Frank Sinatra said this was the greatest love song ever written. I can’t argue with that. It certainly proved George Harrison could be the equal of Lennon and McCartney, even if he lifted the first line from a James Taylor track. This is second to “Yesterday” as the most covered Beatles song ever. Harrison wasn’t sure his bandmates would record the tune; he even gave it to Joe Cocker before the “Abbey Road” sessions began. George said at various times it was either about his then-wife Pattie or the Hindu deity Krishna. John and Paul acknowledged its excellence, but once again John took a back seat in recording a Harrison song, only playing piano and no vocals. A Lennon song on the other side of the single also reached #1.
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