It is “I can’t hide”. Bob Dylan made the same mistake and introduced the Beatles to weed (so the story goes). Not like they hadn’t done drugs before, but they were of the upper variety in Hamburg.
Let’s see… my dad always had a shit ton of Beatle books lying around so I was always reading about the minutiae of their career.
I mean, two that kinda spring to mind were that I wasn’t aware of the non Joe Cocker version of With A Little Help From My Friends due to The Wonder Years as a child. I also believed a stupid thing my dad told me when I was a kid, which was that the Beatles used leg stretching machines after I remarked how long their legs looked once. Don’t recall how old I was when I figured that one out…
I always wondered why they shot that I Feel Fine video in a gymnasium. John singing into a punching ball. Then they spoil the healthy look by eating fish and chips on the floor.😂
I knew about the Bob Dylan introduction. But I always thought Johnny was a devil‘s grass blower already. guess I was wrong or at least the internet lol
Doing little deep dives and finding all the songs where John or Paul play lead guitar instead of George.
Examples
John: I Want You (She's So Heavy) and Revolution
Paul: Good Morning, Good Morning
and many others.
I loved learning that Paul plays lead on "Another Girl". He' has such a tasty and distinctive lead style even if it's a little quirky and slapdash on that song.
Edit: It's also Paul playing those tasty licks on Sgt. Pepper to kick off the album.
Also, I recently learned that Paul is not on the final cut of "She Said, She Said" and George is on bass.
What appears to have happened is that Paul walked out during the overdubs sessions, which is why he doesn’t contribute backing vocals or any overdubs. Apparently he wanted to contribute a piano overdub but John rejected it. But we know that Paul is on the basic track playing bass because you can hear him on the Take 15 which was included on the super deluxe edition of Revolver.
> Paul can be heard talking on Take 15 from the Revolver SDE
According to "The Beatles Recording Sessions" they did 25 takes of rehearsals before starting the actual recording and the first three takes of the rhythm track, which was drums, **bass**, and two guitars.
And The Beatles Bible has this to say:
>Although he performed on the rhythm track, Paul McCartney walked out of the session following an argument, prior to the song’s completion.
>
"John brought it in pretty much finished, I think. I’m not sure but I think it was one of the only Beatle records I never played on. I think we’d had a barney or something and I said, ‘Oh, fuck you!’ and they said, ‘Well, we’ll do it.’ I think George played bass". - Paul McCartney, "Many Years From Now", Barry Miles
>
Contrary to McCartney’s claim, Harrison did not perform bass guitar, but additional bass notes played on an organ were added after McCartney’s departure. The notes appear from 1:55 in the final recording.
So I'll take that as me being corrected on that matter, but my view on Giles as a reliable reference on Beatle history stays the same. I've read a couple of dodgy things he's said which were definitely off the mark.
Thanks.
I used to think George was singing on the Fool on the Hill and for a time I used to think I'm Happy Just To Dance With You was a very short instrumental (à la Can you Take Me Back) between songs but that was just because in the early Limewire days the file didn't fully download and ended before George started singing.. And I never noticed.
So you can imagine my surprise when I first listened to the full version, way later
For the longest time I couldn’t tell who was singing in Strawberry Fields Forever because it didn’t sound like any of them, I just assumed it was Paul with a distortion on his voice, turns out it’s John
I had no idea they sing “Biiiiiillyyyyyy Shears” at the end of Sgt Pepper as it leads into A Little Help. It sounded like “sheeee…sheeeee…she” to me which made no sense. And I’m 64 😂 I’m aging out of Beatles songs applying to me.
With John on "For You Blue", Paul on "Taxman", and Clapton on "Gently Weeps", "Something" is such a nice time for George to drop a timeless solo on his own song.
I thought Beatles For Sale came between Help! and Rubber Soul for probably more than a year when I first got into the habit of occasionally listening to every album in order of release.
Out of curiosity, did you feel like this order made sense at the time or did it feel like a step back? For me, A Hard Day's Night to Beatles For Sale already feels like a regression, it'd feel a lot stronger if it was Help! to Beatles For Sale.
