Peter Asher, who produced Taylor’s debut record (and whose sister Jane dated Paul for several years), heard from Taylor firsthand on the subject. If George either consciously or unconsciously took a line from one of my songs then I find it very flattering.” “I don’t think he intentionally ripped anything off, and all music is borrowed from other music,” he said. To Taylor, it was barely worth mentioning. And it’s something John did with an Elvis line on “Run For Your Life.” For one, the lyric itself isn’t particularly remarkable. While a copied line in a song might strike some as bad form (or even plagiarism), it’s not a big deal for several reasons. Taylor said it was ‘flattering’ George used the line in ‘Something’ George HARRISON and wife Pattie BOYD leave court after being fined for possession of Cannabis in 1969. So in the end I just left it as that, and just called it ‘Something.'” It certainly didn’t bother Taylor at all. “And so then I thought of trying to change the words, but they were the words that came when I first wrote it. “There was a James Taylor song called ‘Something In The Way She Moves’ which is the first line of that,” George said around the time of Abbey Road’s release. George didn’t try to hide the source of the line, which was really just a starting lyric for a very different song. In fact, Taylor included the song on a demo tape Paul (and possibly George) heard beforehand. After signing Taylor to the band’s newly formed record label (Apple), George and Paul performed on “Carolina on My Mind” on that same album. The song was “Something in the Way She Moves,” and Taylor recorded it at the same studio The Beatles used to record several White Album tracks.Īnd it was no coincidence that George used the line. To be precise, George didn’t just borrow a line from a Taylor song the line was also the title of the song that appeared on Taylor’s self-titled debut.
Taylor debuted ‘Something in the Way She Moves’ at Apple in 1968 The Beatles in Salzburg, Austria, circa 1965 | Imagno/Getty Images
The opening line matches that of a James Taylor song of the same name. And if you need any further endorsement, look at it from a purely commercial standpoint: “Something” was the only song by George The Beatles released as a single.īut George couldn’t claim it was entirely original (whatever that phrase means). Paul McCartney thought it was the greatest number in George’s songbook, and John Lennon considered it the standout track on Abbey Road.įrank Sinatra, still a heavyweight in 1969, called it the best love song he’d ever heard. “ While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from The White Album is definitely a common answer so is Abbey Road’s “Here Comes the Sun.”īut “Something” might rank highest of all when people run down George’s best work. If you ask people to name their favorite George Harrison songs from his Beatles days, you’ll usually hear them call out tracks from the later albums.
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