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‘Beautiful Girl’ is the third song on George Harrison’s seventh solo album Thirty Three & ⅓.

Harrison began writing while co-producing Doris Troy’s eponymous debut album. Also appearing on the album was Stephen Stills, who recorded his own debut album in London in early 1970, and Harrison wrote the song on Stills’ guitar. See more…

I started ‘Beautiful Girl’ in 1969 – I’d been working on a Doris Troy record and Stephen Stills had a very good twelve-string guitar which he loaned me for the evening. I wrote the tune then on that guitar but I couldn’t get past the first verse with the lyrics, and so the song sank back into the distance, but I remembered it during 1976 and finished the lyrics. I related it then to Olivia.