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"Deep Blue" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the B-side to his 1971 charity single "Bangla Desh". Harrison wrote the song in 1970, midway through the recording sessions for ''All Things Must Pass'', and recorded it in Los Angeles the following year while organising the Concert for Bangladesh. The composition was inspired by the deteriorating condition of his mother, Louise, before she succumbed to cancer in July 1970, and by Harrison's feelings of helplessness as he visited her in hospital in the north of England. Given the subject matter of his lyrics, "Deep Blue" also served to convey the suffering endured by the millions of refugees from war-torn Bangladesh in 1971, as sickness and disease became widespread among their makeshift camps in northern India. Following Harrison's work with American guitarist David Bromberg, "Deep Blue" features sparse instrumentation in the folk-blues style. It includes one of Harrison's first uses of dobro on a recording. The song proved popular on US radio and was listed with the A-side when "Bangla Desh" peaked at number 23 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. Well regarded by music critics and commentators, "Deep Blue" was unavailable officially for 35 years after this non-album single, during which it gained a reputation as an overlooked B-side. The re-release came in September 2006, when EMI included the song as a bonus track on the reissue of Harrison's ''Living in the Material World'' album. ==Background== George Harrison's inspiration for writing "Deep Blue" was the fatal illness of his mother, Louise.〔 The youngest of her four children,〔Tillery, p. 7.〕 Harrison often credited his mother with encouraging his music career from a young age, and a sense of individuality generally.〔Olivia Harrison, p. 49.〕〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', pp. 21, 23.〕 Although a practising Catholic,〔Clayson, p. 20.〕〔Allison, p. 17.〕 she instilled in all her children the importance of spirituality over religion, a trait that was influential in Harrison's embracing of Hinduism in 1966.〔Doggett, p. 22.〕 Louise was also diligent in replying to her son's fan mail〔Greene, pp. 41, 155.〕〔Clayson, p. 177.〕 and, in the words of music journalist John Harris, she "stood alone among the Beatle parents as an active champion of their talents".〔Harris, p. 72.〕 Harrison discussed the song at length in a 1987 interview for ''Musician'' magazine, during which he recalls that his mother developed a brain tumour late in 1969 but then recovered for seven months.〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 40.〕 After hearing of the initial diagnosis in September 1969, Harrison cancelled a recording session with Apple Records artist Jackie Lomax to see her;〔O'Dell, pp. 90, 96–97.〕 author Peter Doggett comments that, because of the severity of this news, Harrison would later have no recollection of how he heard of John Lennon's decision to leave the Beatles, on 20 September.〔Doggett, pp. 101, 103.〕 Although Louise's cancer had gone into remission,〔Tillery, p. 87.〕 it returned in the spring of 1970.〔Greene, pp. 156, 178.〕 Exhausted from nursing her, Harrison's father, Harry, was then also hospitalised.〔Greene, p. 178.〕 As a result, their youngest son was "running back and forth" between Warrington and London while trying to record his first post-Beatles solo album, ''All Things Must Pass''.〔〔Clayson, p. 289.〕 Adding to the strain, Harrison would also tell ''Musician'', he was having to assure each of his parents that the other one was okay.〔Clayson, p. 319.〕〔 On 4 July, the day that his song "Something" won an Ivor Novello award,〔Tillery, p. 161.〕 Harrison put his solo album on hold and drove north to see Louise for the last time.〔〔Badman, p. 12.〕 In his ''Musician'' interview, Harrison says that he wrote "Deep Blue" "at home one exhausted morning" during this period.〔 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「Deep Blue (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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