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}} "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the opening track of his 1973 album ''Living in the Material World''. It was also issued as the album's lead single, in May that year, and became Harrison's second US number 1, after "My Sweet Lord". In doing so, the song demoted Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love" from the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, marking the only occasion that two former Beatles have held the top two chart positions in America. The single also reached the top ten in Britain, Canada, Australia and other countries around the world. "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is one of its author's most popular songs, among fans and music critics, and features a series of much-praised slide-guitar solos from Harrison. The recording signalled a deliberate departure from his earlier post-Beatles work, in the scaling down of the big sound synonymous with ''All Things Must Pass'' and his other co-productions with Phil Spector over 1970–71. Aside from Harrison, the musicians on the track are Nicky Hopkins, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann and Gary Wright. In his lyrics, Harrison sings of his desire to be free of karma and the constant cycle of rebirth; he later described the song as "a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it".〔 Harrison performed "Give Me Love" at every concert during his rare tours as a solo artist, and a live version was included on his 1992 album ''Live in Japan''. The original studio recording appears on the compilation albums ''The Best of George Harrison'' (1976) and ''Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison'' (2009). At the Concert for George tribute to Harrison, in November 2002, Jeff Lynne performed "Give Me Love" with Andy Fairweather-Low and Marc Mann playing the twin slide-guitar parts. Marisa Monte, Dave Davies, Elliott Smith, Ron Sexsmith, Sting, James Taylor and Elton John are among the other artists who have covered the song. ==Background and inspiration== As with most of the songs on his ''Living in the Material World'' album, George Harrison wrote "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" over 1971–72.〔 During that period, he had dedicated himself to assisting refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War,〔Kevin Howlett's liner note essay, ''The Apple Years 1968–75'' book (Apple Records, 2014; produced by Dhani Harrison), p. 31.〕 by staging two all-star benefit concerts in New York and preparing a live album and concert film for release.〔Lavezzoli, pp. 193–94.〕 In addition, much of his time was spent occupied with the business and legal problems afflicting the humanitarian aid project.〔Doggett, pp. 37, 38.〕 Harrison's frustration with this last issue resulted in a sombre quality pervading much of ''Material World'', yet, in the words of author Andrew Grant Jackson, he "pushed his disillusionment aside for the lead single (Me Love' )".〔Jackson, pp. 94–95.〕 The same period coincided with the height of Harrison's devotion to Hindu spirituality.〔Leng, p. 124.〕〔Huntley, pp. 87, 89.〕 With "Give Me Love", he continued the precedent he had set on his 1970 single "My Sweet Lord", by blending the Hindu bhajan (or devotional song) with Western gospel tradition.〔Leng, p. 157.〕〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 180.〕 Author Simon Leng notes that the song repeats another Harrison hit formula, by using a three-syllable lyrical hook as its title, like "My Sweet Lord", "What Is Life" and "Bangla Desh".〔Leng, pp. 153, 209.〕 In a further similarity with those earlier songs, he wrote "Give Me Love" very quickly;〔Madinger & Easter, pp. 434, 444.〕〔Harrison, p. 162.〕 Harrison biographer Alan Clayson describes it as having "flowed from George with an ease as devoid of ante-start agonies as a Yoko Ono 'think piece'".〔Clayson, p. 322.〕 In his autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison recalls of the writing process: Sometimes you open your mouth and you don't know what you are going to say, and whatever comes out is the starting point. If that happens and you are lucky, it can usually be turned into a song. This song is a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it.〔Harrison, p. 246.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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