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==Official Beatles Sites==
* [https://www.TheBeatles.com TheBeatles.com]
* [https://www.JohnLennon.com JohnLennon.com]
* [https://www.PaulMcCartney.com PaulMcCartney.com]
* [https://www.GeorgeHarrison.com GeorgeHarrison.com]
* [https://www.RingoStarr.com RingoStarr.com]

==Beatles Video==
[https://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/search ''New Musical Express'' Beatles Videos]<br />
Enter: "NME beatles video" (without the quotes) into the search box on this site. Lots of great video.

[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!

==Beatles-related Websites==
[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)]<br />
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ at KLOS 95.5 in Los Angeles

[http://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles The Beatles on SoundCloud]<br />
Listen to myriad modern mixes of Beatles tunes  The Beatles reinterpreted, reimagined and remixed!

[https://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner Beatles Examiner]<br />
A Beatles Blog by Steve Marinucci

[http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/ The Beatles Rarity]<br />
For those of us who like our Beatles rare....

[http://kenwoodlennon.blogspot.com/ Kenwood]<br />
Blog about Kenwood, Kinfauns and other Beatles residences, then and now.

[http://beatles-365.blogspot.com/ A Year In The Life]<br />
A Beatles blog that's actually about the music: because there's a Beatles song for every day of the year.

[http://wogew.blogspot.com/ WogBlog]<br />
All things Beatle. A blog by Roger Stormo who apparently has some good connections. Great source for Beatle news.

[https://www.beatlesbible.com/ The Beatles Bible]

[http://beatlesite.blogspot.com/ A Hard Day's Site]<br />
Great Beatles site.

[http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/ Beatles Interviews (exhaustive!)]<br />
Great site.

[http://www.facebeatles.com/ Facebeatles]<br />
A humoristic Beatles history on a parodic Facebook Wall

[http://beatlespace.ning.com/ My Beatles Space]<br />
A Social Networking Site for Beatles Fans

[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/rickenbacker/ Steve's Beatles Page]<br />
"A Comprehensive Collection of Beatles Bootlegs"  Exhaustive listing of Beatles bootleg recordings ... purely for educational use...

[http://www.bootlegzone.com/files.php?section=1&sort=1 The Bootleg Zone]<br />
''Lots'' of Beatles bootlegs info here, as well.

[http://www.beatlesebooks.com/standing-there Beatles Music History: The In-Depth Story Behind the Songs of the Beatles]<br />
Lots of good info.

==Interviews==
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* [http://beatlesnumber9.com/lennon1968.html ''Rolling Stone'' Interview, Nov 23, 1968]
* [http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/John_Lennon_Part1.aspx Dec 8, 1970, Interview with John Lennon (Part I), ''Rolling Stone'']

* [http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/John_Lennon_Part2.aspx Dec 8, 1970, Interview with John Lennon (Part II), by Jann S. Wenner, ''Rolling Stone'']

* [http://www.angelfire.com/pq/yesterdaysmusic/interview1.html The Playboy Interviews, David Scheff, 1980]

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* [http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rock/paulint.html 1984,''Playboy Magazine'', song-by-song interview]

* [http://www.macca-central.com/macca-archives/bassplayer.htm July/August 1995, ''Bass Player Magazine'', by Tony Bacon]


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<th>George Harrison</th>
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[http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1969.0121.beatles.html Jan 21st 1969, with David Wigg, for the BBC Radio-One program "Scene and Heard."]

[http://www.moderndrummer.com/web_exclusive/900001114/Ringo%20Starr 2005, ''Modern Drummer Magazine'', by Billy Amendola]

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* [http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1969.1008.beatles.html Oct 8, 1969, George Harrison, interviewed by David Wigg]

* [http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/interviews8431.html Apr 1970, George Harrison, NYC radio station]

* [http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/george-harrison/concerts/interview-august-24-1975.html 1975, George Harrison, "King Biscuit Radio Hour" (audio)]

* [http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1977.0200.beatles.html February 1977, George Harrison, ''Crawdaddy Magazine'']

* [http://krishna.org/george-harrison-interview-hare-krishna-mantra-theres-nothing-higher-1982/ 1982, George Harrison, Krisna.org]

* [http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/GeorgeHarrison/Interview001.html Dec 1987-Jan 1988, ''Creem Magazine'' George Harrison interview]

* [http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1969.1008.beatles.html 1995, ''Q Magazine'', George Harrison interview]
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==Articles==
* [http://triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/beatles/lennon-mccartney.shtml Bill Harry, Editor of ''Mersey Beat'' on Lennon and McCartney writing together]
* [http://www.beatlesbible.com/1957/07/06/john-lennon-meets-paul-mccartney/ John Lennon Meets Paul McCartney]
* [http://riprense.com/Revolution.htm Rip Rense on the 10-minute "Revolution 1 (Take 20)" track] Great read!

==Analysis==
* [http://waxy.org/2009/10/audio_analysis_of_the_beatles_multitrack_masters/ '''Audio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters'''] BBC Radio 6 program called [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/recordproducers.shtml Record Producers: The Extended Cut], hosted by Richard Allinson and Steve Levine, wherein three of the Beatles' original multitrack masters are analyzed, isolating and highlighting pieces from "She's Leaving Home," "A Day in the Life," and "Come Together." Really amazing!

* [http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform '''The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!'''] It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

* [http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_on.shtml '''Alan W. Pollack's Analyses of the Beatles' songs'''] In 1989 the American musicologist Alan W. Pollack started to analyze the songs of the Beatles. His site now contains the analysis of the entire official Beatles' canon, consisting of 187 songs and 25 covers, with an alphabetical, a canonical and a chronological index, as well as a short introduction. Dig it!

==Online Books==
* [http://www.scribd.com/doc/6138974/The-Beatles-Recording-Sessions ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'']
* [http://www.scribd.com/doc/24654803/Playboy-Interview-With-John-Lennon-and-Yoko-Ono-Interviewed-by-David-Sheff-1980 ''Playboy Interviews'' with David Scheff]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=asZCAAAAIAAJ&q=hunter+davies+beatles&dq=hunter+davies+beatles&cd=2 ''The Beatles: The Authorized Biography'' by Hunter Davies, 1968]
* [http://www.scribd.com/doc/12947313/Barry-Miles-Paul-McCartney-Many-Years-From-Now ''Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now'' by Barry Miles]
* [http://books.google.com/books?cd=4&id=46OfAAAAMAAJ&dq=lennon+playboy+interview&q=magical+mystery+tour ''The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono'' by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=4Yoio9MewhcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=george+martin&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''All You Need Is Ears'' by George Martin]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=rcg50S6jLnoC&lpg=PA18&ots=UEu-GieSZH&dq=%22george%20harrison%22%20%2B%20%22it%20was%20just%20too%20difficult%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Breakup of the Beatles'' by Elliot J. Huntley]
* [http://books.google.com/books?q=Interview+with+George+Harrison&source=in&ei=R-pNS9nSKJH2sQOBraHMBw&sa=X&oi=book_group&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results&resnum=11&ved=0CDEQsAMwCg Various George Harrison]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=hksjpvfowgMC&dq=%22pete+shotton%22+%2B+%22innocently+singing+along%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Beatlesongs'', William J. Dowlding, 1989]

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<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is Charles Roberts' authentic story of events from the birth of the Quarrymen to the advent of the Beatles. He was there at the start of it all, taking the first photographs of Lennon performing in public  and hanging out with John and other Beatles and Beatlefolk.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool roots. Mr. Roberts' modest and wry sensibilities shine as he fills in the early timeline with fascinating context, color and detail. Many previously unseen (and some seen) photographs accompany his very readable, no-nonsense yet fun insider's account of first meetings, happenings, personalities, and influences. Every Beatles and Quarrymen fan and/or scholar should glean at least one new pearl from this wonderful book.</p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;">How to Purchase <em>Just Like Starting Over</em></p>
<p style="font-weight:normal;">The edition  156 pages, paperback  is limited to 500 copies and is signed by Charles Roberts and and the three Quarrymen, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is not on Amazon, as Charles had major problems with the publisher and decided to sell the books himself.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is $20 + $15 P+P to the United States; £15 + £3 P+P in the UK.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">You can order a signed copy directly from Mr. Roberts: diondee321 [at] sky [dot] com. If you wish to have it inscribed (no add'l charge), request this in the email.</p>

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[[File:Just-like-starting-over-cover.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|© Charles Roberts]]
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="font-weight:normal; padding-top:0; margin-top:0;"><blockquote>''You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of your achievement. It's brilliant!''<br /> Rod Davis, the Original Quarrymen</blockquote>In June 1957, John Lennon's pal Charlie Roberts organized the Rosebery Street party and took along a friend's Kodak Brownie camera to take the first photographs of John Lennon performing in public.

Beatleswiki and Charles Roberts are now making available a limited-edition of 300 archival-quality 8" x 10" giclée prints, beautifully restored by [https://timware.com Tim Ware], and produced and each signed by Charles. The photo, shipped to you from Liverpool, is professionally matted. Satisfaction guaranteed! The photo is crisp and clear, the best ever.

[[Charles_Roberts_-_1957_Quarrymen_Photograph_with_John_Lennon|Read more, and purchase the print before the edition sells out!]]
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Legend has it that Paul first encountered John on 6 July 1957 at the Woolton St Peter's Church Garden Féte. Well, it may be true that they were ''introduced'' at that time, but the photo at right (taken by Charles Roberts), from the Quarrymen's Rosebery Street gig a couple weeks earlier, on 22 June 1957, shows McCartney (lower right corner), resplendent in his sports jacket and glasses (yes, Macca wore glasses!), checking out Lennon and his band, although it appears something else has caught Paul's eye...

I'm amazed this hasn't been noticed before!
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[[Paul McCartney in Audience Watching The Quarrymen!|Read on...]]

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==Video about creating an EXACT reproduction of the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Victorian poster==
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'''Peter Dean is guy who made the print happen. From [https://www.kiteprint.com/ the Kite website]:'''

This is a reproduction of the poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is printed in a limited edition of 1,967.

Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for Sgt. Pepper one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music.

Every effort has been made to be true to the original poster and it is printed using the same methods that would have been used in 1843. Every single print in this limited edition is individually inked and hand-pulled on a vintage Albion press. After drying, it is numbered by hand, in pencil at the lower right in the form #/1967. Each print also comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity.

Printed on archival-quality paper and featuring two wood-engravings by renowned artist Andy English, this reproduction is a not only a beautiful letterpress print in its own right, but a unique and fascinating item of Beatles memorabilia.
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==Check out the trailer for Martin Scorcese's ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World''!==
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''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' debuted on HBO in two parts, on October 5 and 6, 2011. It includes in-depth interviews with George's wife Olivia, fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Terry Gilliam, and others. Olivia, who co-produced the documentary, provided Scorcese with access to never-before-seen home movies and photographs.

From: [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/martin-scorsese-finishes-george-harrison-documentary-20110722 ''Rolling Stone'' website]:

"When I took in the stories told by Olivia and his friends, studied the images and the interviews, and immersed myself in the music, I could see that he was trying to find a way to simplicity, a way to live truthfully and compassionately," says Scorsese. "It was never a straight line, but that's not the point. I think he found an understanding: that there's no such thing as 'success,' there's just the path. It's there in the life, and it's felt most deeply in the music  the songs, the harmonies, the grand soaring passages, the guitar breaks and the solos, like shining jewels."
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<h2>Why another Beatles Web resource?</h2>
Yes, although there are already thousands of Beatles-related websites, I wanted to have a different approach  for the albums and songs, '''an oral history''', with quotes from the Beatles and their producer George Martin, as well as others in the inner circle, plus quotes from acknowledged experts on the Beatles; for the other sections, such as the Beatles bio, movies & books, and new articles, high-quality and well written content such as James Perlman's [[Review:_Beatles_Mono_and_Stereo_Remasters_Box_Sets|detailed analysis]] of the audio quality and musicality of the new [[Beatles_Remastered|mono and stereo Beatles remasters]].

I hope there are some Beatles fans out there who'd like to be a part of this project. Cheers! Tim
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<h2>We're looking for Beatles fans who can write!</h2>

If you'd like to become a contributor to the Beatles Wiki, [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php we'd love to hear from you]. We need folks who are ''mildly'' tech savvy (are comfortable using the Wiki format), can write well, and love the Beatles, particularly the obscure.

There are many opportunities here to create content, e.g. The Beatles Bio, movies, books.

This is a moderated wiki; in order to become an editor/contributor, you'll need to request registration. [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

We can help folks with the technical aspects of contributing to this wiki.
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==Featured Article==
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<h2>The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!</h2>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [https://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [https://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

'''UPDATE:''' Giles Martin reveals each separate track of that opening chord to Randy Bachman, and it turns out all '''the Fourier transforming didn't get it right.''' It's all done on George's 12-string, Paul's bass and John's 6-string. Then hear them replicate it. Spot on! [[A_Hard_Day's_Night#bachman|Listen to Bachman run it down!]]
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==Featured External Resources==
<table id="resources">
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<td>
<h2>Beatles Lyrics</h2>
[https://genius.com/artists/The-beatles The Beatles Lyrics at Genius.com]
</td>
<td>
<h2>"Revolution 1" (Take 20) +</h2>
[https://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Revolution Listen to the amazing and revelatory 10-minute version of "Revolution 1" »].

[https://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles Beatles Mashups, Remixes, etc. on SoundCloud.com]
</td>
<td>
<h2>YouTube Reaction Videos</h2>
'''[https://www.youtube.com/@DAVECHER Dave Cher's Reaction Videos]'''<br />
It's great to see how a smart and musical white GenZ-er reacts to each of the Beatles' albums]

<p> </p>
'''[https://www.youtube.com/@PoloMusic27 Polo Music's Reaction Videos]'''<br />
A black man reacting to the Beatles. Thoughtful and often right on point!
</td>
<td class="last">
<h2>Beatles Videos</h2>
[https://www.thebeatles.com/music-videos The Beatles Official Website]<br />
A great many fine videos!
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dqLAF7yT-_DqeYisQ001w Official Beatles on Vevo]<br />
Lots of great video.

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!
</td>
</tr>
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<td>
<h2>Beatles Resources</h2>
[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml Alan W. Pollack's exhaustive analyses of all the Beatles' songs]
</td>
<td>
<h2>Beatles News</h2>
Steve Marinucci's Beatles blog at Examiner.com has moved and is now called [https://beatlesheadlines.blogspot.com/ Beatles News Insider] and still provides up-to-date news on living Beatles and their circle.

[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)] 
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ, in Los Angeles
</td>
<td class="last">
<h2>Official Sites</h2>
[https://www.beatles.com/ Beatles.com]<br />
[https://www.johnlennon.com/ JohnLennon.com]<br />
[https://www.paulmccartney.com/ PaulMcCartney.com]<br />
[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ GeorgeHarrison.com]<br />
[https://www.ringostarr.com/ RingoStarr.com]<br />
[https://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/ The Original Quarrymen]
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<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is Charles Roberts' authentic story of events from the birth of the Quarrymen to the advent of the Beatles. He was there at the start of it all, taking the first photographs of Lennon performing in public  and hanging out with John and other Beatles and Beatlefolk.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool roots. Mr. Roberts' modest and wry sensibilities shine as he fills in the early timeline with fascinating context, color and detail. Many previously unseen (and some seen) photographs accompany his very readable, no-nonsense yet fun insider's account of first meetings, happenings, personalities, and influences. Every Beatles and Quarrymen fan and/or scholar should glean at least one new pearl from this wonderful book.</p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;">How to Purchase <em>Just Like Starting Over</em></p>
<p style="font-weight:normal;">The edition  156 pages, paperback  is limited to 500 copies and is signed by Charles Roberts and and the three Quarrymen, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is not on Amazon, as Charles had major problems with the publisher and decided to sell the books himself.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is $20 + $15 P+P to the United States; £15 + £3 P+P in the UK.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">You can order a signed copy directly from Mr. Roberts: diondee321 [at] sky [dot] com. If you wish to have it inscribed (no add'l charge), request this in the email.</p>

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[[File:Just-like-starting-over-cover.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|© Charles Roberts]]
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<td style="text-align:left; border:0;"><div style="background-color:#fc6; border:1px solid #006498; padding:12px; color:#006498; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:normal; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:18px">'''''AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME & UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!'''''</span><br />The very first photograph of John Lennon performing in public!<br />Digitally restored, high-quality limited-edition giclée print,<br />signed by the photographer Charles Roberts</div></td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="font-weight:normal; padding-top:0; margin-top:0;"><blockquote>''You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of your achievement. It's brilliant!''<br /> Rod Davis, the Original Quarrymen</blockquote>In June 1957, John Lennon's pal Charlie Roberts organized the Rosebery Street party and took along a friend's Kodak Brownie camera to take the first photographs of John Lennon performing in public.

Beatleswiki and Charles Roberts are now making available a limited-edition of 300 archival-quality 8" x 10" giclée prints, beautifully restored by [https://timware.com Tim Ware], and produced and each signed by Charles. The photo, shipped to you from Liverpool, is professionally matted. Satisfaction guaranteed! The photo is crisp and clear, the best ever.

[[Charles_Roberts_-_1957_Quarrymen_Photograph_with_John_Lennon|Read more, and purchase the print before the edition sells out!]]
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[[File:Quarrymen-June22-Charlie-Roberts-sample.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|Photo: © Charles Roberts]]

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<td style="width:50%; border:0; vertical-align:center">[[File:Quarrymen-COA.jpg|center|100px|thumb|]]</td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:10px 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%;color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#006498; border:1px solid #000; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; padding:8px; color:#fff; margin-bottom:12px; text-align:center; font-weight:normal; font-size:22px; line-height:145%">Is this Paul McCartney looking on at the Quarrymen's June 22, 1957 Rosebery Street party?</div>

<div style="font-weight:normal">
Legend has it that Paul first encountered John on 6 July 1957 at the Woolton St Peter's Church Garden Féte. Well, it may be true that they were ''introduced'' at that time, but the photo at right (taken by Charles Roberts), from the Quarrymen's Rosebery Street gig a couple weeks earlier, on 22 June 1957, shows McCartney (lower right corner), resplendent in his sports jacket and glasses (yes, Macca wore glasses!), checking out Lennon and his band, although it appears something else has caught Paul's eye...

I'm amazed this hasn't been noticed before!
</div>

[[Paul McCartney in Audience Watching The Quarrymen!|Read on...]]

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[[image:quarrymen-mccartney_1957.jpg|center]]

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==Video about creating an EXACT reproduction of the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Victorian poster==
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<td style="vertical-align:top !important; padding-top:0 !important; width:55%;">{{#ev:youtube|JCkxzpBGj9U}}</td>

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'''Peter Dean is guy who made the print happen. From [http://www.kiteprint.com/ the Kite website]:'''

This is a reproduction of the poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is printed in a limited edition of 1,967.

Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for Sgt. Pepper one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music.

Every effort has been made to be true to the original poster and it is printed using the same methods that would have been used in 1843. Every single print in this limited edition is individually inked and hand-pulled on a vintage Albion press. After drying, it is numbered by hand, in pencil at the lower right in the form #/1967. Each print also comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity.

Printed on archival-quality paper and featuring two wood-engravings by renowned artist Andy English, this reproduction is a not only a beautiful letterpress print in its own right, but a unique and fascinating item of Beatles memorabilia.
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==Check out the trailer for Martin Scorcese's ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World''!==
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<td style="vertical-align:top !important; padding-top:0 !important;">{{#ev:youtube|AGMMXK-661M}}</td>

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''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' debuted on HBO in two parts, on October 5 and 6, 2011. It includes in-depth interviews with George's wife Olivia, fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Terry Gilliam, and others. Olivia, who co-produced the documentary, provided Scorcese with access to never-before-seen home movies and photographs.

