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"Simply Shady" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1974 album ''Dark Horse''. The song's lyrics address Harrison's wayward behaviour during the final years of his marriage to Pattie Boyd and the allure of earthly pleasures over spiritual goals. Harrison wrote "Simply Shady" in India early in 1974 and his lyrics reference John Lennon's "Sexy Sadie", a song inspired by the Beatles' stay at Rishikesh in 1968. On the recording, Harrison is supported by Tom Scott & the L.A. Express, who were touring as Joni Mitchell's backing band at the time. ==Background and composition== Although some commentators have claimed that he made a pilgrimage to India in early 1972, either with musician friend Gary Wright〔Leng, pp. 124–25.〕 or with Pattie Boyd,〔("Of Mice and Lambs" ), Contra Band Music, 30 June 2012 (retrieved 3 February 2013).〕 according to George Harrison's recollection in his 1980 autobiography, the trip to India in January and February 1974 was his first since June 1968, when he'd returned there briefly following the Beatles' highly publicised meditation course at Rishikesh.〔George Harrison, p. 57.〕〔Lavezzoli, pp. 180, 184.〕 Along with the birth of the idea that became Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India〔Olivia Harrison, p. 302.〕 and led to the Harrison–Shankar tour of North America at the end of the year,〔Leng, p. 148.〕 a product of this early 1974 trip was Harrison's song "Simply Shady".〔George Harrison, p. 282.〕 It was written in Bombay, most probably before the spirit-cleansing visit to Benares and Vrindavan documented in "It Is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna)",〔Leng, p. 157.〕 its lyrics reflecting the decadent lifestyle he'd just left behind at Friar Park in England – or as he himself put it in ''I Me Mine'', "what happens to naughty boys in the music business".〔 Boyd has written of their self-indulgence during that final year or more of their relationship: "We were all as drunk, stoned and single-minded as each other ... () George used cocaine excessively and I think it changed him ... it froze George's emotions and hardened his heart."〔Pattie Boyd, ("Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' – Part Two" ), ''Daily Mail'', 4 August 2007 (retrieved 4 May 2012).〕 In the opening verse of "Simply Shady", Harrison appears to acknowledge this change: The blurring of the senses is underlined in the chorus, along with the realisation that this path provides no solutions:〔 The song's later choruses change this third line to "''You may think of Sexy Sadie, let her in through your front door''", reprising the late-period Beatles habit of self-reference.〔MacDonald, p. 275.〕〔Leng, p. 85.〕 In this case, and perhaps influenced by his surroundings in Bombay, Harrison name-checks "Sexy Sadie",〔Leng, p. 151.〕 John Lennon's thinly veiled attack on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his alleged sexual advances towards one of the female students at the Rishikesh retreat.〔MacDonald, p. 262.〕〔Lewisohn, p. 144.〕 In the final verse, Harrison acknowledges the karmic consequences of all actions and thoughts, since "''A pebble in the ocean must cause some kind of stir''": "''The action that I've started sometime I'll have to face / My influence in motion rebounding back through space.''" During his pre-tour press conference in October 1974,〔Badman, p. 136.〕 Harrison would fend off inquisitive reporters with the statement "If you get my album, it's like ''Peyton Place''. I mean, it will tell you exactly what I've been doing ...";〔Anne Moore, "George Harrison on Tour – Press Conference Q&A", ''Valley Advocate'', 13 November 1974; available at (Rock's Backpages ) (''subscription required''; retrieved 25 July 2012).〕 one song he recommended to the throng of journalists was "So Sad", the other was "Simply Shady".〔''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' DVD (Village Roadshow, 2011; directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair & Martin Scorsese).〕 By early 1979, he was prepared to expand on the issue, and came up with a different soap opera as a comparison: "I went on a bit of a bender (1973–74 ) to make up for all the years I'd been married. If you listen to 'Simply Shady', on ''Dark Horse'', it's all in there – my whole life at that time was a bit like ...''Mrs. Dale's Diary''."〔Mick Brown, ("A Conversation With George Harrison" ), ''Rolling Stone'', 19 April 1979 (retrieved 8 June 2015).〕 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「Simply Shady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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