Sunday, November 1, 2009

For You Blue by The Beatles – ****

First released: 1970

George neato slide guitar blues from "Let it Be" that made it to the b-side of "The Long and Winding Road" single. It is a somewhat forgotten song in comparison to other Harrison compositions in the Beatles canon, but is easily one of their best. Too bad Harrison didn’t compose more like this.

Later he performed a hoarse version with changed lyrics on his 1974 tour. The studio version also appears on "The Best of George Harrison" and later in a cleaned up version for 2003's "Naked". A demo version appears on "Anthology 3" in 1996.

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