From: [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/martin-scorsese-finishes-george-harrison-documentary-20110722 ''Rolling Stone'' website]:

"When I took in the stories told by Olivia and his friends, studied the images and the interviews, and immersed myself in the music, I could see that he was trying to find a way to simplicity, a way to live truthfully and compassionately," says Scorsese. "It was never a straight line, but that's not the point. I think he found an understanding: that there's no such thing as 'success,' there's just the path. It's there in the life, and it's felt most deeply in the music  the songs, the harmonies, the grand soaring passages, the guitar breaks and the solos, like shining jewels."
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<h2>Why another Beatles Web resource?</h2>
Yes, although there are already thousands of Beatles-related websites, I wanted to have a different approach  for the albums and songs, '''an oral history''', with quotes from the Beatles and their producer George Martin, as well as others in the inner circle, plus quotes from acknowledged experts on the Beatles; for the other sections, such as the Beatles bio, movies & books, and new articles, high-quality and well written content such as James Perlman's [[Review:_Beatles_Mono_and_Stereo_Remasters_Box_Sets|detailed analysis]] of the audio quality and musicality of the new [[Beatles_Remastered|mono and stereo Beatles remasters]].

I hope there are some Beatles fans out there who'd like to be a part of this project. Cheers! Tim
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<h2>We're looking for Beatles fans who can write!</h2>

If you'd like to become a contributor to the Beatles Wiki, [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php we'd love to hear from you]. We need folks who are ''mildly'' tech savvy (are comfortable using the Wiki format), can write well, and love the Beatles, particularly the obscure.

There are many opportunities here to create content, e.g. The Beatles Bio, movies, books.

This is a moderated wiki; in order to become an editor/contributor, you'll need to request registration. [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

We can help folks with the technical aspects of contributing to this wiki.
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<h2>The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!</h2>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [https://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [https://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

'''UPDATE:''' Giles Martin reveals each separate track of that opening chord to Randy Bachman, and it turns out all '''the Fourier transforming didn't get it right.''' It's all done on George's 12-string, Paul's bass and John's 6-string. Then hear them replicate it. Spot on! [[A_Hard_Day's_Night#bachman|Listen to Bachman run it down!]]
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==Featured External Resources==
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<h2>Beatles Lyrics</h2>
[https://genius.com/artists/The-beatles The Beatles Lyrics at Genius.com]
</td>
<td>
<h2>"Revolution 1" (Take 20) +</h2>
[https://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Revolution Listen to the amazing and revelatory 10-minute version of "Revolution 1" »].

[https://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles Beatles Mashups, Remixes, etc. on SoundCloud.com]
</td>
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<h2>YouTube Reaction Videos</h2>
'''[https://www.youtube.com/@DAVECHER Dave Cher's Reaction Videos]'''<br />
It's great to see how a smart and musical white GenZ-er reacts to each of the Beatles' albums]

<p> </p>
'''[https://www.youtube.com/@PoloMusic27 Polo Music's Reaction Videos]'''<br />
A black man reacting to the Beatles. Thoughtful and often right on point!
</td>
<td class="last">
<h2>Beatles Videos</h2>
[https://www.thebeatles.com/music-videos The Beatles Official Website]<br />
A great many fine videos!
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dqLAF7yT-_DqeYisQ001w Official Beatles on Vevo]<br />
Lots of great video.

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Resources</h2>
[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml Alan W. Pollack's exhaustive analyses of all the Beatles' songs]
</td>
<td>
<h2>Beatles News</h2>
Steve Marinucci's Beatles blog at Examiner.com has moved and is now called [https://beatlesheadlines.blogspot.com/ Beatles News Insider] and still provides up-to-date news on living Beatles and their circle.

[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)] 
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ, in Los Angeles
</td>
<td class="last">
<h2>Official Sites</h2>
[https://www.beatles.com/ Beatles.com]<br />
[https://www.johnlennon.com/ JohnLennon.com]<br />
[https://www.paulmccartney.com/ PaulMcCartney.com]<br />
[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ GeorgeHarrison.com]<br />
[https://www.ringostarr.com/ RingoStarr.com]<br />
[https://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/ The Original Quarrymen]
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 15px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#369; border:1px solid #000; padding:4px; margin:5px 0; color:#fff; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:22px">Just Like Starting Over:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px !important;">John and The Quarrymen, My Teenage Years</span><br /><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:20px;">by Charles Roberts</span></div>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is Charles Roberts' authentic story of events from the birth of the Quarrymen to the advent of the Beatles. He was there at the start of it all, taking the first photographs of Lennon performing in public  and hanging out with John and other Beatles and Beatlefolk.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool roots. Mr. Roberts' modest and wry sensibilities shine as he fills in the early timeline with fascinating context, color and detail. Many previously unseen (and some seen) photographs accompany his very readable, no-nonsense yet fun insider's account of first meetings, happenings, personalities, and influences. Every Beatles and Quarrymen fan and/or scholar should glean at least one new pearl from this wonderful book.</p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;">How to Purchase <em>Just Like Starting Over</em></p>
<p style="font-weight:normal;">The edition  156 pages, paperback  is limited to 500 copies and is signed by Charles Roberts and and the three Quarrymen, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is not on Amazon, as Charles had major problems with the publisher and decided to sell the books himself.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is $20 + $15 P+P to the United States; £15 + £3 P+P in the UK.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">You can order a signed copy directly from Mr. Roberts: diondee321 [at] sky [dot] com. If you wish to have it inscribed (no add'l charge), request this in the email.</p>

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[[File:Just-like-starting-over-cover.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|© Charles Roberts]]
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<td style="text-align:left; border:0;"><div style="background-color:#fc6; border:1px solid #006498; padding:12px; color:#006498; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:normal; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:18px">'''''AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME & UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!'''''</span><br />The very first photograph of John Lennon performing in public!<br />Digitally restored, high-quality limited-edition giclée print,<br />signed by the photographer Charles Roberts</div></td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="font-weight:normal; padding-top:0; margin-top:0;"><blockquote>''You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of your achievement. It's brilliant!''<br /> Rod Davis, the Original Quarrymen</blockquote>In June 1957, John Lennon's pal Charlie Roberts organized the Rosebery Street party and took along a friend's Kodak Brownie camera to take the first photographs of John Lennon performing in public.

Beatleswiki and Charles Roberts are now making available a limited-edition of 300 archival-quality 8" x 10" giclée prints, beautifully restored by [https://timware.com Tim Ware], and produced and each signed by Charles. The photo, shipped to you from Liverpool, is professionally matted. Satisfaction guaranteed! The photo is crisp and clear, the best ever.

[[Charles_Roberts_-_1957_Quarrymen_Photograph_with_John_Lennon|Read more, and purchase the print before the edition sells out!]]
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[[File:Quarrymen-June22-Charlie-Roberts-sample.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|Photo: © Charles Roberts]]

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<td style="width:50%; border:0; color:#777;">[[File:Quarrymen-Frame-mockup.jpg|center|250px|thumb|caption|(frame not included)]]</td>
<td style="width:50%; border:0; vertical-align:center">[[File:Quarrymen-COA.jpg|center|100px|thumb|]]</td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:10px 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%;color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#006498; border:1px solid #000; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; padding:8px; color:#fff; margin-bottom:12px; text-align:center; font-weight:normal; font-size:22px; line-height:145%">Is this Paul McCartney looking on at the Quarrymen's June 22, 1957 Rosebery Street party?</div>

<div style="font-weight:normal">
Legend has it that Paul first encountered John on 6 July 1957 at the Woolton St Peter's Church Garden Féte. Well, it may be true that they were ''introduced'' at that time, but the photo at right (taken by Charles Roberts), from the Quarrymen's Rosebery Street gig a couple weeks earlier, on 22 June 1957, shows McCartney (lower right corner), resplendent in his sports jacket and glasses (yes, Macca wore glasses!), checking out Lennon and his band, although it appears something else has caught Paul's eye...

I'm amazed this hasn't been noticed before!
</div>

[[Paul McCartney in Audience Watching The Quarrymen!|Read on...]]

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[[image:quarrymen-mccartney_1957.jpg|center]]

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==Video about creating an EXACT reproduction of the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Victorian poster==
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<td style="vertical-align:top !important; padding-top:0 !important; width:55%;">{{#ev:youtube|JCkxzpBGj9U}}</td>

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'''Peter Dean is guy who made the print happen. From [http://www.kiteprint.com/ the Kite website]:'''

This is a reproduction of the poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is printed in a limited edition of 1,967.

Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for Sgt. Pepper one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music.

Every effort has been made to be true to the original poster and it is printed using the same methods that would have been used in 1843. Every single print in this limited edition is individually inked and hand-pulled on a vintage Albion press. After drying, it is numbered by hand, in pencil at the lower right in the form #/1967. Each print also comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity.

Printed on archival-quality paper and featuring two wood-engravings by renowned artist Andy English, this reproduction is a not only a beautiful letterpress print in its own right, but a unique and fascinating item of Beatles memorabilia.
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==Check out the trailer for Martin Scorcese's ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World''!==
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<td style="vertical-align:top !important; padding-top:0 !important;">{{#ev:youtube|AGMMXK-661M}}</td>

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''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' debuted on HBO in two parts, on October 5 and 6, 2011. It includes in-depth interviews with George's wife Olivia, fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Terry Gilliam, and others. Olivia, who co-produced the documentary, provided Scorcese with access to never-before-seen home movies and photographs.

From: [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/martin-scorsese-finishes-george-harrison-documentary-20110722 ''Rolling Stone'' website]:

"When I took in the stories told by Olivia and his friends, studied the images and the interviews, and immersed myself in the music, I could see that he was trying to find a way to simplicity, a way to live truthfully and compassionately," says Scorsese. "It was never a straight line, but that's not the point. I think he found an understanding: that there's no such thing as 'success,' there's just the path. It's there in the life, and it's felt most deeply in the music  the songs, the harmonies, the grand soaring passages, the guitar breaks and the solos, like shining jewels."
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<h2>Why another Beatles Web resource?</h2>
Yes, although there are already thousands of Beatles-related websites, I wanted to have a different approach  for the albums and songs, '''an oral history''', with quotes from the Beatles and their producer George Martin, as well as others in the inner circle, plus quotes from acknowledged experts on the Beatles; for the other sections, such as the Beatles bio, movies & books, and new articles, high-quality and well written content such as James Perlman's [[Review:_Beatles_Mono_and_Stereo_Remasters_Box_Sets|detailed analysis]] of the audio quality and musicality of the new [[Beatles_Remastered|mono and stereo Beatles remasters]].

I hope there are some Beatles fans out there who'd like to be a part of this project. Cheers! Tim
</td>
<td id="cell2">
<h2>We're looking for Beatles fans who can write!</h2>

If you'd like to become a contributor to the Beatles Wiki, [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php we'd love to hear from you]. We need folks who are ''mildly'' tech savvy (are comfortable using the Wiki format), can write well, and love the Beatles, particularly the obscure.

There are many opportunities here to create content, e.g. The Beatles Bio, movies, books.

This is a moderated wiki; in order to become an editor/contributor, you'll need to request registration. [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

We can help folks with the technical aspects of contributing to this wiki.
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==Featured Article==
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<h2>The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!</h2>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

'''UPDATE:''' Giles Martin reveals each separate track of that opening chord to Randy Bachman, and it turns out all '''the Fourier transforming didn't get it right.''' It's all done on George's 12-string, Paul's bass and John's 6-string. Then hear them replicate it. Spot on! [[A_Hard_Day's_Night#bachman|Listen to Bachman run it down!]]
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==Featured External Resources==
<table id="resources">
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<h2>Beatles Lyrics</h2>
[https://genius.com/artists/The-beatles The Beatles Lyrics at Genius.com]
</td>
<td>
<h2>"Revolution 1" (Take 20) +</h2>
[https://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Revolution Listen to the amazing and revelatory 10-minute version of "Revolution 1" »].

[https://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles Beatles Mashups, Remixes, etc. on SoundCloud.com]
</td>
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<h2>YouTube Reaction Videos</h2>
'''[https://www.youtube.com/@DAVECHER Dave Cher's Reaction Videos]'''<br />
It's great to see how a smart and musical white GenZ-er reacts to each of the Beatles' albums]

<p> </p>
'''[https://www.youtube.com/@PoloMusic27 Polo Music's Reaction Videos]'''<br />
A black man reacting to the Beatles. Thoughtful and often right on point!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Videos</h2>
[https://www.thebeatles.com/music-videos The Beatles Official Website]<br />
A great many fine videos!
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dqLAF7yT-_DqeYisQ001w Official Beatles on Vevo]<br />
Lots of great video.

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Resources</h2>
[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml Alan W. Pollack's exhaustive analyses of all the Beatles' songs]
</td>
<td>
<h2>Beatles News</h2>
Steve Marinucci's Beatles blog at Examiner.com has moved and is now called [https://beatlesheadlines.blogspot.com/ Beatles News Insider] and still provides up-to-date news on living Beatles and their circle.

[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)] 
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ, in Los Angeles
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<h2>Official Sites</h2>
[https://www.beatles.com/ Beatles.com]<br />
[https://www.johnlennon.com/ JohnLennon.com]<br />
[https://www.paulmccartney.com/ PaulMcCartney.com]<br />
[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ GeorgeHarrison.com]<br />
[https://www.ringostarr.com/ RingoStarr.com]<br />
[https://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/ The Original Quarrymen]
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<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is Charles Roberts' authentic story of events from the birth of the Quarrymen to the advent of the Beatles. He was there at the start of it all, taking the first photographs of Lennon performing in public  and hanging out with John and other Beatles and Beatlefolk.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool roots. Mr. Roberts' modest and wry sensibilities shine as he fills in the early timeline with fascinating context, color and detail. Many previously unseen (and some seen) photographs accompany his very readable, no-nonsense yet fun insider's account of first meetings, happenings, personalities, and influences. Every Beatles and Quarrymen fan and/or scholar should glean at least one new pearl from this wonderful book.</p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;">How to Purchase <em>Just Like Starting Over</em></p>
<p style="font-weight:normal;">The edition  156 pages, paperback  is limited to 500 copies and is signed by Charles Roberts and and the three Quarrymen, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is not on Amazon, as Charles had major problems with the publisher and decided to sell the books himself.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is $20 + $15 P+P to the United States; £15 + £3 P+P in the UK.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">You can order a signed copy directly from Mr. Roberts: diondee321 [at] sky [dot] com. If you wish to have it inscribed (no add'l charge), request this in the email.</p>

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[[File:Just-like-starting-over-cover.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|© Charles Roberts]]
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<td style="text-align:left; border:0;"><div style="background-color:#fc6; border:1px solid #006498; padding:12px; color:#006498; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:normal; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:18px">'''''AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME & UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!'''''</span><br />The very first photograph of John Lennon performing in public!<br />Digitally restored, high-quality limited-edition giclée print,<br />signed by the photographer Charles Roberts</div></td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="font-weight:normal; padding-top:0; margin-top:0;"><blockquote>''You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of your achievement. It's brilliant!''<br /> Rod Davis, the Original Quarrymen</blockquote>In June 1957, John Lennon's pal Charlie Roberts organized the Rosebery Street party and took along a friend's Kodak Brownie camera to take the first photographs of John Lennon performing in public.

Beatleswiki and Charles Roberts are now making available a limited-edition of 300 archival-quality 8" x 10" giclée prints, beautifully restored by [https://timware.com Tim Ware], and produced and each signed by Charles. The photo, shipped to you from Liverpool, is professionally matted. Satisfaction guaranteed! The photo is crisp and clear, the best ever.

[[Charles_Roberts_-_1957_Quarrymen_Photograph_with_John_Lennon|Read more, and purchase the print before the edition sells out!]]
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[[File:Quarrymen-June22-Charlie-Roberts-sample.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|Photo: © Charles Roberts]]

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<td style="width:50%; border:0; color:#777;">[[File:Quarrymen-Frame-mockup.jpg|center|250px|thumb|caption|(frame not included)]]</td>
<td style="width:50%; border:0; vertical-align:center">[[File:Quarrymen-COA.jpg|center|100px|thumb|]]</td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:10px 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%;color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#006498; border:1px solid #000; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; padding:8px; color:#fff; margin-bottom:12px; text-align:center; font-weight:normal; font-size:22px; line-height:145%">Is this Paul McCartney looking on at the Quarrymen's June 22, 1957 Rosebery Street party?</div>

<div style="font-weight:normal">
Legend has it that Paul first encountered John on 6 July 1957 at the Woolton St Peter's Church Garden Féte. Well, it may be true that they were ''introduced'' at that time, but the photo at right (taken by Charles Roberts), from the Quarrymen's Rosebery Street gig a couple weeks earlier, on 22 June 1957, shows McCartney (lower right corner), resplendent in his sports jacket and glasses (yes, Macca wore glasses!), checking out Lennon and his band, although it appears something else has caught Paul's eye...

I'm amazed this hasn't been noticed before!
</div>

[[Paul McCartney in Audience Watching The Quarrymen!|Read on...]]

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[[image:quarrymen-mccartney_1957.jpg|center]]

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==Video about creating an EXACT reproduction of the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Victorian poster==
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<td style="vertical-align:top !important; padding-top:0 !important; width:55%;">{{#ev:youtube|JCkxzpBGj9U}}</td>

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'''Peter Dean is guy who made the print happen. From [http://www.kiteprint.com/ the Kite website]:'''

This is a reproduction of the poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is printed in a limited edition of 1,967.

Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for Sgt. Pepper one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music.

Every effort has been made to be true to the original poster and it is printed using the same methods that would have been used in 1843. Every single print in this limited edition is individually inked and hand-pulled on a vintage Albion press. After drying, it is numbered by hand, in pencil at the lower right in the form #/1967. Each print also comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity.

Printed on archival-quality paper and featuring two wood-engravings by renowned artist Andy English, this reproduction is a not only a beautiful letterpress print in its own right, but a unique and fascinating item of Beatles memorabilia.
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==Check out the trailer for Martin Scorcese's ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World''!==
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''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' debuted on HBO in two parts, on October 5 and 6, 2011. It includes in-depth interviews with George's wife Olivia, fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Terry Gilliam, and others. Olivia, who co-produced the documentary, provided Scorcese with access to never-before-seen home movies and photographs.

From: [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/martin-scorsese-finishes-george-harrison-documentary-20110722 ''Rolling Stone'' website]:

"When I took in the stories told by Olivia and his friends, studied the images and the interviews, and immersed myself in the music, I could see that he was trying to find a way to simplicity, a way to live truthfully and compassionately," says Scorsese. "It was never a straight line, but that's not the point. I think he found an understanding: that there's no such thing as 'success,' there's just the path. It's there in the life, and it's felt most deeply in the music  the songs, the harmonies, the grand soaring passages, the guitar breaks and the solos, like shining jewels."
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<h2>Why another Beatles Web resource?</h2>
Yes, although there are already thousands of Beatles-related websites, I wanted to have a different approach  for the albums and songs, '''an oral history''', with quotes from the Beatles and their producer George Martin, as well as others in the inner circle, plus quotes from acknowledged experts on the Beatles; for the other sections, such as the Beatles bio, movies & books, and new articles, high-quality and well written content such as James Perlman's [[Review:_Beatles_Mono_and_Stereo_Remasters_Box_Sets|detailed analysis]] of the audio quality and musicality of the new [[Beatles_Remastered|mono and stereo Beatles remasters]].

I hope there are some Beatles fans out there who'd like to be a part of this project. Cheers! Tim
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<h2>We're looking for Beatles fans who can write!</h2>

If you'd like to become a contributor to the Beatles Wiki, [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php we'd love to hear from you]. We need folks who are ''mildly'' tech savvy (are comfortable using the Wiki format), can write well, and love the Beatles, particularly the obscure.

