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"Carry That Weight" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is the seventh and penultimate song in the album's climactic side-two medley. It features unison vocals in the chorus from all four Beatles, a rarity in their songs.
The song also appears on the film's soundtrack with "Carry That Weight" as a medley. [18] Elbow recorded a cover of the song for the 2017 John Lewis Christmas TV advert. The single reached No. 29 in the UK, and appears on the Elbow compilation album The Best Of. [19] Dua Lipa covered the song as a part of her Live Acoustic EP in 2017. [20]
McCartney later said that the idea of a song suite was inspired by Keith West's "Excerpt from A Teenage Opera". Some musical segments of "You Never Give Me Your Money" were reused for the "Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" portion of the medley, including the opening verses and later guitar arpeggios. [6]
One particularly notable moment came when ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed a mashup of "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight," and "The End." British musician Sir Paul McCartney performs as part ...
The five-minute video shows his energetic finale where he juggles 3 balls to Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End by The Beatles. The video was widely circulated via email and blogs with an estimated 20 million viewings within the first 40 days alone. [3] Total views to date are estimate to be over 80 million.
The band issued only four tracks on two singles on Apple; both A-sides were covers: Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Road to Nowhere", and Paul McCartney's "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight"; although Trash's version was released a week before the Beatles' version on their forthcoming album Abbey Road.
By CHELSEA HUANG Emma Sulkowicz, a 21-year-old senior at Columbia University, says she was raped in her own bed at the beginning of her sophomore year -- but she received little support from her ...
Colleen Hewett was born on 16 April 1950 in Bendigo. [1] [2] [3] She has a sister, Glenys Hewett, who was a pop vocalist from the early sixties to mid-seventies.[4] [5] Glenys did release one single in 1973 on the RCA label, "C’est La Vie", with B-side "Captain Como".