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"A Day in the Life" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as the final track of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Credited to Lennon–McCartney , the opening and closing sections of the song were mainly written by John Lennon , with Paul McCartney primarily contributing the song's middle section.
"Good Day Sunshine" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was written mainly by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. McCartney intended it as a song in the style of the Lovin' Spoonful 's contemporaneous hit single " Daydream ".
The name is a conglomeration of the titles of two Beatles songs, "Help!" (featured on the Help! album and film) and "A Day in the Life" (from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). On Wednesday 14 September 2005, five days after its release, it broke the record for the fastest-selling download album ever. [3]
The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship consulted with the BBC's surviving internal correspondence and memos from 1967, and mentioned no ban on any Sgt. Pepper song aside from the one on "A Day in the Life", stating the BBC banned "this one track [A Day in the Life] from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". [32]
"Here Comes the Sun" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written and sung by George Harrison , and is one of his best-known compositions. Harrison wrote the song in early 1969 at the country house of his friend Eric Clapton , where Harrison had chosen to play truant for the day to avoid ...
"A Day in the Life" 1968: The Beatles Song Book Vol. 5: The Hollyridge Strings "A Hard Day's Night" 1965: The Beatles Song Book Vol. 2: The Hollyridge Strings "All My Loving" 1964: The Beatles Song Book Vol. 1: The Hollyridge Strings "All You Need Is Love" 1968: The Beatles Song Book Vol. 5: The Hollyridge Strings "And I Love Her" 1966: The New ...
[78] [79] The song was issued as the B-side of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", [80] a McCartney-written song that had also tested the Beatles' patience during the White Album sessions. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] This single was an international hit, topping charts in Australia, Austria, Switzerland [ 83 ] and West Germany, [ 84 ] but was not released in Britain or ...
"The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" is a 1977 single by the Residents. The A-side, "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life", is an audio collage of recordings by the Beatles and John Lennon, with a looped clip from the Beatles' third Christmas record, in which Paul McCartney says "Please everybody, if we haven't done what we could have done, we've tried."