There are many opportunities here to create content, e.g. The Beatles Bio, movies, books.

This is a moderated wiki; in order to become an editor/contributor, you'll need to request registration. [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

We can help folks with the technical aspects of contributing to this wiki.
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==Featured Article==
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<h2>The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!</h2>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

'''UPDATE:''' Giles Martin reveals each separate track of that opening chord to Randy Bachman, and it turns out all '''the Fourier transforming didn't get it right.''' It's all done on George's 12-string, Paul's bass and John's 6-string. Then hear them replicate it. Spot on! [[A_Hard_Day's_Night#bachman|Listen to Bachman run it down!]]
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==Featured External Resources==
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<h2>Beatles Lyrics</h2>
[https://genius.com/artists/The-beatles The Beatles Lyrics at Genius.com]
</td>
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<h2>"Revolution 1" (Take 20) +</h2>
[https://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Revolution Listen to the amazing and revelatory 10-minute version of "Revolution 1" »].

[https://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles Beatles Mashups, Remixes, etc. on SoundCloud.com]
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<h2>YouTube Reaction Videos</h2>
''[https://www.youtube.com/@DAVECHER Dave Cher's Reaction Videos]''<br />
It's great to see how a smart and musical GenZ-er reacts to each of the Beatles' albums]

<p> </p>
''[https://www.youtube.com/@PoloMusic27 Polo Music's Reaction Videos]''<br />
A black man reacting to the Beatles. Thoughtful and often right on point!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Videos</h2>
[https://www.thebeatles.com/music-videos The Beatles Official Website]<br />
A great many fine videos!
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dqLAF7yT-_DqeYisQ001w Official Beatles on Vevo]<br />
Lots of great video.

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Resources</h2>
[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml Alan W. Pollack's exhaustive analyses of all the Beatles' songs]
</td>
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<h2>Beatles News</h2>
Steve Marinucci's Beatles blog at Examiner.com has moved and is now called [https://beatlesheadlines.blogspot.com/ Beatles News Insider] and still provides up-to-date news on living Beatles and their circle.

[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)] 
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ, in Los Angeles
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<h2>Official Sites</h2>
[https://www.beatles.com/ Beatles.com]<br />
[https://www.johnlennon.com/ JohnLennon.com]<br />
[https://www.paulmccartney.com/ PaulMcCartney.com]<br />
[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ GeorgeHarrison.com]<br />
[https://www.ringostarr.com/ RingoStarr.com]<br />
[https://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/ The Original Quarrymen]
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 15px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#369; border:1px solid #000; padding:4px; margin:5px 0; color:#fff; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:22px">Just Like Starting Over:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px !important;">John and The Quarrymen, My Teenage Years</span><br /><span style="font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; font-size:20px;">by Charles Roberts</span></div>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is Charles Roberts' authentic story of events from the birth of the Quarrymen to the advent of the Beatles. He was there at the start of it all, taking the first photographs of Lennon performing in public  and hanging out with John and other Beatles and Beatlefolk.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool roots. Mr. Roberts' modest and wry sensibilities shine as he fills in the early timeline with fascinating context, color and detail. Many previously unseen (and some seen) photographs accompany his very readable, no-nonsense yet fun insider's account of first meetings, happenings, personalities, and influences. Every Beatles and Quarrymen fan and/or scholar should glean at least one new pearl from this wonderful book.</p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;">How to Purchase <em>Just Like Starting Over</em></p>
<p style="font-weight:normal;">The edition  156 pages, paperback  is limited to 500 copies and is signed by Charles Roberts and and the three Quarrymen, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is not on Amazon, as Charles had major problems with the publisher and decided to sell the books himself.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is $20 + $15 P+P to the United States; £15 + £3 P+P in the UK.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">You can order a signed copy directly from Mr. Roberts: diondee321 [at] sky [dot] com. If you wish to have it inscribed (no add'l charge), request this in the email.</p>

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[[File:Just-like-starting-over-cover.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|© Charles Roberts]]
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<td style="text-align:left; border:0;"><div style="background-color:#fc6; border:1px solid #006498; padding:12px; color:#006498; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:normal; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:18px">'''''AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME & UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!'''''</span><br />The very first photograph of John Lennon performing in public!<br />Digitally restored, high-quality limited-edition giclée print,<br />signed by the photographer Charles Roberts</div></td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="font-weight:normal; padding-top:0; margin-top:0;"><blockquote>''You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of your achievement. It's brilliant!''<br /> Rod Davis, the Original Quarrymen</blockquote>In June 1957, John Lennon's pal Charlie Roberts organized the Rosebery Street party and took along a friend's Kodak Brownie camera to take the first photographs of John Lennon performing in public.

Beatleswiki and Charles Roberts are now making available a limited-edition of 300 archival-quality 8" x 10" giclée prints, beautifully restored by [https://timware.com Tim Ware], and produced and each signed by Charles. The photo, shipped to you from Liverpool, is professionally matted. Satisfaction guaranteed! The photo is crisp and clear, the best ever.

[[Charles_Roberts_-_1957_Quarrymen_Photograph_with_John_Lennon|Read more, and purchase the print before the edition sells out!]]
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[[File:Quarrymen-June22-Charlie-Roberts-sample.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|Photo: © Charles Roberts]]

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<td style="width:50%; border:0; color:#777;">[[File:Quarrymen-Frame-mockup.jpg|center|250px|thumb|caption|(frame not included)]]</td>
<td style="width:50%; border:0; vertical-align:center">[[File:Quarrymen-COA.jpg|center|100px|thumb|]]</td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:10px 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%;color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#006498; border:1px solid #000; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; padding:8px; color:#fff; margin-bottom:12px; text-align:center; font-weight:normal; font-size:22px; line-height:145%">Is this Paul McCartney looking on at the Quarrymen's June 22, 1957 Rosebery Street party?</div>

<div style="font-weight:normal">
Legend has it that Paul first encountered John on 6 July 1957 at the Woolton St Peter's Church Garden Féte. Well, it may be true that they were ''introduced'' at that time, but the photo at right (taken by Charles Roberts), from the Quarrymen's Rosebery Street gig a couple weeks earlier, on 22 June 1957, shows McCartney (lower right corner), resplendent in his sports jacket and glasses (yes, Macca wore glasses!), checking out Lennon and his band, although it appears something else has caught Paul's eye...

I'm amazed this hasn't been noticed before!
</div>

[[Paul McCartney in Audience Watching The Quarrymen!|Read on...]]

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[[image:quarrymen-mccartney_1957.jpg|center]]

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==Video about creating an EXACT reproduction of the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Victorian poster==
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<td style="vertical-align:top !important; padding-top:0 !important; width:55%;">{{#ev:youtube|JCkxzpBGj9U}}</td>

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'''Peter Dean is guy who made the print happen. From [http://www.kiteprint.com/ the Kite website]:'''

This is a reproduction of the poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is printed in a limited edition of 1,967.

Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for Sgt. Pepper one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music.

Every effort has been made to be true to the original poster and it is printed using the same methods that would have been used in 1843. Every single print in this limited edition is individually inked and hand-pulled on a vintage Albion press. After drying, it is numbered by hand, in pencil at the lower right in the form #/1967. Each print also comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity.

Printed on archival-quality paper and featuring two wood-engravings by renowned artist Andy English, this reproduction is a not only a beautiful letterpress print in its own right, but a unique and fascinating item of Beatles memorabilia.
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==Check out the trailer for Martin Scorcese's ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World''!==
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''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' debuted on HBO in two parts, on October 5 and 6, 2011. It includes in-depth interviews with George's wife Olivia, fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Terry Gilliam, and others. Olivia, who co-produced the documentary, provided Scorcese with access to never-before-seen home movies and photographs.

From: [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/martin-scorsese-finishes-george-harrison-documentary-20110722 ''Rolling Stone'' website]:

"When I took in the stories told by Olivia and his friends, studied the images and the interviews, and immersed myself in the music, I could see that he was trying to find a way to simplicity, a way to live truthfully and compassionately," says Scorsese. "It was never a straight line, but that's not the point. I think he found an understanding: that there's no such thing as 'success,' there's just the path. It's there in the life, and it's felt most deeply in the music  the songs, the harmonies, the grand soaring passages, the guitar breaks and the solos, like shining jewels."
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<h2>Why another Beatles Web resource?</h2>
Yes, although there are already thousands of Beatles-related websites, I wanted to have a different approach  for the albums and songs, '''an oral history''', with quotes from the Beatles and their producer George Martin, as well as others in the inner circle, plus quotes from acknowledged experts on the Beatles; for the other sections, such as the Beatles bio, movies & books, and new articles, high-quality and well written content such as James Perlman's [[Review:_Beatles_Mono_and_Stereo_Remasters_Box_Sets|detailed analysis]] of the audio quality and musicality of the new [[Beatles_Remastered|mono and stereo Beatles remasters]].

I hope there are some Beatles fans out there who'd like to be a part of this project. Cheers! Tim
</td>
<td id="cell2">
<h2>We're looking for Beatles fans who can write!</h2>

If you'd like to become a contributor to the Beatles Wiki, [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php we'd love to hear from you]. We need folks who are ''mildly'' tech savvy (are comfortable using the Wiki format), can write well, and love the Beatles, particularly the obscure.

There are many opportunities here to create content, e.g. The Beatles Bio, movies, books.

This is a moderated wiki; in order to become an editor/contributor, you'll need to request registration. [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

We can help folks with the technical aspects of contributing to this wiki.
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==Featured Article==
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<h2>The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!</h2>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

'''UPDATE:''' Giles Martin reveals each separate track of that opening chord to Randy Bachman, and it turns out all '''the Fourier transforming didn't get it right.''' It's all done on George's 12-string, Paul's bass and John's 6-string. Then hear them replicate it. Spot on! [[A_Hard_Day's_Night#bachman|Listen to Bachman run it down!]]
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==Featured External Resources==
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<h2>Beatles Lyrics</h2>
[https://genius.com/artists/The-beatles The Beatles Lyrics at Genius.com]
</td>
<td>
<h2>"Revolution 1" (Take 20) +</h2>
[https://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Revolution Listen to the amazing and revelatory 10-minute version of "Revolution 1" »].

[https://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles Beatles Mashups, Remixes, etc. on SoundCloud.com]
</td>
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<h2>YouTube Reaction Videos</h2>
[https://www.youtube.com/@DAVECHER Dave Cher's Reaction Videos]<br />
It's great to see how a smart and musical GenZ-er reacts to each of the Beatles' albums]

<p> </p>
[https://www.youtube.com/@PoloMusic27 Polo Music's Reaction Videos]<br />
A black man reacting to the Beatles. Thoughtful and often right on point!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Videos</h2>
[https://www.thebeatles.com/music-videos The Beatles Official Website]<br />
A great many fine videos!
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dqLAF7yT-_DqeYisQ001w Official Beatles on Vevo]<br />
Lots of great video.

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Resources</h2>
[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml Alan W. Pollack's exhaustive analyses of all the Beatles' songs]
</td>
<td>
<h2>Beatles News</h2>
Steve Marinucci's Beatles blog at Examiner.com has moved and is now called [https://beatlesheadlines.blogspot.com/ Beatles News Insider] and still provides up-to-date news on living Beatles and their circle.

[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)] 
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ, in Los Angeles
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<h2>Official Sites</h2>
[https://www.beatles.com/ Beatles.com]<br />
[https://www.johnlennon.com/ JohnLennon.com]<br />
[https://www.paulmccartney.com/ PaulMcCartney.com]<br />
[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ GeorgeHarrison.com]<br />
[https://www.ringostarr.com/ RingoStarr.com]<br />
[https://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/ The Original Quarrymen]
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<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is Charles Roberts' authentic story of events from the birth of the Quarrymen to the advent of the Beatles. He was there at the start of it all, taking the first photographs of Lennon performing in public  and hanging out with John and other Beatles and Beatlefolk.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool roots. Mr. Roberts' modest and wry sensibilities shine as he fills in the early timeline with fascinating context, color and detail. Many previously unseen (and some seen) photographs accompany his very readable, no-nonsense yet fun insider's account of first meetings, happenings, personalities, and influences. Every Beatles and Quarrymen fan and/or scholar should glean at least one new pearl from this wonderful book.</p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;">How to Purchase <em>Just Like Starting Over</em></p>
<p style="font-weight:normal;">The edition  156 pages, paperback  is limited to 500 copies and is signed by Charles Roberts and and the three Quarrymen, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is not on Amazon, as Charles had major problems with the publisher and decided to sell the books himself.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is $20 + $15 P+P to the United States; £15 + £3 P+P in the UK.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">You can order a signed copy directly from Mr. Roberts: diondee321 [at] sky [dot] com. If you wish to have it inscribed (no add'l charge), request this in the email.</p>

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[[File:Just-like-starting-over-cover.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|© Charles Roberts]]
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<td style="text-align:left; border:0;"><div style="background-color:#fc6; border:1px solid #006498; padding:12px; color:#006498; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:normal; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:18px">'''''AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME & UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!'''''</span><br />The very first photograph of John Lennon performing in public!<br />Digitally restored, high-quality limited-edition giclée print,<br />signed by the photographer Charles Roberts</div></td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="font-weight:normal; padding-top:0; margin-top:0;"><blockquote>''You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of your achievement. It's brilliant!''<br /> Rod Davis, the Original Quarrymen</blockquote>In June 1957, John Lennon's pal Charlie Roberts organized the Rosebery Street party and took along a friend's Kodak Brownie camera to take the first photographs of John Lennon performing in public.

Beatleswiki and Charles Roberts are now making available a limited-edition of 300 archival-quality 8" x 10" giclée prints, beautifully restored by [https://timware.com Tim Ware], and produced and each signed by Charles. The photo, shipped to you from Liverpool, is professionally matted. Satisfaction guaranteed! The photo is crisp and clear, the best ever.

[[Charles_Roberts_-_1957_Quarrymen_Photograph_with_John_Lennon|Read more, and purchase the print before the edition sells out!]]
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[[File:Quarrymen-June22-Charlie-Roberts-sample.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|Photo: © Charles Roberts]]

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<td class="centered" style="padding:10px 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%;color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#006498; border:1px solid #000; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; padding:8px; color:#fff; margin-bottom:12px; text-align:center; font-weight:normal; font-size:22px; line-height:145%">Is this Paul McCartney looking on at the Quarrymen's June 22, 1957 Rosebery Street party?</div>

<div style="font-weight:normal">
Legend has it that Paul first encountered John on 6 July 1957 at the Woolton St Peter's Church Garden Féte. Well, it may be true that they were ''introduced'' at that time, but the photo at right (taken by Charles Roberts), from the Quarrymen's Rosebery Street gig a couple weeks earlier, on 22 June 1957, shows McCartney (lower right corner), resplendent in his sports jacket and glasses (yes, Macca wore glasses!), checking out Lennon and his band, although it appears something else has caught Paul's eye...

I'm amazed this hasn't been noticed before!
</div>

[[Paul McCartney in Audience Watching The Quarrymen!|Read on...]]

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[[image:quarrymen-mccartney_1957.jpg|center]]

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==Video about creating an EXACT reproduction of the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Victorian poster==
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'''Peter Dean is guy who made the print happen. From [http://www.kiteprint.com/ the Kite website]:'''

This is a reproduction of the poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is printed in a limited edition of 1,967.

Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for Sgt. Pepper one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music.

Every effort has been made to be true to the original poster and it is printed using the same methods that would have been used in 1843. Every single print in this limited edition is individually inked and hand-pulled on a vintage Albion press. After drying, it is numbered by hand, in pencil at the lower right in the form #/1967. Each print also comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity.

Printed on archival-quality paper and featuring two wood-engravings by renowned artist Andy English, this reproduction is a not only a beautiful letterpress print in its own right, but a unique and fascinating item of Beatles memorabilia.
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==Check out the trailer for Martin Scorcese's ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World''!==
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''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' debuted on HBO in two parts, on October 5 and 6, 2011. It includes in-depth interviews with George's wife Olivia, fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Terry Gilliam, and others. Olivia, who co-produced the documentary, provided Scorcese with access to never-before-seen home movies and photographs.

From: [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/martin-scorsese-finishes-george-harrison-documentary-20110722 ''Rolling Stone'' website]:

"When I took in the stories told by Olivia and his friends, studied the images and the interviews, and immersed myself in the music, I could see that he was trying to find a way to simplicity, a way to live truthfully and compassionately," says Scorsese. "It was never a straight line, but that's not the point. I think he found an understanding: that there's no such thing as 'success,' there's just the path. It's there in the life, and it's felt most deeply in the music  the songs, the harmonies, the grand soaring passages, the guitar breaks and the solos, like shining jewels."
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<h2>Why another Beatles Web resource?</h2>
Yes, although there are already thousands of Beatles-related websites, I wanted to have a different approach  for the albums and songs, '''an oral history''', with quotes from the Beatles and their producer George Martin, as well as others in the inner circle, plus quotes from acknowledged experts on the Beatles; for the other sections, such as the Beatles bio, movies & books, and new articles, high-quality and well written content such as James Perlman's [[Review:_Beatles_Mono_and_Stereo_Remasters_Box_Sets|detailed analysis]] of the audio quality and musicality of the new [[Beatles_Remastered|mono and stereo Beatles remasters]].

I hope there are some Beatles fans out there who'd like to be a part of this project. Cheers! Tim
</td>
<td id="cell2">
<h2>We're looking for Beatles fans who can write!</h2>

If you'd like to become a contributor to the Beatles Wiki, [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php we'd love to hear from you]. We need folks who are ''mildly'' tech savvy (are comfortable using the Wiki format), can write well, and love the Beatles, particularly the obscure.

There are many opportunities here to create content, e.g. The Beatles Bio, movies, books.

This is a moderated wiki; in order to become an editor/contributor, you'll need to request registration. [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

We can help folks with the technical aspects of contributing to this wiki.
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==Featured Article==
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<h2>The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!</h2>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

'''UPDATE:''' Giles Martin reveals each separate track of that opening chord to Randy Bachman, and it turns out all '''the Fourier transforming didn't get it right.''' It's all done on George's 12-string, Paul's bass and John's 6-string. Then hear them replicate it. Spot on! [[A_Hard_Day's_Night#bachman|Listen to Bachman run it down!]]
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==Featured External Resources==
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<h2>Beatles Lyrics</h2>
[https://genius.com/artists/The-beatles The Beatles Lyrics Repository] (Searchable!)
</td>
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<h2>"Revolution 1" (Take 20) +</h2>
[https://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Revolution Listen to the amazing and revelatory 10-minute version of "Revolution 1" »].

[https://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles Beatles Mashups, Remixes, etc. on SoundCloud.com]
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<h2>YouTube Reaction Videos</h2>
[https://www.youtube.com/@DAVECHER Dave Cher's Reaction Videos]<br />
It's great to see how a smart and musical GenZ-er reacts to each of the Beatles' albums]

<p> </p>
[https://www.youtube.com/@PoloMusic27 Polo Music's Reaction Videos]<br />
A black man reacting to the Beatles. Thoughtful and often right on point!
</td>
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<h2>Beatles Videos</h2>
[https://www.thebeatles.com/music-videos The Beatles Official Website]<br />
A great many fine videos!
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dqLAF7yT-_DqeYisQ001w Official Beatles on Vevo]<br />
Lots of great video.

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!
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<h2>Beatles Resources</h2>
[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml Alan W. Pollack's exhaustive analyses of all the Beatles' songs]
</td>
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<h2>Beatles News</h2>
Steve Marinucci's Beatles blog at Examiner.com has moved and is now called [https://beatlesheadlines.blogspot.com/ Beatles News Insider] and still provides up-to-date news on living Beatles and their circle.

