Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
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“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” | |||||
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Single by The Beatles | |||||
A-side | "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "Julia" (US edition) |
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Released | 8 November 1976 | ||||
Format | 7" | ||||
Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 3 July 1968 |
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Genre | Rock | ||||
Length | 3:07 | ||||
Label | Capitol 4347 | ||||
Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | ||||
Producer | George Martin | ||||
The Beatles singles chronology | |||||
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“ | I might've given him a couple of lyrics, but it's his song, his lyric. | „ |
—John Lennon, 1980 |
“ | A fella who used to hang around the clubs used to say, (Jamaican accent) 'Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on,' and he got annoyed when I did a song of it, 'cuz he wanted a cut. I said, 'Come on, Jimmy, it's just an expression. If you'd written the song, you could have had a cut.' He also used to say, 'Nothin's too much, just outta sight.' He was just one of those guys who had great expressions, you know. | „ |
—Paul McCartney, 1984 |
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