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"So Sad" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1974 album ''Dark Horse''. Harrison originally gave the song to Alvin Lee, guitarist and singer with Ten Years After, who recorded it, as "So Sad (No Love of His Own)", with singer Mylon LeFevre for their 1973 album ''On the Road to Freedom''. Harrison wrote "So Sad" in New York in 1972 and it is the only song known to have been written by him about the failure of his first marriage, to Pattie Boyd. Harrison recorded his version of the song at the couple's home, Friar Park, in November 1973, eight months before Boyd left him for his friend Eric Clapton. Besides Harrison's extensive contributions, the other musicians on the recording include Nicky Hopkins and Ringo Starr. ==Background and composition== In interview with Derek Taylor for his 1980 autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', George Harrison recalled starting "So Sad" in New York in 1972 – at the Park Lane Hotel, judging by his handwritten lyrics〔Harrison, p. 242.〕 – and identified this as "the time I was splitting up with Pattie".〔Harrison, p. 240.〕 The marriage "muddled on" until midway through 1974, author Alan Clayson writes, by which time Eric Clapton had returned to their social circle following a three-year period of hibernation away from friends and the music business, partly as a result of Boyd's rejection of his advances in November 1970.〔Clayson, pp. 297–98.〕〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 43.〕 Clapton's self-imposed exile had briefly been interrupted by a return to the concert stage, on 13 January 1973, with two Pete Townshend-organised charity shows at the Rainbow Theatre in north London,〔''The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll'', p. 183.〕 attended by the Harrisons, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Jimmy Page and others.〔Badman, p. 89.〕 During a visit to the Harrison's home, Friar Park, ''Little Malcolm'' star John Hurt later revealed, Harrison challenged Clapton to a guitar duel, the winning prize for which was Boyd herself.〔Clayson, p. 330.〕 Clapton was judged the victor that night, Harrison – "full of brandy, as usual", his ex-wife remembers – having let himself become "riled", by resorting to uncharacteristic "instrumental gymnastics".〔 With Harrison already pursuing an affair with Starr's wife, Maureen Starkey, the couple finally parted on 4 July 1974, when Boyd joined Clapton on tour in support of his comeback album, ''461 Ocean Boulevard''.〔Pattie Boyd, ("Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' – Part Two" ), ''Daily Mail'', 4 August 2007 (retrieved 4 May 2012).〕 The Harrison–Boyd–Clapton entanglement soon became an infamous footnote in rock 'n' roll,〔Clayson, p. 329.〕 and just as remarkable was the fact that Harrison appeared to approve of the situation.〔Schaffner, p. 176.〕〔Badman, p. 136.〕〔Anne Moore, "George Harrison on Tour – Press Conference Q&A", ''Valley Advocate'', 13 November 1974; available at (Rock's Backpages ) (retrieved 15 July 2012).〕 Although his next album would include a version of the Everly Brothers' hit "Bye Bye, Love" with lyrics altered to sarcastically address "''old Clapper''" and "''our lady''",〔Schaffner, p. 178.〕〔Clayson, p. 343.〕〔Richard S. Ginell, ("George Harrison ''Dark Horse''" ), AllMusic (retrieved 15 March 2012).〕 "So Sad" is the only song that Harrison ever acknowledged as dealing with his and Boyd's marital problems; this is in contrast to contemporaries Bob Dylan and John Lennon, each of whom dedicated a significant portion of his album to reflecting the breakdown in his marriage around this time.〔Schaffner, pp. 165, 173–74.〕〔Sounes, pp. 282, 285.〕 Despite Harrison's apparent "take her" attitude〔Eric Clapton interview, in ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' DVD (Village Roadshow, 2011; directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair & Martin Scorsese).〕 and what Boyd has described as her husband's "cold and indifferent" behaviour,〔 the song's lyrics refer to a hidden "''great despair''".〔Harrison, p. 244.〕 Returning to the weather imagery of earlier compositions such as "All Things Must Pass", biographer Simon Leng observes, Harrison's opening verse sets the scene for a man who "''feels so alone / With no love of his own''":〔Leng, pp. 96, 151.〕 The singer's viewpoint changes to the third person from this point in the song,〔Leng, p. 152.〕 as the chorus repeatedly states: "''So sad, so bad / So sad, so bad ...''" In the third and final verse, Harrison returns to the unambiguous, first-person perspective, the lyrics appearing to wish his former lover well:〔 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「So Sad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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