Here Comes the Sun
by The Beatles
- 64
- BPM
- A major
- Key
- 11B
- Camelot
- 56
- Danceability
- 4
- Acousticness
In 2019 the Beatles' label chose "Here Comes the Sun" to promote the 50th anniversary reissue of Abbey Road. The song peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart. It has been certified triple platinum for UK sales since 2010, and as of 2025 it is the most streamed Beatles song on Spotify worldwide.
George Harrison wrote it in April 1969 at Eric Clapton's country house, where he had gone to avoid a meeting at the Beatles' Apple Corps office. He walked around the garden with one of Clapton's acoustic guitars and the song came out. He finished the lyrics in June, on holiday in Sardinia. The Beatles recorded it at EMI Studios in July and August 1969. Harrison, McCartney and Ringo Starr cut the rhythm track in 13 takes on July 7, while John Lennon stayed out as he recovered from a car crash. The last piece was a Moog synthesiser part, added on August 19.
Harrison played it at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 with Pete Ham, and in 1976 he sang it as a duet with Paul Simon on Saturday Night Live. Richie Havens and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel both had hit singles with it in the 1970s.
Here Comes the Sun runs at 64 BPM, the tempo of slow ballads, ambient and downtempo. In classical terms it sits in largo territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 3.75 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 938 ms. It is in A major, Camelot 11B, which shares its notes with F# minor and mixes cleanly with D major and E major.
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