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"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 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''. In his autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison says that he believes the song is the only one he ever wrote in open A tuning.〔 The lyrics are directed to Premavatar Paramahansa Yogananda, author of ''Autobiography of a Yogi'', who Harrison called "a great influence on my life".〔 While in India in 1966,〔Gary Tillery, ''Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison'', Quest Books (Wheaton, IL, 2011; ISBN 978-0-8356-0900-5), p. 56.〕 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".〔Peter Doggett, ''You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup'', It Books (New York, NY, 2011; ISBN 978-0-06-177418-8), p. 22.〕 Apart from American musician Richard Tee on organ, Harrison played all the instruments on the recording: acoustic guitars, synthesizers and percussion (hi-hats).〔Chip Madinger & Mark Easter, ''Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium'', 44.1 Productions (Chesterfield, MO, 2000; ISBN 0-615-11724-4), p. 454.〕 As with the song "See Yourself", Harrison dedicated "Dear One" to Yogananda on the credits to the ''Thirty Three & 1/3'' album.〔Ian Inglis, ''The Words and Music of George Harrison'', Praeger (Santa Barbara, CA, 2010; ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3), pp. 60, 62.〕 In his ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', 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."〔("Harrison, George – Thirty-Three & 1/3: Encyclopedia of Popular Music" ), oxfordindex.oup.com (retrieved 8 March 2015).〕 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「Dear One」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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