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, released in 1975 on his final album for

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, ''

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''. A love song in the style of a soul/R&B ballad, it was written by Harrison in December 1973, towards the end of his marriage to

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and while he was having an affair with

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, the wife of his former

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bandmate

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. Having first considered the song for his 1974 release ''

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'', Harrison recorded "Can't Stop Thinking About You" in Los Angeles in May 1975 for his so-called "soul album", ''Extra Texture''. Some authors view its inclusion on the latter release as an obvious attempt by Harrison to commercialise the album, in response to the harsh critical reception afforded ''Dark Horse'' and his 1974 North American tour. The backing musicians on the recording include

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and

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, the last of whom also contributed a string arrangement. On release, "Can't Stop Thinking About You" was considered by some music critics to be a highlight of its parent album. In spite of the song's commercial qualities, it was passed over for release as the second single from ''Extra Texture'' in favour of "

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". Among opinions in the 21st century, commentators have tended to dismiss the composition as repetitious and inconsequential, with author Simon Leng describing it as "pop-soul fluff".

Background and composition

Although he omits any discussion of the song from his autobiography, ''

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told interviewers in September 1975 that he wrote "Can't Stop Thinking About You" over Christmas 1973.Madinger & Easter, p. 452.George Harrison interview, ''Rockweek'', (retrieved 5 June 2014). This period coincided with the end of Harrison's relationship with his first wife,

, who has described their home,

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, as a "madhouse" during their final year together. In her 2009 memoir, music-industry insider Chris O'Dell recalls spending the 1973

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with the couple and learning that Harrison was having an affair with

, the wife of his fellow ex-

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. On the night of 23 December, with both wives and O'Dell present, Harrison duly announced to Starr that he was in love with Maureen. Author Simon Leng pairs the song with " Simply Shady", as being a musical document of Harrison's "many nights spent nursing a bottle of brandy" while his marriage collapsed.Leng, p. 165. Harrison himself termed the 1973–74 period his "naughty" years, signifying bouts of rock-star excess and deviation from his

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-aligned spiritual path. A

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, views "Can't Stop Thinking About You" as a "typical, mid-seventies pop love song" and finds that it "contains no theology" – unlike many of Harrison's love songs, which appear to be directed at both a woman and a deity. The lyrics consist mainly of the song title repeated at length,Inglis, p. 53. with the words "It's no good living without you" providing the chorus's third line.Song lyrics, booklet with ''

'' CD (

, 2014; produced by George Harrison), p. 14. The two verses are equally "simplistic", Harrison biographer

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writes,Clayson, p. 349. as Harrison first states that, with the arrival of night-time, "Daylight has left me … / I can't take it if I don't see you no more", before altering the temporal context in verse two to morning, when "The daylight gets to me ..." Author Ian Inglis concludes of the song-wide message in "Can't Stop Thinking About You": "Day or night, Harrison's thoughts never stray from the lover who has left him ..." Musically, the composition is in the "soul-pop" style, Leng writes,Leng, pp. 184, 186. reflecting Harrison's return to the

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genre over 1974–76, after his earlier projects with

signings

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and

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. Author Robert Rodriguez similarly describes it as "an R&B-style weeper".Rodriguez, p. 184. When discussing the song with

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, in September 1975, Harrison remarked on the "melodramatic" melody over the verses (or "middle bits"), likening it to the extravagant musical styles of

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and

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. Even though the Harrison–Maureen Starkey liaison had become common knowledge by late 1974 – when Harrison released his album ''

'' and mounted a North American tour with

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– some critics later interpreted the song as being directed at Boyd,Huntley, p. 126. who had left him for his friend

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in July that same year. Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley suggests that, by the time Harrison recorded "Can't Stop Thinking About You" in 1975, for ''

'', the subject is more likely to have been

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. The latter was working as a secretary for Harrison's

record label in Los Angeles when they first met, in October 1974, after which she became his constant companion and, later, his wife.

Recording

Harrison first recorded "Can't Stop Thinking About You" for ''Dark Horse'', in June 1974, but left the song unfinished. With that album and the accompanying tour having received negative reviews from ''

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'' and other music publications over the winter of 1974–75, ''

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'' critic

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noted an "eagerness" on Harrison's part to "redeem himself" with ''Extra Texture''. Harrison's late 1974 projects had also resulted in a fall from his previous position of "considerable public and commercial favor", according to music journalist

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. Leng maintains that this loss of prestige influenced Harrison's choosing to include three obviously commercial tracks that were "designed to rehabilitate ispop status":Leng, p. 186. the 1971 Ronnie Spector outtake "

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"; a tribute to soul singer

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, " Ooh Baby (You Know That I Love You)"; and "Can't Stop Thinking About You". As another contributing factor behind what Beatles biographers such as Rodriguez, Woffinden and Chris Ingham recognise as an expedient, rushed approach to making ''Extra Texture'', Harrison wished to record the album quickly and so end his commitments to Apple, before signing with A&M-distributed Dark Horse Records.Clayson, p. 348. In addition, studio time became available at A&M's recording facility when he was in Los Angeles in April 1975;Madinger & Easter, p. 451. and, in one of his Dark Horse acts, the band Attitudes, he already had backing musicians on hand.Leng, pp. 178−79. "The haste was almost unseemly", Leng writes of the apparent commercial considerations behind Harrison's 1975 album, such that it would be "the first of his releases to lack passion". Harrison taped the basic track for "Can't Stop Thinking About You" at

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in Hollywood on 1 May. One of many piano-based songs on ''Extra Texture'', the recording features three keyboard players –

