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For You Blue is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Bob Dylan, The Band, Eric Clapton, Son House and Elmore James. Those roots explain a lot about how For You Blue arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as All You Need Is Love and From Me to You, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Paul McCartney, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 8 connections around For You Blue, reaching back through Bob Dylan and forward to Paul McCartney. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"For You Blue" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. The track was written by George Harrison as a love song to his wife, Pattie Boyd. It was also the B-side to the "Long and Winding Road" single, issued in many countries, but not Britain, and was listed with that song when the single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and Canada's national chart in June 1970. On the Cash Box Top 100 chart, which measured the US performance of single sides individually, "For You Blue" peaked at number 71.
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For You Blue grew out of Bob Dylan, The Band, Eric Clapton and Son House, shares an orbit with All You Need Is Love and From Me to You, went on to shape Paul McCartney. 8 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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