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For You Blue

January 20, 2023

"For You Blue" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. The track was written by George Harrison as a love song to his wife, Pattie Boyd. It was also the B-side to the "Long and Winding Road" single, issued in many countries, but not Britain, and was listed with that song when the single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and Canada's national chart in June 1970. On the Cash Box Top 100 chart, which measured the US performance of single sides individually, "For You Blue" peaked at number 71.

"For You Blue"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Beatles
from the album Let It Be
A-side"The Long and Winding Road"
Released11 May 1970
Recorded25 January 1969, 8 January 1970
StudioApple and Olympic Sound, London
GenreCountry blues
Length2:32
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)George Harrison
Producer(s)Phil Spector
The Beatles US singles chronology
"Let It Be"
(1970) 		"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"
(1970) 		"Got to Get You into My Life"
(1976)

The song is a twelve-bar blues in the country blues style. When writing "For You Blue", Harrison was partly influenced by his stay with Bob Dylan and the Band in Woodstock over November–December 1968. Whereas that visit had been a musically rewarding experience for Harrison, the Beatles first worked on the song amid an atmosphere of discord, during the filmed rehearsals that made up part of the Let It Be documentary film. Recorded at the group's Apple Studio in London in late January 1969, the song includes a lap steel guitar part played by John Lennon. Among music critics, some have admired the track for its lighthearted qualities and as a good band performance. Other commentators identify it as an inconsequential song, particularly in relation to some of the Harrison compositions that his bandmates rejected over the Let It Be period.

In 1976, Capitol Records included "For You Blue" on the compilation album The Best of George Harrison. An alternative take of the track appeared on the Beatles' 1996 compilation Anthology 3. A live version recorded during Harrison's 1974 North American tour received a limited release on the Songs by George Harrison EP in 1988. Paul McCartney performed the song at the Concert for George in November 2002, a year after Harrison's death.

Background and composition

 
The Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. Harrison's late 1968 visit to Woodstock, where he spent time with Bob Dylan and the Band, served as part of his musical inspiration for the song.

George Harrison wrote "For You Blue" in late 1968[1][2] as a love song to his wife Pattie Boyd.[3][4] In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, he describes the composition as "a simple twelve-bar song following all the normal principles except it's happy-go-lucky!"[5] The song was partly influenced by Harrison's recent stay in Woodstock in upstate New York,[6] where he had collaborated with Bob Dylan and jammed with the Band.[7] The visit allowed Harrison to experience a musical camaraderie that contrasted with the tense atmosphere in the Beatles over much of 1968,[8] particularly during the recording of their self-titled double album (also known as "the White Album").[9][10] In addition, the creative equality Harrison enjoyed among these musicians, as on his recent collaborations with Eric Clapton,[11] contrasted with the continued dominance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Beatles[8][12] during a period when Harrison was emerging as a prolific songwriter.[13][14]

"For You Blue" is a country blues song[3][15] in the musical key of D.[16] Aside from the introduction, it is one of the few original songs by the Beatles in which every section follows the twelve-bar blues (I-IV-V) pattern. The five-bar introduction deviates from the pattern due to its length and the inclusion of what musicologist Alan Pollack terms a "V-of-V" chord – namely, E7 in the home key.[17] On the Beatles' recording, Harrison performs this opening section alone,[17] playing a series of "elegant introductory hammer-ons", according to musicologist Walter Everett.[18] The song's bluesy feel is accentuated by the addition to the minor pentatonic scale of a ♭7 note on each of the I (D7), IV (G7) and V (A7) chords.[19][nb 1] Harrison opts for a popular variant within the twelve-bar blues formula, by moving briefly to the IV chord for the second bar, rather than remaining on I until the fifth bar.[17]

The composition comprises two verses, a two-round instrumental break, and two further verses.[17] In his lyrics, Harrison unashamedly states his love for Boyd;[3] Pollack describes the message as "unusually unmuddled romantic euphoria".[17] Early in the song, Harrison tells her, "I loved you from the moment I saw you", and by the last verse, in the description of author Ian Inglis, "[Boyd's] 'sweet and lovely' personality makes her irresistible ... he now loves her 'more than ever.'"[21]

