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| Day Tripper |
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A double A-sided single with 'We Can Work It Out', completed in 3 takes, one session, on 16 October. The single was released simultaneously with Rubber Soul on 3 December but neither song appeared on that LP.� |
02:50 |
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| We Can Work It Out |
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The Beatles |
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The joint double-A with 'Day Tripper'. The recording commenced with 2 takes on 20 October, and was completed with an overdub 9 days later.� |
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| Paperback Writer |
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The Beatles |
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The Beatles' first single of 1966, released on 10 June and recorded in 2 takes and an overdub on 13 and 14 April.� |
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| Rain |
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The Beatles |
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The B-side of 'Paperback Writer', and the first released Beatles song to feature a backwards tape (John's final verse). The instrumental recording -- played fast and remixed with the tape machine on slow vari-speed -- commenced on 14 April and the song was completed with vocal overdubs 2 days later, the seventh of eight takes providing the master version.� |
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| Lady Madonna |
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The Beatles |
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Recorded for a Spring 1968 single and released while the Beatles were in India studying Transcendental Meditation. The five-take recording commenced on 3 February and was completed with a four-man brass overdub on 6 February. Issued on 15 March.� |
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| The Inner Light |
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The Beatles |
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The B-side of 'Lady Madonna', and the first George Harrison composition to appear on a Beatles single. The instrumental track was recorded in 5 takes by Indian musicians, under George's direction, at the EMI studio in Bombay on 12 January. George's lead vocal and John and Paul's brief backing vocals were overdubbed at Abbey Road on 6 and 8 February.� |
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| Hey Jude |
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The Beatles |
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An enormously successful single, issued on 30 August 1968. The recording commenced at Abbey Road on 29 July but switched to Trident Studios, in Soho, for a remake version two days later. A one-take recording, with overdubs, it completed at Trident on 1 August.� |
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| Revolution |
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The Beatles |
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One of three 'Revolution' songs released by the Beatles in 1968: this was the last to be started but the first to be issued, on the B-side of 'Hey Jude'. This 16-take recording commenced on 10 July and was completed two days later. Although fully proficient themselves, the Beatles invited Nicky Hopkins, one of the British rock scene's leading session musicians, to contribute the piano track.� |
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| Get Back (With Billy Preston) |
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The Beatles |
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With Billy Preston. The original title track of the film and recording sessions which became "Let It Be". The song was recorded live, without overdubs but with organist Billy Preston, at the Beatles' new Apple Studios in Savile Row, London on 28 January, five days after it had first been attempted. (None of the recording takes were numbered.) Issued as a single on 11 April. This is different from the version of 'Get Back' which closes the Let It Be compact disc, taped the previous day, 27 January.� |
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| Don´t Let Me Down (With Billy Preston) |
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Recorded live -- again with Billy Preston -- just minutes after the completion of 'Get Back' on 28 January. Again, none of the takes were numbered, but the song had first been taped on 22 January. Issued as the B-side of 'Get Back'.� |
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| The Ballad Of John And Yoko |
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The Beatles |
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Recorded and mixed in one swift 8 and 1/2 hour session at Abbey Road on 14 April and issued as a Beatles single on 30 May. Only John and Paul played on the recording, the instrumentation being, John: accoustic guitar, two lead guitars and percussion, plus lead vocal; Paul: drums, bass guitar, piano and maracas plus backing vocal.� |
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| Old Brown Shoe |
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The Beatles |
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Another George Harrison B-side composition, backing 'The Ballad of John and Yoko'. Recorded in four takes at Abbey Road which began on 16 April and were completed two days later.� |
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| Across The Universe |
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The Beatles |
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Different -- but also not different! -- from the version on the "Let It Be" CD. This one is commonly known as the 'Wildside' version because it first appeared on 12 December on a charity album for the World Wildlife Fund, and was adorned especially for that LP with wildlife sound effects. But had been recorded much earlier, in eight takes on 4 and 8 February, as rival to 'Lady Madonna' for the Beatles' 1968 single. In March 1970 Phil Spector re-worked this original tape, omitted some of the original instrumentation in a new remix, omitted the sound effects, slowed it down and added an orchestra and a choir for "Let It Be".� |
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| Let It Be |
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The Beatles |
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The version issued as a single on 6 March, seemingly (but again actually not) different for the recording on the CD of the same name. The chief difference was the lead guitar solo and a slightly shorter running time. In truth, the two versions were mixed from the same eight-track master recording which contains BOTH guitar solos playing simutaneously. The song has a long recording history: it was first recorded at Apple on 25 January 1969; the released verisons come from a 31 January session, with further overdubs taped on 30 April 1969 and 4 January 1970, the latter being the last ever Beatles recording session, although John was absent.� |
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| You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) |
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The Beatles |
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A bizarre recording [NO KIDDING!], issued on 6 March as the B-side of 'Let It Be' but which already spanned 34 months. It was recorded, without vocals, in five separate vocals at Abbey Road on 17 May, 7 and 8 June 1967 and was then compiled into one all encompassing master take on 9 June 1967. It then sat on a shelf until 30 June 1969, when John and Paul added vocals and, aided by their assistant Mal Evans, sound effects. By this time the song lasted more than six minutes though despite making three different mono remixes it was again left unissued. On 26 November 1969 John Lennon edited down the best mix to four minutes for release as a single by the Plastic Ono Band. That single never appeared and then, a little over 3 months later, the song finally cropped up as this Beatles B-side. A curious burlesque comedy number, conceived by John, it also features Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones playing. (His contribution was taped on 8 June 1967.)� |
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