<P> "Something" drew praise from the Beatles' primary songwriters John Lennon and Paul McCartney; Lennon stated that "Something" was the best song on Abbey Road, and McCartney considered it the best song Harrison had written . The single topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and made the top five in the United Kingdom . It has been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles song after "Yesterday". Artists who have covered it include Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, James Brown, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Smokey Robinson, Ike & Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Isaac Hayes, Julio Iglesias and Neil Diamond . Harrison said his favourite version of the song was James Brown's, which he kept in his personal jukebox . </P> <P> George Harrison began writing "Something" in September 1968, during a session for the Beatles' self - titled double album, commonly known as "the White Album". In his autobiography, I, Me Mine, he recalls working on the melody on a piano, at the same time as Paul McCartney recorded overdubs in a neighbouring studio at London's Abbey Road Studios . Harrison suspended work on the song, believing that with the tune having come to him so easily, it might have been a melody from another song . In I, Me, Mine, he wrote that the middle eight "took some time to sort out". </P> <P> 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 . While Harrison imagined the composition in the style of Ray Charles, his inspiration for "Something" was his wife, Pattie Boyd . In her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Today, Boyd recalls: "He told me, in a matter - of - fact way, that he had written it for me . I thought it was beautiful ..." Boyd discusses the song's popularity among other recording artists and concludes: "My favourite (version) was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in the kitchen at Kinfauns ." </P> <P> 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". In early 1969, according to author Joshua Greene, Harrison told his friends from the Hare Krishna Movement that the song was about the Hindu deity Krishna; in an interview with Rolling Stone in 1976, he said of his approach to writing love songs: "all love is part of a universal love . When you love a woman, it's the God in her that you see ." By 1996, Harrison had denied writing "Something" for Boyd, telling music journalist Paul Cashmere that "everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie" because of the promotional film accompanying the release of the Beatles' recording, which showed each member of the band with his respective wife . </P>

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