As reproduced in I, Me, Mine, Harrison's original handwritten lyrics show the song title as "For You Blues".[22] The song was named "George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)" when the Beatles recorded it in late January 1969, and then "Because You're Sweet and Lovely" when mixing began on the unreleased Get Back album two months later.[23] By the time that album had been presented to the Beatles for their approval, in late May, the song was listed as "For You Blue".[24]

Twickenham rehearsals

"For You Blue" was one of the many new songs that the Beatles rehearsed at Twickenham Film Studios in south-west London, in January 1969.[25] The film project, which became known as Get Back and eventually Let It Be,[26] formed part of the band's proposed return to live performance for the first time since their 1966 North American tour.[27] Harrison said that after coming back from Woodstock in December 1968, he was "quite optimistic" about the new project, especially the plan to return to a more ensemble-based approach to playing.[28][nb 2] The rehearsals were filmed and recorded by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg with the intention that the documentary film would accompany a televised concert by the Beatles.[34][35]

Harrison presented an early draft of the song on 7 January,[36] during a day marked by acrimony within the group.[37] In their study of the tapes from the Get Back project, authors Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt write that the Beatles rehearsed "For You Blue" half-heartedly, amid heated discussions about their future and with Harrison in disagreement with McCartney over the proposed concert.[38] Adding to Harrison's dissatisfaction since the start of the Twickenham rehearsals, his compositions "All Things Must Pass", "Let It Down" and "Hear Me Lord"[12] had received little enthusiasm from Lennon and McCartney.[39][40] The Beatles returned to "For You Blue" on 9 January,[41] by which time Harrison had completed the lyrics.[42] He suggested that the song required an acoustic arrangement akin to skiffle or, citing slide guitarist Son House as an example, traditional country blues.[43] The following day, Harrison walked out of the sessions, weary of what he considered to be McCartney's overbearing attitude[44] and Lennon's lack of engagement with the project.[45][46]

Production

Recording

 
A lap steel guitar. The song features Lennon soloing on a Höfner Hawaiian Standard lap steel.[47]

As a condition of Harrison's return to the group,[48][49] the Beatles abandoned the idea of a concert and relocated to their Apple Studio in central London, on 22 January,[50] to record an album of some of the songs rehearsed at Twickenham.[51][52] Until Lindsay-Hogg chose to include footage relating to "I Me Mine" in the documentary, necessitating a formal recording of that song in January 1970,[53][54] "For You Blue" was the only Harrison composition recorded for the album.[55] Music critic John Harris remarks on the surprising decision to include "For You Blue", in light of the more substantial compositions that Harrison had presented.[56] Like Harris, author Elliot Huntley considers that Harrison deliberately refrained from pushing for the inclusion of his best material, believing that his bandmates would not do justice to songs such as "All Things Must Pass", "Let It Down" and the similarly overlooked "Isn't It a Pity" and "Something".[57][nb 3]

The session for "For You Blue" took place at Apple on 25 January,[59][60] with Glyn Johns and George Martin sharing the role of producer.[61] According to Sulpy and Schweighardt, the band played the song with a "complete focus" that contrasted with their indecisive approach that day when working on McCartney's "Let It Be" and "Two of Us".[62] With regard to Harrison's suggestion for a light acoustic arrangement on "For You Blue", Sulpy and Schweighardt describe the group's performance as being closer to the urban blues style.[43]

Take 6 was selected as the master take.[61] The recording features Harrison on acoustic guitar and Lennon playing lap steel guitar.[63] Lennon performs the first solo over the instrumental break, after which McCartney plays a piano solo.[17] According to various commentators, Lennon used either a cigarette lighter, a shotgun shell, or the standard slide that came with the Höfner lap steel.[64] To achieve Harrison's request for a "bad honky tonk piano" sound, Martin[65] and McCartney intertwined newspaper between the strings of the piano.[66][67][nb 4] Ringo Starr contributed a drum part that, in Everett's description, provides a "heavy backbeat" throughout the performance.[20]

