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"Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1973 album ''Living in the Material World''. It was scheduled to be issued as a single in September that year, as the follow-up to "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", but the release never took place. Music critics have traditionally viewed "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" as a highlight of the bestselling ''Material World'' album, praising its pop qualities and production, with some considering the song worthy of hit status. Harrison wrote and recorded "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" during a period marked by his heightened devotion to Hindu spirituality, which coincided with marital problems with his first wife, Pattie Boyd, and the financial complications affecting his Bangladesh aid project. An upbeat love song in the tradition of early 1960s Brill Building songwriters, the composition has invited debate among commentators as to whether the lyrics are addressed to a lover such as Boyd or, like the majority of Harrison's lyrics on ''Material World'', to God. Although produced by Harrison alone, the recording employs aspects of the Wall of Sound production synonymous with his former collaborator Phil Spector – through the use of reverb, two drummers and multiple acoustic rhythm guitar parts. Aside from Harrison, the musicians on the track are Gary Wright, Nicky Hopkins, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voormann and Jim Keltner. In November 1976, during filming for their joint appearance on ''Saturday Night Live'', Harrison performed "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" with singer Paul Simon, but the song did not appear in the broadcast. ==Background== As with all the new songs on his ''Living in the Material World'' album (1973), George Harrison wrote "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" in 1971–72,〔Madinger & Easter, p. 439.〕 a period of heightened devotion to Hindu spirituality on his part.〔Leng, p. 124.〕〔Huntley, pp. 87, 89.〕 "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" is a love song,〔Allison, p. 141.〕 and in light of problems in Harrison's marriage to Pattie Boyd at the time, Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley remarks: "it's interesting to speculate as to who it was written about ..."〔Huntley, p. 92.〕 Author Jeff Walker suggests that the song's apparently non-devotional subject matter may have resulted from Harrison and Boyd's marital difficulties.〔 Against Harrison's wishes, Boyd had resumed her modelling career in May 1971,〔Greene, pp. 197–98.〕 having long felt isolated by her husband's association with the Hare Krishna movement.〔Tillery, pp. 90–92.〕 His Concert for Bangladesh aid project had then united the couple, according to their friend Chris O'Dell, who recalls Harrison as "attentive and affectionate" towards Boyd while planning the concerts that summer.〔O'Dell, pp. 193, 195–96, 201.〕 The project's subsequent business and legal issues became a source of frustration for Harrison,〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 43.〕〔Lavezzoli, pp. 193–94.〕 as he spent much of 1972 negotiating with government departments for the release of the funds raised for the refugees.〔Doggett, pp. 180, 192.〕 In February 1972, Harrison and Boyd were injured in an automobile accident in England,〔Badman, pp. 67–68.〕〔Tillery, pp. 118–19.〕 after which, author Alan Clayson writes, "her recovery was impaired by George's pounding on a drum-kit that he'd set up in the next room."〔Clayson, p. 320.〕 In August that year, Harrison set off for a driving holiday around Europe without Boyd,〔Badman, p. 79.〕 a trip that Huntley describes as "the first publicly visible signs" of problems in the Harrisons' marriage.〔Huntley, p. 85.〕 While in Portugal, Harrison stayed with his musician friend Gary Wright, who, Huntley suggests, "play() the diplomat" by telling the press:〔Huntley, pp. 85, 87.〕 "He's writing lots of new things and he seems to be having a good time ... Sometimes he takes Pattie with him, but I feel he just felt like a holiday and wanted to get away."〔 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「Don't Let Me Wait Too Long」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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