Letter: George's fine song

My Sweet Lord is indeed a "taste of grace to the most irreligious of fans" (In praise of..., 1 December), but although similar to He's So Fine, George Harrison actually took his inspiration from the gospel hit Oh, Happy Day – the version by Edwin Hawkins Singers was enjoying chart success at the time. George inverted the structure: verse became chorus and vice versa (try it and see!). I was the editor of Genesis Publishing's edition of George's autobiography, I, Me, Mine, and in 1977, with the...

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