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"Long, Long, Long" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 album ''The Beatles'' (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by George Harrison following the group's attendance at a Transcendental Meditation course in India in early 1968. The composition is the first of Harrison's love songs that appear to be directed to both a lover and his deity. Critic Richie Unterberger wrote that "Long, Long, Long" is one of the most underrated songs in the Beatles' large discography.〔 〕 Ian MacDonald also argues that the song is Harrison's "finest moment" on ''The Beatles''. ==Background and inspiration== George Harrison wrote "Long, Long, Long" following the Beatles' stay in Rishikesh, India, in early 1968, where they were studying Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Although the four Beatles had departed for the retreat united in a common spiritual pursuit, their mixed experiences there subsequently resulted in divisiveness permeating the group for the first time. Having been the strongest advocate of meditation,〔 Available at (Rock's Backpages ) (subscription required).〕 Harrison delayed his return to England by visiting his mentor and sitar teacher, Ravi Shankar, in Madras. Once back in London, he continued to espouse the Maharishi's teachings, a viewpoint that left him isolated within the band. Author Simon Leng describes "Long, Long, Long" as the first song in which Harrison "share() the spiritual refuge he'd found" through meditation, as well as "a confluence of the Indian, folk, and spiritual influences the guitarist had been exploring since 1966". Writing in 1977, author Nicholas Schaffner identified the song as "the first of dozens of Harrison love songs that are ambiguous in that he could be singing either to his lady or to his Lord". This ambiguity became more prevalent during Harrison's solo career. In his autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison states that "the 'you' in 'Long Long Long' is God". In ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison says that his musical inspiration for the composition was Bob Dylan's "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" – specifically, "D to E minor, A and D – those three chords and the way they moved". "Long, Long, Long" was one of many songs that marked Harrison's return to the guitar as his principal musical instrument, a development that began in Rishikesh and, by late 1968, led to him abandoning his commitment to the sitar after three years of intensive study. Following the completion of his ''Wonderwall Music'' soundtrack album in February 1968, which he recorded partly with Indian classical musicians in Bombay, Harrison's rediscovery of the guitar coincided with a new, prolific period in his songwriting. Musicologist Walter Everett likens this growth to the arrival of John Lennon and Paul McCartney as composers in 1963, yet he comments that Harrison was forced to remain "privately prolific" within the Beatles, while Lennon and McCartney continued to dominate the band's songwriting. As a further influence in "Long, Long, Long", Leng cites the release of the Band's debut album, ''Music from Big Pink'', which "signaled the rebirth of 'the song'" as an alternative to the excesses of late-1960s psychedelia. 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「Long, Long, Long」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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