| "Within You Without You" | ||||||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||||||
| from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ||||||
| Released | 1 June 1967 | |||||
| Recorded | 15 and 22 March and 3 April 1967 | |||||
| Studio | EMI, London | |||||
| Genre | Raga rock, Indian classical music | |||||
| Length | 5:05 | |||||
| Label | Parlophone | |||||
| Songwriter(s) | George Harrison | |||||
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |||||
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band track listing | ||||||
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"Within You Without You" is a song written by George Harrison and released on The Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
"Within You Without You" features only Harrison and a group of uncredited Indian musicians, although producer George Martin arranged the string section, and Harrison and assistant Neil Aspinall played the tambura. According to Prema Music, dilrubha player Amrit Gajjar played on the track. It is the second of Harrison's songs to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music, after "Love You To", and Harrison's only composition on Sgt. Pepper. "Within You Without You" was written on a harmonium at the house of long-time Beatles friend Klaus Voormann, while "there were lots of joints being smoked".
Stephen Stills was so impressed by the lyrics that he had them carved on a stone monument in his yard. John Lennon said it was"one of George's best songs."