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
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.