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"It's All Too Much" is a song written by George Harrison and released in 1969 on the Beatles' ''Yellow Submarine'' soundtrack album. It was recorded in May 1967, shortly before the release of ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. Harrison wrote the song as a celebration of his experiences with the drug LSD, although he subsequently found the same realisations applicable to Transcendental Meditation and denounced LSD following a visit to Haight-Ashbury in August 1967. The song features Hammond organ, which provides a drone-like quality typical of Indian music, and guitar feedback. Made in the absence of the Beatles' producer, George Martin, the recording displays an informal approach that contrasts with the discipline typically associated with their work. The song's segment in the 1968 ''Yellow Submarine'' animated film has been recognised for its adventurousness in conveying a hallucinogenic experience. Although viewed by the Beatles as a means to satisfy their contractual obligations to the film company United Artists, "It's All Too Much" has received praise from many commentators and music critics. Barry Miles described it as "the most striking piece of psychedelia The Beatles ever recorded",〔 while ''Mojo'' contributor Peter Doggett considers it to be "one of the pinnacles of British acid-rock".〔 Steve Hillage, Journey, the Grateful Dead and the Church are among the other artists who have recorded or performed the song. ==Background and inspiration== "It's All Too Much" reflects George Harrison's experimentation with the hallucinogenic drug Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD or "acid".〔Everett, p. 127.〕 Author Robert Rodriguez describes the track as "gloriously celebratory", with a lyric that conveys "his acid revelations in a childlike way".〔Rodriguez, p. 57.〕 Rather than the song being purely drug-related, Harrison states in his 1980 autobiography that the "realisations" brought about by his LSD experiences were also applicable to meditation.〔Harrison, p. 106.〕 Together with his Beatles bandmate John Lennon and their wives, Harrison first took acid in March 1965.〔Rodriguez, pp. 51–52.〕 He subsequently likened the heightened awareness induced by the drug to, variously, "a light-bulb () on in my head"〔The Beatles 2000, p. 179.〕 and "gaining hundreds of years of experience within twelve hours".〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 145.〕〔Tillery, p. 47.〕 In a 1977 interview with ''Crawdaddy'' magazine, Harrison also credited LSD with being "the key that opened the door" to his interest in Indian classical music, particularly the work of Ravi Shankar, and Eastern spirituality. Harrison wrote "It's All Too Much" during a period when the Indian sitar had replaced the guitar as his favoured musical instrument,〔Leng, pp. 28–32.〕 as he received tuition from Shankar〔Lavezzoli, pp. 180, 184–85.〕 and one of the latter's protégés, Shambu Das.〔Clayson, p. 206.〕 As with his other songs for the Beatles in 1967, however, he composed the melody on a Hammond organ, which allowed him to replicate the drone-like sound of the harmonium commonly used in Indian vocal pieces.〔Leng, pp. 32, 50.〕 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「It's All Too Much」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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