Pure Smokey | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

‘Pure Smokey’ is the eighth song on George Harrison’s seventh solo album Thirty Three & ⅓. See more…

‘Pure Smokey’ started out with nice chord changes. I’ve always liked Smokey Robinson and he’s probably one of the best songwriters around. He writes great lyrics and great melodies, and he is fantastic to see in concert, because one tends to forget how many good tunes he has written. He brought out an album called Pure Smokey, and I’ve met him once or twice.

Sometimes you get an idea and write a specific song, but other times – often – it turns itself into whatever it’s going to be – with the effort put into it – and this turned into ‘Pure Smokey’.

I’m trying to make the point – if I like someone I want to say ‘I like you’. I don’t want to die and then to think ‘Oh I forgot to tell them I liked them’.