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‘It’s What You Value’ is the sixth song on George Harrison’s seventh solo album Thirty Three & ⅓.

The song was inspired by drummer Jim Keltner’s request of a Mercedes car instead of payment for performing on Harrison’s 1974 North American tour. See more…

The reference to ‘It’s What You Value’ came about because in ’74 tour the drummer – Jim Keltner – was supposed to be in the band with Andy Newmark but he backed out in the last minute, so we continued through rehearsals and into the first week without Jim. I kept phoning all the time asking him to come, and finally I got through all the obstacles and he said ‘OK, I’ll come and do it but I don’t want paying for it’… (There were still six weeks to go.) ‘I don’t want paying for it… but I’m sick of driving that old VW bus’. I said ‘I get it, you want a car then?’ It turned out that he got a Mercedes 450SL instead of payment but months later there was a bit of feedback from some of the others in the band saying ‘Well how come he got a Mercedes and all we got was money!’