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"For You Blue" is a Beatles song written by George Harrison for his wife Pattie Boyd, who would be the subject of many of his love songs, including "It's All Too Much".
"For You Blue" was the B-side to "The Long and Winding Road" (in the U.S.) and the eleventh track on The Beatles' final LP release, Let It Be. "For You Blue" was listed with "The Long and Winding Road" as a double-sided hit when the single hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1970.
The song features John Lennon playing lap steel guitar[1] with a shotgun shell as shown in the Let It Be movie. Harrison makes a few spoken comments during the song, including, "Go, Johnny, go" during Lennon's solo, and "Elmore James got nothing on this baby", perhaps referring to James' song "Madison Blues" which is similar to "For You Blue".
The song's working title was "George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)" when it was recorded on 25 January 1969.[2] It was renamed sometime between 10 March and 28 May when it was listed as "For You Blue" on the final mix for the unreleased Get Back album.[3] When Phil Spector remixed the song for inclusion on the Let It Be album, he added an introduction by Lennon, "The Queen says no to pot-smoking FBI members." This comment was edited in from dialog recorded at Twickenham Studios in early January, 1969, long before "For You Blue" was recorded.[4]
This song was part of the set during his Dark Horse Tour of North America in 1974.
On 29 November 2002, Paul McCartney sang this song at the Concert for George, a memorial concert for Harrison held on the first anniversary of his death.
- ^ The Beatles Complete Scores (Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Publishing, 1993. ISBN0-7935-1832-6), p. 293
- ^ Mark Lewisohn, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1988, ISBN 0-681-03189-1), p. 166
- ^ Lewisohn, p. 176
- ^ Lewisohn, p. 198
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1962: " Love Me Do" • 1963: " Please Please Me", " From Me to You", " She Loves You", " I Want to Hold Your Hand" • 1964: " Can't Buy Me Love", " A Hard Day's Night", " I Feel Fine" • 1965: " Ticket to Ride", " Help!", " Day Tripper" / " We Can Work It Out" • 1966: " Paperback Writer", " Eleanor Rigby" / " Yellow Submarine" • 1967: " Strawberry Fields Forever" / " Penny Lane", " All You Need Is Love", " Hello Goodbye" • 1968: " Lady Madonna", " Hey Jude" • 1969: " Get Back" / " Don't Let Me Down", " Ballad of John and Yoko", " Something" / " Come Together" • 1970: " Let It Be" • 1976: " Yesterday", " Back in the U.S.S.R." • 1978: " Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / " A Day in the Life" • 1982: " The Beatles Movie Medley", " Love Me Do" (reissue) • 1995: " Baby It's You", " Free as a Bird" • 1996: " Real Love"
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1962: " P.S. I Love You" • 1963: " Ask Me Why", " Thank You Girl", " I'll Get You", " This Boy" • 1964: " You Can't Do That", " Things We Said Today", " She's a Woman" • 1965: " Yes It Is", " I'm Down" • 1966: " Rain" • 1967: " Baby, You're a Rich Man", " I Am the Walrus" • 1968: " The Inner Light", " Revolution" • 1969: " Old Brown Shoe" • 1970: " You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" • 1976: " I Should Have Known Better", " Twist and Shout" • 1982: " I'm Happy Just to Dance with You", " P.S. I Love You" (reissue) • 1995: " I'll Follow the Sun" / " Devil in Her Heart" / " Boys", " Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" • 1996: " Baby's in Black"
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1963: " Please Please Me" (VJ), " From Me to You" (VJ), " She Loves You" (Swan), " I Want to Hold Your Hand" • 1964: " Twist and Shout" (Tollie), " Can't Buy Me Love", " Do You Want to Know a Secret" (VJ), " Love Me Do" (Tollie), " Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" (Swan), " A Hard Day's Night", " I'll Cry Instead", " And I Love Her", " Matchbox", " I Feel Fine" • 1965: " Eight Days a Week", " Ticket to Ride", " Help!", " Yesterday", " We Can Work It Out" / " Day Tripper" • 1966: " Nowhere Man", " Paperback Writer", " Eleanor Rigby" / " Yellow Submarine" • 1967: " Penny Lane" / " Strawberry Fields Forever", " All You Need Is Love", " Hello, Goodbye" • 1968: " Lady Madonna", " Hey Jude" • 1969: " Get Back" / " Don't Let Me Down", " Ballad of John and Yoko", " Something" / " Come Together" • 1970: " Let It Be", " The Long and Winding Road" • 1976: " Got to Get You into My Life", " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" • 1978: " Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / " A Day in the Life" • 1982: " The Beatles Movie Medley" • 1986: " Twist and Shout" • 1995: " Baby It's You", " Free as a Bird" • 1996: " Real Love"
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1963: " Ask Me Why", " Thank You Girl", " I'll Get You", " I Saw Her Standing There" • 1964: " From Me to You", " There's a Place", " You Can't Do That", " I Should Have Known Better", " I'm Happy Just to Dance with You", " If I Fell", " Slow Down", " She's a Woman" • 1965: " I Don't Want to Spoil the Party", " Yes It Is", " I'm Down", " Act Naturally" • 1966: " What Goes On", " Rain" • 1967: " Baby You're a Rich Man", " I Am the Walrus" • 1968: " The Inner Light", " Revolution" • 1969: " Old Brown Shoe" • 1970: " You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)", " For You Blue" • 1976: " Helter Skelter" • 1982: " I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" • 1986: " There's a Place" • 1995: " I'll Follow the Sun" / " Devil in Her Heart" / " Boys", " I Saw Her Standing There" / " This Boy" / " Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" • 1996: " Baby's in Black" / " Yellow Submarine" / " Here, There and Everywhere"
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