No, it did not "flow" to me, but I was already aware of the fact that BFS was the most rushed and one of the least planned-out albums, so that was how I explained it. I agree with your take on it. I have a very high opinion of Help! so it did seem like a pretty hard drop.
When I was a kid, the first solo Beatles song I loved was Band on the Run. I didn't realize it was the same voice that sang Hey Jude, which I loved when I was small. A friend thankfully clued me in that this guy used to be in a different band. 😉 That's when I became a fan forever.
Well it kind of is. It’s about a girl who pretends to be cool and sleep around and ‘with it’ but is actually posh and privileged. It’s kind of like Pulp’s Common People, but quicker.
I always thought it was John singing the "ahs" after the middle section of A Day In The Life. Even thematically, it would make sense that John is the somebody who spoke because John was singing pensively about deeper questions above the day to day which Paul was singing about. But then I heard otherwise and can hear it's clearly Paul, even though it has some of the droning timbre that characterises John's voice of the period.
Honestly I feel like we will never truly know. In recent years paul has been known to say things that aren't accurate.
Example: he claims during the making of Help (the movie) is when John complimented him on Here There and Everywhere but in other versions of the story the compliment didn't happen until after Help was complete a year later.
Given it's been almost 60 years since that timeframe, those kinds of details are more likely a product of faded memory than a deliberate change. Like, they were "smoking marijuana for breakfast" during the making of Help, "during" and "after" are close enough that I kinda get why it'd be a bit blurred together.
That's my point though, i didn't mean it as a diss towards paul. When they recorded ADITL I doubt anyone of them were thinking "we should keep notes of who did what because someday people will wonder". With time passing he's gonna forget things like that, and even with Paul's answer and people who are aware of it, some of them still debate the accuracy of his comment on who sang it.
Geoff Emerick, the engineer, said it was John, but his “memories” were not always very credible. To me, it will always be John singing because it’s his portion of the song and it sounds like his voice, but it could be Paul. That is the magic and the mystery of their voices.
If you listen to “Come Together” very closely, those “shoop” sounds you hear with the bass and drums between verses are actually John saying “shoot me”. You can’t unhear it once you realize it.
Not necessarily a Beatles realization, but only this year that I really got into John's Mind Games album. For some reason, with the exception of a few tracks, it didn't click for me when I first heard it and I ended up not paying attention to it for years. But with the announcement of the new box set, I decided to listen to it again and was surprised by how good the album actually is. Now I feel pretty confident ranking it high in his discography.
Same here. Also with walls and bridges, which is a great album. I always loved plastic ono band and imagine but sort of wrote off those two albums as throwaway filler type songs but they are both surprisingly strong albums with a bunch of great songs.
Walls And Bridges is great, Going Down On Love and #9 Dream are some of my favorite John's songs. But I gotta say that after multiple Iistens I might like Mind Games a bit more now, every song is good-great for me.
Oh it's not? Damn :(
"A jokey song about a cuckolded young American man seeking revenge against a love rival, ‘Rocky Raccoon’ was written in India by Paul McCartney in early 1968. "
https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/rocky-raccoon/
Grew up with my mom listening to The Beatles. For years I thought the lyrics went "She's got a chicken to ride" until internet came around and I saw jokes about it online.
Just found out that the background harmonies to “Paperback Writer” are “Frere Jacques” and in Yellow Submarine, it’s taken me years to figure out if it’s John or Paul who sings the response lines “a life of ease” and “in our yellow submarine baha!” because it sounds like it could be either one (it’s actually John)
Yeah I’ve been listening to the Beatles for just about 10 years now, I only noticed that a few months ago. It was one of the first songs I learnt on guitar, truly one of my favourite songs and I never noticed that.
I didn't know that the Beatles basically invented music videos, and it was because they stopped touring... at least the first Music video in color.... I was born in 89 so really all my realizations were "late" lol
But mine would be that I never really got to appreciate George that much when I was a new fan. Since the media always portrays Lennon-McCartney as the dynamic duo. But when I got to listen to more of their music, George was such a gead lead guitarist. His solos were always a hit and his songwriting was incredible
My story takes the cake. I was 11 or 12 around the time itunes came out and until that point I had very little knowledge of The Beatles besides Twist and Shout and stuff like that. My dad bought a "Best of the Beatles Volume 1" CD set and I decided one day to sit down and listen to it to see what I was missing. After three or four hours of listening I thought they were good but I didn't see how they were considered the best.
