Only a Northern Song
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"Only a Northern Song" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 soundtrack album Yellow Submarine. Written by George Harrison, it was the first of four songs the band provided fo
A Hammond B3 organ. Along with "Within You Without You", "It's All Too Much" and "Blue Jay Way", "Only a Northern Song" was one of several compositions that Harrison wrote on a keyboard instrument during a period when he was otherwise immersed in studying the Indian sitar.
Harrison (right), with music journalist Veljko Despot, outside EMI Studios in February 1967
A still from the sequence for "Only a Northern Song"
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
Only a Northern Song
…Although Harrison's contract with James had expired in March 1968, the copyright for "Only a Northern Song" and his second contribution to the film, "It's All Too Much", remained with Northern Songs rather than being assigned to Harrisongs as his four White Album compositions had been. The song's release coincided…
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.