{"id":140,"date":"2024-12-19T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:18:39","slug":"178-for-you-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/178-for-you-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"178: For You Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-beatles-card-song-info\"><div class=\"beatles-card-content\"><div class=\"bible-section\"><div class=\"source-heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-content\/plugins\/beatles-card\/src\/icons\/BeatlesBibleApple.svg\" alt=\"Beatles Bible\" class=\"source-icon\"><span>The Beatles Bible<\/span><\/div><div class=\"bible-text\"><p class=\"bible-paragraph\">Written by George Harrison for his wife Pattie, \u2018For You Blue\u2019 was a straightforward blues song recorded during the Let It Be sessions.<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/wp\/media\/let_it_be-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"Let It Be album artwork\" title=\"Let It Be album artwork\" class=\"bible-thumbnail\" width=\"200\" height=\"auto\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/songs\/for-you-blue\/\" class=\"continue-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading on Beatles Bible \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wiki-section\"><div class=\"source-heading\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-content\/plugins\/beatles-card\/src\/icons\/WikipediaLogo.svg\" alt=\"Wikipedia\" class=\"source-icon\"><span>Wikipedia<\/span><\/div><div class=\"wiki-text\"><div class=\"wiki-excerpt\">&quot;For You Blue&quot; is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. The track was written by George Harrison as a love song to his wife, Pattie Boyd. It was also the B-side to the &quot;Long and Winding Road&quot; single, issued in m&#8230;<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_You_Blue\" class=\"continue-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading on Wikipedia \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For You Blue is a Harrison composition appearing on Let It Be. It seems a bit lightweight lyrically, and musically it is a 12 bar blues, so it might seem like more of a impromptu jam than a fully developed song. But watching some out-takes from the Get Back sessions its clear that the Beatles spent a bit of time rehearsing it, paying particular attention to the sound, and that George was directing the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overall effect is like early acoustic blues (e.g., Robert Johnson), with Harrison playing acoustic guitar and Lennon a slide guitar (from memory he is seen unboxing it in the documentary).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no bass, and McCartney is playing a purposefully prepared piano (with paper inserted into the strings to give a wiry sound) playing very sparse chords. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sound is quite similar to Old Brown Shoe, but that song has more in the way of distinctive lyrics and chords, and is thickened with bass, electric guitar and hammond organ. In contrast For You Blue sounds deliberately thin and slightly discordant. It probably fit well with the project&#8217;s aims of simple no-nonsense recording, but for me it&#8217;s just a bit too thin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For You Blue is a Harrison composition appearing on Let It Be. It seems a bit lightweight lyrically, and musically it is a 12 bar blues, so it might seem like more of a impromptu jam than a fully developed song. But watching some out-takes from the Get Back sessions its clear that the Beatles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,22],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-a-day","tag-harrison","tag-let-it-be"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}