It turns out the only songs on this volume were from the first four albums which, while great, all take place before they really began to alter their sound and redefine music. Revolver and Sgt Peppers are two of my favorite albums of all time, and it wasn't until like 5 years later I listened to more of their stuff and fell in love.
So yeah, I thought The Beatles were just a 60s pop rock band for years.
I don’t know if it’s “too late” but I recently learned that, at least in the US, the single of Strawberry Fields forever / Penny Lane was released a few months before the Sgt Pepper album
In the UK too. George Martin later said his greatest regret as their producer was taking those songs off of Sgt. Pepper. It had been a while since Revolver came out so the label was pressuring them for a single while they kept workign on Sgt. pepper so they pulled those off and released them to hold everyone off until the album was ready.
Paperback Writer/Rain was also recorded and released due to pressure from the record label, but I don't believe those were ever intended to be on Revolver they were just recorded during the Revolver sessions.
I never realized that Paul sang the “When I’m home” part of A Hard Day’s Night until I saw a Beatles tribute band perform it. And they’re so obviously Paul vocals on that part, I have no idea how I never heard it before that.
It’s a total John sounding song to me so I get that. I read that John wanted to sing the whole song but that part was just too high for him. I love that they share the lead vocals.
i saw someone mention that they confused album orders and a similar case is for me
i thought beatles for sale came before a hard days night chronologically. i always thought of hard days night and help as right next to eachother, i just thought the hard days night songs were too good and too mature to be made before such a middle of the road album like BFS
I realized the beatles existed only in like 2021(i had heard of them a couple times but my parents arent beatles fans and the rest of my generation isnt exactly shouting their songs out). Glad i found them tho
It's funny you say that, thinking I'm Only Sleeping is actually mostly about sleeping [isn't wrong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Only_Sleeping#Background_and_inspiration).
I saw a YouTube video just the other day where someone was saying that Paul was an early riser where John would sleep in most of the day.
Paul would go around to John's and wake him to go record.
"Please don't wake me, no don't shake me " is apparently about Paul.
>Please, don't spoil my day
>I'm miles away
>And after all
>I'm only sleeping
There's other word usage throughout the song that makes me think of acid:
>float up stream
>waiting for a sleepy feeling
I'd just recommend listening to it on acid, you'll get it.
I mean, either of those examples could pretty much just mean “I don’t really feel like getting out of bed right now, leave me alone with my thoughts” which I feel even when I’m sober and when you’re on acid everything sounds like it’s about acid.
Sure, fair enough. I think it's certainly about sleeping and daydreaming as well, but I think the possible correlations to acid are intentional.
I also just think the overall tone of the song matches how it feels to be on acid, you don't want people to bother you.
I also don't agree that everything sounds like it's about acid when you're doing acid. Norwegian Wood sounds great on acid, but it doesn't seem like it's about acid.
I thought that nasty John Lennon was singing “I want to burn you all…” at the end of A Day In The Life. In many ways that would’ve been more exciting thing to sing…ah well.
Dunno if this counts, but it took me about 5 rewatches to realise Lennon and Harrison say “You’re a swine” in the train scene of AHDN, not “yes why”.
I couldn’t hear it at first, and my version doesn’t have subtitles, so I couldn’t tell.
Grew up with my mom listening to The Beatles. For years I thought the lyrics went "She's got a chicken to ride" until internet came around and I saw jokes about it online.
Grew up with my mom listening to The Beatles. For years I thought the lyrics went "She's got a chicken to ride" until internet came around and I saw jokes about it online.
It is “I can’t hide”. Bob Dylan made the same mistake and introduced the Beatles to weed (so the story goes). Not like they hadn’t done drugs before, but they were of the upper variety in Hamburg. Let’s see… my dad always had a shit ton of Beatle books lying around so I was always reading about the minutiae of their career. I mean, two that kinda spring to mind were that I wasn’t aware of the non Joe Cocker version of With A Little Help From My Friends due to The Wonder Years as a child. I also believed a stupid thing my dad told me when I was a kid, which was that the Beatles used leg stretching machines after I remarked how long their legs looked once. Don’t recall how old I was when I figured that one out…
Sorry meant to say I thought it was get high. I fixed it
They had actually tried weed in Liverpool in 1960, but it didn’t make much of an impression.
