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"I'll Still Love You" is a song written by English musician George Harrison and first released in 1976 by his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. Produced by Arif Mardin, the track appeared on Starr's debut album for Atlantic Records and Polydor, ''Ringo's Rotogravure''. The composition had a long recording history before then, having been written in 1970, as "Whenever", after which it was copyrighted with the title "When Every Song Is Sung". Harrison originally intended the song for Welsh singer Shirley Bassey, who had a hit in the summer of 1970 with a cover version of his Beatles composition "Something". Although Harrison recorded "When Every Song Is Sung" himself during the sessions for ''All Things Must Pass'' that year, it was not included on his album. He went on to produce recordings of the track by former Ronette Ronnie Spector, in February 1971, and Cilla Black, in August 1972, but neither version was completed for release. Mary Hopkin and Leon and Mary Russell also attempted the song during the first half of the 1970s, with Harrison participating in the Russells' recording. A later version by Black – produced by David Mackay and titled "I'll Still Love You (When Every Song Is Sung)" – appeared on her 2003 compilation ''Cilla: The Best of 1963–78''. Together with John Lennon and Paul McCartney's respective contributions, the song's inclusion on ''Rotogravure'' marked the second occasion when Starr's former bandmates had each supplied a song for one of his albums, after ''Ringo'' in 1973. While Starr's rendition is often held in low regard, some commentators consider "When Every Song Is Sung" to be one of Harrison's finest love songs and on a par with "Something". Author Ian Inglis describes the song as "an unfinished masterpiece".〔 ==Background and composition== In late 1969, after George Harrison's song "Something" had been issued on the A-side of a single by the Beatles – the first time that one of his compositions had been given that honour〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 39.〕 – he remarked in an interview: "There's a lot of songs like that in my head. I must get them down. Maybe even other people would like to sing them."〔Mark Lewisohn, "Something Else", in ''Mojo: The Beatles' Final Years Special Edition'', Emap (London, 2003), p. 118.〕 In the summer of 1970, "Something" gave Welsh singer Shirley Bassey her biggest UK hit in nine years,〔("Shirley Bassey" ), Official Charts Company (retrieved 18 July 2015).〕 an achievement that led her to say that she and Harrison could become a singer-and-songwriter pairing on the scale of Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach.〔Harrison, p. 228.〕〔 Although he would later be dismissive of Bassey's version of "Something",〔Paul Du Noyer, ("George's Uncertain Something" ), ''Mojo'', January 2002 (retrieved 18 July 2015).〕〔Mark Ellen, "A Big Hand for the Quiet One", ''Q'', January 1988, p. 59.〕 Harrison wrote what became "When Every Song Is Sung" (and later "I'll Still Love You") as a possible song for her.〔〔Clayson, ''George Harrison'', p. 332.〕 As he had with "Something",〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 176.〕 Harrison composed the melody on a piano, part-way through a recording session〔 – in this case, while working on his first post-Beatles solo album, ''All Things Must Pass'' (1970).〔Allison, p. 147.〕 As reproduced in his 1980 autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison's original lyrics carried the title "WHENEVER (by Shirley Bassey)".〔Harrison, p. 229.〕 He recalls in the book: "I got the chord sequence, and 'When every song is sung' were the first words to come out of my mouth, and it developed from there."〔 Harrison's musical biographer, Simon Leng, considers it to be an "emotionally complex lyric that ponders how love will even survive, 'when every soul is free'".〔Leng, p. 198.〕 Christian theologian Dale Allison interprets the subject matter of the song as moksha, or liberation from rebirth, in the Hindu faith.〔Allison, p. 37.〕 He writes: "'I'll Still Love You (When Every Song Is Sung)' looks forward to the time when all souls are 'free,' when all eyes will 'see,' and when all human beings will be of the same mind. 'All Things Must Pass,' but no one really ever passes away."〔Allison, pp. 37–38.〕 Author Robert Rodriguez describes the musical tone as that of a "moody torch song".〔Rodriguez, p. 168.〕 Leng notes that the verses have the same descending semitone pattern as "Something" and, structurally, it features a middle eight that is "harsher" and "dramatic" compared to the verses, just like the middle eight in Harrison's 1969 composition.〔 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「I'll Still Love You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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