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"Paperback Writer" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, the song was released as the A-side of their eleventh single in May 1966. It topped singles charts in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, West Germany, Australia, New Zealand and ...
This is a list of cover versions by music artists who have recorded one or more songs written and originally recorded by English rock band The Beatles.Many albums have been created in dedication to the group, including film soundtracks, such as I Am Sam (2001) and Across the Universe (2007) and commemorative albums such as Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988) and This Bird Has Flown (2005).
Inspirations consists of covers of songs of various artists from the 1960s and 1970s that influenced Saxon over the years. Byford said ″We wanted to do an album based on our influences, the songs and bands that inspired us to write what we did and still do, and it was also interesting to see what my voice could do as I haven't sung many of these songs before.″ [1] The songs are mostly from ...
This first version of "Tomorrow Never Knows", along with several other outtakes from the album sessions, [47] was included on the 1996 compilation Anthology 2. [48] Also recorded during the Revolver sessions were "Paperback Writer" and "Rain", which were issued as the A- and B-side of a non-album single in late May. [49]
Richie Unterberger pairs Jimi Hendrix with Redding as the major artists who realised "the inherent soulfulness of 'Day Tripper'" in their cover recordings. [34] Described by Kruth as "red-hot", Hendrix's version was recorded for BBC Radio in 1967 [137] and subsequently issued on his 1998 album BBC Sessions. [139]
In his discussion of the various cover versions of "We Can Work It Out", John Kruth describes Petula Clark's recording, released on her 1966 album My Love, as "too perky for its own good". [72] He highlights Humble Pie 's blues version, from their 1975 album Street Rats , as a "bold" reading in which the band dispensed with the song's melody to ...
On Where Have All the Theme Songs Gone?, a CNN special hosted by Don Lemon, one of the creators of the Cheers theme song revealed the humbling road that led to one of the most iconic theme songs ...
In an interview with Alan Smith of the NME published in May 1969, Lennon described it as "Johnny B. Paperback Writer"; [4] in a 1980 interview, he said it was "a piece of journalism". [6] Lennon took the song to Paul McCartney at the latter's home in St John's Wood, London, on 14 April, eager to record it that evening. [7]