“Love You To” is a song by the Beatles from the album Revolver. It is sung and written by George Harrison and features North Indian classical instrumentation; tabla, a pair of hand-drums, sitar and a tambura providing a drone. “Love You To” was the first Beatles’ song that seriously attempted to incorporate Indian classical music and has even been hailed as the first pop song to emulate a non-western form in structure and instrumentation. As such, it first introduced Western pop music fans to the eastern, Indian music that Harrison would promote for the rest of his career.

As Harrison seldom had titles for his songs the working title was “Granny Smith.” Lewisohn states that the first basic tracks of the song were set down in Abbey Road studio two on Monday 11 April 1966 in sessions between 2.30pm-7pm and 8pm-12.45am. They initially involved George singing to his own acoustic guitar accompaniment, with Paul supplying backing vocals. The sitar came in at take three and again as an overdub onto take six along with a tabla, bass and fuzz guitar. Lewisohn specifically states: “George played the sitar but an outside musician, Anil Bhagwat, was recruited to play the tabla.”

Harrison had been practicing the sitar since he used it to record Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) in October 1965 (he was soon to do so from its leading exponent Ravi Shankar) and Lavezzoli writes that “His playing throughout the song is an astonishing improvement over Norwegian Wood. In fact Love You To remains the most accomplished performance on sitar by any rock musician.” The tabla player on the Song (Anil Bhagwat) made no mention of any other Indian musicians but stated: “A chap called Angardi called me and asked if I was free that evening to work with George. I didn’t know who he meant — he didn’t say it was Harrison. It was only when a Rolls Royce came to pick me up that I realised I’d be playing on a Beatles session. When I arrived at Abbey Road there were girls everywhere with Thermos flasks, cakes, sandwiches, waiting for the Beatles to come out. “George told me what he wanted and I tuned the tabla with him. He suggested I play something in the Ravi Shankar style, 16-beats, though he agreed that I should improvise. Indian music is all improvisation.”

Ringo Starr is the only other Beatle who plays on the song, contributing tambourine. Paul McCartney originally recorded backing vocals for the song but these were left out of the final mix. There have been various accounts of uncredited personnel from the North London Asian Music Centre who contributed. MacDonald makes an unreferenced claim that there was an “uncredited sitarist” on this track.

A brief portion of the song was included in the Beatles’ animated film Yellow Submarine when Harrison’s character is introduced.

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