[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)] 
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ, in Los Angeles
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<h2>Official Sites</h2>
[https://www.beatles.com/ Beatles.com]<br />
[https://www.johnlennon.com/ JohnLennon.com]<br />
[https://www.paulmccartney.com/ PaulMcCartney.com]<br />
[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ GeorgeHarrison.com]<br />
[https://www.ringostarr.com/ RingoStarr.com]<br />
[https://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/ The Original Quarrymen]
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<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is Charles Roberts' authentic story of events from the birth of the Quarrymen to the advent of the Beatles. He was there at the start of it all, taking the first photographs of Lennon performing in public  and hanging out with John and other Beatles and Beatlefolk.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">This is a must-read for anyone who hungers to learn about The Beatles' Liverpool roots. Mr. Roberts' modest and wry sensibilities shine as he fills in the early timeline with fascinating context, color and detail. Many previously unseen (and some seen) photographs accompany his very readable, no-nonsense yet fun insider's account of first meetings, happenings, personalities, and influences. Every Beatles and Quarrymen fan and/or scholar should glean at least one new pearl from this wonderful book.</p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;">How to Purchase <em>Just Like Starting Over</em></p>
<p style="font-weight:normal;">The edition  156 pages, paperback  is limited to 500 copies and is signed by Charles Roberts and and the three Quarrymen, Colin Hanton, Rod Davis and Len Garry.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is not on Amazon, as Charles had major problems with the publisher and decided to sell the books himself.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The book is $20 + $15 P+P to the United States; £15 + £3 P+P in the UK.</p>

<p style="font-weight:normal;">You can order a signed copy directly from Mr. Roberts: diondee321 [at] sky [dot] com. If you wish to have it inscribed (no add'l charge), request this in the email.</p>

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[[File:Just-like-starting-over-cover.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|© Charles Roberts]]
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<td style="text-align:left; border:0;"><div style="background-color:#fc6; border:1px solid #006498; padding:12px; color:#006498; text-align:center; font-size:22px; font-weight:normal; line-height:145%; border-radius:8px; -moz-border-radius:8px; -webkit-border-radius:8px;"><span style="font-size:18px">'''''AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME & UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!'''''</span><br />The very first photograph of John Lennon performing in public!<br />Digitally restored, high-quality limited-edition giclée print,<br />signed by the photographer Charles Roberts</div></td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:0 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#888;"><div style="font-weight:normal; padding-top:0; margin-top:0;"><blockquote>''You have done a marvelous job in restoring Charlie's photo. I have made a couple of attempts myself but none of them have attained the perfection of your achievement. It's brilliant!''<br /> Rod Davis, the Original Quarrymen</blockquote>In June 1957, John Lennon's pal Charlie Roberts organized the Rosebery Street party and took along a friend's Kodak Brownie camera to take the first photographs of John Lennon performing in public.

Beatleswiki and Charles Roberts are now making available a limited-edition of 300 archival-quality 8" x 10" giclée prints, beautifully restored by [https://timware.com Tim Ware], and produced and each signed by Charles. The photo, shipped to you from Liverpool, is professionally matted. Satisfaction guaranteed! The photo is crisp and clear, the best ever.

[[Charles_Roberts_-_1957_Quarrymen_Photograph_with_John_Lennon|Read more, and purchase the print before the edition sells out!]]
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[[File:Quarrymen-June22-Charlie-Roberts-sample.jpg|center|375px|thumb|caption|Photo: © Charles Roberts]]

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<td style="width:50%; border:0; color:#777;">[[File:Quarrymen-Frame-mockup.jpg|center|250px|thumb|caption|(frame not included)]]</td>
<td style="width:50%; border:0; vertical-align:center">[[File:Quarrymen-COA.jpg|center|100px|thumb|]]</td>
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<td class="centered" style="padding:10px 25px; text-align:left; font-size:18px; line-height:150%;color:#888;"><div style="background-color:#006498; border:1px solid #000; border-radius:4px; -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; padding:8px; color:#fff; margin-bottom:12px; text-align:center; font-weight:normal; font-size:22px; line-height:145%">Is this Paul McCartney looking on at the Quarrymen's June 22, 1957 Rosebery Street party?</div>

<div style="font-weight:normal">
Legend has it that Paul first encountered John on 6 July 1957 at the Woolton St Peter's Church Garden Féte. Well, it may be true that they were ''introduced'' at that time, but the photo at right (taken by Charles Roberts), from the Quarrymen's Rosebery Street gig a couple weeks earlier, on 22 June 1957, shows McCartney (lower right corner), resplendent in his sports jacket and glasses (yes, Macca wore glasses!), checking out Lennon and his band, although it appears something else has caught Paul's eye...

I'm amazed this hasn't been noticed before!
</div>

[[Paul McCartney in Audience Watching The Quarrymen!|Read on...]]

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[[image:quarrymen-mccartney_1957.jpg|center]]

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==Video about creating an EXACT reproduction of the "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Victorian poster==
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<td style="vertical-align:top !important; padding-top:0 !important; width:55%;">{{#ev:youtube|JCkxzpBGj9U}}</td>

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'''Peter Dean is guy who made the print happen. From [http://www.kiteprint.com/ the Kite website]:'''

This is a reproduction of the poster that inspired John Lennon to write the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, which appeared on The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is printed in a limited edition of 1,967.

Lennon bought the poster in an antiques shop and hung it in his music room. While writing for Sgt. Pepper one day, he drew inspiration from the quirky, old-fashioned language and set the words to music.

Every effort has been made to be true to the original poster and it is printed using the same methods that would have been used in 1843. Every single print in this limited edition is individually inked and hand-pulled on a vintage Albion press. After drying, it is numbered by hand, in pencil at the lower right in the form #/1967. Each print also comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity.

Printed on archival-quality paper and featuring two wood-engravings by renowned artist Andy English, this reproduction is a not only a beautiful letterpress print in its own right, but a unique and fascinating item of Beatles memorabilia.
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==Check out the trailer for Martin Scorcese's ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World''!==
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''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' debuted on HBO in two parts, on October 5 and 6, 2011. It includes in-depth interviews with George's wife Olivia, fellow Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Terry Gilliam, and others. Olivia, who co-produced the documentary, provided Scorcese with access to never-before-seen home movies and photographs.

From: [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/martin-scorsese-finishes-george-harrison-documentary-20110722 ''Rolling Stone'' website]:

"When I took in the stories told by Olivia and his friends, studied the images and the interviews, and immersed myself in the music, I could see that he was trying to find a way to simplicity, a way to live truthfully and compassionately," says Scorsese. "It was never a straight line, but that's not the point. I think he found an understanding: that there's no such thing as 'success,' there's just the path. It's there in the life, and it's felt most deeply in the music  the songs, the harmonies, the grand soaring passages, the guitar breaks and the solos, like shining jewels."
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<h2>Why another Beatles Web resource?</h2>
Yes, although there are already thousands of Beatles-related websites, I wanted to have a different approach  for the albums and songs, '''an oral history''', with quotes from the Beatles and their producer George Martin, as well as others in the inner circle, plus quotes from acknowledged experts on the Beatles; for the other sections, such as the Beatles bio, movies & books, and new articles, high-quality and well written content such as James Perlman's [[Review:_Beatles_Mono_and_Stereo_Remasters_Box_Sets|detailed analysis]] of the audio quality and musicality of the new [[Beatles_Remastered|mono and stereo Beatles remasters]].

I hope there are some Beatles fans out there who'd like to be a part of this project. Cheers! Tim
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<h2>We're looking for Beatles fans who can write!</h2>

If you'd like to become a contributor to the Beatles Wiki, [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php we'd love to hear from you]. We need folks who are ''mildly'' tech savvy (are comfortable using the Wiki format), can write well, and love the Beatles, particularly the obscure.

There are many opportunities here to create content, e.g. The Beatles Bio, movies, books.

This is a moderated wiki; in order to become an editor/contributor, you'll need to request registration. [http://www.beatleswiki.com/mycaptcha/captcha-page.php '''Create an account.''']

We can help folks with the technical aspects of contributing to this wiki.
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==Featured Article==
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<h2>The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician!</h2>
It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... [http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/beatles_unknown_hard_days_night_chord_mystery_solved_using_fourier_transform Read the article »]. Or, better, [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and ''A Hard Day's Night''" and its shocking conclusion!].

'''UPDATE:''' Giles Martin reveals each separate track of that opening chord to Randy Bachman, and it turns out all '''the Fourier transforming didn't get it right.''' It's all done on George's 12-string, Paul's bass and John's 6-string. Then hear them replicate it. Spot on! [[A_Hard_Day's_Night#bachman|Listen to Bachman run it down!]]
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==Featured External Resources==
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<h2>Beatles Lyrics</h2>
[https://genius.com/artists/The-beatles The Beatles Lyrics Repository] (Searchable!)
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<h2>"Revolution 1" (Take 20) +</h2>
[https://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Revolution Listen to the amazing and revelatory 10-minute version of "Revolution 1" »].

[https://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=beatles Beatles Mashups, Remixes, etc. on SoundCloud.com]
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[https://www.youtube.com/@DAVECHER Dave Cher's Reaction Videos  It's great to see how a GenZ-er reacts to each of the Beatles' albums]<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/@PoloMusic27 Polo Music's Reaction Videos  A black man reacting to the Beatles. Thoughtful and often right on point!
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<h2>Beatles Videos</h2>
[https://www.thebeatles.com/music-videos The Beatles Official Website]<br />
A great many fine videos!
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dqLAF7yT-_DqeYisQ001w Official Beatles on Vevo]<br />
Lots of great video.

[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+beatles+videos The Beatles on YouTube] 
Check out what's currently available on YouTube  always a whole lot!
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<h2>Beatles Resources</h2>
[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-alphabet.shtml Alan W. Pollack's exhaustive analyses of all the Beatles' songs]
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<h2>Beatles News</h2>
Steve Marinucci's Beatles blog at Examiner.com has moved and is now called [https://beatlesheadlines.blogspot.com/ Beatles News Insider] and still provides up-to-date news on living Beatles and their circle.

[http://www.breakfastwiththebeatles.com/ Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)] 
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ, in Los Angeles
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<h2>Official Sites</h2>
[https://www.beatles.com/ Beatles.com]<br />
[https://www.johnlennon.com/ JohnLennon.com]<br />
[https://www.paulmccartney.com/ PaulMcCartney.com]<br />
[https://www.georgeharrison.com/ GeorgeHarrison.com]<br />
[https://www.ringostarr.com/ RingoStarr.com]<br />
[https://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/ The Original Quarrymen]
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The Beatles

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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = The Beatles
| image = The Fabs.JPG
| caption = The Beatles in 1967<br />Top: [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]]<br />Bottom: [[Ringo Starr]], [[George Harrison]]
| alt = Photo by Richard Avedon. Clockwise from top left: John, Paul, Ringo, George.
| background = group_or_band
| origin = [[Liverpool]], England
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[pop music|pop]]
| years_active = {{Start date|1960}}–{{End date|1970}}
| label = [[Parlophone]], [[Capitol Records|Capitol]], [[Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay]], [[United Artists Records|United Artists]], [[Apple Records|Apple]]
| associated_acts = [[The Quarrymen]]<br />[[Plastic Ono Band]]
| website = [http://www.thebeatles.com TheBeatles.com]
| current_members = [[John Lennon]]<br />[[Paul McCartney]]<br />[[George Harrison]]<br />[[Ringo Starr]]
| past_members = [[Stuart Sutcliffe]]<br />[[Pete Best]]
}}

=== Creation Myths ===
{{cquote|Many people ask what are Beatles? Why Beatles? Ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive? So we will tell you. It came in a vision  a man appeared in a flaming pie and said unto them 'From this day on you are Beatles with an A.' 'Thank you, Mister Man,' they said, thanking him.|John Lennon, ''Mersey Beat'' magazine, July 1961}}

{{cquote|At that time, [[Stuart Sutcliffe|Stuart]] [Sutcliffe] was into the Marlon Brando type of method acting. There has always been a big thing about who invented the name Beatles. John had said he invented it. But if you look at a movie called "The Wild One," you'll see a scene about bicycle gangs where Johnny's (played by Brando) gang is in a coffee bar and another gang led by Chino (Lee Marvin) pulls into town for a bit of aggro. The film dialogue printed here [Chino's gang is called the Beetles] shows how Stuart could have thought of the name Beatles.|Derek Taylor, Beatles Publicist, in ''Fifty Years Adrift (In An Open-Necked Shirt)''|1984}}

{{cquote|[[Stuart Sutcliffe|Stuart]] also dreamt up a new name for the group. Buddy Holly had his Crickets, and, on a forthcoming month-long tour of Britain, Gene Vincent was going to be backed by the Beat Boys. How about "The Beetles?" One of the motorbike gangs in "The Wild One" was called that too. A brainstorming session with John warped it eventually to "The Beatles" -- you know, like in 'beat music.'|Pauline Sutcliffe, ''Backbeat''|1994}}

{{cquote|I thought we were the best fucking group in the goddamn world, and believing that is what made us what we were, whether you call it the best pop group or the best rock 'n' roll group or whatever. As far as we were concerned, we were the best, but we thought we were the best before anybody else had even heard of us, back in Hamburg and Liverpool. So in that respect I think the Beatles are the best thing that ever happened in pop music, but you play me those tracks and I want to remake every damn one of them.|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'', p.61-62|1980}}

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=== Great Links ===
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles Wikipedia Entry for The Beatles]

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

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{{Infobox song
| Name = You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Released = 6 August 1965 <small>(mono and stereo)<small/><br>
| track_no = 3
| Recorded = 18 February 1965,<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]], [[London]]
| Genre = [[Folk rock]]
| Length = 2:11
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Beatles Help tracks}}
}}
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{{cquote|I was in Kenwood and I would just be songwriting. The period would be for songwriting and so every day I would attempt to write a song and it’s one of those that you sort of sing a bit sadly to yourself, 'Here I stand, head in hand...'

I started thinking about my own emotions  I don’t know when exactly it started like [[I'm a Loser|'I’m a Loser']] or 'Hide Your Love Away' or those kind of things  instead of projecting myself into a situation I would just try to express what I felt about myself which I’d done in me books. I think it was [[Bob Dylan and the Beatles|Dylan]] helped me realize that  not by any discussion or anything but just by hearing his work I had a sort of professional songwriter’s attitude to writing pop songs; he would turn out a certain style of song for a single and we would do a certain style of thing for this and the other thing.|John Lennon, ''Rolling Stone'' Interview, RS74|21 Jan 1971}}

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You Won't See Me

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{{Infobox song
| Name = You Won't See Me
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Rubber Soul]]
| Released = 3 December 1965
| track_no = 3
| Recorded = 11 November 1965,<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]]
| Genre = [[Pop rock]]<ref>Olivier Julien, "Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: it was forty years ago today", (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, 2008), ISBN 0754667081, p.27.</ref>
| Length = 3:22 (stereo version)<br/>3:25 (mono version)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Rubber Soul tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul.                                     |quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'', p.165|1980}}

{{cquote|Normally I write on guitar and have full chords, or on the piano and have full chords, but (“You won’t see me”) was written around two little notes, a very slim phrase, a two-note progression that I had very high on the first two strings of the guitar: the E and the B strings. I had it up on the high E position, and I just let the note on the B string descend a semitone at a time, and kept the top note the same, and against that I was playing a descending chromatic scale. Then I wrote the tune for “You won’t see me” against it. I changed it but it was still a two-note thing but instead of it going down I pushed it up and then came down again; just a slight variation. It was 100 per cent me as I recall, but I am always quite happy to give John a credit because there’s always a chance that on the session he might have said, 'That’d be better.' To me, it was very Motown-flavored. It’s got a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson James Jamerson] feel. He was the Motown bass player, he was fabulous, the guy who did all those great melodic bass lines. It was him, me, and Brian Wilson who were doing melodic bass lines at the time, all from completely different angles, LA, Detroit and London, all picking up on what each other did.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'' by Barry Miles|1994}}

{{cquote|'You Won't See Me', Paul's song, was recorded in two takes, with various overdubs. According to the record sleeve it featured the Beatles' assistant [[Mal Evans]] on Hammond organ, but no such sound is detectable on the tape or disc. There is however a piano, played by Paul.|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.68|1988}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_won%27t_see_me Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ywsm.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/you-wont-see-me About 'You Won't See Me' - Beatles Music History]

==References==
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[[Category:Songs]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Rubber Soul]]

You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
| Cover = you-know-my-name.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Let It Be]]"
| Released = 6 March 1970 (UK)
| Format = [[gramaphone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios<br/>17 May 1967 to 30 April 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 4:21
| Label = Apple Records
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]] and [[Chris Thomas]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Something]]" / "[[Come Together]]"<br/>(1970)
| This single = "[[Let It Be]]" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"<br/>(1970)
| Next single = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" <br />(1970)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|There was another song I wrote around 'Pepper' time that's still in the can, called 'You Know My Name Look Up The Number.' That's the only words to it. It just goes on all the way like that, and we did these mad backings. But I never finished it, and I must.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|That was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record with Paul. I was waiting for him in his house, and I saw the phone book was on the piano with the words, 'You know the name, look up the number.' It was like a logo, and I just changed it. It was going to be a four tops kind of song-- the chord changes are like that-- but it never developed and we made a joke out of it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|People are only just discovering the B-sides of Beatles singles. They're only just discovering things like 'You Know My Name' --probably my favorite Beatles track! Just because it's so insane. All the memories-- I mean, what would you do if a guy like John Lennon turned up at the studio and said, 'I've got a new song.' I said, 'What's the words?' and he replied, 'You know my name look up the number.' I asked, 'What's the rest of it?' '...No. No other words, those are the words. And I wanna do it like a mantra!' We did it over a period of maybe two or three years. We started off and we just did 20 minutes, and we tried it again and it didn't work. We tried it again, and we had these endless, crazy fun sessions. Eventually we pulled it all together and I sang, (sings in jazzy voice) 'You know my name...' and we just did a skit. Mal (Evans) and his gravel. I can still see Mal digging the gravel. And it was just so hilarious to put that record together. It's not a great melody or anything, it's just unique. Some people haven't discovered that song yet.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

{{cquote|I remember at one point we asked Mal (Evans) to shovel a bucket of gravel as a rhythmic device. We had a bit of a giggle doing those kind of tracks... Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) plays a funny sax solo. It's not amazingly well played but it happened to be exactly what we wanted. Brian was very good like that.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

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You Can't Do That

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = You Can't Do That
| Cover = cant-buy-me-love.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"
| Released =20 March 1964 (UK) <br/> 16 March 1964 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios<br/>25 February 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:37
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5114 (UK) <br/> [[Capitol]] 5587 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK) <br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US)(1963)
| This single = "You Can't Do That" / "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"<br/>(1964)
| Next single = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"/ "[[Things We Said Today]]" (UK)<br />"[[I Should Have Known Better]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|I'd find it a drag to play rhythm all the time, so I always work myself out something interesting to play. The best example I can think of is like I did on 'You Can't Do That.' There really isn't a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist on that, because I feel the rhythm guitarist role sounds too thin for records. Anyway it drove me potty to play chunk-chunk rhythm all the time. I never play anything as lead guitarist that George couldn't do better. But I like playing lead sometimes, so I do it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1964}}

{{cquote|That's me doing Wilson Pickett. You know, a cowbell going four-in-the bar, and the chord going 'chatoong!'|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|George Harrison and I were once in a car and the Beatles song "You Can't Do That" came on, with that great riff in the beginning on the 12-string. He goes, "I came up with that." And I said, "Really? How?" He said, "I was just standing there and thought, 'I've got to do something!'" That pretty much sums him up. He just had a way of getting right to the business, of finding the right thing to play. That was part of that Beatles magic – they all seemed to find the right thing to play.|quotewidth=500px|Tom Petty, in [http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/george-harrison-19691231 Rolling Stone magazine]}}

