Fact #181517
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Short story:
George Harrison of The Beatles is in EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England, UK, Europe, starting work on recording the song Something.
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George Harrison : Patti (his wife, Patti Boyd) inspired Something. I wrote it at the time when we were making the last double album. The first line, 'Something in the way she moves' has been in millions of songs, it's not a special thing, but it just seemed quite apt. I usually get the first few lines of lyrics and melody both at once and finish the melody first, then I write the words.
George Martin (producer) : An awful lot of George's songs do sound like something else. The biggest hit he ever had was Something, in which the line is, 'Something in the way she moves'. There actually was a song called Something In The Way She Moves, a James Taylor song, quite a big one. And that was written a long time before George wrote his Something. He had copyright problems on a lot of songs. For My Sweet Lord he was sued, wasn't he?
George Harrison : Something is a song of mine I wrote towards the end of, um... that The Beatles album, you know, the White Album. I wrote it as we were still recording that album. But I never finished it off. I could never think of words for it. And, um, also because there was a James Taylor song called Something In The Way She Moves, which is the first line of that. And so then I - I thought of trying to change the words, but they were the words that came when I first wrote it, so in the end I just left it as 
that, and just called it Something. And, um... actually, I think Joe Cocker's recorded this song.
When I wrote it, I imagined somebody like Ray Charles doing it. It's - y'know, that's the feel I imagined, but because I'm not Ray Charles, then - y'know, I'm sort of much more limited in what I can do, then it came out like this. It's nice. It's probably the - the nicest, um, melody tune that I've written.
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George Martin (producer) : An awful lot of George's songs do sound like something else. The biggest hit he ever had was Something, in which the line is, 'Something in the way she moves'. There actually was a song called Something In The Way She Moves, a James Taylor song, quite a big one. And that was written a long time before George wrote his Something. He had copyright problems on a lot of songs. For My Sweet Lord he was sued, wasn't he?
George Harrison : Something is a song of mine I wrote towards the end of, um... that The Beatles album, you know, the White Album. I wrote it as we were still recording that album. But I never finished it off. I could never think of words for it. And, um, also because there was a James Taylor song called Something In The Way She Moves, which is the first line of that. And so then I - I thought of trying to change the words, but they were the words that came when I first wrote it, so in the end I just left it as 
that, and just called it Something. And, um... actually, I think Joe Cocker's recorded this song.
When I wrote it, I imagined somebody like Ray Charles doing it. It's - y'know, that's the feel I imagined, but because I'm not Ray Charles, then - y'know, I'm sort of much more limited in what I can do, then it came out like this. It's nice. It's probably the - the nicest, um, melody tune that I've written.
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