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‘Soft Touch’ is the ninth and penultimate song on George Harrison’s self-titled eighth solo album.

Harrison wrote the song in March 1976 while holidaying in the Virgin Islands with his then-girlfriend Olivia Arias. Although the holiday was partly to enable Harrison to write songs for his Thirty Three & ⅓ album, he kept the song aside until its follow-up. See more…

‘Soft Touch’ I wrote in the Virgin Islands. The tune came because I was playing ‘Run Of The Mill’ and at the very end there is a horn line – I was playing this melody on the guitar and it became ‘Soft Touch’.

It is all very simple, and the lyrics reflect everything that was going on in the Islands… the wind, the cool breeze blowing, the palm trees, the new moon rising…