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Genius Annotation

I Me Mine is the ego problem. There are two ‘I’s: the little 'i’ when people say ‘I am this’; and the big ‘I’ – is duality and ego. There is nothing that isn’t part of the complete whole. When the little ‘i’ merges into the big ‘I’ then you are really smiling!

— George Harrison

This was the very last song recorded by the Beatles, on 3rd January 1970 – and Lennon was absent from the session. It’s sadly fitting that “I Me Mine” is a song about creative division and inflated egos, two elements that played a huge role in the breakup of the band.

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What did The Beatles say about "I Me Mine"?
Genius Answer

Having LSD was like someone catapulting me out into space. The LSD experience was the biggest experience that I’d had up until that time…

Suddenly I looked around and everything I could see was relative to my ego, like ‘that’s my piece of paper’ and ‘that’s my flannel’ or ‘give it to me’ or ‘I am’. It drove me crackers, I hated everything about my ego, it was a flash of everything false and impermanent, which I disliked. But later, I learned from it, to realise that there is somebody else in here apart from old blabbermouth. Who am ‘I’ became the order of the day. Anyway, that’s what came out of it, I Me Mine. The truth within us has to be realised. When you realise that, everything else that you see and do and touch and smell isn’t real, then you may know what reality is, and can answer the question ‘Who am I?’

— George Harrison (from the 1980 book, I Me Mine)

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