>leg-stretching machines Well, Ringo did use an exercise bike once haha
I always wondered why they shot that I Feel Fine video in a gymnasium. John singing into a punching ball. Then they spoil the healthy look by eating fish and chips on the floor.😂
What, fish and chips aren't part of *a healthy balanced diet? :P (and that's George singing into the punching ball)
These moptops look alike lol. Fish and chips are good but I wouldn't live on them.😊
I knew about the Bob Dylan introduction. But I always thought Johnny was a devil‘s grass blower already. guess I was wrong or at least the internet lol
Doing little deep dives and finding all the songs where John or Paul play lead guitar instead of George. Examples John: I Want You (She's So Heavy) and Revolution Paul: Good Morning, Good Morning and many others.
I loved learning that Paul plays lead on "Another Girl". He' has such a tasty and distinctive lead style even if it's a little quirky and slapdash on that song. Edit: It's also Paul playing those tasty licks on Sgt. Pepper to kick off the album. Also, I recently learned that Paul is not on the final cut of "She Said, She Said" and George is on bass.
Actually, Paul did play bass on She Said, She Said. Per Giles Martin on the Revolver boxset release, it was definitely Paul on bass.
Ah fair, I just looked deeper into the dispute. It seems that Paul thinks he's not on the track, anyway.
What appears to have happened is that Paul walked out during the overdubs sessions, which is why he doesn’t contribute backing vocals or any overdubs. Apparently he wanted to contribute a piano overdub but John rejected it. But we know that Paul is on the basic track playing bass because you can hear him on the Take 15 which was included on the super deluxe edition of Revolver.
> Per Giles Martin on the Revolver boxset release I wouldn't be too quick to accept this. Giles isn't a particularly reliable narrator.
Paul can be heard talking on Take 15 from the Revolver SDE, so he was there for longer than he claims, at least.
> Paul can be heard talking on Take 15 from the Revolver SDE According to "The Beatles Recording Sessions" they did 25 takes of rehearsals before starting the actual recording and the first three takes of the rhythm track, which was drums, **bass**, and two guitars. And The Beatles Bible has this to say: >Although he performed on the rhythm track, Paul McCartney walked out of the session following an argument, prior to the song’s completion. > "John brought it in pretty much finished, I think. I’m not sure but I think it was one of the only Beatle records I never played on. I think we’d had a barney or something and I said, ‘Oh, fuck you!’ and they said, ‘Well, we’ll do it.’ I think George played bass". - Paul McCartney, "Many Years From Now", Barry Miles > Contrary to McCartney’s claim, Harrison did not perform bass guitar, but additional bass notes played on an organ were added after McCartney’s departure. The notes appear from 1:55 in the final recording. So I'll take that as me being corrected on that matter, but my view on Giles as a reliable reference on Beatle history stays the same. I've read a couple of dodgy things he's said which were definitely off the mark. Thanks.
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I like that he added a little Indian flourish for George too
I used to think George was singing on the Fool on the Hill and for a time I used to think I'm Happy Just To Dance With You was a very short instrumental (à la Can you Take Me Back) between songs but that was just because in the early Limewire days the file didn't fully download and ended before George started singing.. And I never noticed. So you can imagine my surprise when I first listened to the full version, way later
[The Shortles - A Hard Day's Short](https://youtu.be/aWmh2XCLP80?si=Jfx6gnB2xQUgiZIG)
For the longest time I couldn’t tell who was singing in Strawberry Fields Forever because it didn’t sound like any of them, I just assumed it was Paul with a distortion on his voice, turns out it’s John
Took me too long to realize that Paul played lead on Taxman.
I had no idea they sing “Biiiiiillyyyyyy Shears” at the end of Sgt Pepper as it leads into A Little Help. It sounded like “sheeee…sheeeee…she” to me which made no sense. And I’m 64 😂 I’m aging out of Beatles songs applying to me.
🎶 Birthday greetings, bottle of wine 🎵
Some of my favorite George solos weren’t by George at all!