Overdubbing and mixing

After the film project was revived in January 1970, for a proposed cinema release under the new title of Let It Be,[71] Harrison chose to re-record his lead vocal for the track.[72] With Johns producing the session,[72] Harrison overdubbed the vocal part at Olympic Sound Studios in south-west London on 8 January.[71] Harrison sings falsetto through much of the song.[2] His ad-libbed comments during the instrumental breaks – including "Go, Johnny, go!" and a reference to Mississippi bluesman Elmore James – originated from this session also.[72][nb 5]

When Phil Spector remixed "For You Blue" for inclusion on the Let It Be album, on 30 March 1970,[74] he added a spoken introduction by Lennon in the style of a newspaper headline: "Queen Says 'No' to Pot-Smoking FBI Member."[75] This comment was edited in from dialogue recorded at Twickenham Film Studios on 8 January 1969.[75] Described by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn as a "most interesting" idea, Spector created a tape loop of the song's instrumental break[72] over which he inserted other items of dialogue from the film, including contrasting reactions from members of the public to the Beatles' Apple rooftop concert on 30 January 1969.[76] The tape was possibly intended to help promote Let It Be but never released.[72] Despite Johns' extensive contribution, Lennon denied him a producer's credit on the album, which was instead credited to Spector.[77]

Release

Apple Records issued Let It Be on 8 May 1970[78] with "For You Blue" sequenced as the penultimate track, between "The Long and Winding Road" and "Get Back".[79][80] The release came four weeks after the Beatles' break-up and shortly before the premiere of the Let It Be documentary film.[81] The song's appearance in the film signalled the change of location for the troubled Get Back project, from Twickenham to Apple Studio.[18]

The song was selected as the B-side to "The Long and Winding Road", a single released in the United States on 11 May,[82] but not issued in Britain.[83] In the US, "For You Blue" gained sufficient radio airplay for Billboard to list the two songs together, as a double-sided hit,[84] when the record topped the magazine's Hot 100 chart.[85][86] The release was similarly treated as a double A-side when it topped Canada's singles chart[87] and peaked at number 6 on Australia's Go-Set national chart.[88] On the US listings compiled by Cash Box, which continued to monitor single-sides individually, "For You Blue" peaked at number 71.[89]

"For You Blue" was one of Harrison's most successful songs on the Billboard charts, both as a member of the Beatles and as a solo artist.[90] In 1976, it was among the seven Beatles tracks[91] that Capitol Records selected for inclusion on the compilation The Best of George Harrison.[92] Recognising that its status as a US chart-topper was due to Billboard's policy at the time, however, Apple did not include the track on the Beatles' 1 compilation, released in 2000.[1][2]

The first take of "For You Blue" from the 25 January 1969 session was released on the Beatles' Anthology 3 compilation in 1996.[73][93] The edit of the song as used in the Let It Be film – a composite of takes 9 and 6 – was issued as a promotional video for the compilation.[61] A new mix of this film version was included on the Anthology DVD in 2003.[61] That same year, a remix of the original album track, without the introductory dialogue added by Spector, was issued on the album Let It Be… Naked.[94]

Critical reception

Among contemporary reviews of Let It Be, Alan Smith of the NME described "For You Blue" as "another strong one from George, a whispery chunky rocker ...'Elmore James,' he calls out at one point, 'got nothin' on this baby!'"[95] Melody Maker's Richard Williams[81] considered it to be "an amusing trifle", citing Lennon's "camped-down bottleneck guitar" and the reference to James.[15][96] Less impressed, John Gabree of High Fidelity magazine found the lap-steel playing the only point of interest on an "otherwise boring" track.[97]

In a 2003 review for Mojo, John Harris highlighted "For You Blue" as one of the tracks that remained true to McCartney's original concept for a "return to the group's beginnings" with the Get Back project. Harris admired the song's "mesh of piano, acoustic guitar and lap steel" as "quietly wonderful".[98] Writing in Acoustic Guitar magazine that same year, David Simons said that, along with other "standout"s such as "Here Comes the Sun" and "I Me Mine", "For You Blue" exemplified Harrison's creativity as a rhythm guitarist and introduced a new element to the band's sound, through the composition's origins on capo-ed acoustic guitar.[99]

