John Lennon, November 1968: “It was a good piece of work between Paul and me.
There was a paragraph about 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire, being discovered.” I had it open at their ‘News In Brief,’ or ‘Far And Near,’ whatever they call it. John Lennon, 1967: “I was writing the song with the ‘ Daily Mail’ propped up in front of me on the piano. In this case, they had an awful lot to say, painting a very vivid picture. The best way to get the most accurate history is, I feel, to hear what the composers themselves, and those closest to them, have said through the years. Volumes have been written by scores of authors and reviewers on the songwriting history of “A Day In The Life,” much of the content being the opinion of the writers themselves. As they say, all things happen for a reason! With a clean slate, the next composition they brought to the studio was what Ian MacDonald, in his book “Revolution In The Head,” describes as “their finest single achievement.” Under the working title of “In The Life Of…,” The Beatles started recording their ultimate masterpiece “A Day In The Life” on January 19th, 1967 and thereby set an amazing new tone for what would eventually be titled the “ Sgt. To accommodate the direction they’d gone down so far, the picture sleeve of this single included childhood photos of the group. Since common practice in Britain was to not include singles on albums, The Beatles were then left to practically start their new album all over again. Contract demands required a new single be released immediately and producer George Martin volunteered “ Strawberry Fields Forever” and “ Penny Lane” to be released as a double a-sided single. However, this direction was about to shift whether they liked it or not. A thrown in nostalgia piece like “ When I’m Sixty-Four,” which was recorded in this same time frame, only added to the reminiscent direction the album was headed as 1966 drew to a close. They were creating a wide-eyed surreal look at their past, heightened, no doubt, by their recent infatuations with drugs. Much time was spent in the studio perfecting both of these tracks which set a proposed pattern for the next album: “Youth, golden summers and fields of strawberry,” as Paul called it. This resulted in Paul being inspired to continue the pattern by writing “ Penny Lane,” also using picturesque images of his formative years in the lyrics.
STORY OF MY LIFE SONG ON PIANO FULL
After a few month break, they re-entered EMI Studios refreshed and ready to record their next album, knowing full well that, with their creative juices flowing and no concert tours in the foreseeable future, they were about to embark on a remarkable project.įirst on the agenda was an incredible creation from John entitled “ Strawberry Fields Forever,” the lyrical content of which delved into childhood nostalgia. In late 1966, The Beatles were heading down a path that was quickly abandoned.
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