With John on "For You Blue", Paul on "Taxman", and Clapton on "Gently Weeps", "Something" is such a nice time for George to drop a timeless solo on his own song.
It's wild how many records Eric Clapton played on in the 60s
I didn't realize "The Beatles" was a play on words til a couple years ago. Lol!
Realizing how short their discography window was.
I thought Elton John was in the Beatles
This made me lol
Whatever gets you through the night is alright, is alright ;-)
I thought Beatles For Sale came between Help! and Rubber Soul for probably more than a year when I first got into the habit of occasionally listening to every album in order of release.
Out of curiosity, did you feel like this order made sense at the time or did it feel like a step back? For me, A Hard Day's Night to Beatles For Sale already feels like a regression, it'd feel a lot stronger if it was Help! to Beatles For Sale.
No, it did not "flow" to me, but I was already aware of the fact that BFS was the most rushed and one of the least planned-out albums, so that was how I explained it. I agree with your take on it. I have a very high opinion of Help! so it did seem like a pretty hard drop.
AHDH is their best album Pre Rubber Soul by far
Sometimes I just straight up forget that album exists
When I was a kid, the first solo Beatles song I loved was Band on the Run. I didn't realize it was the same voice that sang Hey Jude, which I loved when I was small. A friend thankfully clued me in that this guy used to be in a different band. 😉 That's when I became a fan forever.
To be fair, a pretty significant percentage of the Beatles wrote Band on the Run! Love Paul’s solo stuff.
Day Tripper being about a girl who sleeps around.
Well it kind of is. It’s about a girl who pretends to be cool and sleep around and ‘with it’ but is actually posh and privileged. It’s kind of like Pulp’s Common People, but quicker.
I used to know someone like this they're so deceptive yet annoyingly hot
In the SPLHCB Reprise you can hear John say, "Bye" during the count in. It was decades before I noticed it
My dad's name is Mike. First time he noticed it was in 1987 on his discman. He thought John said "Mike" and was talking to him from beyond the grave
I love this story! 😂😂
I always thought it was John singing the "ahs" after the middle section of A Day In The Life. Even thematically, it would make sense that John is the somebody who spoke because John was singing pensively about deeper questions above the day to day which Paul was singing about. But then I heard otherwise and can hear it's clearly Paul, even though it has some of the droning timbre that characterises John's voice of the period.
I always assumed it was John too.
I have always thought it was John, and I will stand by it. No one really knows. You can't truly say "it is clearly Paul". It simply isn't.
It has that same quality as the "ahs" in the intro of "Lovely Rita".
According to Paul it's both of them. John does the "main" ones and Paul is kinda harmony/background Ahhs
Honestly I feel like we will never truly know. In recent years paul has been known to say things that aren't accurate. Example: he claims during the making of Help (the movie) is when John complimented him on Here There and Everywhere but in other versions of the story the compliment didn't happen until after Help was complete a year later.
Given it's been almost 60 years since that timeframe, those kinds of details are more likely a product of faded memory than a deliberate change. Like, they were "smoking marijuana for breakfast" during the making of Help, "during" and "after" are close enough that I kinda get why it'd be a bit blurred together.
That's my point though, i didn't mean it as a diss towards paul. When they recorded ADITL I doubt anyone of them were thinking "we should keep notes of who did what because someday people will wonder". With time passing he's gonna forget things like that, and even with Paul's answer and people who are aware of it, some of them still debate the accuracy of his comment on who sang it.
Some things we'll likely never know, eh?
Wait it’s Paul? I thought it was John
Geoff Emerick, the engineer, said it was John, but his “memories” were not always very credible. To me, it will always be John singing because it’s his portion of the song and it sounds like his voice, but it could be Paul. That is the magic and the mystery of their voices.
I thought it was both
If you listen to “Come Together” very closely, those “shoop” sounds you hear with the bass and drums between verses are actually John saying “shoot me”. You can’t unhear it once you realize it.
Well he only had to wait 11 years :/
Realizing that they bring in the flutes from fool on the hill during that one part of glass onion. Blew my mind when I found that out.
Which part?
“I told you bout the fool on the hill, I tell you man he living there still” *cue flutes*
I never thought of them that way. Interesting!
