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A Day In The Life
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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A Day In The Life is a combination of a John Lennon song and a Paul McCartney song, with effects used to combine them seamlessly.
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Across The Universe
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon referred to the song as perhaps the best, most poetic lyric he ever wrote. He also expressed pride in the meter of the main verses, commenting on how unique it was to his compositions and how he could not duplicate it.
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Because
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Because" features a Moog synthesizer, played by Harrison. The chords in "Because" were inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which Lennon heard Ono play on the piano, after which, according to Lennon, he played the notes backwards.
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Because
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Because" features three-part harmonies by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, which were then triple-tracked to sound like nine singers. The results of this have been compared in sound to the Beach Boys. As recalled by Geoff Emerick, during the recording of the harmonies, they sat on a bench around the microphone and Starr sat there along with the others, perhaps in an unconscious display of love and brotherhood, despite their increasing differences.
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Carry That Weight
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Submitted By: Big D
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Features chorus vocals from all four of The Beatles, although Lennon was in hospital at the time of the primary recording because of a car accident with Yoko Ono, his son Julian, and Ono's daughter Kyoko—he recorded his vocals at a later date.
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Come Together
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Submitted By: Big D
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The chorus was inspired by a song Lennon originally wrote for Timothy Leary's 1969 campaign for governor of California titled "Let's Get It Together".
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Come Together
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Submitted By: Big D
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It has been speculated that the verses, described by Lennon as intentionally obscure, refer cryptically to each of the Beatles (e.g. the "He's one holy roller" verse allegedly refers to the spiritually-inclined Harrison). The song was later the subject of a lawsuit brought against Lennon by Morris Levy because the opening line in "Come Together" - "Here come old flat-top ..." was admittedly lifted by Lennon from a line in Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me".
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Dear Prudence
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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"Dear Prudence" was written about actress Mia Farrow's sister. When The Beatles were in India to study meditation with the Maharashi Yogi, Prudence Farrow was also there and was so immersed in her study of it that she wouldn't come out of her room. The boys would gather around her window and sing "Dear Prudence" to try to coax her out.
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Dig A Pony
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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It was written for his soon-to-be wife Yoko Ono, and featured a multitude of strange, seemingly nonsense phrases which were strung together, culminating in the chorus "All I want is you", aimed at Yoko
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Dig It
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song is credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey, and is one of only a few songs to be credited to all of the Beatles
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For You Blue
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song's working title was "George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)" when it was recorded on 25 January 1969.
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Getting Better
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Submitted By: Edd
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This song was featured in a car insurance commercial for Allstate.
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Glass Onion
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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"Glass Onion" mentions many other Beatles songs, including "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Lady Madonna" and "I Am The Walrus."
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Golden Slumbers
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Submitted By: Big D
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Based on lyrics but not the music of Thomas Dekker's 17th-century song of the same name.
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Good Night
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Submitted By: Edd
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This song was written by band member Paul McCartney to John Lennon's son Julian.
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Her Majesty
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Submitted By: Big D
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On the first printing of the LP cover, "Her Majesty" is not listed, although it is shown on the record label. "Her Majesty" opens with the final, crashing chord of "Mean Mr. Mustard", while the final note of "Her Majesty" remained buried in the mix of "Polythene Pam". This was the result of "Her Majesty" being snipped off the reel during a rough mix of the medley. The cut in the medley was subsequently disguised with further mixing although "Her Majesty" was not touched again and still appears in its rough mix.
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Here Comes The Sun
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Submitted By: Edd
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George Harrison wrote this song for his wife 14 years before they recorded it for Abbey Road.
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Here Comes The Sun
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Here Comes the Sun" is Harrison's second song on the album and one of his best-known songs, written in Eric Clapton's garden while Harrison was "sagging off" from an Apple board meeting (which he considered tedious). It was influenced by the Cream song "Badge" (which was co-written by Harrison and Eric Clapton).
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Here Comes The Sun
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Submitted By: Big D
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While not released as a single, "Here Comes The Sun" has received consistent radio airplay since its release.
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Hey Jude
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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When Paul McCartney first brought "Hey Jude" to John Lennon, John he'd written about him. It's in fact about John's son, Julian. He wrote it during the beginning of Yoko and John's relationship, when Julian was upset.
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I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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Submitted By: Big D
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)", is a combination of two somewhat different recording attempts. The first attempt occurred almost immediately after the "Get Back/Let It Be" sessions in February 1969 and featuring Billy Preston on keyboards. This was subsequently combined with a second version made during the "Abbey Road" sessions proper, and when edited together ran nearly 8 minutes long, making it The Beatles's second-longest released song ("Revolution 9" being the longest).
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I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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Submitted By: Big D
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Features one of the earliest uses of a Moog synthesizer to create the white-noise or "wind" effect heard near the end of the track.
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I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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Submitted By: Big D
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During the final edit, as the guitar riff continues on and on, Lennon told engineer Geoff Emerick to "cut it right there" at the 7:44 mark, creating a sudden, jarring silence which concluded side one of "Abbey Road". The final overdub session for "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" would be the last time all four Beatles worked in the studio together.
