“Give Me Love” by George Harrison

"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" opens George Harrison's 1973 album Living in the Material World, and Apple issued it as the album's lead single that May. Harrison produced it himself, and after the big Phil Spector-assisted sound of All Things Must Pass it's a deliberate step down in scale: just Nicky Hopkins, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann and Gary Wright around him, and plenty of room for his much-praised slide-guitar solos. Fans and critics still count it among his best-loved songs.

He called it a prayer, and the words ask to slip free of karma and the endless wheel of rebirth. It became his second US number one after "My Sweet Lord", nudging Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love" off the top of the Hot 100, the one time a pair of ex-Beatles sat at numbers one and two in America.

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