Dear One

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This article is about the George Harrison song. For the Larry Finnegan song, see Dear One (Larry Finnegan song).

"Dear One"
Song by George Harrison
from the album Thirty Three & 1/3
Released19 November 1976
GenreRock, pop
Length5:08
LabelDark Horse
Songwriter(s)George Harrison
Producer(s)George Harrison with Tom Scott

"Dear One" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1976 on his album Thirty Three & 1/3. The song was inspired by, and dedicated to, Paramahansa Yogananda, whose 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi was a great influence on Harrison. Aside from keyboard player Richard Tee, Harrison plays all the instruments on the recording.

History

Harrison wrote the lyrics to "Dear One" in 1976 during a vacation to the Virgin Islands, shortly before starting work on Thirty Three & 1/3.[1] In his autobiography,

I, Me, Mine, Harrison says that he believes the song is the only one he ever wrote in open A tuning.[1] The lyrics are directed to Premavatar Paramahansa Yogananda,[2] author of Autobiography of a Yogi, who Harrison called "a great influence on my life".[1] While in India in 1966,[3] Harrison was given a copy of Yogananda's book by Ravi Shankar's brother, after which, author Peter Doggett writes, Harrison "read every Indian spiritual text he could find".[4]

Apart from American musician

hi-hats).[5] As with the song "See Yourself", Harrison dedicated "Dear One" to Yogananda on the credits to the Thirty Three & 1/3 album.[6]

In his

Colin Larkin describes the track as a song that "could have come straight off of The Beatles' Abbey Road". He adds: "'Dear One' weaves a haunting, Indian-influenced melody with a big pop chorus to create an intensely moving song of devotion."[7]

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b c Thirty Three & 1/3 (CD booklet). George Harrison. Dark Horse Records. 2004. p. 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Thirty Three & 1/3 (CD booklet). George Harrison. Dark Horse Records. 2004. p. 9.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ISBN 978-0-8356-0900-5
    ), p. 56.
  4. ISBN 978-0-06-177418-8
    ), p. 22.
  5. ISBN 0-615-11724-4
    ), p. 454.
  6. ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3
    ), pp. 60, 62.
  7. ^ "Harrison, George – Thirty-Three & 1/3: Encyclopedia of Popular Music", oxfordindex.oup.com (retrieved 8 March 2015).


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