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I'm So Tired
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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If you play "I'm So Tired" backwards, it supposedly says, "Paul is dead, man, miss him, miss him, miss him." On other versions of the song, John Lennon can be heard saying, "Monsieur, monsieur, monsieur, how about another one?"
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Julia
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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John Lennon wrote "Julia" for his mom, who, when John was a teenager and just becoming close to her, was hit by an off-duty policeman's car. Both John and Paul McCartney lost their mothers young.
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Let It Be
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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McCartney said he had the idea of "Let It Be" after a dream he had about his mother. He also said in a later interview about the dream that his mother had told him, "It will be all right, just let it be."
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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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The inspiration for "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is said to be from a drawing John Lennon's son drew. When he brought it home from school and John asked him what it was, Julian told him it was a drawing of his classmate Lucy -- "in the sky with diamonds." The drawing is shown on wikipedia.
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Maxwell's Silver Hammer
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Submitted By: Big D
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According to Geoff Emerick's book, Here, There and Everywhere, John Lennon despised this song, criticizing it as "more of Paul's granny music", and also refusing to participate in the recording of the song.
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Maxwell's Silver Hammer
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Submitted By: Rest Easy Soul
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During the line "Writing fifty times I must not be so" Paul laughs. I think someone in the background is distracting him. Rumour has it that John mooned him in response to the line "stays behind"
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Octopus's Garden
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Submitted By: Big D
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Starr wrote and sang one song for the album, "Octopus's Garden", his second composition released on a Beatles album. It was inspired by a trip to Sardinia that occurred when Starr left the band for two weeks with his family during the sessions for The White Album. While there, he composed the song, which is arguably his most successful writing effort.
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Oh! Darling
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Submitted By: Big D
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When recording "Oh! Darling", McCartney attempted recording only once a day, so that his voice would be fresh on the recording. Lennon was of the opinion that he should have sung the lead vocal on this song, remarking that it was more his style and McCartney didn't sing it well.
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Polythene Pam
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Submitted By: Big D
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Was inspired by an evening that John Lennon spent with poet Royston Ellis and his girlfriend Stephanie.
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Sexy Sadie
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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"Sexy Sadie" is about the Maharishi Yogi, the teacher of transcendental meditation that the Beatles were studying under in India. A rumor began that he'd made unwanted advances toward a female student, which made John livid and inspired him to write an angry song he called "Maharishi." George later convinced him to change the name and lines to "Sexy Sadie."
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She Said She Said
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Submitted By: blackbird.
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The original idea behind the song was conceived at a party, during which John and George were both tripping on acid. The actor Peter Fonda was there and when George said, "Man, sometimes I feel like I'm dead," Fonda regaled him with a story of how, when he was twelve, he was shot and his heart stopped beating three times, saying repeatedly, "Its okay man, I know what its like to be dead." John was passing by and only heard part of the conversation, prompting him to ask, "Who put all that shit in your head?"
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Something
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Something", the second track on the album, later became Harrison's first A-side single.
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Something
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Submitted By: Big D
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Originally written during the White Album sessions, the first line is based on the James Taylor song "Something in the Way She Moves" (Taylor was signed to Apple at the time).
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Something
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Submitted By: Big D
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After the lyrics were refined during the "Let It Be" sessions (tapes reveal Lennon giving Harrison some songwriting advice during its composition), "Something" was initially given to Joe Cocker, but was subsequently recorded for Abbey Road.
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Something
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Something" became the first Beatles number-one single that was not a Lennon-McCartney composition, while "Here Comes the Sun" has received significant radio airplay despite never having been released as a single.
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Strawberry Fields Forever
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Submitted By: Edd
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This song was rumored to have bandmate Ringo Starr saying "I buried Paul" at the end, but he was in fact saying "Cranberry sauce".
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Sun King
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Submitted By: Big D
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Showcases Lennon's, McCartney's, and Harrison's overdubbed harmonies.
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The End
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Submitted By: Big D
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In his 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon acknowledged McCartney's authorship by saying, "That's Paul again ... He had a line in it, 'And in the end, the love you get is equal to the love you make,' which is a very cosmic, philosophical line. Which again proves that if he wants to, he can think." Lennon misquoted the line slightly; the actual words are, "And, in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to the love you make."
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The Long And Winding Road
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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When McCartney first heard the Spector version of the song, he was outraged. Nine days after Spector overdubbed "The Long and Winding Road", McCartney announced that The Beatles were breaking up.
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Two Of Us
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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It was written for Linda Eastman, McCartney's soon to be wife, though it sounds at times as if it is addressing Lennon, whose relationship with McCartney was tense at that time.
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Yellow Submarine
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Submitted By: Rest Easy Soul
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The answer line "a life of ease" is only found on the Mono Revolver mix. The single uses this mix also.
The Yellow Submarine mono LP mix is the same as the Revolver Stereo mix (essentially) in that the line is missing.
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Yesterday
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Submitted By: Edd
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This song holds the title as most radio played (13 million times) ever.
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Yesterday
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Submitted By: Edd
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This song is the most covered in modern music history.
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Yesterday
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Submitted By: Rest Easy Soul
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The words "something wrong ... for yesterday" are double tracked. This could be to do with Paul having replaced a section of the vocal -- George Martin said that the vocal was piped as a guide track for the orchestra. So the original and new vocals combine here to double track accidentally
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