What is the title of Harrison's 1981 tribute song to John Lennon?
Answer
All Those Years Ago
What is the title of Harrison's 1981 tribute song to John Lennon? The answer is “All Those Years Ago.”
George Harrison released the song as a single in May 1981, several months after John Lennon was murdered in December 1980. Harrison adapted an existing recording by replacing or reshaping its lyrics so that the finished song became a personal reflection on Lennon and the Beatles’ shared past.
The recording has an especially notable lineup. Ringo Starr played drums, while Paul McCartney contributed backing vocals with Linda McCartney and Denny Laine. That made the track a rare post-Beatles studio collaboration involving Harrison, McCartney and Starr.
The song appeared on Harrison’s album Somewhere in England and became one of his major early-1980s hits. It is sometimes confused with Harrison’s later Beatles-related songs, but “All Those Years Ago” is specifically the 1981 Lennon tribute; its title refers nostalgically to the group’s earlier years together.