I me mine
| I me mine | |
|---|---|
| The Beatles | |
| publication | May 8, 1970 |
| length | 2 min 26 s |
| Genre (s) | Blues rock |
| Author (s) | George Harrison |
| album | let it be |
I Me Mine ( English I, me, mine ) is a song by British rock band The Beatles , that of George Harrison written on 8 May 1970 on the album Let It Be was released. In this song Harrison speaks of insights into his own self that he gained through his experience with LSD .
“I suppose having LSD was like somebody catapulting me into space. The LSD experience was the biggest experience that I'd had up until that time. [...] So suddenly, I looked around and everything I could see was relative to my ego - you know, like 'that's my piece of paper' and 'that's my flannel', or 'give it to me ' or ' I am' . It drove me crackers; I hated everything about my ego - it was a flash of everything false and impermanent which I disliked. But later, I learned from it: to realize that there is somebody else in here apart from old blabbermouth […]. Who am 'I' became the order of the day. Anyway, that's what came out of it: 'I Me Mine'. The truth within us has to be realized: when you realize that everything else that you see and do and touch and smell isn't real, then you may know what reality is and can answer the question 'Who am I?' ”
While most of the songs on the accompanying album were recorded in early 1969, I Me Mine was not recorded until January 1970. John Lennon , who had unofficially left the band after completing work on Abbey Road , therefore no longer took part in the recording of the song . He had been involved when the Beatles had worked together on the song a year earlier.
There are three versions of the song. The original unedited studio version wasn't released until 1997 on the Anthology 3 album. The widely known version on the album Let It Be is significantly longer than the studio version because Phil Spector found the song to be too short and therefore artificially lengthened it with simple cuts. In addition, he added an orchestra to the recording. When the recordings of Let It Be for the album Let It Be… Naked were revised in 2003 , Spector's "extension" was taken over, but the orchestra was dispensed with.
“I Me Mine is the 'ego' problem. There are two 'I's': the little 'i' when people say 'I am this'; and the big 'I', ie OM, the complete whole, universal consciousness that is void of duality and ego. There is nothing that isn't part of the complete whole. When the little 'i' merges into the big 'I' then you are really smiling! "
In 1980, George Harrison titled his autobiography with I Me Mine .
Individual evidence
- ↑ I Me Mine , Genesis. Guildford 2017. ISBN 978-1-905662-40-1
- ^ Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. 'Revolver' through the 'Anthology' . Oxford University Press. New York 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0 , pp. 233 f. and 275
- ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine . Simon & Schuster, New York 1980, ISBN 0-671-42787-3 .