[954] Within You Without You

Guest poem submitted by Arun Simha, <asimha@>:

We were talking - about the space between us all
And the people - who hide themselves behind a
  wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late -
  when they pass away.

We were talking - about the love we all could
  share - when we find it
To try our best to hold it there - with our love
With our love - we could save the world - if
  they only knew.

Try to realise it's all within yourself no-one else
  can make you change
And to see you're really only very small,
  and life flows on within you and without you.

We were talking - about the love that's gone so
  cold and the people,
Who gain the world and lose their soul -
  they don't know - they can't see - are you one
  of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself - then you
  may find, peace of mind is waiting there -
And the time will come when you see
  we're all one, and life flows on within you and
  without you.

	-- George Harrison

[Details]

Rec.: 15th/22nd March, 3rd/4th April 1967
Rel. UK: 1st June 1967 (LP Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Rel. US: 2nd June 1967 (LP Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Track No.: 8
Composer: Harrison
Vocals: George Harrison
Year: 1967

Instruments & additional info.:
Recording commenced in studio two at Abbey Road on March 22 1967.
Album version mixed from take two. Writer: George. Lead vocal:
George. Producer: George Martin. Recording engineer: Geoff Emerick.
Second engineer: Richard Lush.

Harrison: vocal, sitar, acoustic guitar, tambura
Uncredited Indian musicians: dilrubas, svarmandal, tabla, tambura
Erich Gruenberg, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman,
Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothstein, Jack Greene: violins
Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford, Peter Beavan: cellos
Neil Aspinall: tambura

[Commentary]

George Harrison  R.I.P

Tragic, isn't it?

I'm sure most people remember his music and its associated Indian influence
fondly.

Those were the days when musicians looked eastwards for spiritual
inspiration. John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu) and Carlos Santana (Devadip)
became followers of Sri Chinmoy, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant spent a few
months in India and collected a great deal from Indian music for their
incredible Led Zeppelin  albums, and George...

 ...  who can forget 'Norwegian Wood', 'Something', 'Here Comes the Sun',
'Within You Without You' and many other immortal songs that will remain
forever etched in our minds and hearts?

He was the originator of the movement to connect music with humanitarian
aid. In 1971, Ravi Shankar informed him about the great poverty in
Bangladesh, which moved him to hold a concert which raised quite a lot of
money.

Arun.

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