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"Can't Stop Thinking About You" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1975 on his final album for Apple Records, ''Extra Texture (Read All About It)''. A love song in the style of a soul/R&B ballad, it was written by Harrison in December 1973, towards the end of his marriage to Pattie Boyd and while he was having an affair with Maureen Starkey, the wife of his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. Having first considered the song for his 1974 release ''Dark Horse'', Harrison recorded "Can't Stop Thinking About You" in Los Angeles in May 1975 for his so-called "soul album", ''Extra Texture''. Some authors view its inclusion on the latter release as an obvious attempt by Harrison to commercialise the album, in response to the harsh critical reception afforded ''Dark Horse'' and his 1974 North American tour. The backing musicians on the recording include Nicky Hopkins, Jesse Ed Davis and David Foster, the last of whom also contributed a string arrangement. On release, "Can't Stop Thinking About You" was considered by some music critics to be a highlight of its parent album. In spite of the song's commercial qualities, it was passed over for release as the second single from ''Extra Texture'' in favour of "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)". Among opinions in the 21st century, commentators have tended to dismiss the composition as repetitious and inconsequential, with author Simon Leng describing it as "pop-soul fluff".〔 ==Background and composition== Although he omits any discussion of the song from his autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'' (1980),〔Harrison, pp. 383–86.〕 George Harrison told interviewers in September 1975 that he wrote "Can't Stop Thinking About You" over Christmas 1973.〔Madinger & Easter, p. 452.〕〔George Harrison interview, ''Rockweek'', (retrieved 5 June 2014).〕 This period coincided with the end of Harrison's relationship with his first wife, Pattie Boyd,〔〔Tillery, pp. 94, 116.〕 who has described their home, Friar Park, as a "madhouse" during their final year together.〔Boyd, p. 175.〕〔Pattie Boyd, ("Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' – Part Two" ), ''Daily Mail'', 4 August 2007 (retrieved 22 April 2013).〕 In her 2009 memoir, music-industry insider Chris O'Dell recalls spending the 1973 Christmas holiday with the couple and learning that Harrison was having an affair with Maureen Starkey, the wife of his fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr.〔O'Dell, pp. 256–58.〕〔David Gardner, ("'I Was the Ultimate Rock Chick!' She had affairs with Jagger, Dylan and Ringo and faced death with John and Yoko" ), ''Daily Mail'' online, 31 October 2009 (retrieved 22 April 2013).〕 On the night of 23 December, with both wives and O'Dell present,〔O'Dell, pp. 262–63.〕 Harrison duly announced to Starr that he was in love with Maureen.〔Tillery, pp. 93–94.〕〔Boyd, p. 177.〕 Author Simon Leng pairs the song with "Simply Shady", as being a musical document of Harrison's "many nights spent nursing a bottle of brandy" while his marriage collapsed.〔Leng, p. 165.〕 Harrison himself termed the 1973–74 period his "naughty" years,〔Mick Brown, "An Interview with George Harrison", ''Rolling Stone'', 19 April 1979; available at (Rock's Backpages ) (''subscription required''; retrieved 22 April 2013).〕〔Harrison, pp. 274, 282.〕 signifying bouts of rock-star excess and deviation from his Hindu-aligned spiritual path.〔Allison, p. 7.〕〔Tillery, p. 116.〕 A Christian theologian, Dale Allison, views "Can't Stop Thinking About You" as a "typical, mid-seventies pop love song" and finds that it "contains no theology" – unlike many of Harrison's love songs, which appear to be directed at both a woman and a deity.〔Allison, pp. 12, 127, 138.〕 The lyrics consist mainly of the song title repeated at length,〔Inglis, p. 53.〕 with the words "''It's no good living without you''" providing the chorus's third line.〔Song lyrics, booklet with ''Extra Texture (Read All About It)'' CD (Apple Records, 2014; produced by George Harrison), p. 14.〕 The two verses are equally "simplistic", Harrison biographer Alan Clayson writes,〔Clayson, p. 349.〕 as Harrison first states that, with the arrival of night-time, "''Daylight has left me … / I can't take it if I don't see you no more''", before altering the temporal context in verse two to morning, when "''The daylight gets to me ...''"〔 Author Ian Inglis concludes of the song-wide message in "Can't Stop Thinking About You": "Day or night, Harrison's thoughts never stray from the lover who has left him ..."〔 Musically, the composition is in the "soul-pop" style, Leng writes,〔Leng, pp. 184, 186.〕 reflecting Harrison's return to the soul music genre over 1974–76, after his earlier projects with Apple Records signings Doris Troy, Billy Preston and Ronnie Spector.〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 192.〕 Author Robert Rodriguez similarly describes it as "an R&B-style weeper".〔Rodriguez, p. 184.〕 When discussing the song with Paul Gambaccini on BBC Radio 1, in September 1975,〔Badman, pp. 164, 165.〕 Harrison remarked on the "melodramatic" melody over the verses (or "middle bits"), likening it to the extravagant musical styles of Al Jolson and Mario Lanza.〔 Even though the Harrison–Maureen Starkey liaison had become common knowledge by late 1974〔Schaffner, p. 176.〕 – when Harrison released his album ''Dark Horse'' and mounted a North American tour with Ravi Shankar〔Woffinden, pp. 83–84.〕 – some critics later interpreted the song as being directed at Boyd,〔Huntley, p. 126.〕 who had left him for his friend Eric Clapton in July that same year.〔Tillery, p. 94.〕 Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley suggests that, by the time Harrison recorded "Can't Stop Thinking About You" in 1975, for ''Extra Texture (Read All About It)'', the subject is more likely to have been Olivia Arias.〔 The latter was working as a secretary for Harrison's Dark Horse record label in Los Angeles when they first met,〔Greene, pp. 220–21.〕 in October 1974,〔Harrison, p. 1.〕 after which she became his constant companion and, later, his wife.〔Rodriguez, p. 424.〕 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「Can't Stop Thinking About You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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