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Originally a "gold top" model, the guitar was refinished with a dark red stain before it got to Harrison and was nicknamed "Lucy". The guitar can be seen in the "Revolution" promotional video and the Let It Be film. Also seen in that film is a rosewood Fender Telecaster, given to him by Fender, used on Let It Be and Abbey Road (1969). [2] [3] [4]
The strident guitar chord was the perfect launch," [10] having what Ian MacDonald called "a significance in Beatles lore matched only by the concluding E major of 'A Day in the Life', the two opening and closing the group's middle period of peak creativity". [13]
The Beatles recorded "I'll Be Back" in 16 takes on 1 June 1964. The first nine were of the rhythm track, and the last seven were overdubs of the lead and harmony vocals, and an acoustic guitar overdub. [7] The Anthology 1 CD includes take two of "I'll Be Back", performed in 6 8 time. The recording broke down when Lennon fumbled over the words ...
The song marked the Beatles' first use of a guitar volume pedal. [ 21 ] [ 33 ] This tone-altering effect was a precursor to the wah-wah pedal and had recently been played by session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan on Dave Berry 's UK chart hits " The Crying Game " and "One Heart Between Two".
The Beatles did not perform any of the songs from Revolver during their August 1966 US tour. [52] While acknowledging that several of the tracks would have been impossible to reproduce in concert, Unterberger says that guitar-based songs such as "And Your Bird Can Sing" would have been easy to arrange for live performance.
The song was initially composed in C, but was played in F on Rubber Soul (with a capo on the fifth fret). The verse opens with an F major chord ("Michelle" – melody note C) then the second chord (on "ma belle" – melody note D ♭) is a B ♭ 7 ♯ 9 (on the original demo in C, the second chord is a F 7 ♯ 9).
On the Beatles' 2006 remix album Love, the song was remixed in mashup along with "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", and snippets of that song and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" are mixed in with the repeated guitar riff. [46] [47] The mix also included the organ solo and the guitar solo from the Trident studio outtake.
The Beatles. Paul McCartney – double-tracked lead vocal, bass; John Lennon – rhythm guitar (although MacDonald was unsure if Lennon played the rhythm guitar part) George Harrison – lead guitar; Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine; Additional musicians. George Martin – organ, producer, horn arrangements, conducting; Eddie Thornton ...