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"Beautiful Girl" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1976 album ''Thirty Three & 1/3''. Harrison began writing the song in 1969 and considered recording it for his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. In its finished, 1976 form, the lyrics of "Beautiful Girl" were inspired by Harrison's second wife, Olivia Arias. The recording features musical contributions from Billy Preston, Gary Wright and Willie Weeks. Some music critics have noted aspects of the Beatles' mid-'60s sound in "Beautiful Girl"; like much of ''Thirty Three & 1/3'', the song is highly regarded for its melodic qualities. Author Nicholas Schaffner described the track as "a great lost ''Rubber Soul'' classic".〔Schaffner, p. 192.〕 ==Background and composition== In his 1980 autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison states that he began writing "Beautiful Girl" during sessions for singer Doris Troy's eponymous solo album on Apple Records,〔Harrison, p. 190.〕 recording for which commenced in October 1969.〔Spizer, p. 340.〕 Harrison co-produced the album with Troy, and one of the musicians who contributed to the sessions was Stephen Stills,〔("Doris Troy" ), Apple Records (retrieved 2 February 2013).〕 whose "very good" 12-string acoustic guitar Harrison borrowed one evening, during which he came up with the tune to "Beautiful Girl".〔 Harrison's inspiration for the song's lyrics was his wife, Pattie Boyd,〔Clayson, p. 271.〕 but he was unable to write more than a single verse, which begins:〔Harrison, pp. 190, 193.〕 After trying out the song at the start of production for ''All Things Must Pass'' in May 1970,〔Lindsay Planer, ("George Harrison 'Beautiful Girl'" ), AllMusic (retrieved 3 February 2013).〕 a month after the Beatles' break-up,〔Spizer, p. 220.〕 "Beautiful Girl" "sank back into the distance", according to Harrison.〔 He returned to the composition in 1976,〔Madinger & Easter, p. 454.〕 by which time he had split with Boyd and was living with Olivia Trinidad Arias, his future wife.〔Huntley, pp. 49–50, 120.〕〔Jackson, p. 149.〕 Harrison met Arias in October 1974,〔Olivia Harrison, "Introduction", in Harrison, p. 1.〕 at a party in Los Angeles, shortly after Boyd had left him for his friend Eric Clapton.〔Clayson, pp. 329, 363.〕 Harrison had spoken to her frequently throughout that year, however,〔Rodriguez, p. 424.〕〔Tillery, p. 115.〕 since Arias was working as a secretary for A&M Records, and by extension, for his recently launched Dark Horse record label.〔〔Greene, pp. 220–21.〕 Intrigued by their daily phone calls, Harrison asked a friend who was visiting A&M's offices to try to obtain a photo of her.〔 Their eventual meeting constituted "the much-fabled 'love at first sight'", according to Beatles author Robert Rodriguez, and the couple "became inseparable".〔 As well as accompanying Harrison throughout his ensuing North American tour with Ravi Shankar,〔Tillery, pp. 115–16.〕 Arias's "dusky Mexican features", in the words of Nicholas Schaffner, "grace() the label" of his ''Dark Horse'' album, released in December 1974.〔Schaffner, p. 176.〕 Like Harrison, Arias was dedicated to a spiritual path aligned with Hinduism, meditation and yoga,〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 133.〕〔Huntley, p. 120.〕 and her presence helped him overcome the fallout following that controversial tour,〔Greene, p. 221.〕 particularly his continued alcoholism that led to a near-fatal bout of hepatitis in mid 1976.〔Clayson, pp. 359, 363.〕〔Tillery, p. 117.〕 In ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison acknowledges that when finishing the lyrics to "Beautiful Girl", he "related it then to Olivia".〔 Author Ian Inglis recognises some of the lines in the newly written second verse as both a "fitting description of the freedom and relaxation that had replaced the tension and constraints of his previous life", and an obvious example of Harrison's gratitude to Arias:〔Inglis, p. 61.〕 Harrison's musical biographer, Simon Leng, views the structure of the song as typical of its composer's style, where, as in "Isn't It a Pity", "Beware of Darkness" and "Give Me Love", the chorus and verse are one and the same.〔Leng, pp. 192–93.〕 "On 'Beautiful Girl'," Leng writes, "the main musical hook comes with the first line of the piece, and all the musical themes head back inexorably to that resolution."〔Leng, p. 193.〕 These themes include the "attractive, rising" bridge sections that lead to a "clever descending series of guitar runs" returning to the verse-chorus.〔 Speaking to ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in early 1979, by which time he and Arias were married and the parents of a newborn son, Dhani,〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 46.〕 Harrison further acknowledged Arias' positive influence on his life when discussing the despondency behind his ''Dark Horse'' song "Simply Shady": "I wasn't ready to join Alcoholics Anonymous or anything – I don't think I was that far gone – but I could put back a bottle of brandy occasionally, plus all the other naughty things that fly around. I just went on a binge ... Then I met Olivia and it all worked out fine."〔Mick Brown, "An Interview with George Harrison", ''Rolling Stone'', 19 April 1979; available at (Rock's Backpages ) (subscription required; retrieved 3 February 2013).〕 Other Harrison love songs dedicated to Arias include "Dark Sweet Lady"〔Leng, pp. 206–07.〕 and "Your Love Is Forever",〔Lindsay Planer, ("George Harrison 'Your Love Is Forever'" ), AllMusic (retrieved 3 February 2013).〕 both released on the 1979 album ''George Harrison''.〔Madinger & Easter, p. 458.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beautiful Girl (George Harrison song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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