On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the something different for christmas dinner title. Something” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison, the band’s lead guitarist.

The track is generally considered a love song to Pattie Boyd, Harrison’s first wife, although Harrison offered alternative sources of inspiration in later interviews. Owing to the difficulty he faced in getting more than two of his compositions onto each Beatles album, Harrison first offered the song to Joe Cocker. Something” received the Ivor Novello Award for the “Best Song Musically and Lyrically” of 1969. 2021 list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. Harrison identified Ray Charles as one of his sources of inspiration for the song.

George Harrison began writing “Something” in September 1968, during a session for the Beatles’ self-titled double album, also known as “the White Album”. The opening lyric was taken from the title of “Something in the Way She Moves”, a track by Harrison’s fellow Apple Records artist James Taylor. Having begun to write love songs that were directed at both God and a woman, with his White Album track “Long, Long, Long”, Harrison later cited alternative sources for his inspiration for “Something”. Leng considers that, lyrically and musically, “Something” reflects “doubt and striving to attain an uncertain goal”.

Author Ian Inglis writes of the confident statements that Harrison makes throughout regarding his feelings for Boyd. Something” was one of many recent compositions that he offered to the group. The Beatles rehearsed the song at Apple Studio on 28 January. With Ken Scott serving as his engineer, he recorded a live take of “Something”, featuring electric guitar and vocal. In March 1969, Harrison gave “Something” to Joe Cocker to record, having decided that it was more likely to become a hit with Cocker than with Lomax.

I think he was totally confident about the songs. The insecurity may have been, if the Beatles kept going, “How many songs am I going to be able to get on each album? Assisted by Harrison, Cocker recorded a demo of the song at Apple. While musicologist Walter Everett suggests that this was the same recording of “Something” that appeared on the Joe Cocker! George’s “Something” was out of left field.