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  • The Inner Light
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  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • Songs written by George Harrison
  • Capitol Records singles
  • Parlophone singles
  • 1968 singles
  • 1968 songs
  • Song recordings produced by George Martin
  • Songs published by Northern Songs
  • The Beatles songs
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  • %22The Inner Light%22 is a song written by George Harrison that was released by the Beatles in 1968 as the B-side to %22Lady Madonna%22. It was the first Harrison composition to be featured on a Beatles single and reflects the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation. The lyrics are a rendering of a chapter from the Taoist Tao Te Ching, which Harrison set to music on the recommendation of Sanskrit scholar Juan MascarĂ³, who had translated the passage in his 1958 book Lamps of Fire. A comparative rarity among the Beatles' recordings in the decade following its release, the song has subsequently appeared on compilation albums such as Rarities, Past Masters, Volume Two and Mono Masters.Harrison recorded the instrumental track for %22The Inner Light%22 in India in January 1968, during the sessions for his Wonderwall Music soundtrack album. The recording introduced instruments such as sarod, shehnai and pakhavaj to the Beatles' sound and features contributions from Indian classical musicians including Aashish Khan, Hanuman Jadev and Hariprasad Chaurasia. Aside from Harrison's lead vocal, recorded in London, the Beatles' only contribution came in the form of a brief backing vocal from John Lennon and Paul McCartney.Among music critics, the song has received praise for the its melodic qualities and for its evocation of the meditation experience. Jeff Lynne and Anoushka Shankar performed %22The Inner Light%22 at the Concert for George tribute in 2002. An instrumental alternate take was released in 2014 as a bonus track on the remastered Wonderwall Music CD.
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  • George Harrison
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  • original stereo studio mix
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  • George Martin
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  • Capitol Records
  • Parlophone
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  • --01-13
  • HMV Studios, Bombay; EMI Studios, London
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  • The Inner Light
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