Harrison did minimal promotion for the album , content to let the music make its mark as he focused on establishing HandMade Films to finance '' Monty Python 's Life of Brian '' and other Python-related film projects . In an interview with Mick Brown , for '' Rolling Stone '' , Harrison said he was pleased with all the songs on the album but identified " Soft Touch " and " If You Believe " as the ones he was least impressed by . He said that " Soft Touch " was " just pleasant but there 's nothing special about it , I feel . " The title of the song was adopted for an international Harrison fanzine that was produced in Glasgow . The publication turned its scope to cover all the former Beatles in the early 1980s , however , due to Harrison 's withdrawal from the public eye following John Lennon 's murder in New York . Leng views " Soft Touch " as another " instalment of South Seas bliss " from Harrison and indicative of the artist 's avoidance of all contemporary musical trends on his self-titled 1979 album . Leng adds that the song would have held little appeal to rock critics at the time but instead satisfied the criteria outlined by Harrison 's friends among the Formula 1 community , for " nice , relaxing music " . Inglis admires the synergy of lyrics and music on the song as " effortless and entirely natural " , and adds : " While contemporary genres such as punk and heavy metal sometimes found it difficult to blend intimate , romantic messages with sympathetic musical accompaniments , Harrison seems to have achieved a near-seamless blend of the two . " He recognises Harrison 's co-producer , Russ Titelman , and the playing of backing musicians such as Steve Winwood as equally responsible for this achievement , saying that their contributions contrasted with the extravagance heard on some of Harrison 's early 1970s work and so matched his requirement for " a less aggressive , and more subtle , musical philosophy " from 1976 onwards
John Lennon 's murder
Murder of John Lennon
Soft Touch