If You Believe

Written by: George Harrison, Gary Wright
Recorded: March-November 1978
Producers: George Harrison, Russ Titelman

Released: 20 February 1979 (US), 23 February 1979 (UK)

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Personnel

George Harrison: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Neil Larsen: piano
Willie Weeks: bass guitar
Andy Newmark: drums
Gary Wright: Oberheim synthesizer
Unknown: strings

‘If You Believe’ is the final song on George Harrison’s self-titled eighth solo album.

It was co-written with Gary Wright, who also performed synthesizer on the recording. Harrison finished writing the song in Hawaii in February 1978.

‘If You Believe’ – written with Gary Wright in England on New Year’s Day 1978. He said ‘Here’s a bit I’ve got, I don’t know if you can make anything of it!’ He played it to me and we made it into this song that night. I wrote the words to the verses later in Hawaii, and edited it down after the recording.

In an interview to support the album, Harrison mentioned ‘If You Believe’ as one of his two least favourite songs.

I like them all really, but the two I least like are ‘If You Believe’ – I like the sentiment of that, but it’s a bit obvious as a tune – and ‘Soft Touch’, which is just pleasant but there’s nothing special about it, I feel.

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