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Yesterday

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Yesterday
| Cover = yesterday.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Act Naturally]]"<br/>(US-1965) <br/>"[[I Should Have Known Better]]" (UK-1976)
| Released = 13 September 1965(US)<br/>4 March 1966 (UK-as part of an EP)<br/>8 March 1976 (UK)
| Format = [[Vinyl Record|7" & 12"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios:<br/>14 June 1965
| Genre = Pop
| Length = 2:03
| Label = [[Parlophone]]/[[EMI]] (UK)<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Let It Be]]"<br/>(1970)<br/><br/>"[[Help!]]"<br/>(1965)
| This single = "Yesterday"<br/>(1965)
| Next single = "[[Back in the USSR]]"<br/>(1976)<br/><br/>"[[Day Tripper]]" /"[[We Can Work It Out]]"<br/>(1965)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|'Yesterday' is Paul completely on his own, really. We just helped finishing off the ribbons 'round it, you know -- tying it up.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1966}}

{{cquote|I just started playing it and this tune came, 'cuz that's what happens. They just, sort of-- they COME, you know. It just came and I couldn't think of any words to it, so originally it was just, 'Scrambled Egg.' It was called 'Scrambled Egg' for a couple of months, until I thought of 'Yesterday.' And that's it. True story.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}

{{cquote|Paul wrote the lyrics to 'Yesterday.' Although the lyrics don't reslove into any sense, they're good lines. They certainly work, you know what I mean? They're good-- but if you read the whole song, it doesn't say anything; you don't know what happened. She left and he wishes it were yesterday-- that much you get-- but it doesn't really resolve. So, mine didn't used to either. I have had so much accolade for 'Yesterday.' That's Paul's song, and Paul's baby. Well done. Beautiful-- and I never wished I'd written it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It fell out of bed. I had a piano by my bedside and I... must have dreamed it, because I tumbled out of bed and put my hands on the piano keys and I had a tune in my head. It was just all there, a complete thing. I couldn't believe it. It came too easy. In fact, I didn't believe I'd written it. I thought maybe I'd heard it before, it was some other tune, and I went around for weeks playing the chords of the song for people, asking them, 'Is this like something? I think I've written it.' And people would say, 'No, it's not like anything else, but it's good.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|The hits are always the ones you thought wouldn't be hits, like 'Yesterday' or 'Mull Of Kintyre.' I didn't want to put them out. We didn't put 'Yesterday' out in England, it was only here (America) that it was a single. We didn't think it was going to be a good idea... so it's crazy how it goes.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1986}}

{{cquote|We didn't think it fitted our image. In fact, it was one of our most successful songs.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

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'''Paul performing this song on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' in 1965:'''
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[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Yesterday and Today]]

Yes It Is

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Yes It Is
| Cover = Ticket-To-Ride.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Ticket To Ride]]"
| Released = 9 April 1965 (UK)<br/>19 April 1965 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 16 February 1965
| Genre = Pop
| Length = 2:41
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) R5265<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (U.S.) 5407
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[I Feel Fine]]"<br/>(UK-1964)<br/><br/> "[[Eight Days a Week]]"<br/>(US-1965)
| This single = "Ticket To Ride"<br/>(1965)
| Next single = "[[Help!]]" / "[[I'm Down]]" <br />(1965)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|That's me trying a rewrite of 'This Boy,' but it didn't quite work.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I was there writing it with John, but it was his inspiration that I helped him finish off. 'Yes It Is' is a very fine song of John's.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

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Yer Blues

2025-05-07T22:04:29Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Yer Blues
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]
| Cover = The White Album.svg
| Released = [[22 November]] [[1968]]
| track_no = 2 of disc 2
| Recorded = [[13 August]] [[1968]]
| Genre = [[Blues-rock]], [[Hard rock]]
| Length = 4:01
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Misc = {{The Beatles tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the way I wanted it to sound.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|I should never have put that in about Chairman Mao. I was just finishing off in the studio when I did that.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|The statement in 'Revolution' was mine. The lyrics stand today. It's still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. That is what I used to say to Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Count me out if it is for violence. Don't expect me to be on the barricades unless it is with flowers. For years, on the Beatles' tours, Brian Epstein had stopped us from saying anything about Vietnam or the war. And he wouldn't allow questions about it. But on one of the last tours, I said, 'I'm going to answer about the war. We can't ignore it.' I absolutely wanted the Beatles to say something about the war.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

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'''The Dirty Mac perform this song on ''The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus'':'''
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Yer Blues

2025-05-07T22:03:59Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Yer Blues
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]
| Cover = The White Album.svg
| Released = [[22 November]] [[1968]]
| track_no = 2 of disc 2
| Recorded = [[13 August]] [[1968]]
| Genre = [[Blues-rock]], [[Hard rock]]
| Length = 4:01
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Misc = {{The Beatles tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|On 'Revolution' I'm playing the guitar and I haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the way I wanted it to sound.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|I should never have put that in about Chairman Mao. I was just finishing off in the studio when I did that.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|The statement in 'Revolution' was mine. The lyrics stand today. It's still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. That is what I used to say to Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Count me out if it is for violence. Don't expect me to be on the barricades unless it is with flowers. For years, on the Beatles' tours, Brian Epstein had stopped us from saying anything about Vietnam or the war. And he wouldn't allow questions about it. But on one of the last tours, I said, 'I'm going to answer about the war. We can't ignore it.' I absolutely wanted the Beatles to say something about the war.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

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'''The Dirty Mac perform this song on ''The Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus'':'''
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Yellow Submarine

2025-05-07T22:00:25Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Yellow Submarine
| Cover = eleanor-rigby.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| Album = [[Revolver]]
| B-side = "[[Eleanor Rigby]]"
| Released = 5 August 1966(UK)<br/>8 August 1966(US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 28-29 April;<br/>6 June 1966
| Genre = Pop
| Length = 2:38
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK)<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Paperback Writer]]"<br/>(1966)
| This single = "Yellow Submarine" / "[[Eleanor Rigby]]"<br/>(1966)
| Next single = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]" / "[[Penny Lane]]" <br />(1967)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|The Yellow Submarine people, who were gross animals, apart from the guy who drew the painting, the actual yellow submarine, came and, apart from sort of lifting all the ideas for the movie out of our heads and not giving us any credit - like Eric Segal writing Lennonesque lines straight from In His Own Write style and the crew ... We had nothing to do with that movie and we sort of resented them and we didn't know what it was. It was the third movie that we owed these United Artists and Brian had set it up and we had nothing to do with it and we knew nothing about it. But I like the movie. I like Heinz [Edelmann]'s artwork. But they got all the ideas for the glove in the sky and the thing that sucks people up was my idea. They said, have you got any monsters? I said, yeah, there's Horace the vacuum cleaner in the swimming pool which was a thing you could buy, and it went 'round the pool sucking up the things, you know. And I said that could be a monster that sucks . . . And all things like that, they just took them and never credited. They wanted another song; I knocked off "Hey Bulldog." It's a good-sounding record that means nothing.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It's a happy place, that's all. You know, it was just... We were trying to write a children's song. That was the basic idea. And there's nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any children's song.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1966}}

{{cquote|Paul wrote the catchy chorus. I helped with the blunderbuss bit.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|'Yellow Submarine' is Paul's baby. Donovan helped with the lyrics. I helped with the lyrics too. We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Paul's inspiration. Paul's idea. Paul's title... written for Ringo.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote that in bed one night. As a kid's story. And then we thought it would be good for Ringo to do.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|I was laying in bed in the Asher's garret, and there's a nice twilight zone just as you're drifting into sleep and as you wake from it-- I always find it quite a comfortable zone. I remember thinking that a children's song would be quite a good idea... I was thinking of it as a song for Ringo, which it eventually turned out to be, so I wrote it as not too rangey in the vocal. I just made up a little tune in my head, then started making a story-- sort of an ancient mariner, telling the young kids where he'd lived. It was pretty much my song as I recall... I think John helped out. The lyrics got more and more obscure as it goes on, but the chorus, melody and verses are mine.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

{{cquote|Paul came up with the concept of 'Yellow Submarine.' All I know is just that every time we'd all get around the piano with guitars and start listening to it and arranging it into a record, we'd all fool about. As I said, John's doing the voice that sounds like someone talking down a tube or ship's funnel as they do in the merchant marine. (laughs) And on the final track there's actually that very small party happening! As I seem to remember, there's a few screams and what sounds like small crowd noises in the background.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1999}}

{{cquote|There were albums which weren't any good as far as I was concerned, like 'Yellow Submarine.' We put all the songs together into an album form  I'm talking about English albums now, because in the states we found later that for every two albums we had, they (Capitol) would make three  because we put fourteen tracks on an album, and we'd also have singles that weren't included on albums in those days. They'd put the singles on, take off a bunch of tracks, change all the running order, and then they'd make new packages like 'Yesterday And Today,' just awful packages.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, [http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1977.0200.beatles.html ''Crawdaddy Magazine'' interview]|1977}}

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Words of Love

2025-05-07T21:59:28Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Words of Love
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Beatles for Sale]]
| Released = December 4, 1964
| track_no = 9
| Recorded = October 18, 1964
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]<br />[[Jangle pop]]
| Length = 2:12 (mono), 2:02 (stereo)
| Writer = [[Buddy Holly]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Beatles for Sale tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|Finally, John and Paul harmonised on a version of Buddy Holly's 'Words Of Love', the first and only time the Beatles &#$151; Holly lovers to the man  performed one of his songs on record, although they had played a number of them on stage before 1963. This was recorded in three takes, only two of which were complete. Take three  with overdubs added onto take two  was the 'best'.|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.50|1988}}

{{cquote|There was still one more song to be recorded  a cover of Buddy Holly's "Words Of Love," another favorite of mine. They were clearly flagging by the time they got around to it, yet John, Paul, and George sang beautiful three-part harmony, gathered around a single mic. Their vocals really imbued the track with warmth and love. It was a fitting tribute to one of the group's musical idols and the perfect way to end the evening, just short of midnight.|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording Engineer, ''Here, There and Everywhere'', p.97|2006}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_Love Wikipedia Entry]

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With a Little Help from My Friends

2025-05-07T21:55:45Z

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{{Infobox Song
| Name = With a Little Help from My Friends
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]
| Released = 1 June 1967
| track_no = 2 of side 1
| Recorded = 29-30 March 1967
| Genre = [[Pop Rock]]
| Length = 2:44
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone, Capitol, EMI]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Sgt Pepper tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul had the line about 'a little help from my friends.' He had some kind of structure for it, and we wrote it pretty well fifty-fifty from his original idea.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1970}}

{{cquote|The song ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’ was written speciﬁcally for me, but they had one line that I wouldn’t sing. It was ‘What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?’ I said, ‘There’s not a chance in hell am I going to sing this line,’ because we still had lots of really deep memories of the kids throwing jelly beans and toys on stage; and I thought that that if we ever did get out there again, I was not going to be bombarded with tomatoes.|Ringo Starr, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.242|2000}}

{{cquote|This was written out at John's house in Weybridge for Ringo... I think that was probably the best of our songs that we wrote for Ringo actually. I remember giggling with John as we wrote the lines, 'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you but I know it's mine.' It could have been him playing with his willie under the covers, or it could have been taken on a deeper level. This is what it meant but it was a nice way to say it  a very non-specific way to say it. I always liked that.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

{{cquote|It was Paul's idea. I think I helped with some of the words. In fact, I did. Hunter Davies was there when we did it and mentioned it in the book. 'What do you see when you turn out the light, I can't tell you but I know it's mine,' That was mine.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Even now, I just saw Mel Torme on TV the other day saying that 'Lucy' was written to promote drugs and so was 'A Little Help from My Friends' and none of them were at all  'A Litte Help from My Friends' only says get high in it, it's really about a little help from my friends, it's a sincere message.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon}}

{{cquote|They knew it would be for the kids, a sing-along type of song. They thought the album was missing this sort of thing and I sat with them as they tried to get all the rhymes right.|Hunter Davies, the Beatles authorized biographer|1968}}

{{cquote|The original line was, 'What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and throw a tomato at me,' and I would not sing that line. I hated that line, so I refused to sing it. Besides changing that line, it took a lot of coaxing from Paul to get me to sing that last note. I just felt that it was very high.'|Ringo Starr}}

{{cquote|John and Paul always wrote a song for Ringo on every album. 'With a Little Help from My Friends' proved to be that song. Paul wrote that and wrote it beautifully simple with just five notes. Terribly simple and terribly effective.|George Martin}}

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2025-05-07T21:53:28Z

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{{Infobox Song
| Name = While My Guitar Gently Weeps
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]
| Released = 22 November 1968
| track_no = 2 of disc 1
| Recorded = 5 September 1968
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length = 4:46
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks =
'''Side one'''
#"[[Back in the U.S.S.R.]]"
#"[[Dear Prudence]]"
#"[[Glass Onion]]"
#"[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]"
#"[[Wild Honey Pie]]"
#"[[The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill]]"
#"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
#"[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]"
'''Side two'''

#"[[Martha My Dear]]"
#"[[I'm So Tired]]"
#"[[Blackbird (song)|Blackbird]]"
#"[[Piggies]]"
#"[[Rocky Raccoon]]"
#"[[Don't Pass Me By]]"
#"[[Why Don't We Do It in the Road?]]"
#"[[I Will (The Beatles song)|I Will]]"
#"[[Julia (The Beatles song)|Julia]]"
'''Side three'''
#"[[Birthday (The Beatles song)|Birthday]]"
#"[[Yer Blues]]"
#"[[Mother Nature's Son]]"
#"[[Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey]]"
#"[[Sexy Sadie (song)|Sexy Sadie]]"
#"[[Helter Skelter (song)|Helter Skelter]]"
#"[[Long, Long, Long]]"
'''Side four'''
#"[[Revolution (song)#Revolution 1|Revolution 1]]"
#"[[Honey Pie]]"
#"[[Savoy Truffle]]"
#"[[Cry Baby Cry]]"
#"[[Revolution 9]]"
#"[[Good Night (song)|Good Night]]"
}}

==Quotes==

{{cquote|I wrote this at my mother's house in the North of England. I just had my guitar and I think I just wanted to write a song and, I do this often if I haven't particularly got an idea for a song, then I believe in the ''I Ching'', where everything is at that moment, you know, relative to that situation. So, with "While My Guitary Gently Weeps," I just opened a book that was around, and the first thing I looked at became the song, and it was something about "gently weeps," and then from that my whole thought started going up and I just started writing the song. I just closed the book again and I had the idea. When we got into "Guitar Gently Weeps," we recorded it one night and there was such a lack of enthusiasm. So I went home really disappointed, because I knew the song was good.|George Harrison}}

{{cquote|It was very spontaneous. We were in George's car, driving in London, and he said, "Do you want to come and play on this record?" and I went, "All right. But no one has ever played on a Beatles record. They won't like that." So George said, "No, it's nothing to do with them. It's my song." Then I came.|Eric Clapton}}

{{cquote|George's songs were getting so much better. He was demanding his rights. The reason why The Beatles made the double ''White'' and not ''Pepper'' again was because George had so much material, Paul had so much more material, I had so much material and even Ringo had so much material. We made the double ''White'' album because it was going to be a double album forever. ''Abbey Road'' was like a freak. It was an effort trying to produce something that we used to produce, because it was already disintegrating on the ''White Album'' because ther was so much material. Either we would have had to make double albums every time or Paul and I would have had to say, "OK, we'll only have two songs on every album," and that wouldn't have been fun for Paul and I. It had to break.|John Lennon|1970}}

{{cquote|The problem was that John and Paul had written songs for so long it was difficult  First of all because they had such alot of tunes and they automatically thought that theirs should be priority. So for me, I'd always have to wait through ten of their songs before they'd even listen to one of mine. That was why 'All Things Must Pass' had so many songs, because it was like I'd been constipated. I had a little encouragement from time to time, but it was very little. It was like they were doing me a favor. I didn't have much confidence in writing songs because of that. Because they never said, 'Yeah that's a good song.' When we got into things like "While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' we recorded it one night and there was such a lack of enthusiasm. So I went home really disappointed because I knew the song was good.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, from ''Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Breakup of the Beatles'', Elliot J. Huntley|2004}}

{{cquote|The next day I brought Eric Clapton with me. He was really nervous. I was saying, 'Just come and play on the session, then I can sing and play acoustic guitar.' Because what happened when Eric was there on that day, and later on when Billy Preston... I pulled in Billy Preston on Let It Be... it helped, because the others would have to control themselves a bit more. John and Paul mainly because they had to, you know, act more handsomely. Eric was nervous saying, 'No, what will they say?' And I was saying, 'Fuck 'em, that's my song.' You know, he was the first non-Beatle person who'd ever played on anything.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, ''Crawdaddy Magazine'' interview|Feb 1977}}

{{cquote|I worked on that song with John, Paul, and Ringo one day, and they were not interested in it at all. And I knew inside of me that it was a nice song. The next day I was with Eric Clapton, and I was going into the session, and I said, 'We're going to do this song. Come and play on it.' He said, 'Oh no. I can't do that. Nobody ever plays on the Beatles records.' I said, 'Look, it's my song, and I want you to play on it.' So Eric came in, and the other guys were as good as gold-- because he was there. Also, it left me free to just play the rhythm and do the vocal. So Eric played that, and I thought it was really good. Then we listened to it back, and he said, 'Ah, there's a problem though; it's not Beatley enough.' So we put it through the ADT (automatic double-track) to wobble it up a bit.|George Harrison|1987}}

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When I'm Sixty-Four

2025-05-07T21:51:26Z

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{{Infobox Song 
| Name = When I'm Sixty-Four
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]
| Released = [[1 June]] [[1967]]
| track_no = 9
| Recorded = [[6 December]] - [[21 December]] [[1966]]: [[Abbey Road Studios]]<br/>| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]<br>[[Vaudeville]]
| Length = 2:37
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]], [[Capitol Records|Capitol]], [[EMI]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Sgt Pepper tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|'When I'm Sixty Four' was something Paul wrote in the Cavern days. We just stuck in a few more words, like 'grandchildren on your knee,' and 'Vera Chuck and Dave.' It was just one of those ones that he'd had, that we've all got, really  half a song. And this was just one of those that was quite a hit with us. We used to do it when the amps broke down, just sing it on the piano.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1967}}

{{cquote|I think I helped Paul with some of the words.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

{{cquote|Paul's, completely. I would never dream of writing a song like that. There's some things I never think about, and that's one of them.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote the tune when I was about 15, I think, on the piano at home, before I moved from Liverpool. It was kind of a cabaret tune. Then, years later, I put words to it.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|I thought it was a good little tune but it was too vaudvillian, so I had to get some cod lines to take the sting out of it, and put the tongue very firmly in cheek.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

{{cquote|I had that song when I was a kid. I had that when I was about 16, but I never did anytghing with it until I was about 24 and then we put the words to it. |quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney}}

{{cquote|I am sure Paul wrote 'When I'm Sixty-Four' with his father in mind. Paul's father had played in a dance band in the post-war years. It so happened that Jim McCartney was 64 years old in July 1966. Jim loved music-hall stuff, corny popular songsa, the kind of thing that Paul normally wouldn't tolerate. Nevertheless, 'When I'm Sixty-Four' was not a send-up but a kind of nostalgic, if ever-so-slightly satircal tribute to his dad. On one level, I think it was an echo of the songs Jim played when Paul was young. It's almost a Des O'Connor number. It is also not really much of a Beatles song, in that the other Beatles didn't have much to do on it. Paul got someway round the lurking schmaltz factor by suggesting we use clarinets on the recording, 'in a classical way.' So the main accompaniment is the two clarinets and a bass clarinet, which I scored for him. This classical treatment gave added bit to the song, a formality that pushed it firmly towards satire.|quotewidth=500px|George Martin|1994}}