Among Beatles biographers, Ian MacDonald dismisses the song as a "forgettable twelve-bar",[63] while Mark Hertsgaard terms it "a slight blues boogie" and considers that Harrison would have been better served on the album by the superior "All Things Must Pass" and "Let It Down".[100] Walter Everett writes that the "promise" offered in Harrison's acoustic guitar introduction remains unfulfilled, such that the principal interest lies in "Lennon's only lap-steel performance with the Beatles, one that seems both clumsy and polished at the same time".[18] Ian Inglis welcomes the song's lightheartedness as evidence that, amid Harrison's usual preoccupation with spirituality and enlightenment, he was nevertheless able to produce "an uncomplicated and enjoyable love song". Inglis concludes: "Its directness, and his obvious enjoyment, reinforce the sincerity of his words."[101] Music journalist Kit O'Toole recognises "For You Blue" as an example of a Beatles B-side that was "just as good, if not better" than the single's lead side. While remarking on the contrast between the song's upbeat and optimistic qualities and the tense atmosphere within the band in January 1969, O'Toole likens the performance to "the four sitting in a living room, just jamming for fun".[2]

Like Harris, Justin Gerber of Consequence of Sound considers "For You Blue" to be in keeping with the group's intended back-to-basics approach, although he pairs it with "I Me Mine" as Harrison compositions that are "not bad, but pale in comparison to his offerings on [the White Album]".[102] Pitchfork's Mark Richardson admires the song's "prickly rhythmic drive" and groups it with tracks such as "Two of Us" and "Get Back" as examples of how Let It Be still contains quality material even though "little ... feels consequential to the Beatles' legacy".[103]

Live performances and cover versions

 
Dhani Harrison (pictured in 2010) was among the musicians who performed "For You Blue" with McCartney at the Concert for George in 2002. He also recorded a cover of the track in 2013.

"For You Blue" was part of Harrison's set on his Dark Horse Tour of North America in 1974.[104] Harrison performed the song as a jam track during which he introduced the musicians in his tour band.[105] A live version, featuring solos by Robben Ford, Emil Richards and Willie Weeks – on guitar, percussive bells and bass, respectively[106] – appeared on the disc accompanying Songs by George Harrison, a limited-edition illustrated book published by Genesis Publications in 1988.[107][108]

On 29 November 2002, McCartney sang "For You Blue" at the Concert for George, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the first anniversary of Harrison's death.[109] McCartney was backed by a large band that included Starr, Clapton, and Harrison's son, Dhani,[110] with Marc Mann playing slide guitar.[111]

Pete Molinari covered the song for Mojo's Let It Be Revisited CD, included with the October 2010 issue of the magazine.[112] In 2013, Dhani Harrison recorded "For You Blue" as a charity release in aid of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation,[113] a project supported by the Harrison family's Material World Charitable Foundation.[114] Dhani was accompanied by Blake Mills, Aaron Embry and Jim Keltner,[113] the last of whom also played drums on Harrison's 1974 live version of the song[115] and on McCartney's performance in 2002.[116]

Personnel

According to Ian MacDonald:[63]

Chart positions

Chart (1970) Peak
position
Australian Go-Set National Top 60[88] 6
Canadian MLS Singles[87] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[85] 1
US Cash Box Top 100[89] 71

Notes

  1. ^ Harrison uses a capo on the fifth fret of his guitar, allowing him to play chord shapes as if the song was a twelve-bar in the key of A.[20]
  2. ^ In addition to his time with the Band, Harrison had enjoyed jamming with musicians in Los Angeles[29] during the sessions for Is This What You Want?, an album by Jackie Lomax that Harrison produced for the Beatles' Apple record label.[30][31] These session musicians included members of the Wrecking Crew such as Hal Blaine and Larry Knechtel.[32][33]
  3. ^ Harris describes this situation as one that "speaks volumes about George's predicament" over 1968–69, when Harrison's output as a songwriter had outgrown his junior status to Lennon and McCartney.[56] While Everett considers that the songs submitted by Harrison throughout January 1969 were "far more interesting" than Lennon's,[58] Sulpy and Schweighardt write that Lennon and McCartney routinely rejected Harrison's contributions "even though some were far better than their own".[11]
  4. ^ While neither Ian MacDonald nor Kenneth Womack list a bass guitar part in their respective credits for the track,[63][68] Harrison said in a 1987 interview with Creem that McCartney also played bass.[64][69] Author Simon Leng credits Harrison for the bassline, performed on acoustic guitar.[70]
  5. ^ When recording the song at Apple, Harrison had included a mention of the group's Blüthner piano as McCartney played his solo.[73]

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  • Winn, John C. (2009). That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966–1970. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-45239-9.
  • Womack, Kenneth (2014). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-39171-2.

