29:12 GMT
Last week I bought a first press copy of Sgt peppers from a charity shop. Tucked deep inside,the sleeve was a handwritten note with the lyrics to 'within you without you'. The track was written by George Harrison. The lyrics are in blue ink with what I believe to be musical instruction written in read ink. Any hand writing experts in this forum. Any advice or feedback welcome. Paul.
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Post by ROCKY on Jun 20, 2016 11:55:13 GMT
Hell paulhillman and Welcome to The Forum. Why, do you think someone famous wrote it?
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Post by paulhillman on Jun 20, 2016 13:31:39 GMT
Hello rocky, good question. Because the song 'within you without you' is a sitar track and the lyrics are accompanied with red ink musical instruction, I can't see many cover bands learning or attempting to play the track. I could be wrong, my gut instinct tells me it is right. At this early stage in not even sure which one of the fab four may of written the note.
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Post by ROCKY on Jun 20, 2016 23:43:15 GMT
From what I found (Wikipedia) George never had it written down, but had it all worked out in his head.
March 15,1967 Abbey Road session:
"The session was also attended by Lennon, artist Peter Blake, and John Barham, an English classical pianist and student of Shankar who shared Harrison's desire to promote Indian music to Western audiences. In Barham's recollection, Harrison "had the entire structure of the song mapped out in his head" and sung the melody that he wanted the dilruba player to follow. The twin hand-drums of the tabla were close-miked by recording engineer Geoff Emerick, in order to capture what he later described as "the texture and the lovely low resonances" of the instrument."
And actually a lot of bands/artists covered the song, Patti Smith being one.
What I'm thinking you have is just a previous owner of the album writing down the song.
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Post by paulhillman on Jun 21, 2016 1:16:26 GMT
The actual recording session represents only a small part, the peak of the song writing process. Although I am grateful for the research you have done, I think that the conclusion you have reached is flawed. I have tried to send a pic of the song on here but it failed. I can email it to you if you like and you post it on the thread. Kind regards, Paul.
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Post by ROCKY on Jun 21, 2016 12:49:12 GMT
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Post by paulhillman on Jun 22, 2016 22:01:51 GMT
Took the album and note to a record/memorabilia dealer, he said the same as you rocky, and yet when I asked him if I should throw it away he said "Hell no". E-mailed a fella in Los Angeles. Waiting for him to get back to me. Probably nothing, I'll keep,you updated rocky.
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Post by ROCKY on Jun 22, 2016 23:48:47 GMT
Interesting. Yeah don't throw it away Paul, it isn't hurting anything by keeping it. Just don't get your hopes too high.
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Post by paulhillman on Jun 23, 2016 0:12:40 GMT
Nothing ventured nothing gained. Nowt wrong with being thorough, its A "no". Ah well kept me out of mischief for an hour or 2. Tongue in cheek with a smile. Jeff gold says no.
Great forum by the way. I'll stick around and have a mooch through the backlog of pages.
Kind regards Paul.
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Post by paulhillman on Jun 23, 2016 0:30:37 GMT
Nothing ventured nothing gained. Nowt wrong with being thorough, its A "no". Ah well kept me out of mischief for an hour or 2. Tongue in cheek with a smile. Jeff gold says no.
Great forum by the way. I'll stick around and have a mooch through the backlog of pages.
Kind regards Paul.
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Post by ROCKY on Jun 23, 2016 15:36:58 GMT
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