You guys! Summer officially starts this week–on Wednesday! So after what might’ve been a longer winter for some than others, we’re celebrating the official start to summer with the Beatles 1969 classic “Here Comes the Sun”. George Harrison penned the track, and shared his thoughts about “long, long winter”:

“Here Comes the Sun” was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: ‘Sign this’ and ‘sign that’. Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever, by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton‘s house. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric’s acoustic guitars and wrote “Here Comes the Sun”

Also, you should read this in regards to the track and space:
astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan had wanted the song to be included on the Voyager Golden Record, copies of which were attached to both spacecraft of the Voyager program to provide any entity that recovered them a representative sample of human civilization. Although The Beatles favoured the idea, EMI refused to release the rights and when the probes were launched in 1977 the song was not included.

Shout out to Treefort Festival‘s Matt Dalley for also jammin on this track in the past week.