External links

  • Full lyrics for the song at the Beatles' official website

January 20, 2023
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For You Blue is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be The track was written by George Harrison as a love song to his wife Pattie Boyd It was also the B side to the Long and Winding Road single issued in many countries but not Britain and was listed with that song when the single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and Canada s national chart in June 1970 On the Cash Box Top 100 chart which measured the US performance of single sides individually For You Blue peaked at number 71 For You Blue US picture sleeveSingle by the Beatlesfrom the album Let It BeA side The Long and Winding Road Released11 May 1970Recorded25 January 1969 8 January 1970StudioApple and Olympic Sound LondonGenreCountry bluesLength2 32LabelAppleSongwriter s George HarrisonProducer s Phil SpectorThe Beatles US singles chronology Let It Be 1970 The Long and Winding Road For You Blue 1970 Got to Get You into My Life 1976 The song is a twelve bar blues in the country blues style When writing For You Blue Harrison was partly influenced by his stay with Bob Dylan and the Band in Woodstock over November December 1968 Whereas that visit had been a musically rewarding experience for Harrison the Beatles first worked on the song amid an atmosphere of discord during the filmed rehearsals that made up part of the Let It Be documentary film Recorded at the group s Apple Studio in London in late January 1969 the song includes a lap steel guitar part played by John Lennon Among music critics some have admired the track for its lighthearted qualities and as a good band performance Other commentators identify it as an inconsequential song particularly in relation to some of the Harrison compositions that his bandmates rejected over the Let It Be period In 1976 Capitol Records included For You Blue on the compilation album The Best of George Harrison An alternative take of the track appeared on the Beatles 1996 compilation Anthology 3 A live version recorded during Harrison s 1974 North American tour received a limited release on the Songs by George Harrison EP in 1988 Paul McCartney performed the song at the Concert for George in November 2002 a year after Harrison s death Contents 1 Background and composition 2 Twickenham rehearsals 3 Production 3 1 Recording 3 2 Overdubbing and mixing 4 Release 5 Critical reception 6 Live performances and cover versions 7 Personnel 8 Chart positions 9 Notes 10 References 11 Sources 12 External linksBackground and composition Edit The Catskill Mountains in upstate New York Harrison s late 1968 visit to Woodstock where he spent time with Bob Dylan and the Band served as part of his musical inspiration for the song George Harrison wrote For You Blue in late 1968 1 2 as a love song to his wife Pattie Boyd 3 4 In his autobiography I Me Mine he describes the composition as a simple twelve bar song following all the normal principles except it s happy go lucky 5 The song was partly influenced by Harrison s recent stay in Woodstock in upstate New York 6 where he had collaborated with Bob Dylan and jammed with the Band 7 The visit allowed Harrison to experience a musical camaraderie that contrasted with the tense atmosphere in the Beatles over much of 1968 8 particularly during the recording of their self titled double album also known as the White Album 9 10 In addition the creative equality Harrison enjoyed among these musicians as on his recent collaborations with Eric Clapton 11 contrasted with the continued dominance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Beatles 8 12 during a period when Harrison was emerging as a prolific songwriter 13 14 For You Blue is a country blues song 3 15 in the musical key of D 16 Aside from the introduction it is one of the few original songs by the Beatles in which every section follows the twelve bar blues I IV V pattern The five bar introduction deviates from the pattern due to its length and the inclusion of what musicologist Alan Pollack terms a V of V chord namely E7 in the home key 17 On the Beatles recording Harrison performs this opening section alone 17 playing a series of elegant introductory hammer ons according to musicologist Walter Everett 18 The song s bluesy feel is accentuated by the addition to the minor pentatonic scale of a 7 note on each of the I D7 IV G7 and V A7 chords 19 nb 1 Harrison opts for a popular variant within the twelve bar blues formula by moving briefly to the IV chord for the second bar rather than remaining on I until the fifth bar 17 The composition comprises two verses a two round instrumental break and two further verses 17 In his lyrics Harrison unashamedly states his love for