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==Web Resources==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I%27m_Sixty-Four Wikipedia entry]

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When I Get Home

2025-05-07T21:50:02Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = When I Get Home
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]
| Released = 10 June 1964 <small>(mono)</small><br>10 July 1964 <small>(stereo)</small>
| track_no = 11
| Recorded = 2 June 1964<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios]]
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]
| Length = 2:18
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{A Hard Day's Night tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|That's me again... another Wilson Pickett, Motown sound... a four-in-the-bar cowbell song.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews''|1980}}

{{cquote|After a break, the Beatles taped another new Lennon number, 'When I Get Home', recorded in 11 takes.|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.44|1988}}

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=== Additional Resources ===
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/wigh.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Notes on this song]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I_Get_Home Wikipedia Entry]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/when-i-get-home 'When I Get Home' - Beatles Music History]

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What You're Doing

2025-05-07T21:49:08Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = What You're Doing
| Cover =
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Beatles for Sale]]
| Released = 4 December 1964 <small>(mono and stereo)<small/>
| Recorded = 29–30 September and 26 October 1964<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios]]
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length = 2:30
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Beatles for Sale tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|We wrote this one in Atlantic City like 'Every Little Thing'. It's not that Atlantic City is particularly inspiring, it's just that we happened to have a day off the tour there. Ringo does a nice bit of drumming decoration in the introduction, and I double-track on the vocal as well as playing some piano.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''The Beatles Off The Record'', p.135-36 (2000)|1964}}

{{cquote|His [Paul's] song... I might have done something.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews''|1980}}

{{cquote|'What You're Doing' was a bit of filler. I think it was a little more mine than John's, but I don't have a very clear recollection so to be on the safe side I'd put it as 50-50. It doesn't sound like an idea that I remember John offering, so it sounds like a way to get a song started, some of them are just that. 'Hey, what'cha doing?' You sometimes start a song and hope the best will arrive by the time you get to the chorus, but sometimes that's all you get, and I suspect this was one of them. Maybe it's a better recording than it is a song, some of them are. Sometimes a good recording would enhance a song.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'', p.175-76|1997}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_You%27re_Doing Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/wyd.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/what-youre-doing About 'What You're Doing' - Beatles Music History Website]

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What Goes On

2025-05-07T21:47:45Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = What Goes On
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]/[[Ringo Starr|Starkey]]
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Rubber Soul]]
| Released = 3 December 1965
| Recorded = 4 November 1965,<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]], London
| Genre = [[Country rock]]
| Length = 2:50
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Rubber Soul tracks}}
}}
{{Infobox Single
| Name = What Goes On
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]/[[Ringo Starr|Starkey]]
| Cover = What-Goes-On_Nowhere-Man.jpg
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| from Album =
| A-side = "[[Nowhere Man (song)|Nowhere Man]]"
| Released = 15 February 1966 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = 4 November 1965,<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]], London
| Genre = [[Country rock]]
| Length = 2:50
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Last single = "[[We Can Work It Out]]" / "[[Day Tripper]]"<br/>(1965)
| This single = "[[Nowhere Man (song)|Nowhere Man]]"<br/>(US-1966)
| Next single = "[[Paperback Writer]]"<br/>(1966)
| Misc =
| Album =
| Type = single
| Tracks =
}}
</div>

{{cquote|That was an early Lennon, written before the Beatles when we were the Quarrymen or something like that. And resurrected with a middle-eight thrown in, probably with Paul's help, to give Ringo a song... and also to use the bits, because I never liked to waste anything.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'' p.188|1980}}

{{cquote|I contributed about five words to "What Goes On.' [laughs] And I haven't done a thing since!|quotewidth=500px|Ringo Starr|1966}}

{{cquote|A very early song of mine. Ringo and Paul wrote a new middle-eight together when we recorded it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''Hit Parader'' interview|Apr 1972}}

{{cquote|It was on 5 March 1963 that the Beatles first attempted to record 'What Goes On', though lack of' time meant that the tapes never actually rolled. It was. even then, quite an old Lennon-McCartney song. Now it was revived and handed to Ringo for his statutory one vocal per LP'. He also ended up with a joint composing credit too, though what exactly he contributed to warrant this has never been clarified. The song was recorded in one take, with overdubs of Ringo's rockabilly vocal and John and Paul's backing.|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.67|1988}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Goes_On_%28song%29 Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/wgo.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/what-goes-on About 'What Goes On?' - Beatles Music History]

==References==
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[[Category:Songs]][[Category:Ringo Starr]][[Category:Rubber Soul]]

We Can Work It Out

2025-05-07T21:46:46Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = We Can Work It Out
| Cover = day-tripper.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Day Tripper]]"
| Released = 3 December 1965 (UK) <br/>6 December 1965 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 20 October 1965
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:15
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK)<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Help!]]"<br/>(1965)
| This single = "We Can Work It Out"<br/>(1965)
| Next single = "[[Paperback Writer]]" <br/>(UK-1966) / "[[Nowhere Man]]" <br/>(US-1965)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul did the first half, I did the middle-eight. But you've got Paul writing, 'We can work it out/ We can work it out' real optimistic, you know. And me, impatient, 'Life is very short and there's no time/ for fussing and fighting, my friend.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote it as more of an up-tempo thing, country and western. I had the basic idea, the title, had a couple of verses... then I took it to John to finish it off and we wrote the middle together, which is nice-- 'Life is very short/ And there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend.' Then it was George Harrison's idea to put the middle into waltz time, like a german waltz... The lyrics might have been personal. It is often a good way to talk to someone or to work your thoughts out. It saves you going to a psychiatrist, you allow yourself to say what you might not say in person.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

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Wait

2025-05-07T21:45:11Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Wait
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Rubber Soul]]
| Released = 3 December 1965
| track_no = 12
| Recorded = 17 June, and 11 November 1965,<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]], London
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length = 2:16
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Rubber Soul tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|'''Barry Miles:''' 'Wait' was written in the Bahamas, during the filming of ''Help!'', and was originally intended for the soundtrack album. '''Paul:''' We [Paul, John and late actor Brandon de Wilde] chatted endlessly, and I seem to remember writing 'Wait' in front of him, and him being interested to see it being written. I think it was my song. I don't remember John collaborating too much on it, although he could have.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney & Barry Miles''Many Years From Now'', p.278|1994}}

{{cquote|Three more songs were needed. Paul came up with one, John another, and for the third they pulled 'Wait', the discarded ''Help!'' track, out of the tape library, added various bits and pieces and pronounced it fit for inclusion on the new LP.|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.68|1988}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_%28The_Beatles_song%29 Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/w.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/wait About 'Wait' - Beatles Music History]

[[Category:Songs]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Rubber Soul]]

Tomorrow Never Knows

2025-05-07T21:43:48Z

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{{Infobox Song
| Name = Tomorrow Never Knows
| Cover =
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Revolver]]
| Released = 5 August 1966
| track_no = 14
| Recorded = [[Abbey Road Studios]]<br />6, 7, 22 April 1966
| Genre = [[Psychedelic rock]]
| Length = 2:57
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Revolver tracks}}
}}

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{{cquote|[Timothy] Leary was the one who was going round saying, 'Take it, take it, take it,' and we followed his instructions in ''The Book of the Dead'', his how-to-take-a-trip book. I did it just like he said in the book, and then I wrote 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' which is almost the first acid song, 'Lay down all thought, surrender to the void.' I took one of Ringo's malapropisms as the title.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|'Tomorrow Never Knows' ... I didn't know what I was saying, and you just find out later. I know that when there are some lyrics I dig, I know that somewhere people will be looking at them.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|Often the backing I think of early-on never comes off. With 'Tomorrow Never Knows' I'd imagined in my head that in the background you would hear thousands of monks chanting. That was impractical, of course, and we did something different. It was a bit of a drag, and I didn't really like it. I should have tried to get near my original idea, the monks singing. I realize now that was what I wanted.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Beatles'' by Hunter Davies|1968}}

{{cquote|We only had one verse and I think we stretched it to two verses and we couldn't think of any more words, 'cos we had said it all, what we wanted to say, in about two verses. So, we had to try and work out how to do it and make it different. So, I decided to do some of those loops that I had been doing on my own tape recorder.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney}}

{{cquote|On our LP, we've got this track called 'Tomorrow Never Knows' which features electronic effects that I worked out for myself, and words from ''The Tibetan Book Of The Dead''. We did it because I, for one, am sick of doing sounds that people can claim to have heard before. Anyway, we played it to The Stones and The Who, and they visibly sat up and were interested. We also played it to Cilla, who just laughed.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney}}

{{cquote|People tend to credit John with the backward recordings, the loops and the wierd sound effects, but the tape loops were ''my'' thing! The only thing I used them on was 'Tomorrow Never Knows.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'' by Barry Miles|1998}}

{{cquote|That's me in my ''Tibetan Book of the Dead'' period. I took one of Ringo's malapropisms as the title, to sort of take the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'', p.153|1980}}

{{cquote|That was one of Ringo's malapropisms. John wrote the lyrics from Timothy Leary's version of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead.' It was a kind of Bible for all the psychedelic freaks. that was an LSD song. Probably the only one. People always thought 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was, but it actually wasn't meant to say LSD. It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school. Lucy was a kid in his school. And we said, 'That's a great title,' and we wrote the psychedelic song based on it. It's a natural, isn't it? You know, it was that sort of time. Like all that ''Abbey Road'' cover stuff, you know. Paul is dead, because he hasn't got shoes on, you know? It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was. We didn't bother pointing out.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Playboy'' Interview|1984}}

{{cquote|We all made up little abstract sounds on our home tape machines. Then, we'd cut a piece out of it, stick it together into a loop, and then put it onto the machine and round the playback head and we'd have to hold it with a pencil to keep it tight. We had all these things on different machines and then we'd mix them all into the record.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison}}

{{cquote|'Tomorrow Never Knows' was a groundbreaker in so many ways. No John Lennon vocal had ever sounded like ''that'' before. ''That'' was the sound of a voice being fed through a reolving Leslie speaker inside a Hammond organ. Organ notes played through it are given the Hammond swirling effect; voices put through a Leslie emerge in much the same way. 'It meant actually breaking into the circuitry,' says Emerick. 'I remember the surprise on our faces when the voice came out of the speaker. It was just one of sheer amazement. After that they wanted ''everything'' shoved through the Leslie: pianos, guitars, drums, vocals, you name it!'|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.72|1988}}

{{cquote|Perhaps the most striking sound on 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is one of tape loops [the sound achieved by tape saturation, by removing the erase head of a machine and then recording over and over on the same piece of tape]. 'The tape loop idea started because they all had Brennell machines,' recalls Geoff Emerick. 'Paul in particular used the make his own loops at home and walk into the studio with bags full of little reels saying "Listen to this!" The seagull-like noise on "Tomorrow Never Knows" is realy a distorted guitar.' (According to studio documentation, other loops used included the sounds of a speeded up guitar and a wine glass.) 'We did a live mix of all the loops,' says George Martin. 'All over the studios we had people spooling them onto machines with pencils while Geoff did the balancing. There were many other hands controlling the panning.' 'We had five machines running,' says Phil McDonald. 'Geoff would say "OK, let's lift that fader, that sounds good." It was done totally off the cuff. The control room was as full of loops as it was people.' 'I laid all of the loops onto the multi-track and played the faders like a modern day synthesiser,' says Emerick.|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.72|1988}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Knows Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/tnk.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]

[[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Revolver]]

Ticket To Ride

2025-05-07T21:43:17Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Ticket To Ride
| Cover = Ticket-To-Ride.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Yes It Is]]"
| Released = 9 April 1965 (UK)<br/>19 April 1965 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 15 February 1965
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:02
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) RS5265<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (U.S.) 5407
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[I Feel Fine]]" / "[[She's A Woman]]"<br/>(1964)
| This single = "Ticket To Ride" / "[[Yes It Is]]"<br/>(1965)
| Next single = "[[Help!]]" /<br />"[[I'm Down]]" <br />(1965)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made. Paul's contribution was the way Ringo played the drums.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|John just didn't take the time to explain that we sat down together and worked on that song for a full three-hour songwriting session, and at the end of it all we had all the words, we had the harmonies, and we had all the little bits.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now'' w/Barry Miles|1998}}

{{cquote|I liked it, 'cause it was slightly a new sound at the time. [...] It's pretty fuckin' heavy for then. If you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making, and you hear it now, it doesn't sound too bad. It doesn't make you cringe. [...] If you'd give me the eight-track now, remix it  I'll show you what it is ''really'', but you can hear it there. I used to like guitars. I don't want anything else on the album, the guitars and janglin' piano or whatever. It's a heavy record, and the drums are heavy too. That's why I like it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''Lennon Remembers'' - Jann Wenner|1970}}

{{cquote|We are always worried with each record. With ''Ticket To Ride'' we were even more worried. There's bound to be a time when we come in at 19 (on the charts). But this 'number one' business doesn't seem to stop  great while it lasts  but now we'll have to start all over again and people will start predicting funny things for the next one.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1965}}

{{cquote|We sat down and wrote it together. I remember talking about Ryde but it was John's thing. We wrote the melody together; you can hear on the record, John's taking the melody and I'm singing harmony with it. We'd often work those out as we wrote them. Because John sang it, you might have to give him 60 per cent of it. It was pretty much a work job that turned out quite well. I think the interesting thing is the crazy ending  instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. We picked up one of the lines, "My baby don't care," but completely altered the melody. We almost invented the idea of a new bit of a song on the fade-out with this song... It was quite radical at the time.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now'' w/Barry Miles|1998}}
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[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Help (album)]]

Ticket To Ride

2025-05-07T21:42:44Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Ticket To Ride
| Cover = Ticket-To-Ride.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[Yes It Is]]"
| Released = 9 April 1965 (UK)<br/>19 April 1965 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 15 February 1965
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:02
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) RS5265<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (U.S.) 5407
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[I Feel Fine]]" / "[[She's A Woman]]"<br/>(1964)
| This single = "Ticket To Ride" / "[[Yes It Is]]"<br/>(1965)
| Next single = "[[Help!]]" /<br />"[[I'm Down]]" <br />(1965)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made. Paul's contribution was the way Ringo played the drums.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|John just didn't take the time to explain that we sat down together and worked on that song for a full three-hour songwriting session, and at the end of it all we had all the words, we had the harmonies, and we had all the little bits.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now'' w/Barry Miles|1998}}

{{cquote|I liked it, 'cause it was slightly a new sound at the time. [...] It's pretty fuckin' heavy for then. If you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making, and you hear it now, it doesn't sound too bad. It doesn't make you cringe. [...] If you'd give me the eight-track now, remix it  I'll show you what it is ''really'', but you can hear it there. I used to like guitars. I don't want anything else on the album, the guitars and janglin' piano or whatever. It's a heavy record, and the drums are heavy too. That's why I like it.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''Lennon Remembers'' - Jann Wenner|1970}}

{{cquote|We are always worried with each record. With ''Ticket To Ride'' we were even more worried. There's bound to be a time when we come in at 19 (on the charts). But this 'number one' business doesn't seem to stop  great while it lasts  but now we'll have to start all over again and people will start predicting funny things for the next one.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1965}}

{{cquote|We sat down and wrote it together. I remember talking about Ryde but it was John's thing. We wrote the melody together; you can hear on the record, John's taking the melody and I'm singing harmony with it. We'd often work those out as we wrote them. Because John sang it, you might have to give him 60 per cent of it. It was pretty much a work job that turned out quite well. I think the interesting thing is the crazy ending  instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. We picked up one of the lines, "My baby don't care," but completely altered the melody. We almost invented the idea of a new bit of a song on the fade-out with this song... It was quite radical at the time.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now'' w/Barry Miles|1998}}
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[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Help (album)]]

This Boy

2025-05-07T20:56:14Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = This Boy
| Cover = this-boy.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"
| Released =29 November 1963<br/>
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios<br/>17 October 1963
| Genre = Beat
| Length = 2:13
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5084
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[She Loves You]]" / "[[I'll Get You]]" (1963)
| This single = "This Boy" / "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]"(1963)
| Next single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"/ "[[You Can't Do That]]"(1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|Just my attempt at writing one of those three-part harmony Smokey Robinson songs. Nothing in the lyrics... just a sound and a harmony. There was a period when I thought I didn't write melodies... that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock 'n roll. But of course, when I think of some of my own songs-- 'In My Life,' or some of the early stuff-- 'This Boy,' I was writing melody with the best of them|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Fabulous. And we just loved singing that three-part too. We'd learned that from: (sings) 'To know know know her is to love love love her...' We learned that in my dad's house in Liverpool.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

{{cquote|"And now listen to ''this''," John said passionately, "this is the last song I'll play for you." And out of the speakers came the deliquescent sounds of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "I've Been Good to You," a song from 1961 that provides the melody and chords for the Beatles' "This Boy," and whose opening lines of voluptuous torment  "Look what you've done / You made a fool out of someone"  were the specific inspiration for "Sexy Sadie" ("Sexy Sadie, what have you done? / You made a fool of everyone"). |quotewidth=500px|Jonathan Cott, ''Days That I'll Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono'' 2013}}

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Think for Yourself

2025-05-07T20:47:34Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Think for Yourself
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Rubber Soul]]
| Released = 3 December 1965 <small>(mono and stereo)<small/>
| track_no = 5
| Recorded = 8 November 1965,<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]], London
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length = 2:18
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Rubber Soul tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul used a fuzz box on the bass on 'Think For Yourself'. When [[Phil Spector]] was making 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah', the engineer who'd set up the track overloaded the microphone on the guitar player and it became very distorted. Phil Spector said 'Leave it like that, it's great.' Some years later everyone started to try to copy that sound and so they invented the fuzz box. We had one and tried the bass through it and it sounded really good.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.196|2000}}

{{cquote|'Think For Yourself' must be written about somebody from the sound of it  but all this time later I don't quite recall who inspired that tune. Probably the government.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}

{{cquote|[The title] was cooked up later in the evening. At first it was announced by [[Normal Smith]] as 'Won't Be There With You'. Whatever the moniker, it was finally recorded  with overdubs  in one take, with lead, rhythm and bass guitars, plus a fuzz bass, tambourine, maracas and electric piano. The technical people at Abbey Road built fuzz boxes for use with guitars. 'It was an electronic device in which you could have controlled distortion,' says [[Ken Townsend]], then one of the technical engineers. 'You actually made the sound overload.'|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.67|1988}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_for_Yourself Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/tfy.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/think-for-yourself About 'Think For Yourself' - Beatles Music History]

[[Category:Songs]][[Category:George Harrison]][[Category:Rubber Soul]]

Things We Said Today

2025-05-07T20:46:28Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Things We Said Today
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Cover =
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| from Album = [[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]
| A-side = "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]"
| Released = 10 July 1964 <small>(stereo)</small>| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = 2 June 1964<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios]]
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]
| Length = 2:38
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Reviews =
| Last single = "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]"<br />(1963)
| This single = "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]"<br />(1964)
| Next single = "[[I Feel Fine]]"<br />(UK-1964) <br/>--- <br/>"[[I'll Cry Instead]]" <br/>(US-1964)
| Misc = {{Extra track listing
| Album = [[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]
| Type = single
| Tracks = {{A Hard Day's Night tracks}}
}}
}}

{{cquote|Paul's. Good song|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|I wrote 'Things We Said Today' on acoustic (guitar). It was a slightly nostalgic thing already, a future nostalgia: we'll remember the things we said today, sometime in the future, so the song projects itself into the future and then is nostalgic about the moment we're living now, which is quite a good trick.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1964}}

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'''The Beatles performing ''Things We Said Today'' at the Indiana State Fair, 1964:'''
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The Word

