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"Behind That Locked Door" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. Harrison wrote the song in August 1969 as a message of encouragement to Bob Dylan, who was making a highly publicised comeback to the concert stage, accompanied by the Band, with a headlining performance at the Isle of Wight Festival. "Behind That Locked Door" is a rare Harrison composition in the country music genre and the second song dealing with the friendship between himself and Dylan, after their 1968 collaboration "I'd Have You Anytime". Its lyrics address Dylan's elusive nature, and reflect the high regard in which Harrison held the American singer's work. The same reluctance on Dylan's part to re-engage with a concert audience led to him retreating again from live performance until August 1971, when he responded to Harrison's request to play at the Concert for Bangladesh. Harrison recorded "Behind That Locked Door" in London early in the summer of 1970, shortly after taking part in a session for Dylan's ''New Morning'' album in New York. Co-produced by Phil Spector, the recording features a prominent contribution from Nashville pedal steel virtuoso Pete Drake, and twin keyboard parts from Gary Wright and Billy Preston in the tradition of the Band, whose sound influenced Harrison's arrangement. With its understated performance, the track is a comparatively rare departure from the big production commonly associated with ''All Things Must Pass''. On release, Alan Smith of the ''NME'' described the song as "a tremendous piece of country-meets-Hawaii" and recommended that it be sent to country singer Slim Whitman "without further delay".〔 An alternate take of "Behind That Locked Door" appears on the 2012 Harrison compilation ''Early Takes: Volume 1''. Olivia Newton-John, Jim James, the Felice Brothers and Norah Jones are among the artists who have covered the song. ==Background== In mid August 1969, Bob Dylan had confounded the media's expectations by shunning the Woodstock Festival, an event he had helped to inspire.〔Sounes, pp. 248–51.〕〔Heylin, pp. 306–07.〕 Instead, after three years in virtual seclusion with his family, Dylan decided to make his comeback a fortnight after Woodstock, by headlining the Isle of Wight Festival at Wootton, just off the south coast of England.〔Sounes, pp. 250–51.〕〔Clayson, p. 273.〕 Now a popular act in their own right, the Band agreed to back Dylan for the performance,〔Helm, p. 198.〕 just as they had (as the Hawks) on his controversial 1966 world tour.〔Tillery, p. 114.〕 In a repeat of his UK concerts from 1966, leading figures in the English music scene began to gather on the island to show their support for Dylan,〔Wyman, p. 342.〕〔Helm, p. 201.〕 the singer widely considered "the minstrel to a generation".〔Clayson, p. 274.〕 Alone among the many celebrity guests, George Harrison had spent time with Dylan during his period away from the limelight, in Bearsville, near Woodstock.〔Clayson, pp. 242−43.〕〔Leng, pp. 51–52.〕 In between promoting Radha Krishna Temple (London)'s debut single on Apple Records, his own production of "Hare Krishna Mantra",〔Miles, p. 351.〕 Harrison and wife Pattie Boyd stayed with Dylan's family at Forelands Farm, near Bembridge, during the week preceding the festival.〔 The two musicians strengthened the bond they had established in upstate New York〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 179.〕 and were heard performing near-perfect impersonations of the Everly Brothers in the farmhouse.〔Harris, p. 68.〕 In addition to a crowd estimated at 200,000,〔Helm, p. 200.〕 a group of 300 American journalists descended on the Isle of Wight, adding unwelcome pressure on Dylan.〔Sounes, p. 251.〕 In the days leading up to his performance on Sunday, 31 August, the British press dubbed the event "D Day", in reference to the Allies' invasion of German-occupied France in June 1944;〔("The Isle of Wight festivals 1968–1970; Bob Dylan 1969" ), ukrockfestivals.com (retrieved 19 February 2013).〕 in the words of music journalist John Harris, "Dylan's show had by now been inflated into the gig of the decade."〔Harris, p. 72.〕 As a further impediment to Dylan's planned comeback, audiences in 1969 expected to hear the rock music associated with his and the Hawks' 1965–66 tours,〔Helm, p. 199.〕 a style that he had abandoned with his recent country album, ''Nashville Skyline''.〔Heylin, pp. 301–02.〕 This contrast was encouraged by the organisers' promotional campaign for the event,〔Sounes, pp. 251–52.〕 particularly in the design for the official festival posters.〔Heylin, p. 307.〕 Referring to Dylan's more conservative 1969 image, author Clinton Heylin writes: "There was little doubt that this was a different Dylan, even if the graphic on the fluttering posters advertising the festival was a stark black-and-white shot of a beshaded Dylan in classic '66 pose."〔 The arrival of Harrison's fellow Beatles John Lennon and Ringo Starr, on Saturday, 30 August, added to the heightened speculation that one or more members of the band might make a guest appearance with Dylan the following evening.〔Harris, p. 69.〕〔Stephen Stafford, ("Why the Beatles never played the Isle of Wight" ), BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight, 15 June 2010 (retrieved 24 May 2013).〕 Harrison gifted Dylan his vintage Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar before the show〔Olivia Harrison, pp. 202–03.〕 and was then taken aback that Dylan arranged for "Hare Krishna Mantra" to be played over the PA minutes before he and the Band went on stage.〔Clayson, pp. 273–74.〕 Mukunda Goswami, one of the six pioneer devotees who founded the Hare Krishna movement's London temple and played on the recording,〔Dwyer & Cole, pp. 30–31.〕〔Greene, pp. 103, 106, 143–44.〕 has identified this exposure as reflective of how the ancient Maha Mantra "penetrated British society" as a result of the Harrison-produced single.〔Olivia Harrison, p. 236.〕 Harrison watched Dylan's performance from the VIP enclosure,〔O'Dell, p. 87.〕 an experience that informed the lyrics to a new composition, "Behind That Locked Door".〔 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「Behind That Locked Door」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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