Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Evening. Song of The Day. I Me Mine is a song by the Beatles, written and sung by George Harrison. I Me Mine is also the title of Harrisons autobiography. The song traces its origins to the January 1969 Get Back/Let It Be sessions, when it was rehearsed by the band at Twickenham Film Studios. It was the last new song recorded by the band before their split in 1970. I Me Mine is the ego problem. There are two Is: the little i when people say I am this; and the big I - is duality and ego. There is nothing that isnt part of the complete whole. When the little i merges into the big I then you are really smiling! —George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology The set of pronouns which forms the songs title is a conventional way of referring to the ego in a Hindu context. For example, the Bhagavad Gita 2:71-72 can be translated as They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of I, me and mine to be united with the Lord. This is the supreme state. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality. Gould claimed that Harrison wrote the song as a commentary on the selfishness of John and Paul and considered it poignant that it was only properly recorded because, in the film made at Twickenham studios, it provided accompaniment to John and Yoko dancing. George was particularly upset at Twickenham that his fellow Beatles could complain about the amount of time they had to spend learning the arrangement for I Me Mine and then turn around and submit to a laborious rehearsal of a song like Maxwells Silver Hammer which struck George as a paragon of pop inanity. Further, if friends like Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton heard something worthwhile in material like All Things Must Pass ... what besides sheer egotism could account for the air of complete indifference with which Lennon and McCartney first greeted both that tune and I Me Mine? After receiving his eternal problem inspiration, Harrison played some chords to the 6/8 time signature. The song was inspired by the incidental music for a BBC television program, Europa—The Titled and the Untitled, which aired on 7 January 1969; Harrison wrote the song that night and performed the song for the other Beatles the following morning. The Let It Be film features a segment in which Harrison plays the song for Ringo Starr, describing it as a heavy waltz; the band is then seen performing the tune while John Lennon dances with Yoko Ono. The song was released on the Let It Be album; however, the Beatles had not done a proper studio recording of the song during the January 1969 sessions. When director Michael Lindsay-Hogg chose to include the I Me Mine segment in the Let It Be film, the Beatles decided to record the song for inclusion on the accompanying album. Paul McCartney, Harrison and Starr met in the studio on 3 January 1970, to record the group version of the song. John Lennon was not available; he was on holiday in Denmark. Lennon had privately quit the group in September 1969 so it is not known if he would have attended anyway. The group recorded 16 takes of the song, the last of which was chosen for the album. Before take 15, Harrison delivered a mock press statement in a joking reference to Lennons absence and the British pop group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich: You all will have read that Dave Dee is no longer with us. But Mickey and Tich and I would just like to carry on the good work thats always gone down in number two [EMI Studio 2]. The statement followed by take 16 was included on Anthology 3. Although final rendition only lasted 1:34, Phil Spector extended the length by copying and repeating a section. Spector also overdubbed a string and brass accompaniment. The final version, as re-produced by Spector, was featured on the re-titled Get Back album, Let It Be. A similar edit, without Spectors overdubs but retaining the repeated section, is available on Let It Be... Naked. Although the sessions for I Want You (Shes So Heavy) and The End in August 1969 were the last where all four Beatles were present in the recording studio, I Me Mine was the last new song recorded by the Beatles, albeit without Lennon, until the Free as a Bird/Real Love reunion sessions in 1994. However, it was not their last recording session. The three returned the next day, 4 January 1970, to record overdubs on Let It Be, Harrison returned on 8 January to record vocal overdubs on For You Blue and Starr returned on 1 April 1970, to record overdubs for Across the Universe, The Long and Winding Road and an additional drum track for I Me Mine. The song is playable in the video game The Beatles: Rock Band. Spectors work was removed for the games version. youtube/watch?v=NvDHwVM-PJI
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:00:01 +0000
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