Here Comes the Sun

#30 by The Beatles

I’ll begin by thanking our guest Headliner Maple Mixtape 🇨🇦 for a great prompt and submission! I really enjoyed writing my own and reading the other Back to Square One, by Ian Thomas submissions. Readers — I very much appreciate you too! Maybe I don’t mention it as often as I should, but you are the backbone of this community publication. 🙏 Thank you

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Week #29 Feature🏆

This week’s Feature goes to Theresa Greene, for the beautiful prose she added to the comments of last week’s newsletter. Week after week Theresa catches me off guard with the fleetness of her submissions. Sometimes she’s submitted before I get the post shared — I love it! Keep’em coming Theresa!😁

A passionate unrequited romance
He only wanted to dance
But had a way about him
My eyes grew dark and dim
A slow, rhumba entwined in two
But finally, eventually I knew
That love was lacking in his heart
It was incumbent that I depart
Back to Square One was necessary
End of tales, unbridled and fairy
Holding out for the real thing
Phone no longer ring -a-ding.
Twenty years later
God was the caterer
A delicious man for my appetite
Everything was just right!
Now Love lives with me
And we're as happy as can be
Time was the answer to
Love me too !

Here’s this week’s prompt, Here Comes the Sun, by The Beatles!

Calling all Poets, Fiction, or Non-Fiction writers that love music — Share your prose of 1500 words or less, using the prompt, Here Comes the Sun.

Remember:

• Each Tuesday I’ll publish a newsletter with that week’s song prompt — along with a featured writer’s submission from the previous week.

• Anyone is then free to run with it! Just add the link to your story or prose in the comments of this newsletter.

• Subscribers to Stories from the Jukebox, also have a chance to be featured in the following week’s newsletter. And I’ll do my best to give feedback and restack each submission.

Awards

There’s always rules:

1. All forms of prose are welcome, just keep it under 1500 words.

2. Submissions must be published by midnight on Monday.

3. Submissions must include a tag/link to this week’s Song Prompt Newsletter embedded within the post.

   While anyone is welcome to add their post in the comments at any time — all rules must be followed for a post to be eligible to be featured or shared.

How would you like to pick our prompt? Find out how to join our revolving list of Headliners here.

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"Here Comes the Sun" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their eleventh studio album Abbey Road (1969). It was written and sung by George Harrison, and is one of his best-known compositions. (Via Wikipedia)

Harrison wrote “Here Comes the Sun” at the house of his friend Eric Clapton, in response to the dark mood surrounding the Beatles. Harrison states in his autobiography, I, Me, Mine:

“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”.

The Beatles recorded “Here Comes the Sun” at London’s EMI Studios in July and August of 1969. Led by Harrison’s acoustic guitar, the track features a Moog synthesiser, which he had introduced to the band’s sound after acquiring an early model of the instrument in California. Reflecting the continued influence of Indian classical music on Harrison’s writing, the composition includes several time signature changes.

This video biography of Here Comes the Sun, by You Can’t Unhear This 😲 wowed me!

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Rick West has picked a great prompt for the first week of March! He’s a long time member of the Jukebox Band, but you’ll know him as primalbeet. Rick’s Headlining from his trip abroad this week, which you can follow along with on his travel page. I have very much enjoyed his articles and vlog posts!

Here’s this week’s Headliner, Here Comes the Sun, by Rick West!

George Harrison was the mysterious Beatle. His friend Eric Clapton described him as a “magical guy” who just loved to play. One April, after a long cold lonely winter, Harrison wrote this song.

Click the photo to read Rick’s Headliner submission!

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