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Here Comes The Sun

George Harrison: Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonium, Moog synthesizer, handclaps
Paul McCartney: Bass guitar, handclaps, vocals
Ringo Starr: Drums, handclaps

Uncredited: 4 viloas, 4 cellos, 1 double-bass, 2 piccolos, 2 flutes, 2 alto flutes, 2 clarinets

Recorded August 3, 15,19 1969.

Available on:
Abbey Road
The Beatles 1967-1970(The Blue Album)

At a time when the Beatles should be focusing on recording music, they were instead hung up in meetings and heated discussions about who should manage their finances. At this stage, the financial side of the group's affairs was out of control. Despite the fact that the Beatles sold millions of records worldwide, they felt that they never actually saw the money they made (See also You Never Give Me Your Money.)

Consequently, New York lawyer John Eastman, brother of Paul's girlfriend and future wife Linda, was brought in to take care of the money side of the business. But in January 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono met music business manager Harry Klein, and shortly after they announced Klein as the group's new financial manager. This marked the beginning of a bitter dispute within the group, since Paul wanted Eastman to be in charge of the finances, instead of Klein.

A string of tense meetings at Apple (Beatles' headquarter and record label) followed. One day in the early spring of 1969, George Harrison decided that he had had enough of the meetings and instead he decided to pay his friend and Cream guitarist Eric Clapton a visit. Harrison was sitting in Capton's garden in Surrey, England, strumming his friend's acoustic guitar when the sun came out for the first time that year. He later said that the song came to him there and then. Here Comes The Sun expresses relief and optimism, despite the troubled times. The song has also been recorded by Peter Tosh, Richie Havens and Nina Simone, among others.

Here Comes The Sun

Little darling
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Little darling
The smiles returning to the faces
Little darling
I seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right
Here comes the sun, do do do do
Here comes the sun
It's all right
It's all right