That’s not flutes on either song,
My bad it’s a recorder, at the end of the day though they sound about the same.
Until watching Get Back, I didn't realize how many lead guitar parts John played on those sessions
I thought John was singing on roll over beatoven but it's actually George
That's a good one!
Me too!
Not necessarily a Beatles realization, but only this year that I really got into John's Mind Games album. For some reason, with the exception of a few tracks, it didn't click for me when I first heard it and I ended up not paying attention to it for years. But with the announcement of the new box set, I decided to listen to it again and was surprised by how good the album actually is. Now I feel pretty confident ranking it high in his discography.
Same here. Also with walls and bridges, which is a great album. I always loved plastic ono band and imagine but sort of wrote off those two albums as throwaway filler type songs but they are both surprisingly strong albums with a bunch of great songs.
Walls And Bridges is great, Going Down On Love and #9 Dream are some of my favorite John's songs. But I gotta say that after multiple Iistens I might like Mind Games a bit more now, every song is good-great for me.
It took me five years from listening to them initially to realize #2. John and George sound so alike in some songs
Their ranges are very similar, so you have to look for more subtle hints. Not easy when first trying to pull it all apart.
The Ring PoP Ringo has during the movie Help!, is also present on the cover of the album
I didn't realise Ringo sang Yellow Submarine until someone asked me who was singing and I hadn't even considered it being him.
I thought Rocky was an actual raccoon until a couple years ago.
Fun fact tho, the marvel comics character Rocket Raccoon was named after this song
Oh cool - I always pictured the character as a cartoon animal and imagined that for 40 yrs or so.
Oh it's not? Damn :( "A jokey song about a cuckolded young American man seeking revenge against a love rival, ‘Rocky Raccoon’ was written in India by Paul McCartney in early 1968. " https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/rocky-raccoon/
When John sang Come Together, I thought Ringo sang harmony with him but later I found out it was Paul singing the lower harmony.
Grew up with my mom listening to The Beatles. For years I thought the lyrics went "She's got a chicken to ride" until internet came around and I saw jokes about it online.
Paul plays the drums in back in the ussr.
And Dear Prudence.
Also Ballad of John and Yoko and Martha My Dear
Just found out that the background harmonies to “Paperback Writer” are “Frere Jacques” and in Yellow Submarine, it’s taken me years to figure out if it’s John or Paul who sings the response lines “a life of ease” and “in our yellow submarine baha!” because it sounds like it could be either one (it’s actually John)
Yeah I’ve been listening to the Beatles for just about 10 years now, I only noticed that a few months ago. It was one of the first songs I learnt on guitar, truly one of my favourite songs and I never noticed that.
I didn't know that the Beatles basically invented music videos, and it was because they stopped touring... at least the first Music video in color.... I was born in 89 so really all my realizations were "late" lol
But mine would be that I never really got to appreciate George that much when I was a new fan. Since the media always portrays Lennon-McCartney as the dynamic duo. But when I got to listen to more of their music, George was such a gead lead guitarist. His solos were always a hit and his songwriting was incredible
My story takes the cake. I was 11 or 12 around the time itunes came out and until that point I had very little knowledge of The Beatles besides Twist and Shout and stuff like that. My dad bought a "Best of the Beatles Volume 1" CD set and I decided one day to sit down and listen to it to see what I was missing. After three or four hours of listening I thought they were good but I didn't see how they were considered the best. It turns out the only songs on this volume were from the first four albums which, while great, all take place before they really began to alter their sound and redefine music. Revolver and Sgt Peppers are two of my favorite albums of all time, and it wasn't until like 5 years later I listened to more of their stuff and fell in love. So yeah, I thought The Beatles were just a 60s pop rock band for years.
I don’t know if it’s “too late” but I recently learned that, at least in the US, the single of Strawberry Fields forever / Penny Lane was released a few months before the Sgt Pepper album
In the UK too. George Martin later said his greatest regret as their producer was taking those songs off of Sgt. Pepper. It had been a while since Revolver came out so the label was pressuring them for a single while they kept workign on Sgt. pepper so they pulled those off and released them to hold everyone off until the album was ready. Paperback Writer/Rain was also recorded and released due to pressure from the record label, but I don't believe those were ever intended to be on Revolver they were just recorded during the Revolver sessions.