Boyd 3 Pollack describes the message as unusually unmuddled romantic euphoria 17 Early in the song Harrison tells her I loved you from the moment I saw you and by the last verse in the description of author Ian Inglis Boyd s sweet and lovely personality makes her irresistible he now loves her more than ever 21 As reproduced in I Me Mine Harrison s original handwritten lyrics show the song title as For You Blues 22 The song was named George s Blues Because You re Sweet and Lovely when the Beatles recorded it in late January 1969 and then Because You re Sweet and Lovely when mixing began on the unreleased Get Back album two months later 23 By the time that album had been presented to the Beatles for their approval in late May the song was listed as For You Blue 24 Twickenham rehearsals Edit For You Blue was one of the many new songs that the Beatles rehearsed at Twickenham Film Studios in south west London in January 1969 25 The film project which became known as Get Back and eventually Let It Be 26 formed part of the band s proposed return to live performance for the first time since their 1966 North American tour 27 Harrison said that after coming back from Woodstock in December 1968 he was quite optimistic about the new project especially the plan to return to a more ensemble based approach to playing 28 nb 2 The rehearsals were filmed and recorded by director Michael Lindsay Hogg with the intention that the documentary film would accompany a televised concert by the Beatles 34 35 Harrison presented an early draft of the song on 7 January 36 during a day marked by acrimony within the group 37 In their study of the tapes from the Get Back project authors Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt write that the Beatles rehearsed For You Blue half heartedly amid heated discussions about their future and with Harrison in disagreement with McCartney over the proposed concert 38 Adding to Harrison s dissatisfaction since the start of the Twickenham rehearsals his compositions All Things Must Pass Let It Down and Hear Me Lord 12 had received little enthusiasm from Lennon and McCartney 39 40 The Beatles returned to For You Blue on 9 January 41 by which time Harrison had completed the lyrics 42 He suggested that the song required an acoustic arrangement akin to skiffle or citing slide guitarist Son House as an example traditional country blues 43 The following day Harrison walked out of the sessions weary of what he considered to be McCartney s overbearing attitude 44 and Lennon s lack of engagement with the project 45 46 Production EditRecording Edit A lap steel guitar The song features Lennon soloing on a Hofner Hawaiian Standard lap steel 47 As a condition of Harrison s return to the group 48 49 the Beatles abandoned the idea of a concert and relocated to their Apple Studio in central London on 22 January 50 to record an album of some of the songs rehearsed at Twickenham 51 52 Until Lindsay Hogg chose to include footage relating to I Me Mine in the documentary necessitating a formal recording of that song in January 1970 53 54 For You Blue was the only Harrison composition recorded for the album 55 Music critic John Harris remarks on the surprising decision to include For You Blue in light of the more substantial compositions that Harrison had presented 56 Like Harris author Elliot Huntley considers that Harrison deliberately refrained from pushing for the inclusion of his best material believing that his bandmates would not do justice to songs such as All Things Must Pass Let It Down and the similarly overlooked Isn t It a Pity and Something 57 nb 3 The session for For You Blue took place at Apple on 25 January 59 60 with Glyn Johns and George Martin sharing the role of producer 61 According to Sulpy and Schweighardt the band played the song with a complete focus that contrasted with their indecisive approach that day when working on McCartney s Let It Be and Two of Us 62 With regard to Harrison s suggestion for a light acoustic arrangement on For You Blue Sulpy and Schweighardt describe the group s performance as being closer to the urban blues style 43 Take 6 was selected as the master take 61 The recording features Harrison on acoustic guitar and Lennon playing lap steel guitar 63 Lennon performs the first solo over the instrumental break after which McCartney plays a piano solo 17 According to various commentators Lennon used either a cigarette lighter a shotgun shell or the standard slide that came with the Hofner lap steel 64 To achieve Harrison s request for a bad honky tonk piano sound Martin 65 and McCartney intertwined newspaper between the strings of the piano 66 67 nb 4 Ringo Starr contributed a drum part that in Everett s description provides a heavy backbeat throughout the performance 20 Overdubbing and