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“True Love at Henley on Thames: ex-Beatle George Harrison, tired of his forgotten man image, has got it all together again, says he never felt better, and is filming here in his Berkshire home, promoting his new album, ’33 1/3,’ in which he revives the Cole Porter oldie, ‘True Love.” - press blurb
“Just this summer I was sitting ‘round with the guitar and that song came into my mind and I just started playing it. And then I thought that it’s so, I don’t know, off the wall really and it’s such a nice song anyway, it’s a very simple melody and very simple words — it’s only about four words in it — and yet it’s a nice song, it’s a love song, it’s an up-song. And I just like the tune and I started fiddling about with it and with the chords, and then I just heard that arrangement that could be done just like that. That song could be done any way, really, you know.” - George Harrison, A Personal Music Dialogue with George Harrison at 33 & 1/3 (1976) “We’d been watching Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, watching that movie [High Society], and they do a duet, and just that little harmony thing they do, because she wasn’t know as really a singer. He’d play and we’d sing it. It just would get in his head, it would go around and around — I guess a lot of people get loops in their heads about songs — and then the natural progression was to go in the studio and record it. He didn’t care if it was punk rock, he was putting out ‘True Love.’” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio (2018) Q: “I looked at it for the first thirty seconds you’re on the screen, Where did they get this guy? And I thought, that’s George.” George Harrison: “I’m such a ham. I think I’ve had an image, people have had a concept of me being really straight ‚cause I was the serious one or something.” Q: “You were the mysterious one.” GH: “But actually, I mean, I’m the biggest lunatic around; one of them anyway.” - A Personal Music Dialogue with George Harrison at 33 & 1/3 (1976) It’s the seventh month of the year, so what better time to revisit the (Harri)songs that are track number seven on their respective albums? ("True Love" is track 7 on Thirty-Three & 1/3.) You can find those track 7 posts here. “My dad’s favorite number was 7, and a lot of things that he did were according to the number 7, whether he meant it or not. That was the highest honor I could have given a track on the album [Brainwashed], to put it track 7.” - Dhani Harrison, Brainwashed EPK
"True Love" music video
