Hans Hot 100 Beatles Songs: #73: ‘Within You Without You’

The Countdown so far- 100-‘Any Time At All’/ 99- ‘No Reply’ / 98- ‘You Know My Name [Look Up The Number]/ 97- ‘The Inner Light’ / 96- ‘ You Won’t See Me’ / 95- ‘Baby’s In Black’/ 94- ‘Sexy Sadie’ / 93- ‘I Need You’ / 92- ‘Love Me Do’/ 91- ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey’/ 90- ‘Doctor Robert’/ 89- ‘There’s A Place’/ 88- ‘Good Day Sunshine’ 87- ‘It’s Only Love’ 86- ‘I Want You [She’s So Heavy] 85-‘Yer Blues’ / 84- ‘From Me To You’/ 83-‘She’s Leaving Home’/ 82-‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite’/ 81-‘I’m So Tired’/ 80-‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ 79- ‘Baby, You’re A Rich Man’ 78- ‘Yellow Submarine.’ #77 ‘Things We Said Today.’ #76: ‘When I’m Sixty- Four’ #75: ‘Happiness IS A Warm Gun’ 74: ‘I Will’ 73: ‘Within You Without You’

#73: ‘Within You Without You’- George Harrison’s contribution to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I must say that back in the mid 70’s when I ‘discovered’ The Beatles there is no way that ‘Within You Without You’ would have made my Top 100 Beatles songs. To that point in time I really hadn’t listened to that much music and ‘Within You Without You’ certainly didn’t fit into the type of songs I was used to hearing. Sgt. Pepper was also the first studio album by The Beatles that I had bought- after buying a few compilations -most notably the Red and Blue albums. At first I kind of dreaded when the first side of ‘Sgt. Pepper’ ended and flipped it over to side 2- and ‘Within You Without You’- but I never skipped over it. It quickly grew on me and over the years it is now a song I love. ‘Within You Without You’ was George’s second song in the Indian classical style- the first being ‘Love You To’ from their previous album- Revolver.