(piano), Attitudes member

(

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electric piano) and

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(

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).Spizer, p. 274. Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter suggest that Hopkins may have taped his contribution at a separate session. Harrison and

played electric guitar on the song, while the

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comprised Attitudes drummer

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and Harrison's friend

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on bass. Leng describes the musical arrangement as "

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the currently fashionable

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sound" through the use of "lush strings, pop-

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chord sequences, and richly worked backup vocals".Leng, p. 184. Harrison later conceded that the song was "very commercial" and stated that he had envisioned it recorded by English singer

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, to whom he originally gave "

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" in March 1969. In the same radio interview with Gambaccini, Harrison claimed that with his lead vocal on "Can't Stop Thinking About You", he was attempting to imitate

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, adding: "It was hard to sing that first chorus, I tell you." For the backing vocals, Harrison worked with Paul Stallworth, the lead singer of Attitudes, to create what Leng identifies as his "most intricate" vocal arrangement since producing

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's debut album, ''

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'', over 1973–74. Foster arranged and conducted a nineteen-piece orchestral string section for the track on 6 June at A&M. Madinger and Easter write that horn

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took place on 2–3 June, played by Tom Scott and

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, yet only the string orchestration appears on the released recording.

Release

Often viewed as Harrison's "soul album", ''Extra Texture (Read All About It)'' was released in September 1975, just nine months after ''Dark Horse''. "Can't Stop Thinking About You" appeared as track 2 on side two of the original LP format, segued with the side-opening " A Bit More of You". Leng writes that the purpose of the latter track, a 45-second instrumental portion of the

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-inspired "You", was to "fashion a soul mood" for "Can't Stop Thinking About You". With "You" an obvious choice for the album's

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, "Can't Stop Thinking About You" had the qualities required to be the follow-up, Leng and Allison opine. Instead, "

", Harrison's rebuttal to his 1974 critics, was released as a second single from ''Extra Texture'', in December 1975.

Reception

A number of critics singled out the song as a highlight of the album.Allison, p. 138.

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of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "Both 'Can't Stop Thinking About You' and ' Tired of Midnight Blue' ... are well done. Free from dogma ... they provide the most effective nine minutes of music Harrison's made since his solo career began."Dave Marsh
"George Harrison ''Extra Texture''"
, ''

'', 20 November 1975, p. 75 (retrieved 22 April 2013).

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of ''

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'' admired Keltner's drumming and the lead vocal part, which he said demonstrated "a texture to George's voice which hasn't often been heard". Coleman said that each of the album's tracks could "stand alone as a single" and identified "Can't Stop Thinking About You" as a "goodie" that improved through repeated listening.Ray Coleman, "Extra Texture: Back to the Sixties!", ''

'', 6 September 1975, p. 30. Among more recent reviewers,

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, writing for ''

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'' magazine in 2004, grouped the song with "You" and "This Guitar" as the three "standout tracks" on ''Extra Texture''.Paul Du Noyer, "Back Catalogue: George Harrison", ''

'', April 2004, pp. 152–53. While considering the album to be "almost entirely weary in tone, amounting to a prolonged buzz kill", Robert Rodriguez writes: "Isolated from the morose surroundings on this LP, Can't Stop Thinking About You'could have really shone, but here it simply prolongs the tedium." Chris Ingham pairs the song with "Ooh Baby" as examples of Harrison's "threadbare" compositions on ''Extra Texture'' and the "slick playing" found throughout the album.Ingham, p. 134. More impressed, Beatles compiler

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describes "Can't Stop Thinking About You" as a "beautiful mid-tempo love song", while Elliot Huntley admires it as "one of the best songs George ever wrote ... right up there with 'Something'". "It's one of those songs where everything comes together", Huntley continues, before listing attributes such as Nicky Hopkins' "elegant piano" and Harrison's "exquisite" vocals. Reviewing the 2014 reissue of ''Extra Texture'', Joe Marchese of The Second Disc deems it to be a track that "happily reflected his newfound bliss with Olivia".Joe Marchese
"Review: The George Harrison Remasters – 'The Apple Years 1968–1975'"
The Second Disc, 23 September 2014 (retrieved 10 October 2014). Tom Doyle, writing for ''

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'' magazine, describes Harrison as "sound ngdepressed, if R&B-soulful" on ''Extra Texture'', with "Can't Stop Thinking About You" "pre-echoing the boozy laments" of

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's 1980 album '' Grace and Danger''.Tom Doyle, "Hari Styles: George Harrison ''The Apple Years 1968–1975''", ''

'', November 2014, p. 109. Ian Inglis is dismissive of the "repetitive nature" of the lyrics and an "equally repetitive" melody. Noting that "Can't Stop Thinking About You" lacks the compositional strengths that make such repetition an "effective musical device", Inglis concludes: "what might have been intended as a pop anthem only manages to become an inconsequential album track." Simon Leng is similarly negative of Harrison's "aims to please", and writes: "No song on ''Extra Texture'' speaks more of the need to be commercially acceptable than 'Can't Stop Thinking About You,' Harrison's most obvious new pop cut since '

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.' Here he is positively desperate to reach for insignificance ..." Leng describes the track as "pop-soul fluff" and adds: "The song was obviously written to be a single, which makes it doubly puzzling that it wasn't released as one."

Personnel

– vocals, electric guitar, backing vocals *

– piano *

– electric piano, string arrangement *

– electric guitar *

–

– bass *

– drums *uncredited – tambourine * Paul Stallworth – backing vocals

Notes

References

Sources

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