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"Within You Without You" is a song written by George Harrison and released on the Beatles' 1967 album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. The song was Harrison's second composition in the Indian classical style, after "Love You To" in 1966. The lyrics reflect his absorption in Hindu philosophy and the teachings of the Vedas, following a seven-week stay in India with his mentor and sitar teacher Ravi Shankar. Recorded in London with musicians from the Asian Music Circle, the song marked a significant departure from the Beatles' previous work. Harrison's endorsement of Indian culture was further reflected in his choice of yogis such as Paramahansa Yogananda to appear on the ''Sgt. Pepper'' album cover. With the worldwide success of the album, "Within You Without You" presented Indian classical music to a new audience in the West. Released during an era of utopian idealism and social change marked by the Summer of Love, it also influenced the musical and philosophical direction of many of Harrison's peers. The song has traditionally received a varied response from music critics, some of whom find it sanctimonious in tone, while others admire its musical authenticity and consider the message to be the most meaningful on ''Sgt. Pepper''. Writing for ''Rolling Stone'', David Fricke described the track as being "at once beautiful and severe, a magnetic sermon about materialism and communal responsibility in the middle of a record devoted to gentle Technicolor anarchy".〔 On the Beatles' 2006 remix album ''Love'', the song was mixed with the John Lennon-written "Tomorrow Never Knows", creating what some reviewers identify as that project's most successful mashup. Sonic Youth, Rainer Ptacek, Oasis, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick and the Flaming Lips are among the artists who have covered "Within You Without You". ==Background and inspiration== George Harrison began writing "Within You Without You" one evening in early 1967〔 while at the house of long-time Beatles associate Klaus Voormann,〔Everett, p. 111.〕 in the north London suburb of Hampstead.〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 174.〕 Harrison's immediate inspiration for the song came from a conversation they had shared over dinner, regarding the metaphysical space that exists between individuals and prevents people from recognising the oneness that unites the world.〔Clayson, p. 213.〕〔Tillery, p. 59.〕 Following this discussion, Harrison worked out the melody on a harmonium and came up with the song's opening line: "''We were talking about the space between us all''".〔 The song was Harrison's second composition to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music, after "Love You To", which featured Indian instruments such as sitar, tabla and tambura.〔Everett, pp. 40, 112.〕 Since recording the latter track, for the Beatles' 1966 album ''Revolver'', he had further immersed himself in studying the sitar, partly under the tutelage of Ravi Shankar.〔Leng, pp. 27–28.〕〔Lavezzoli, pp. 175, 176.〕 Harrison later said that the tune for "Within You Without You" came about through his regularly performing exercises known as sargam, which use the same scales as those found in Indian ragas.〔Everett, p. 112.〕 "Within You Without" was the first of many songs in which Harrison fully espoused Hindu spiritual concepts in his lyrics.〔Inglis, pp. 28, 139.〕〔Tillery, pp. 59, 87.〕 Having incorporated elements of Eastern philosophy in "Love You To",〔Rodriguez, pp. 70–71.〕 Harrison had become fascinated by ancient Hindu teachings〔Clayson, pp. 206–08.〕〔Tillery, pp. 56–58.〕 after he and his wife, Pattie Boyd, visited Shankar in India over September–October 1966.〔Leng, p. 24.〕〔Lavezzoli, p. 177.〕 Intent on mastering the sitar, Harrison first joined other students of Shankar's in Bombay,〔Boyd, p. 87.〕 until local fans and the press learned of his arrival.〔Shankar, pp. 192–93.〕 Harrison, Boyd, Shankar and the latter's partner, Kamala Chakravarty, then relocated to a houseboat on Dal Lake〔Boyd, p. 88.〕 in Srinagar, Kashmir.〔Shankar, p. 193.〕〔Greene, p. 127.〕 There, Harrison received personal tuition from Shankar while absorbing religious texts such as Paramahansa Yogananda's ''Autobiography of a Yogi'' and Swami Vivekananda's ''Raja Yoga''.〔Shankar, pp. 193, 195.〕〔Tillery, pp. 56–57.〕 This period coincided with his introduction to meditation〔Harrison, p. 112.〕 and, during their visit to Vrindavan, he witnessed communal chanting for the first time.〔Tillery, p. 57.〕 The education he received in India, particularly regarding the illusory nature of the material world, resonated with Harrison following his experiences with the hallucinogenic drug LSD (commonly known as "acid")〔The Beatles, p. 233.〕 and informed his lyrics to "Within You Without You".〔Greene, pp. 71–72, 76–77.〕 Having considered leaving the Beatles after the completion of their third US tour, on 29 August 1966,〔MacDonald, pp. 189, 386.〕 he also gained a philosophical truth while he struggled with the effects of the band's international fame.〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', pp. 34, 36.〕〔Lavezzoli, pp. 176, 177–78.〕 He later attributed "Within You Without You" to his having "fallen under the spell of the country"〔 after experiencing the "pure essence of India" through Shankar's guidance.〔Shankar, pp. 195–96.〕 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「Within You Without You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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