"Within You Without You" was a song written by George Harrison and recorded with a group of Indian musicians, without any input from his fellow Beatles. The second of Harrison's songs to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music, after "Love You To ". It was released in 1967 on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the last song to be completed for the album.
"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". Harrison sought out Indian musicians to aid him in the track's recording, although all of them went uncredited. Of those who were credited, producer George Martin arranged the string section, charging £33, and assistant Neil Aspinall played the tambura.
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