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‘This Song’ is the fourth song on George Harrison’s seventh solo album Thirty Three & ⅓.
It was written in March 1976 after Harrison spent a week in a New York court, during the case to determine whether his 1970 hit ‘My Sweet Lord’ plagiarised The Chiffons’ ‘He’s So Fine’. See more…
It’s like a running joke now. The guy who actually wrote ‘He’s So Fine’ had died years before, Ronnie Mack. Bright Tunes Music, his publisher, was suing me. So we went through the court case, and in the end the judge said, yes, it is similar, but you’re not guilty of stealing the tune. We do think there’s been a copyright infringement, though, so get your lawyers together and work out some sort of compensation. But Bright Tunes wouldn’t settle for that; they kept trying to bring the case back into court. They even tried to bring it back into court when I did ‘This Song’.
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Getbackintheussr said
I was looking through the George song threads and found that (*gasp*) there was no thread forone ofmy favorite solo Beatles songs, This Song. So here’s one.
I can’t believe that there isn’t a thread for this song, This Song!
I fixed your post for you btw…
Can I just take a moment to admire George’s sense of humour here? So dry… So awesome!
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15 November 2018
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Getbackintheussr said
I was looking through the George song threads and found that (*gasp*) there was no thread for
one ofmy favorite solo Beatles songs, This Song. So here’s one.
I can’t believe that there isn’t a thread for this song, This Song!
I fixed your post for you btw…
So This Song = multiple solo Beatles songs?
-50yearslate, resident Grammar Nazi since 2018 
Can I just take a moment to admire George’s sense of humour here? So dry… So awesome!
YES. So like him to take this exhausting, unfair, and stressful ordeal and turn it into a sarcastic and amazing song.
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1 January 2017
Offline I absolutely love the instrumental section in This Song that also reappears at the end. I know I’ve said it already, but it will forever remind me of another one of my favourite songs, Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress. Just can’t beat that blues shuffle “in E”! 
Plus Ronnie in drag for the video is always a right laugh. Another contender against 1963 Christmas Show George and Rogerina, maybe? 
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