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| Length = 2:59 | Label = Apple | Writer = George Harrison | Producer = George Martin | Certification = 2x Platinum (RIAA)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Beatles' > Singles )〕 | Last single = "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969) | This single = "Something" / "Come Together" (1969) | Next single = "Let It Be" (1970) | Misc = }} "Something" is a song by the Beatles, written by George Harrison and released on the band's 1969 album ''Abbey Road''. It was also issued on a double A-sided single with another track from the album, "Come Together". "Something" was the first Harrison composition to appear as a Beatles A-side, and the only song written by him to top the US charts before the band's break-up in April 1970. The single was also one of the first Beatles singles to contain tracks already available on an LP album. The song drew high praise from the band's primary songwriters, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with Lennon stating that "Something" was the best song on Abbey Road and McCartney considering it the best song Harrison had written.〔. Retrieved 30 March 2006.〕 As well as critical acclaim, the single achieved commercial success, topping the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States and making the top five in the United Kingdom. The song has been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles song after "Yesterday". Artists who have covered the song include Phish, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, James Brown, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Smokey Robinson, Ike & Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Isaac Hayes, Julio Iglesias and Neil Diamond. Harrison said his favourite version of the song was James Brown's, which he kept in his personal jukebox.〔 ==Background and inspiration== George Harrison began writing "Something" in September 1968, during a session for the Beatles' self-titled double album, commonly known as "the White Album".〔Mark Lewisohn, "Something Else", in ''Mojo: The Beatles' Final Years'', p. 118.〕 In his autobiography, ''I, Me Mine'', he recalls working on the melody on a piano, while Paul McCartney carried out overdubs in a neighbouring studio at London's Abbey Road Studios.〔Harrison, p. 152.〕 Harrison put the composition "on ice" at first, believing that with the tune having come to him so easily, it might have been the melody from another song.〔Clayson, p. 250.〕 In ''I, Me, Mine'', he adds that the middle eight for "Something" "took some time to sort out".〔 The song's opening lyric was taken from the title of "Something in the Way She Moves", a track by Harrison's fellow Apple Records artist James Taylor.〔MacDonald, p. 306.〕 While musically Harrison imagined the composition in the style of Ray Charles,〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 177.〕 his inspiration for "Something" was his wife, Pattie Boyd.〔Clayson, pp. 250–51, 271.〕〔 Available at (Rock's Backpages ) (subscription required).〕 In her 2007 autobiography, ''Wonderful Today'', Boyd recalls: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful ..." Boyd discusses the song's subsequent popularity among other recording artists and concludes: "My favourite () was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in the kitchen at Kinfauns."〔Boyd, p. 117.〕 Having begun to write love songs that were directed at both God and a woman, with his White Album track "Long, Long, Long",〔Schaffner, p. 115.〕 Harrison later cited alternative sources for his inspiration for "Something".〔Allison, p. 155.〕 In early 1969, according to author Joshua Greene, Harrison told his friends from the Hare Krishna Movement that the song was about the Hindu deity Krishna;〔Greene, p. 142.〕 in an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in 1976, he said of his approach to writing love songs: "all love is part of a universal love. When you love a woman, it's the God in her that you see."〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 132.〕 By 1996, Harrison had denied writing "Something" for Boyd,〔 adding that "everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie" because of the promotional film accompanying the release of the Beatles' recording, which showed each member of the band with their respective wife. 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「Something (Beatles song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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