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‘Your Love Is Forever’ is the eighth song on George Harrison’s self-titled eighth solo album. See more…

‘Your Love Is Forever’ also started out as an open-tuning guitar melody. Russ Titelman, who co-produced the George Harrison album, heard the rough guitar track and loved the tune so much he kept on at me until I’d written the lyric.

It was difficult for me to write the words because sometimes when I get a tune first I am not too sure which way the lyric should go – it’s different if you get a tune, and at the same time, a basic idea which way the story’s going. But in this case because I felt the tune was good I wanted the lyric also to be good, and to mean something.

I think the success of the melody was largely due to the Roland effect on the guitars. It’s slightly different to phasing or to the Leslie speaker which is a revolving speaker in a cabinet. It gives a little added atmosphere to the sound, so when you play even one chord on electric guitar it sounds pretty. That’s the guitar sound that can be heard on the recording.

It was hard finding the chord changes because of the strange tuning, and I was making up chords as opposed to playing conventional ones. Although it’s difficult inventing new fingering positions, open-tuning gives the advantage of almost letting you superimpose two chords on top of each other, which you can’t do with regular tuning.