2025-05-07T20:42:24Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = The Word
| Cover =
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Rubber Soul]]
| Released = 3 December 1965
| track_no = 6
| Recorded = 10 November 1965<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]], [[London]]
| Genre = [[Folk rock]]{{sfn|Pollack|1993}}
| Length = 2:41
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Rubber Soul tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|'The Word' was written together, but it's mainly mine. You read the words, it's all about  gettin' smart. It's the marijuana period. It's love, it's the love-and-peace thing. The word is 'love,' right?|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'', p.173|1980}}

{{cquote|[After we composed 'The Word'] we smoked a bit of pot, then we wrote out a multicoloured lyric sheet, the first time we'd ever done that. We normally didn't smoke when we were working. It got in the way of songwriting because it would just cloud your mind up. ... But we did this multicoloured thing.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'' by Barry Miles, p.272|1994}}

{{cquote|It sort of dawned on me that love was the answer, when I was younger, on the ''Rubber Soul'' album. My first expression of it was a song called 'The Word'. The word is 'love'. 'In the good and the bad books that I have read,' whatever, wherever, the word is 'love'. It seems like the underlying theme to the universe. Everything that was worthwhile got down to this love, love, love thing. And it is the struggle to love, be loved and express that (just ''something'' about love) that's fantastic. I think that whatever else love is  and it's many, many things  it is constant. It's been the same forever. I don't think it will ever change. Even though I'm not always a loving person, I want to be that; I want to be as loving as possible.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.193|2000}}

{{cquote|But then came 'The Word', and that was something else, too. A song about love, but not just about girls and boys. |quotewidth=500px|Brian Wilson|2009}}

{{cquote|'The Word' could be a Salvation Army song. The word is 'love' but it could be 'Jesus' (It isn't, mind you, but it could be.)|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.193|2000}}

{{cquote|We started putting out messages like 'The word is love', and things like that. And when you start putting out messages, people start asking you, 'What's the message?' It's love. It's the marijuana period. It's the love and peace thing. The Word is love.|John Lennon, [https://www.johnlennon.com/music/interviews/rolling-stone-interview-1970/ ''Rolling Stone'' interview by Jann Wenner]|1971}}

{{cquote|An entirely new song was also recorded during this session, John Lennon's 'The Word', the lyric of which was a prototype '[[All You Need Is Love]]', two years ahead of that world anthem. 'The Word' was perfected in three takes, with Paul on piano as well as bass guitar and George Martin contributing more harmonium work.|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.68|1988}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_%28song%29 Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/tw.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/the-word About 'The Word' - Beatles Music History]

[[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Rubber Soul]]

The Word

2025-05-07T20:40:22Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = The Word
| Cover =
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Rubber Soul]]
| Released = 3 December 1965
| track_no = 6
| Recorded = 10 November 1965<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI Studios]], [[London]]
| Genre = [[Folk rock]]{{sfn|Pollack|1993}}
| Length = 2:41
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Rubber Soul tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|'The Word' was written together, but it's mainly mine. You read the words, it's all about  gettin' smart. It's the marijuana period. It's love, it's the love-and-peace thing. The word is 'love,' right?|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interviews'', p.173|1980}}

{{cquote|[After we composed 'The Word'] we smoked a bit of pot, then we wrote out a multicoloured lyric sheet, the first time we'd ever done that. We normally didn't smoke when we were working. It got in the way of songwriting because it would just cloud your mind up. ... But we did this multicoloured thing.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'' by Barry Miles, p.272|1994}}

{{cquote|It sort of dawned on me that love was the answer, when I was younger, on the ''Rubber Soul'' album. My first expression of it was a song called 'The Word'. The word is 'love'. 'In the good and the bad books that I have read,' whatever, wherever, the word is 'love'. It seems like the underlying theme to the universe. Everything that was worthwhile got down to this love, love, love thing. And it is the struggle to love, be loved and express that (just ''something'' about love) that's fantastic. I think that whatever else love is  and it's many, many things  it is constant. It's been the same forever. I don't think it will ever change. Even though I'm not always a loving person, I want to be that; I want to be as loving as possible.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.193|2000}}

{{cquote|But then came 'The Word', and that was something else, too. A song about love, but not just about girls and boys. |quotewidth=500px|Brian Wilson, [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/beatles/article6818698.ece ... on the Beatles' ''Rubber Soul'' by Peter Aims Carlin]|2009}}

{{cquote|'The Word' could be a Salvation Army song. The word is 'love' but it could be 'Jesus' (It isn't, mind you, but it could be.)|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''The Beatles Anthology'', p.193|2000}}

{{cquote|We started putting out messages like 'The word is love', and things like that. And when you start putting out messages, people start asking you, 'What's the message?' It's love. It's the marijuana period. It's the love and peace thing. The Word is love.|John Lennon, [http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/John_Lennon_Part1.aspx ''Rolling Stone'' interview by Jann Wenner]|1971}}

{{cquote|An entirely new song was also recorded during this session, John Lennon's 'The Word', the lyric of which was a prototype '[[All You Need Is Love]]', two years ahead of that world anthem. 'The Word' was perfected in three takes, with Paul on piano as well as bass guitar and George Martin contributing more harmonium work.|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Sessions'', p.68|1988}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_%28song%29 Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/tw.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/the-word About 'The Word' - Beatles Music History]

[[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Rubber Soul]]

The Long and Winding Road

2025-05-07T20:39:30Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = The Long and Winding Road
| Cover = the-long-and-winding-road.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[For You Blue]]"
| Released = 11 May 1970 (US)
| Format = [[vinyl record|7"]]
| Recorded = 26 January 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:37
| Label = Apple Records
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Let It Be]]" / "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]"<br/>(1970)
| This single = "The Long and Winding Road" / "[[For You Blue]]"<br/>(1970)
| Next single = "[[The Long and Winding Road]]" / "[[For You Blue]]" <br />(1970)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|The album was finished a year ago, but a few months ago American record producer Phil Spector was called in by John Lennon to tidy up some of the tracks. But a few weeks ago, I was sent a re-mixed version of my song 'The Long And Winding Road' with harps, horns, an orchestra, and a women's choir added. No one had asked me what I thought. I couldn't believe it. The record came with a note from Allen Klein saying he thought the changes were necessary. I don't blame Phil Spector for doing it, but it just goes to show that it's no good me sitting here thinking I'm in control because obviously I'm not. Anyway, I've sent Klein a letter asking for some things to be altered, but I haven't received an answer yet."|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

{{cquote|Paul again. He had a little spurt just before we split.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It's rather a sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It's a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist. Songwriting often performs that feat-- you say it, but you don't embarrass yourself because it's only a song, or is it? You are putting the things that are bothering you on the table and you are reviewing them, but because it's a song, you don't have to argue with anyone... It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable; the door you never quite reach. This is the road that you never get to the end of.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

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''''Naked' Version'''
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Within You Without You

2025-05-07T20:36:32Z

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{{Infobox Song
| Name = Within You Without You
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]
| Released = 1 June 1967
| track_no = 2 of side 1
| Recorded = 15 March 1967<br />
22 March 1967<br />
3 April 1967
| Genre = [[Raga Rock]]
| Length = 5:05
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Label = [[Parlophone, Capitol, EMI]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Sgt Pepper tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|There are so many people who don't understand the sentiment of 'Within You Without You.' They can't see outside themselves, they're too self-important and can't see how small we all are. 'Within You Without You' was just my way of trying to make a Western pop song using some of those instruments and some of those sounds.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison}}

{{cquote|'Within You Without You' was written after I had got into meditation. We had entered into the ''All You Need Is Love'' consciousness after the LSD period. The song was written at Klaus Voormann's house in Hampstead, London, one night after dinner. I was playing a pedal harmonium in the house, when the song came to me. The tune came first, then the first sentence ... ''we were talking'' ... I finished the words later.

This was during the ''Sargeant Pepper'' period, and after I had been taking sitar lessons with Ravi Shankar for some time, so I was getting a ''bit'' better on the instrument. I was continually playing Indian music lessons the melodies of which are called Sargams, which are the bases of the different Ragas. That's why around this time I couldn't help writing tunes like this which were based upon unusual scales.

The best part of it for me is the instrumental solo in the middle which is in five/four time  the first of the strange rhythm cycles that I caught on to  one-two, one-two-three; one-two-one-two-three.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, ''I Me Mine''|1980}}

{{cquote|I think that this is George's best song, one of my favorites. I like the arrangement, the sound and the words. He is clear on that song. You can hear his mind is clear and his music is clear. It's his innate talent that comes through on that song. George is responsible for Indian music getting over here. That song is a good example.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon}}

{{cquote|George has done a great indian one. We came along one night and he had about 400 indian fellas playing, and it was a great swinging event, as they say.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1967}}

{{cquote|Klaus (Voorman) had a harmonium in his house, which I hadn't played before. I was doodling on it, playing to amuse myself, when 'Within You' started to come. The tune came first, and then I got the first sentence. It came out of what we'd been doing that evening.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison}}

{{cquote|I'm writing more songs now that we're not touring. The words are always a bit of a hangup for me. I'm not very poetic. 'Within You Without You' was written after dinner one night at Klaus Voorman's house. He had a harmonium, which I hadn't played before. I was doodling on it when the tune started to come. The first sentence came out of what we'd been doing that evening... 'We were talking.' That's as far as I got that night. I finished the rest of the words later at home.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1967}}

{{cquote|There are some Indian musicians who worked on ''Sgt. Pepper''who still haven't been paid simply because George doesn't know their names.|George Martin}}

{{cquote|My job was to add Western strings to the song  that is, to find classically trained European fiddle players (frequently of Jewish stock) and get them to mimic their Indian counterparts. This intrigued me no end. I couldn't wait to see the titanic clash of cultures in the studio! When it came to it, the European string players min gled well with the Indian players, but musically the Europeans were sliding around all over the place. This was especially true in the second, or middle section of 'Within You Without You,' where the tabla changes rhythm from a 4/4 to a much more Indian-feeling 5/4 tempo; here, too, the song gets quite fast and tricky. We had a lot of fun getting that right.|George Martin, ''Summer of Love'', 1994}}

{{cquote|George, as usual, set joss sticks smouldering in the corners. He looked a bit like the Lone Ranger with his Indian friends. Although the other Beatles were there, they stuck around for the fun of it. None of them played or sang a note. In order to get them to play what he wanted, George would simply sing to the Indian musicians, or occasionally pick a few notes on the sitar.|George Martin, ''Summer of Love'', 1994}}

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'''''Love'' mashup of ''Within You Without You'' and ''[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]'''''
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The Inner Light

2025-05-07T20:31:45Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = The Inner Light
| Cover = lady-madonna.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Lady Madonna]]"
| Released = 15 March 1968 (UK)<br/> 18 March 1968 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios:<br/> 3-6 February 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:36
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK)<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"<br/>(1967)
| This single = "[[Lady Madonna]]" / "The Inner Light"<br/>(1968)
| Next single = "[[Hey Jude]]"<br />(1968)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|I went back [to India] in 1967 to record the ''Wonderwall'' album, and also did the ''Inner Light'' track...|George Harrison|''I, Me, Mine'', orig. published 1980; Chronicle Books 2007, p.57}}

{{cquote|quotewidth=500px|''The Inner Light'' came really, from ''[[Within You, Without You]]''. There was a David Frost show on television about meditation  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi Maharishi Mahesh Yogi] was interviewed on tape with John Lennon and myself live and amongst many others in the audience was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Mascaró Juan Mascaró] who is the Sanskrit teacher at Cambridge University. He wrote me a letter later saying '... a few days ago two friends from abroad gave me the recording of your song ''Within You, Without You''. I am very happy, it is a moving song and may it move the souls of millions; and there is more to come, as you are only beginning on the great journey'.

He also send me a copy of a book called 'Lamps of Fire' and in his letter he says '... might it not be interesting to put into your music a few words of Tao, for example number 48, page 66 of the book.' And that's where the words to ''The Inner Light'' come from; it's a translation from the 'Tao Te Ching.' [...]

The instruments were all Indian, all played by Indian musicians and recorded in H.M.V. Studios in Bombay. I think the song went unnoticed by most people because I was getting a bit 'out of it' as far as Western popular music was concerned, at that period.

In the original poem, the verse says 'Without going out of ''my'' door, ''I'' can know the ways of heaven.' And so to prevent any misinterpretations  and also to make the song a bit longer  I did repeat that as a second verse but made it:

:''Without going out of your door<br />
:You can know all things on earth<br />
:Without looking out of your window<br />
:You can know the ways of heaven''

 so that it included everybody.

The song was especially for Juan Mascaró because he sent me the book and is a sweet old man. It was nice, the words said everything. AMEN.|George Harrison|''I, Me, Mine'', orig. published 1980; Chronicle Books 2007, p.118}}

{{cquote|Forget the Indian music and listen to the melody. Don't you think it's a beautiful melody? It's really lovely.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}

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===External Links===
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/til.shtml Read Allan W. Pollack's Notes on ''The Inner Light'']
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=0S-BW0YJQ-0C ''I, Me, Mine'' Google Books (searchable)]

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:George Harrison]][[Category:Rarities]]

The Inner Light

2025-05-07T20:30:40Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = The Inner Light
| Cover = lady-madonna.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[Lady Madonna]]"
| Released = 15 March 1968 (UK)<br/> 18 March 1968 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios:<br/> 3-6 February 1968
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:36
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK)<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (US)
| Writer = [[Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"<br/>(1967)
| This single = "[[Lady Madonna]]" / "The Inner Light"<br/>(1968)
| Next single = "[[Hey Jude]]"<br />(1968)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|I went back [to India] in 1967 to record the ''Wonderwall'' album, and also did the ''Inner Light'' track...|George Harrison|''I, Me, Mine'', orig. published 1980; Chronicle Books 2007, p.57}}

{{cquote|quotewidth=500px|''The Inner Light'' came really, from ''[[Within You, Without You]]''. There was a David Frost show on television about meditation  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi Maharishi Mahesh Yogi] was interviewed on tape with John Lennon and myself live and amongst many others in the audience was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Mascaró Juan Mascaró] who is the Sanskrit teacher at Cambridge University. He wrote me a letter later saying '... a few days ago two friends from abroad gave me the recording of your song ''Within You, Without You''. I am very happy, it is a moving song and may it move the souls of millions; and there is more to come, as you are only beginning on the great journey'.

He also send me a copy of a book called 'Lamps of Fire' and in his letter he says '... might it not be interesting to put into your music a few words of Tao, for example number 48, page 66 of the book.' And that's where the words to ''The Inner Light'' come from; it's a translation from the 'Tao Te Ching.' [...]

The instruments were all Indian, all played by Indian musicians and recorded in H.M.V. Studios in Bombay. I think the song went unnoticed by most people because I was getting a bit 'out of it' as far as Western popular music was concerned, at that period.

In the original poem, the verse says 'Without going out of ''my'' door, ''I'' can know the ways of heaven.' And so to prevent any misinterpretations  and also to make the song a bit longer  I did repeat that as a second verse but made it:

:''Without going out of your door<br />
:You can know all things on earth<br />
:Without looking out of your window<br />
:You can know the ways of heaven''

 so that it included everybody.

The song was especially for Juan Mascaró because he sent me the book and is a sweet old man. It was nice, the words said everything. AMEN.|George Harrison|''I, Me, Mine'', orig. published 1980; Chronicle Books 2007, p.118}}

{{cquote|Forget the Indian music and listen to the melody. Don't you think it's a beautiful melody? It's really lovely.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1968}}

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===External Links===
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/til.shtml Read Allan W. Pollack's Notes on ''The Inner Light'']
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=0S-BW0YJQ-0C ''I, Me, Mine'' Google Books (searchable)]

[[Category:Singles]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:George Harrison]][[Category:Rarities]]

Tell Me Why (The Beatles song)

2025-05-07T20:29:16Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Tell Me Why
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]
| Released = 10 June 1964 <small>(mono)</small><br>10 July 1964 <small>(stereo)</small>
| track_no = 6
| Recorded = 27 February 1964<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios]]
| Genre = [[Rock and roll]]
| Length = 2:10
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{A Hard Day's Night tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|I think a lot of these songs like 'Tell Me Why' may have been been based in real experiences or affairs John was having or arguments with Cynthia or whatever, but it never occurred to us until later to put that slat on it all.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'', p.164|1997}}

{{cquote|'Tell Me Why'... they needed another upbeat song and I just knocked it off. It was like a black, New York girl-group song."|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

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==Additional Resources==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Me_Why_%28The_Beatles_song%29 Wikipedia Entry]
* [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/tmw.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/tell-me-why 'Tell Me Why' Page at Beatles Music History Site]

[[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:A Hard Day's Night (album)]]

Taxman

2025-05-07T20:25:54Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Taxman
| Cover =
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Revolver]]
| Released = 5 August 1966
| track_no = 1
| Recorded = [[Abbey Road Studios]]<br/>20–22 April, 16 May, 21 June 1966
| Genre = Rock, Psychedelic/Acid Rock
| Length = 2:39
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Revolver tracks}}
}}
{{cquote|'Taxman' was when I first realized that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes. It was and still is topical.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}

{{cquote|I brought my old Epiphone electric guitar out, which was like a cheap Gibson in the early days. It's the guitar that I played the opening riff of 'Paperback Writer' on, so it's a lovely guitar. It can be quite varied  sort of horny and hard, like the 'Taxman' solo; that was the other thing I used it on. George let me have a go for the solo because I had an idea -- it was the early Jimi Hendrix days and I was trying to persuade George to do something like that, feedback-y and crazy. And I was showing him what I wanted, and he said, 'Well, you do it.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/sir_paul_rides_again/page/3 "RollingStone Interview]|2005}}

{{cquote|I helped out such a lot in all the arrangements. There were a lot of tracks though where I played bass. Paul played lead guitar on 'Taxman,' and he played guitar  a good part  on 'Drive My Car.'|George Harrison|''Crawdaddy Magazine'', Feb 1977}}

{{cquote|There was a bit of tension on that session [...] because George had a great deal of trouble playing the solo  in fact, he couldn't even do a proper job of it when we slowed the tape down to half speed. [...] So George Martin went into the studio and, as diplomatically as possible, announced that he wanted Paul to have a go at the solo instead. I could see from the look on Harrison's face that he didn't like the idea one bit, but he reluctantly agreed and then proceeded to disappear for a couple of hours. [...] Paul's solo was stunning in its ferocity  his guitar playing had a fire and energy that his younger bandmate's rarely matched  and was accomplished in just a take or two. It was so good, in fact, that George Martin had me fly it in again during the song's fadeout.|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording Engineer, ''Here, There and Everywhere'', with Robert Massey|2006}}

{{cquote|I was pleased to have Paul play that bit on 'Taxman.' If you notice, he did like a little Indian bit on it for me.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison, ''Guitar Player Magazine'' interview|1987}}

{{cquote|I remember the day he (George) called to ask for help on 'Taxman,' one of his first songs. I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along because that's what he asked for. He came to me because he couldn't go to Paul. Paul wouldn't have helped him at that period. I didn't want to do it. I just sort of bit my tongue and said OK. It had been John and Paul for so long, he'd been left out because he hadn't been a songwriter up until then.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''Playboy Interviews''|1980}}

{{cquote|George wrote that and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Playboy Magazine'' interview|1984}}

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Strawberry Fields Forever

2025-05-07T20:24:28Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Strawberry Fields Forever
| Cover = pennystrawps.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| A-side = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| Released = 13 February 1967 (UK)<br/>17 February 1967 (US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road]]: November–December 1966
| Genre = Psychedelic rock / Experimental rock
| Length = 4:10
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK)<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (U.S.)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Eleanor Rigby]]" / "[[Yellow Submarine]]"<br/>(1966)
| This single = "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "[[Penny Lane]]"<br/>(1967)
| Next single = "[[All You Need Is Love]]"<br/>(1967)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|Strawberry Fields was a place near us that happened to be a Salvation Army home. But Strawberry Fields  I mean, I have visions of Strawberry Fields. And there was Penny Lane, and the Cast Iron Shore, which I've just got in some song now, and they were just good names  just groovy names. Just good sounding. Because Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

