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"Martha My Dear" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). Credited to Lennon–McCartney , the song was written solely by Paul McCartney , and was named after his Old English Sheepdog , Martha.
Rocky Raccoon" is also the last Beatles song to feature John Lennon's harmonica playing. The lyrics describe a conflict over a love triangle , in which Rocky's girlfriend "Lil" McGill (known to the public as Nancy) leaves him for a man named Dan, who punches Rocky in the eye.
Mikey Erg recorded a pop-punk influenced cover of the song on his 2020 EP "Bon Voyage." Jack White covered the song at the White House when McCartney was being given the Gershwin Prize on 2 June 2010. Ramsey Lewis covered the song and used it as the title of his 1968 album Mother Nature's Son. The album includes other Beatles songs.
On 9 October 1968, while John Lennon and George Harrison were working on two other songs for the album, McCartney recorded five takes of the song in Studio One at EMI Studios. Unlike its heavy blues result, [6] the song began as an acoustic guitar number with McCartney alternating by verse between gentle and strident vocal styles. [9]
Record Mirror commented that the song starts as "a serene ballad, but is soon taken over in the true vein of this foremost stylist", with the arrival of the "deep guitar" solo and lyrics referencing Mother Superior and the sensation of "my hands on your trigger". The reviewer said that "The firearm becomes feminine and the lyrics ambiguous in ...
The song also refers to the "Cast Iron Shore", a coastal area of south Liverpool known to local people as "The Cazzy". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Lennon dismissed any deep meaning to the mysterious lyrics: I threw the line in—"the Walrus was Paul"—just to confuse everybody a bit more. ...
The new biographical documentary by R.J. Cutler, simply titled Martha, aims to peel back the layers of Stewart’s long and varied life—she’s now 83 and recently posed as the oldest Sports ...
"The Sons of Martha" was written in 1907 and was adopted by the author in 1922 to be part of the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer performed by Canadian engineers at their graduation. In the Bible story, Christ visits a home where two sisters, Mary and Martha, live. Mary sits at the visitor's feet to listen to him while Martha races about ...