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It is a mixture of the sounds of soft rock, including strings and acoustic guitar, and the addition of a wah-wah effect electric guitar, played by Larry Knechtel. The song peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and was their third No. 1 hit on the easy listening chart, [2] (following "If" and "Baby I'm-a Want You").
The guitar had only been in Armstrong's shop for a few days when it was purchased by Eric Clapton. [6] Clapton did not play this instrument much, his principal guitars in 1966–1968 being his psychedelic 1964 SG called " The Fool ", a 1964 ES-335 , a 1964 Gibson Reverse Firebird I, and a sunburst 1960 Les Paul he bought from Andy Summers .
Harrison's guitar work with the Beatles was varied and flexible. Although not fast or flashy, his lead guitar playing was solid and typified the more subdued lead guitar style of the early 1960s. His rhythm guitar playing was innovative, for example when he used a capo to shorten the strings on an acoustic guitar, as on the Rubber Soul (1965 ...
The American version of the album was released on 26 June 1964 by United Artists Records in both mono and stereo, the fourth Beatles album in the United States. The album went to number one on the Billboard album chart, spending 14 weeks there, the longest run of any album that year. [40]
The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...
The Rickenbacker 360/12, a guitar popularised by the Beatles in 1964 and subsequently adopted by the Byrds. In addition to reflecting George Harrison's interest in Indian classical music, [2] "If I Needed Someone" was inspired by the music of the Byrds, who in turn had based their sound and image on those of the Beatles after seeing the band's 1964 film A Hard Day's Night.
Peter Moon was born in Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu to parents of Korean and Chinese descent, [3] Wook Moon and Shay-Yung Moon (née Zen). [4] [5] He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1962 and from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1968. [4]
The opening guitar solo is followed by the chorus in the key of C major, shifting between V (G on "Bungalow") and iv (Fm on "what did you"). [7] What follows is a relative minor bridge starting with Am (on "He went out") then shifting to ♭ VI (F on "elephant") and ♭ VII (G on "gun").