Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
On the 1965 album "Rubber Soul", George Harrison had led the Beatles towards Indian classical music through his use of the Indian sitar on John Lennon's song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", while his own composition "If I Needed Someone" reflected the genre's influence in its melody and suggestion of drone. He subsequently wrote "Love You To" as a way to showcase the sitar, and to feature the tabla, a pair of Indian hand drums, for the first time. Music critic Richie Unterberger describes the song as the Beatles' "first all-out excursion" in raga rock,&lt;ref name="Unterberger/AM"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; a genre that author Nicholas Schaffner says was "launched" by Harrison's use of sitar on "Norwegian Wood".