mixing Edit After the film project was revived in January 1970 for a proposed cinema release under the new title of Let It Be 71 Harrison chose to re record his lead vocal for the track 72 With Johns producing the session 72 Harrison overdubbed the vocal part at Olympic Sound Studios in south west London on 8 January 71 Harrison sings falsetto through much of the song 2 His ad libbed comments during the instrumental breaks including Go Johnny go and a reference to Mississippi bluesman Elmore James originated from this session also 72 nb 5 When Phil Spector remixed For You Blue for inclusion on the Let It Be album on 30 March 1970 74 he added a spoken introduction by Lennon in the style of a newspaper headline Queen Says No to Pot Smoking FBI Member 75 This comment was edited in from dialogue recorded at Twickenham Film Studios on 8 January 1969 75 Described by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn as a most interesting idea Spector created a tape loop of the song s instrumental break 72 over which he inserted other items of dialogue from the film including contrasting reactions from members of the public to the Beatles Apple rooftop concert on 30 January 1969 76 The tape was possibly intended to help promote Let It Be but never released 72 Despite Johns extensive contribution Lennon denied him a producer s credit on the album which was instead credited to Spector 77 Release EditApple Records issued Let It Be on 8 May 1970 78 with For You Blue sequenced as the penultimate track between The Long and Winding Road and Get Back 79 80 The release came four weeks after the Beatles break up and shortly before the premiere of the Let It Be documentary film 81 The song s appearance in the film signalled the change of location for the troubled Get Back project from Twickenham to Apple Studio 18 The song was selected as the B side to The Long and Winding Road a single released in the United States on 11 May 82 but not issued in Britain 83 In the US For You Blue gained sufficient radio airplay for Billboard to list the two songs together as a double sided hit 84 when the record topped the magazine s Hot 100 chart 85 86 The release was similarly treated as a double A side when it topped Canada s singles chart 87 and peaked at number 6 on Australia s Go Set national chart 88 On the US listings compiled by Cash Box which continued to monitor single sides individually For You Blue peaked at number 71 89 For You Blue was one of Harrison s most successful songs on the Billboard charts both as a member of the Beatles and as a solo artist 90 In 1976 it was among the seven Beatles tracks 91 that Capitol Records selected for inclusion on the compilation The Best of George Harrison 92 Recognising that its status as a US chart topper was due to Billboard s policy at the time however Apple did not include the track on the Beatles 1 compilation released in 2000 1 2 The first take of For You Blue from the 25 January 1969 session was released on the Beatles Anthology 3 compilation in 1996 73 93 The edit of the song as used in the Let It Be film a composite of takes 9 and 6 was issued as a promotional video for the compilation 61 A new mix of this film version was included on the Anthology DVD in 2003 61 That same year a remix of the original album track without the introductory dialogue added by Spector was issued on the album Let It Be Naked 94 Critical reception EditAmong contemporary reviews of Let It Be Alan Smith of the NME described For You Blue as another strong one from George a whispery chunky rocker Elmore James he calls out at one point got nothin on this baby 95 Melody Maker s Richard Williams 81 considered it to be an amusing trifle citing Lennon s camped down bottleneck guitar and the reference to James 15 96 Less impressed John Gabree of High Fidelity magazine found the lap steel playing the only point of interest on an otherwise boring track 97 In a 2003 review for Mojo John Harris highlighted For You Blue as one of the tracks that remained true to McCartney s original concept for a return to the group s beginnings with the Get Back project Harris admired the song s mesh of piano acoustic guitar and lap steel as quietly wonderful 98 Writing in Acoustic Guitar magazine that same year David Simons said that along with other standout s such as Here Comes the Sun and I Me Mine For You Blue exemplified Harrison s creativity as a rhythm guitarist and introduced a new element to the band s sound through the composition s origins on capo ed acoustic guitar 99 Among Beatles biographers Ian MacDonald dismisses the song as a forgettable twelve bar 63 while Mark Hertsgaard terms it a slight blues boogie and considers that Harrison would have been better served on the album by the superior All Things Must Pass and Let It Down 100 