It's All Too Much
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"It's All Too Much" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Yellow Submarine. Written by George Harrison in 1967, it conveys the ideological themes of that year's Summer o
Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music
The Hammond B3 organ became Harrison's regular instrument for songwriting in 1967.
A still from the sequence for "It's All Too Much"
Steve Hillage (pictured in 1974) recorded the song for his album L and has often played it in concert.
Within You Without You
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"Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Written by lead guitarist George Harrison, it was his second compos
Dal Lake in Kashmir – part of the "pure essence of India" that Harrison said he experienced in 1966 and inspired the song.
Harrison (pictured in the Hindu holy city of Vrindavan in 1996) drew from Vedanta philosophy for the first time in his lyrics to "Within You Without You".
The bow-played dilruba features prominently throughout the song.
Aided by the Beatles' song, the sitar, and Indian classical music generally, reached its peak in popularity in the West in 1967.