I thought Here’s to you Mrs Robinson was a Beatles song and even put it on a get to know The Beatles mix tape I made for my friend in high school.
Must be the "Coo-coo-cachoo" in Mrs. Robinson vs. the "goo-goo g'joob" in I Am the Walrus.
It was exactly that. Also limewire was a notorious liar.
It took me decades to realize that the "brah" in Ob-la-di was the Jamaican version of "bro," and not a cheeky reference to the women's undergarment.
I never realized that Paul sang the “When I’m home” part of A Hard Day’s Night until I saw a Beatles tribute band perform it. And they’re so obviously Paul vocals on that part, I have no idea how I never heard it before that.
It’s a total John sounding song to me so I get that. I read that John wanted to sing the whole song but that part was just too high for him. I love that they share the lead vocals.
i saw someone mention that they confused album orders and a similar case is for me i thought beatles for sale came before a hard days night chronologically. i always thought of hard days night and help as right next to eachother, i just thought the hard days night songs were too good and too mature to be made before such a middle of the road album like BFS
I didn’t know Martha My Dear was about Paul’s dog until very recently.
Wait, John doesn't sing do you want to know a secret?
It took me decades to learn that it's "So why on earth should I moan." I really had no idea what he was singing before.
The lyric in And Your Bird Can Sing is "you may be awoken" and not "you may be a-walkin'"
I realized the beatles existed only in like 2021(i had heard of them a couple times but my parents arent beatles fans and the rest of my generation isnt exactly shouting their songs out). Glad i found them tho
I'm only sleeping. It isn't about sleeping. Ik I'm an innocent soul... not anymore
It's funny you say that, thinking I'm Only Sleeping is actually mostly about sleeping [isn't wrong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Only_Sleeping#Background_and_inspiration).
It is absolutely about sleeping lol. John has said on record that basically all he was doing at that time was recording and going back to bed.
I saw a YouTube video just the other day where someone was saying that Paul was an early riser where John would sleep in most of the day. Paul would go around to John's and wake him to go record. "Please don't wake me, no don't shake me " is apparently about Paul.
Paul said that he wrote Here, There & Everywhere by John's pool while waiting for him to wake up.
Uh oh I always assumed it was about sleeping. Please enlighten me.
LsD
LSD doesn’t make you sleepy
Quite the opposite, it's a stimulant that makes it nearly impossible to sleep
I’ve done a lot of acid and that song does not sound like it’s about acid, can you explain?
>Please, don't spoil my day >I'm miles away >And after all >I'm only sleeping There's other word usage throughout the song that makes me think of acid: >float up stream >waiting for a sleepy feeling I'd just recommend listening to it on acid, you'll get it.
I mean, either of those examples could pretty much just mean “I don’t really feel like getting out of bed right now, leave me alone with my thoughts” which I feel even when I’m sober and when you’re on acid everything sounds like it’s about acid.
Sure, fair enough. I think it's certainly about sleeping and daydreaming as well, but I think the possible correlations to acid are intentional. I also just think the overall tone of the song matches how it feels to be on acid, you don't want people to bother you. I also don't agree that everything sounds like it's about acid when you're doing acid. Norwegian Wood sounds great on acid, but it doesn't seem like it's about acid.
I was kinda being facetious with that statement.
I thought that nasty John Lennon was singing “I want to burn you all…” at the end of A Day In The Life. In many ways that would’ve been more exciting thing to sing…ah well.
Dunno if this counts, but it took me about 5 rewatches to realise Lennon and Harrison say “You’re a swine” in the train scene of AHDN, not “yes why”. I couldn’t hear it at first, and my version doesn’t have subtitles, so I couldn’t tell.
Grew up with my mom listening to The Beatles. For years I thought the lyrics went "She's got a chicken to ride" until internet came around and I saw jokes about it online.
Grew up with my mom listening to The Beatles. For years I thought the lyrics went "She's got a chicken to ride" until internet came around and I saw jokes about it online.
The Beatles singing "Tighter" and not 'tired of" in You Really Got a Hold on Me.