Walter Everett writes that the promise offered in Harrison s acoustic guitar introduction remains unfulfilled such that the principal interest lies in Lennon s only lap steel performance with the Beatles one that seems both clumsy and polished at the same time 18 Ian Inglis welcomes the song s lightheartedness as evidence that amid Harrison s usual preoccupation with spirituality and enlightenment he was nevertheless able to produce an uncomplicated and enjoyable love song Inglis concludes Its directness and his obvious enjoyment reinforce the sincerity of his words 101 Music journalist Kit O Toole recognises For You Blue as an example of a Beatles B side that was just as good if not better than the single s lead side While remarking on the contrast between the song s upbeat and optimistic qualities and the tense atmosphere within the band in January 1969 O Toole likens the performance to the four sitting in a living room just jamming for fun 2 Like Harris Justin Gerber of Consequence of Sound considers For You Blue to be in keeping with the group s intended back to basics approach although he pairs it with I Me Mine as Harrison compositions that are not bad but pale in comparison to his offerings on the White Album 102 Pitchfork s Mark Richardson admires the song s prickly rhythmic drive and groups it with tracks such as Two of Us and Get Back as examples of how Let It Be still contains quality material even though little feels consequential to the Beatles legacy 103 Live performances and cover versions Edit Dhani Harrison pictured in 2010 was among the musicians who performed For You Blue with McCartney at the Concert for George in 2002 He also recorded a cover of the track in 2013 For You Blue was part of Harrison s set on his Dark Horse Tour of North America in 1974 104 Harrison performed the song as a jam track during which he introduced the musicians in his tour band 105 A live version featuring solos by Robben Ford Emil Richards and Willie Weeks on guitar percussive bells and bass respectively 106 appeared on the disc accompanying Songs by George Harrison a limited edition illustrated book published by Genesis Publications in 1988 107 108 On 29 November 2002 McCartney sang For You Blue at the Concert for George held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the first anniversary of Harrison s death 109 McCartney was backed by a large band that included Starr Clapton and Harrison s son Dhani 110 with Marc Mann playing slide guitar 111 Pete Molinari covered the song for Mojo s Let It Be Revisited CD included with the October 2010 issue of the magazine 112 In 2013 Dhani Harrison recorded For You Blue as a charity release in aid of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation 113 a project supported by the Harrison family s Material World Charitable Foundation 114 Dhani was accompanied by Blake Mills Aaron Embry and Jim Keltner 113 the last of whom also played drums on Harrison s 1974 live version of the song 115 and on McCartney s performance in 2002 116 Personnel EditAccording to Ian MacDonald 63 George Harrison lead vocal acoustic guitar John Lennon lap steel guitar Paul McCartney piano bass 117 Ringo Starr drumsChart positions EditChart 1970 PeakpositionAustralian Go Set National Top 60 88 6Canadian MLS Singles 87 1US Billboard Hot 100 85 1US Cash Box Top 100 89 71Notes Edit Harrison uses a capo on the fifth fret of his guitar allowing him to play chord shapes as if the song was a twelve bar in the key of A 20 In addition to his time with the Band Harrison had enjoyed jamming with musicians in Los Angeles 29 during the sessions for Is This What You Want an album by Jackie Lomax that Harrison produced for the Beatles Apple record label 30 31 These session musicians included members of the Wrecking Crew such as Hal Blaine and Larry Knechtel 32 33 Harris describes this situation as one that speaks volumes about George s predicament over 1968 69 when Harrison s output as a songwriter had outgrown his junior status to Lennon and McCartney 56 While Everett considers that the songs submitted by Harrison throughout January 1969 were far more interesting than Lennon s 58 Sulpy and Schweighardt write that Lennon and McCartney routinely rejected Harrison s contributions even though some were far better than their own 11 While neither Ian MacDonald nor Kenneth Womack list a bass guitar part in their respective credits for the track 63 68 Harrison said in a 1987 interview with Creem that McCartney also played bass 64 69 Author Simon Leng credits Harrison for the bassline performed on acoustic guitar 70 When recording the song at Apple Harrison had included a mention of the group s Bluthner piano as McCartney played his solo 73 References Edit a b Fontenot 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