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[2] [3] Some of the lyrics were adapted from "Water Talk," a poem Ono had written in 1967 that also used the simile of people being like water. [3] [4] According to Beatles biographer John Blaney, Ono believed that water had mystical properties and has the ability to "bring about physical change or social unity."
Beatles album Original artist Ref. "Anna (Go to Him)" 1963 Please Please Me: Arthur Alexander "Chains" The Cookies "Boys" The Shirelles "Baby It's You" The Shirelles "A Taste of Honey" Billy Dee Williams "Twist and Shout" The Top Notes "Till There Was You" With the Beatles: Sue Raney "Please Mr. Postman" The Marvelettes "Roll Over Beethoven ...
George Harrison in 1974. George Harrison (1943–2001) was an English musician who gained international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.With his songwriting contributions limited by the dominance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Harrison was the first member of the Beatles to release a solo album. [1]
Everett suggests the Beatles recorded a rendition of the song only to help promote Kramer's record. [10] The Beatles released their version on the 1994 album Live at the BBC. [8] [15] It is the only non-cover song on the album that was previously unreleased. [16] MacDonald describes the lyrics and music as "almost derisively naive". [8]
The first of two recording sessions for "Fixing a Hole" was at Regent Sound Studios in London on 9 February 1967, in three takes. Regent Sound was used because all three studios at EMI's Abbey Road Studios were unavailable that night, so it was the first time that the Beatles used a British studio other than Abbey Road for an EMI recording.
In July 1963, the Beatles performed "Matchbox" with Ringo Starr, Best's replacement, on lead vocals [9] for their BBC radio show Pop Go the Beatles. [10] This version was included on the 1994 compilation Live at the BBC. [11] Starr also sang lead vocals when the band recorded the song for their Long Tall Sally EP in 1964.
"Tell Me What You See" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that first appeared in 1965 on their album Help! in the United Kingdom and on Beatles VI in the United States. The song is credited to Lennon–McCartney but mainly written by Paul McCartney. Regarding the song's authorship, McCartney said, "I seem to remember it as mine.
The lyrics say "Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me" Big Country, after a line in Roxy Music's "Prairie Rose": "Lonesome star, shine on The big country" Big Fat Snake, after a line in Bob Dylan's "Wiggle Wiggle": "Wiggle like a big fat snake" The Black Angels, after Velvet Underground's "The Black Angel's Death Song"