{{cquote|Strawberry Fields is a real place. After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I moved in with my auntie who lived in the suburbs in a nice semidetached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around... not the poor slummy kind of image that was projected in all the Beatles stories. In the class system, it was about half a class higher than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in government-subsidized housing. We owned our house and had a garden. They didn't have anything like that. Near that home was Strawberry Fields, a house near a boys' reformatory where I used to go to garden parties as a kid with my friends Nigel and Pete we would go there and hang out and sell lemonade bottles for a penny. We always had fun at Strawberry Fields. So that's where I got the name. But I used it as an image. Strawberry Fields forever. [Singing] “(Living is easy) With eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you see.” It still goes, doesn’t it? Aren’t I saying exactly the same thing now? The awareness apparently trying to be expressed is — let’s say in one way I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. I was different all my life. The second verse goes, “No one I think is in my tree.” Well, I was too shy and self-doubting. Nobody seems to be as hip as me is what I was saying. Therefore, I must be crazy or a genius — “I mean it must be high or low,” the next line. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn’t see. I thought I was crazy or an egomaniac for claiming to see things other people didn’t see. As a child, I would say, “But this is going on!” and everybody would look at me as if I was crazy. I always was so psychic or intuitive or poetic or whatever you want to call it, that I was always seeing things in a hallucinatory way. It was scary as a child, because there was nobody to relate to. Neither my auntie nor my friends nor anybody could ever see what I did. It was very, very scary and the only contact I had was reading about an Oscar Wilde or a Dylan Thomas or a Vincent van Gogh — all those books that my auntie had that talked about their suffering because of their visions. Because of what they saw, they were tortured by society for trying to express what they were. I saw loneliness.”|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|Interview, ''Playboy'', 1980}}

{{cquote|That wasn't 'I buried Paul' at all  that was John saying 'Cranberry sauce.' It was the end of Strawberry Fields. That´s John´s humor. John would say something totally out of sync, like cranberry sauce. If you don´t realize that John´s apt to say cranberry sauce when he feels like it, then you start to hear a funny little word there, and you think, 'Aha!'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1974}}

{{Cquote|John wanted to keep his acoustic guitar for this session, so Paul took over on the mellotron. With Ringo on drums and George on electric guitar, the song was heavier-sounding than I had imagined it from my initial run-through with John, but it came together very quickly. Almost immediately, we arrived at a take that we thought would be the final one. That first take is brilliant, especially John's vocal: clear, pure, and riveting. As he sang it that night, the song became hypnotic: gentle and wistful, but very strong too, his sparse vocal standing in sharp contrast to the full sound of George's electric guitar, Paul's imaginative mellotron and Ringo's magnificent drums. Sticking to John's original idea, ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' started with what became, in the finished version, the chorus: "Living is easy with eyes closed..." (The introduction that we all now know had not yet been written.) Typically, John asked for a speed change on his vocal recording. I thought his voice was one of the all-time greats, but he was always asking me to distort or bend it in some way, to "improve" it, as he thought. So when we overdubbed his vocal, we pumped up the tape frequency to 53 hertz instead of the normal 50 hertz. On playback at normal speed the change lowered his voice by a semitone, making it sound warmer and huskier.|George Martin|''Summer of Love''<br />(Macmillan Ltd., London)|1994}}

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Something

2025-05-07T20:23:28Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Something
| Cover = something.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| Album = [[Abbey Road]]
| B-side = "[[Come Together]]"
| Released = 31 October 1969 (UK)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studioes:<br/>25 February 1969
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:00
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[Ballad of John and Yoko]]" / "[[Old Brown Shoe]]"<br/>(1969)
| This single = "Something" / "[[Come Together]]"<br/>(1969)
| Next single = "[[Let It Be]]"/ "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]"<br />(1970)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|I think that's about the best track on the album, actually.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1969}}

{{cquote|I like George's song 'Something.' For me I think it's the best he's written.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1969}}

{{cquote|I wrote the song 'Something' for the album before this one, but I never finished it off until just recently. I usually get the first few lines of words and music together, both at once... and then finish the rest of the melody. Then I have to write the words. It's like another song I wrote when we were in India. I wrote the whole first verse and just said everything I wanted to say, and so now I need to write a couple more verses. I find that much more difficult. But John gave me a handy tip. He said, 'Once you start to write a song, try to finish it straight away while you're still in the same mood.' Sometimes you go back to it and you're in a whole different state of mind. So now, I do try to finish them straight away.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1969}}

{{cquote|I could never think of words for it. And also because there was a James Taylor song called 'Something In The Way She Moves' which is the first line of that. And so then I thought of trying to change the words, but they were the words that came when I first wrote it, so in the end I just left it as that, and just called it Something. When I wrote it, I imagined somebody like Ray Charles doing it. That's the feel I imagined, but because I'm not Ray Charles, you know, I'm sort of much more limited in what I can do, then it came out like this. It's nice. It's probably the nicest melody tune that I've written.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1969}}

{{cquote|'Something' was written on the piano while we were making the ''White Album''. I had a break while Paul was doing some overdubbing so I went into an empty studio and began to write. That's really all there is to it, except the middle took some time to sort out. It didn't go on the ''White Album'' because we'd already finished all the tracks.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1980}}

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She's Leaving Home

2025-05-07T20:20:59Z

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{{Infobox song
| Name = She's Leaving Home
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]
| Released = 1 June 1967
| track_no = 6
| Recorded = 17 March 1967<br/>[[Abbey Road Studios]]
| Genre = Ballad
| Length = 3:24
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Parlophone]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Sgt Pepper tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|I wrote that. My kind of ballad from that period. One of my daughters likes that. Still works. The other thing I remember is that George Martin was offended that I used another arranger. He was busy and I was itching to get on with it; I was inspired. I think George had a lot of difficulty forgiving me for that. It hurt him; I didn't mean to.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|[D]uring the making of ''Pepper'' [Paul] was also to give me one of the biggest hurts of my life. It concerned the song 'She's Leaving Home'. At that time I was still having to record all my other artists. One day Paul rang me to say: 'I've got a song I want you to work with me on. Can you come round tomorrow afternoon? I want to get it done quickly. We'll book an orchestra, and you can score it.' 'I can't tomorrow, Paul. I'm recording Cilla at two-thirty.' [...] 'All right, then,' he said, and that ended the conversation. What he did then, as I discovered later, was to get Neil Aspinall, the road manager, to ring round and find someone else to do the score for him, simply because I couldn't do it at that short notice. In the end he found [[Mike Leander]], who could. The following day Paul presented me with it and said, 'Here we are. I've got a score. We can record it now.' I recorded it, with a few alterations to make it work better, but I was hurt.|quotewidth=500px|George Martin, ''All You Need Is Ears''|1979|}}

{{cquote|John and I wrote 'She's Leaving Home' together. It was my inspiration. We'd seen a story in the newspaper about a young girl who had left home and not been found. There were a lot of those at the time, and that was enough to give us a story line. So, I started to get the lyrics. She slips out and leaves a note and then the parents wake up and then ... It was rather poignant. I like it as a song, and when I showed it to John, he added the Greek chorus.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, ''Many Years From Now'' by Barry Miles|1997}}

{{cquote|It was John's idea for the words of the old couple, 'What did we do that was wrong?' in the background. He was looking at the misused old people and also the conflict between them and the young girl. Originally, it was undoubtedly Paul's song, but John contributed quite a bit in a way with the answering chorus. [[Mike Leander]] did the score for the song, because Paul wanted it done at a drop of the hat and I was recording Cilla Black on the day he wanted to go through it. So, it was the song that got away. It was the song I wanted to do.|quotewidth=500px|George Martin|1967}}

{{cquote|This record will alter everybody's approach to record making. I have new thoughts myself now every time I go into the studio. Apart from my contribution, this is a work of art, but I am terrified of the next one.|quotewidth=500px|[[Mike Leander]], Arranger|1967}}

{{cquote|It's almost like a little opera, and it's one of the best constructed songs they ever did. They lyrics are particularly telling. I am amazed that they could do this at their age because they could see the conflict between the young and the old.|quotewidth=500px|George Martin|}}

{{cquote|'A man from the motor trade' means whatever's in your mind, you know. I know when I say it isn't an abortion, and if people believe it is, then it's up to them. They'll just go on believing it.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|}}

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==Interesting Web Resources==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_Leaving_Home Wikipedia entry]
*[https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/slh.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis]

[[Category:Songs]][[Category:Paul McCartney]][[Category:Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)]]

She's A Woman

2025-05-07T20:18:54Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = She's A Woman
| Cover = i-feel-fine.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| A-side = "[[I Feel Fine]]"
| Released = 27 November 1964(UK)<br/>23 November 1964(US)
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| Recorded = Abbey Road Studios: 18 October 1964
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 3:03
| Label = [[Parlophone]] (UK) R5160<br/>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]] (U.S.) 5222| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[A Hard Day's Night]]"<br/>(UK-1964)<br/><br/> "[[Matchbox]]"<br/>(US-1964)
| This single = "She's A Woman"<br/>(1964)
| Next single = "[[Ticket To Ride]]"<br/>(1965))<br/><br/>"[[Eight Days A Week]]"<br/>(US-1965)

| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Help! (album)|Help!]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]"
| prev_no = 7
| this_track = "Strawberry Fields Forever"
| track_no = 8
| next_track = "[[Penny Lane]]"
| next_no = 9}}
}}

{{cquote|That's Paul with some contribution from me on lines, probably. We put in the words 'turns me on.' We were so excited to say 'turn me on' --you know, about marijuana and all that... using it as an expression.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|This was my attempt at a bluesy thing... instead of doing a Little Richard song, whom I admire greatly, I would use the (vocal) style I would have used for that but put it in one of my own songs.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

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She Loves You

2025-05-07T20:17:27Z

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{{Infobox Single
| Name = She Loves You
| Cover = 02_shelovesyou.jpg
| Artist = The Beatles
| B-side = "[[I'll Get You]]"
| Released =23 August 1963 (UK) <br/> 16 September 1963 (US)
| Format = [[gramaphone|7"]]
| Recorded =Abbey Road Studios<br/>1 July 1963
| Genre = Rock
| Length = 2:17
| Label = [[Parlophone]] R5055 (UK)<br/>[[Swan]] 4152 (US)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Chart position =
| Last single = "[[From Me to You]]"/"[[Thank You Girl]]" (1963)
| This single = "She Loves You" / "[[I'll Get You]]"<br/>(1964)
| Next single = "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" / "[[This Boy]]" (UK 1963) <br/>-<br/> "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (US 1964)
| Misc = {{Extra musicsample |filename=Strawberryfields.ogg |title=Strawberry Fields Forever |format=[[OGG]] |Type=single}}
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]"
| prev_no = 6
| this_track = "Hello, Goodbye"
| track_no = 7
| next_track = "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"
| next_no = 8}}
}}

{{cquote|We wrote that two days before we recorded it, actually.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1963}}

{{cquote|John and I wrote it together. We were in a van up in Newcastle somewhere, and we'd just gone over to our hotel. I originally got an idea of doing one of those answering songs, where a couple of us sing about 'she loves you' ...and the other one sort of says the 'yes, yes' bit. You know, 'yeah yeah' answering whoever is saying it. But we decided that was a crummy idea anyway. But we had the idea to write a song called 'She Loves You' then. And we just sat up in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it, you know.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1963}}

{{cquote|'Yeah.' That's sort of the main catch phrase from 'She Loves You.' We'd written the song, and then suddenly realized we needed more... so we added 'yeah, yeah, yeah' and it caught on.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1963}}

{{cquote|We arrange them in the studio normally, you know. We get a basic idea, because you write a song and you get a sound in your head that you think it's gonna sound like. And it usually turns out different, you know. We've given up trying to plan it too much before we go in. None of us can read music. Our A&R man (George Martin) can read music, so sometimes he'll say 'That note's just... it doesn't work, you know. You can't have it.' And we have to go into detail with the piano and everything and work it out and say 'It DOES work. You know, we're singing it. It works.' And sometimes he's right, sometimes he's wrong, you know. (giggling) But it usually all works out in the end.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1964}}

{{cquote|It was written together (with Paul) and I don't remember how. I remember it was Paul's idea-- instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. The 'Woooo' was taken from the Isley Brothers 'Twist And Shout,' which we stuck into everything.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|Occasionally, we'd overrule George Martin, like on 'She Loves You,' we end on a sixth chord, a very jazzy sort of thing. And he said, 'Oh, you can't do that! A sixth chord? It's too jazzy.' We just said, 'No, it's a great hook, we've got to do it.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1982}}

{{cquote|We rehearsed the end bit of 'She Loves You' and took it to George. And he just laughed and said, 'Well, you can't do the end of course... that sixth... it's too like the Andrew Sisters.' We just said, 'Alright, we'll try it without,' and we tried it and it wasn't as good. Then he conceded, 'You're right, I guess.' But we were both very flexible. We would listen to George's ideas too, because he was a producer and a musician, and he obviously knew what he was talking about. There was good to-and-fro. We loved that bit, and we rehearsed it alot. John and I wrote that in a hotel room, on twin beds during an afternoon off-- I mean, God bless their little cotton socks, those boys WORKED! Here I am talking about an afternoon off, and we're sitting there writing! We just loved it so much. It wasn't work.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}}

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

2025-05-07T20:15:03Z

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{{Infobox Song
| Name = Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)]]
| Released = 1 June 1967
| track_no = 3 of side 1
| Recorded = 1 February 1967
1 April 1967 (reprise)
| Genre = Psychedelic Rock, Pop
| Length = 2:02; 1:18 (reprise)
| Writer = [[Lennon/McCartney]]
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks = {{Sgt Pepper tracks}}
}}

{{cquote|'Paul wrote it after a trip to America. The whole west coast long named group thing was coming in, you know, when people were no longer called the Beatles or the Crickets, they were suddenly Fred and His Incredible Shrinking Grateful Airplanes. He got influenced by that and came up with this idea of doing us as somebody else. He was trying to put something between the Beatles and the public. It took the "I" out of it some. Like the early days, saying "She loves you" instead of "I love you." So that's the song.|John Lennon|1980}}

{{cquote|It was an idea I had, I think, when I was flying from L.A. to somewhere. I thought it would be nice to lose our identities, to submerge ourselves in the persona of a fake group. We would make up all the culture around it and collect all our heroes in one place. So I thought, A typical stupid-sounding name for a Dr. Hook's Medicine Show and Traveling Circus kind of thing would be 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.' Just a word game, really.|Paul McCartney|1984}}

{{cquote|The title song is really a good old-fashioned rocker, but it pulls people into the album with its illusion of a live performance. By adding the sound effects of applause, tuning up, and so on, we tried to paint a tableau: of the curtain going up and seeing the band on the stage. Once again, we were trying to create the illusion of being able to shut one's eyes and see a complete picture, created by music. ''Sgt. Pepper's'' band really was up there blasing away for us. In fact, of all the songs on the album, the opening song was the nearest we got to a fully fledged live performance in the studio. It was a 'live' show in its own right, every time, even though only a privileged few of us ever saw it.|George Martin|''Summer of Love'' 1994 & 2006}}

{{cquote|Maybe we took ourselves too seriously. The song 'Sgt. Pepper' should have been left as straight rock, I thought. You know, forget Billy Shears, just do the song. There were four of us then, and we had to, sort of, compromise. A concept album is a joke to me.|John Lennon}}

{{cquote|Billy Shears is another (name) that sounds like a schoolmate but isn't. Ringo's Billy Shears. Definitely. It just happened to turn out that we dreamed up Billy Shears. It was a rhyme for "years" ... "band you've known for all these years ... and here he is the one and only Billy Shears". We thought, that's a great little name, it's an Eleanor Rigby-type name, a nice atmospheric name, and it was leading into Ringo's track. So as far as we were concerned it was purely and simply a device to get the next song in.|Paul McCartney}}

{{cquote|It was just a song called 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' made up to open the album. Then we went on to the Billy Shears idea at the end of it and went segue into Ringo's number, and it made the whole thing seem integrated. So we finished the album with it to kind of top-and-tail it, a bit like we've done on ''Band on the Run'' and, there you go, everyone said "Ah! A concept album!" It was the first time I'd heard the word.|Paul McCartney}}

{{cquote|We were fed up with being Beatles. We really hated that fucking four little mop-top boys approach. We were not boys, we were men. It was all gone, all that boy shit, all that screaming, we didn't want anymore, plus, we'd now got turned on to pot and thought of ourselves as artists rather than just performers... then suddenly on the plane I got this idea. I thought, 'Let's not be ourselves. Let's develop alter egos so we're not having to project an image which we know. It would be much more free.'|Paul McCartney|1998}}

{{cquote|I was just thinking of words like Sergeant Pepper, and Lonely Hearts Clubs, and they came together for no reason. But, after you've written it down, you start to think, 'There's this Sergeant Pepper who has taught the band to play, and got them to play,' so that, at least, they found one number. They're a bit of a brass band in a way, but also a bit of a rock band because they've got the San Francisco thing.|Paul McCartney}}

{{cquote|It starts off with applause, or rather atmosphere, from a recording I made in Cambridge with the ''Beyond The Fringe'' crowd, Dudley Moore and company.|George Martin}}

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==Interesting Web Resources==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band_%28song%29 Wikipedia entry]

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Savoy Truffle

2025-05-07T20:12:44Z

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{{Infobox Song
| Name = Savoy Truffle
| Artist = [[The Beatles]]
| Album = [[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]
| Released = 22 November 1968
| track_no = 2 of disc 1
| Recorded = 3 October 1968
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length = 2:54
| Writer = [[George Harrison]]
| Label = [[Apple Records]]
| Producer = [[George Martin]]
| Tracks =
'''Side one'''
#"[[Back in the U.S.S.R.]]"
#"[[Dear Prudence]]"
#"[[Glass Onion]]"
#"[[Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]"
#"[[Wild Honey Pie]]"
#"[[The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill]]"
#"[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]"
#"[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]"
'''Side two'''

#"[[Martha My Dear]]"
#"[[I'm So Tired]]"
#"[[Blackbird (song)|Blackbird]]"
#"[[Piggies]]"
#"[[Rocky Raccoon]]"
#"[[Don't Pass Me By]]"
#"[[Why Don't We Do It in the Road?]]"
#"[[I Will (The Beatles song)|I Will]]"
#"[[Julia (The Beatles song)|Julia]]"
'''Side three'''
#"[[Birthday (The Beatles song)|Birthday]]"
#"[[Yer Blues]]"
#"[[Mother Nature's Son]]"
#"[[Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey]]"
#"[[Sexy Sadie (song)|Sexy Sadie]]"
#"[[Helter Skelter (song)|Helter Skelter]]"
#"[[Long, Long, Long]]"
'''Side four'''
#"[[Revolution (song)#Revolution 1|Revolution 1]]"
#"[[Honey Pie]]"
#"Savoy Truffle"
#"[[Cry Baby Cry]]"
#"[[Revolution 9]]"
#"[[Good Night (song)|Good Night]]"
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==Quotes==

{{cquote|'Savoy Truffle' on ''The White Album'' was written for Eric [Clapton]. He's got this real sweet tooth and he'd just had his mouth worked on. His dentist said he was through with candy. So as a tribute I wrote, 'You'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle.' The truffle was some kind of sweet, just like all the rest  cream tangerine, ginger sling  just candy, to tease Eric.|George Harrison''Crawdaddy Magazine'', Feb 1977}}

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