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"Blue Jay Way" is a song written by George Harrison and recorded by the Beatles. It was released in 1967 on the band's ''Magical Mystery Tour'' album and EP. The song is named after a street in the Hollywood Hills where Harrison stayed in August 1967, and the lyrics document his waiting for friends to find their way there through fog-ridden Los Angeles. As with several of Harrison's compositions from this period, "Blue Jay Way" incorporates aspects of Indian classical music, although the Beatles used only Western instrumentation on the track. Recorded during the group's psychedelic period, it features extensive use of studio techniques such as flanging, Leslie rotary effect, and reversed tape sounds. The song also appeared in the Beatles' 1967 television film ''Magical Mystery Tour'', in a sequence that re-creates the sense of haziness and dislocation evident in the recording. The music website Consequence of Sound describes "Blue Jay Way" as "a haunted house of a hit, adding an ethereal, creepy mythos to the City of Angels".〔 Other artists who have recorded the song include Bud Shank, Colin Newman, Tracy Bonham, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Greg Hawkes. ==Background and inspiration== George Harrison wrote "Blue Jay Way" after arriving in Los Angeles on 1 August 1967 with his wife Pattie Boyd and Beatles associates Neil Aspinall and Alex Mardas. The purpose of the trip was to spend a week with Derek Taylor, the Beatles' former press officer and latterly the publicist for Californian acts such as the Beach Boys and the Byrds. The visit also allowed Harrison to reunite with his sitar tutor, Ravi Shankar, whose upcoming concert at the Hollywood Bowl he helped publicise.〔 Available at (Rock's Backpages ) (subscription required).〕 The title of the song comes from a street named Blue Jay Way, high in the Hollywood Hills West area overlooking Sunset Strip, where Harrison had rented a house for his stay. Jet-lagged after the flight from London, he began writing the composition on a Hammond organ as he and Boyd waited for Taylor and the latter's wife Joan to join them. The home's location, on a hillside of narrow, winding roads, and the foggy conditions that night created the backdrop for the song's opening lines: ''"There's a fog upon L.A. / And my friends have lost their way.''" Harrison had completed the song by the time the Taylors arrived, around two hours later than planned. The Californian holiday proved to be an important one for the future direction of the Beatles. In the wake of the band's highly influential ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' album, Harrison, along with Taylor, Boyd and others, visited the recognised international "hippie capital" of Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco, on 7 August. Harrison had expected to encounter a community engaged in artistic pursuits and working to create a viable alternative lifestyle; instead, he was disappointed to find Haight-Ashbury populated by what he viewed as drug addicts, dropouts and "hypocrites". Following his return to England two days later, Harrison shared his disillusionment with John Lennon, soon after which the two bandmates publicly denounced the hallucinogenic drug LSD in favour of Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 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「Blue Jay Way」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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