Something (The Beatles) – 1969

Is there any better inspiration for composing songs than a romantic interest? In the case of Beatles singer and songwriter George Harrison, it was his wife Pattie Boyd who was the inspiration for several Beatles songs penned by him. She was credited as the muse for “Something,” as well as other songs like “I Need You” and “For You Blue.”

Later on, in 1996, after his divorce from Boyd, he denied writing the song for her. He claimed that people only assumed that because they appeared as a couple in a promotional film. But in Boyd’s autobiography in 2007, she revealed that he actually told her that it was about her.