Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)

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Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
George Harrison
publication May 1973
length 3 min 32 s (single)
3 min 30 s (album)
Genre (s) skirt
Author (s) George Harrison
Label Apple
album Living in the Material World

Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) ( English , Give me love [Give me peace on earth] ') is a song of the British musician and ex- Beatles George Harrison from the year 1973. It appeared as a single and on the album Living in the Material World .

background

Harrison says in his autobiography : "This song is a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord and whoever likes it." ("This song is a prayer and a personal communication between the Lord me and anyone who likes it.")

composition

The in 4 / 4 - stroke wrote song is in F major and continues as a single 3:32 minutes on the album 3:30. The tempo is given as 'Moderately slow'.

text

In the song, the singer asks the Lord to give him five different things: love , peace on earth   , light , life, and hope . The request to give life is followed by the following request: "Keep me free from birth." (“Keep me free from [re] birth.”) “[…] That is, prevent returning to this world after one has left it.” “It belongs to his Hindu belief in rebirth, in which one is continuously reborn has to be until one is spiritually perfect, a point at which one no longer has to return to the material world to learn. "" [...] and the 'freedom from rebirth' he longs for would be such an exemplary life and the successful transition to a higher reality. "

The request to give hope is followed by the following request: “Help me cope with this heavy load trying to touch and reach you with heart and soul.” ("Help me cope with this heavy burden of trying to touch and reach you with heart and soul.") Harrison's manuscript reads "heavy load" instead of "wordly role", what rather rhymes with “soul”.

occupation

Cast list:

admission

The recordings took place in Apple Studios in London between October 1972 and January 1973 and in Henley-on-Thames in Harrison's estate. The producer was George Harrison.

publication

Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) was released with Miss O'Dell as B-side in the USA on May 7, 1973, in Great Britain on May 25, 1973. In Germany, the single was released in May 1973. The piece is on the samplers The Best of George Harrison (1976) and Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison (2001) included. In 1992 the title also appeared on the live album Live in Japan .

Chart placements

The single reached the highest positions: USA: 1; UK : 8; Germany: 28

Reviews

"But for now he had proven again that his outstanding ability to create attractive melodies would satisfy the record-buying public, if not the critics."

"But now he had again proven that his excellent ability to create attractive melodies would satisfy the record-buying audience, if not the critics."

- Simon Leng: The Music of George Harrison. While My Guitar Gently Weeps, p. 92

"[...] the heart-felt plea for love and peace, ' Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) ', a spirited single [...]"

"[...] the heartfelt plea for love and peace, 'Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)' , a spirited single [...]"

- Elliot J. Huntley: Mystical One: George Harrison. After the Break-Up of The Beatles, p. 90

“It's a musically beautiful and lyrically simple prayer both for the idealistic dreams of the 1960s - peace and love - as well as for George's religious ambitions - divine light and freedom from reincarnation. Both times, after the main two verses, we hear ' OM '. "

“It is a musically beautiful and lyrically simple prayer both for the idealistic dreams of the 60s - peace and love - as well as for George's religious ambitions - divine light and freedom from rebirth. Both times, after the two stanzas, we hear 'OM'. "

- Dale C. Allison Jr .: The Love There That's Sleeping. The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison, p. 142

"In the opening track of the album, 'Give Me Love' , he transformed the sentence 'oh, my Lord' into a commentary on the universality of faith with simple means."

- Joshua M. Greene: George Harrison. His spiritual and musical path , p. 170

Cover versions

Jeff Lynne performed the title at the Concert for George .

literature

  • Dale C. Allison Jr .: The Love There That's Sleeping. The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison . Continuum International, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-8264-1917-0 .
  • John Blaney: George Harrison. Soul Man . Lightning Source, Milton Keynes 2015, ISBN 978-0-9544528-8-9 .
  • Joshua M. Greene: George Harrison. His spiritual and musical path . Hannibal, Höfen 2006, ISBN 3-85445-271-3 .
  • George Harrison: I Me Mine . Genesis, Guildford 2017, ISBN 978-1-905662-40-1 .
  • Elliot J. Huntley: Mystical One: George Harrison. After the Break-Up of The Beatles. Guernica, Toronto 2004, ISBN 1-55071-197-0 .
  • Ian Inglis: The Words and Music of George Harrison. Praeger, Santa Barbara 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3 .
  • Andrew Grant Jackson: Still the Greatest. The Essential Songs of The Beatles' Solo Careers . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-8222-5 .
  • Simon Leng: The Music of George Harrison. While My Guitar Gently Weeps . Firefly, London 2003, ISBN 0-946719-50-0 .
  • NN : George Harrison. The Apple Years 1968-75. Hal Leonard, Milwaukee n.d., ISBN 978-1-4950-0248-9 .
  • Andreas Rohde: George Harrison solo. A musical biography . Nicole Schmenk, Oberhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-943022-14-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine, p. 264
  2. ↑ NN : George Harrison. The Apple Years 1968-75, pp. 100-105
  3. ^ Andreas Rohde: George Harrison solo. A musical biography, pp. 86–87
  4. ↑ NN: George Harrison. The Apple Years 1968-75, p. 100
  5. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine, p. 263, verses 9 and 21: "My Lord"
  6. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine , p. 263, verses 1-5 and 13-17
  7. ↑ This request reminds of the angel's promise at Christmas: ( Luke 2, 14) ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη (peace on earth).
  8. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine , p. 263, verses 4 and 16
  9. ^ Dale C. Allison Jr .: The Love There That's Sleeping. The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison , p. 79: “[…] that is, avoiding returning to this world after leaving it.”
  10. ↑ Andrew Grant Jackson: Still the Greatest. The Essential Songs of The Beatles' Solo Careers , p. 95: “It harkens to his Hindu belief in reincarnation, in which you have to be continually reborn until you perfect yourself spiritually, at which point you no longer have to return to the material world to learn. "
  11. ^ Ian Inglis: The Words and Music of George Harrison , p. 38: "[...] and the 'freedom of birth' for which he longs would thus signal an exemplary life and the successful transition to a higher reality."
  12. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine , p. 263, verses 5-8 and 17-20
  13. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine , p. 265
  14. ↑ Bruce Spizer: The Beatles Solo on Apple Records . 498 Productions, New Orleans 2005, ISBN 0-9662649-5-9 , p. 249 reads: “this worldly ride”.
  15. ^ Andreas Rohde: George Harrison solo. A musical biography, p. 89: "In contrast to All Things Must Pass, the reduced line-up indicates a departure from the Spector sound."
  16. ↑ John Blaney: George Harrison. Soul Man, p. 195, does not mention Voormann.
  17. ^ Andreas Rohde: George Harrison solo. A musical biography, p. 89
  18. ^ Andreas Rohde: George Harrison solo. A musical biography, pp. 86–87.
  19. ^ A b John Blaney: George Harrison. Soul Man , p. 195
  20. ^ Andreas Rohde: George Harrison solo, A musical biography , p. 86
  21. ^ Andreas Rohde: George Harrison solo. A musical biography , p. 87
  22. ^ Ian Inglis: The Words and Music of George Harrison, p. 125