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}} "Photograph" is a song by English musician Ringo Starr that was released as the lead single from his 1973 album ''Ringo''. Starr co-wrote the song with George Harrison, his former bandmate from the Beatles. Although the two of them collaborated on other compositions, it is the only song officially credited to the pair. A signature tune for Starr as a solo artist, "Photograph" became an international hit, topping singles charts in the United States, Canada and Australia, and receiving gold disc certification for US sales of 1 million. Music critics have similarly received the song favourably; Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic considers it to be "among the very best post-Beatles songs by any of the Fab Four".〔 The lyrics are a reflection on lost love, whereby a photograph is the only reminder of the protagonists' shared past. Starr and Harrison began writing the song in the South of France in 1971, during a period when Starr was focused on developing his acting career. They first recorded "Photograph" late the following year, along with the single's B-side, "Down and Out", during sessions for Harrison's ''Living in the Material World'' album (1973). The officially released version was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Richard Perry, and it incorporates aspects of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound through the presence of multiple drums and acoustic guitars, as well as an orchestra and a choir. Aside from Starr and Harrison, the musicians on the recording include Nicky Hopkins, Bobby Keys, Jim Keltner, and Spector's musical arranger, Jack Nitzsche. Starr made a promotional film for the single, shot at his and wife Maureen Starkey's home, Tittenhurst Park. "Photograph" has appeared on Starr's compilation albums ''Blast from Your Past'' (1975) and ''Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr'' (2007), and live versions have featured on releases recorded with his All-Starr Band and with the Roundheads. In November 2002, a year after Harrison's death, Starr sang "Photograph" at the Concert for George – a performance that was an emotional highpoint of the event. Engelbert Humperdinck, Camper Van Beethoven, Cilla Black and Adam Sandler are among the artists who have covered the song. ==Background and composition== Ex-Beatles Ringo Starr and George Harrison began writing "Photograph" on a luxury yacht in the South of France in May 1971.〔〔Badman, p. 35.〕 Starr had hired the yacht, the SS ''Marala'', for the duration of the Cannes Film Festival, after attending Mick Jagger's wedding in St Tropez with his wife, Maureen Starkey.〔 The Starkeys were then joined in France by Harrison and the latter's wife, Pattie Boyd, for the Monaco Grand Prix.〔Clayson, pp. 216, 227.〕 This period coincided with Starr's first success as a solo artist, with the Harrison-produced single "It Don't Come Easy",〔Woffinden, pp. 45, 47.〕 although he would continue to focus on his career as a film actor,〔Ingham, p. 139.〕 beginning with a role in ''Blindman'' (1971).〔Rodriguez, p. 42.〕 Another guest on the ''Marala'' was Cilla Black, singer and a friend to the Beatles since the 1960s, who recalls Starr and Harrison playing "Photograph" during an evening get-together, with "everyone on board" contributing ideas for the lyrics.〔Clayson, p. 216.〕 As with Starr's two singles over 1971–72, "It Don't Come Easy" and "Back Off Boogaloo",〔Spizer, pp. 293, 297, 303.〕 Harrison helped write the melody,〔Woffinden, p. 77.〕〔Schaffner, p. 161.〕 although "Photograph" would mark the first time that he was credited as a co-writer with Starr.〔Rodriguez, pp. 28, 32, 261.〕 In her autobiography, ''Step Inside Love'', Black says she had hoped to record the song for a single later in 1971, only to be told by Starr: "No, it's too bloody good for you. I'm having it myself."〔Clayson, pp. 216, 393.〕 The lyrics to "Photograph" are centred around lost love,〔〔Huntley, p. 97.〕 with the singer having only a single picture by which to remember his absent lover.〔 The eponymous photograph reminds him of their former happiness together, while also enforcing the reality that "''you're not coming back any more''".〔 Author Ian Inglis comments on the familiar subject matter in the conventions of pop songwriting, but identifies an "unusual" aspect in the lyrics' "absence of any hope that love might be rekindled".〔Inglis, p. 55.〕 Starr expresses resignation at what the future holds, in the lines "''Now you're expecting me to live without you / But that's not something that I'm looking forward to''".〔 Musically, the song is in the key of E,〔''"Photograph" (sheet music for Piano, Vocal & Guitar)'' (1973). London: Music Sales Limited.〕 with what Inglis terms an "easy melody" that allows for Starr's limitations as a singer.〔 Harrison's "distinctive composing style" is particularly evident, according to authors Roy Carr and Tony Tyler,〔Carr & Tyler, p. 107.〕 and Starr would later say of Harrison's role in their collaborations over this period: "I only know three chords and he'd stick four more in, and they'd all think I was a genius."〔Rodriguez, p. 261.〕 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「Photograph (Ringo Starr song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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