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'''Malcolm 'Mal' Evans''' (b. Malcolm Frederick Evans, 27 May 1935, d. 5 January 1976) is best known as the [[Roadie|road manager]], [[personal assistant|assistant]], and a friend of [[The Beatles]]: [[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr]].

In the early 1960s, Evans was employed as a [[BT Group|telephone engineer]], and also worked part-time as a [[bouncer (doorman)|bouncer]] at the [[Cavern Club]], where The Beatles performed. Their manager [[Brian Epstein]] later hired Evans as their assistant [[roadie|road manager]] - [[Neil Aspinall]] was The Beatles' first road manager. Peter Brown, one of Epstein's staff, later wrote of Evans as "a kindly, but menacing-looking young man" - Evans was tall and heavily-built - and states that he was also employed as the band's [[bodyguard]]. Evans contributed to many Beatle recordings, and appeared in some of the films they made. The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, but Evans carried on assisting the band and working with them in the studio.

Evans was killed by police on 5 January 1976 at his rented [[Duplex (building)|duplex]] in [[Los Angeles]]. Officers were called when his girlfriend phoned the police and told them that Evans was confused and had a gun. The police believed that the [[air rifle]] Evans was holding was a rifle and shot him dead. Evans was cremated on 7 January 1976 in Los Angeles, and his [[Cremation|ashes]] were sent back to England, but were first lost in the post, before being found and given to his family.

==Early life==
Details of Evans’ early life are unknown, apart from his birth date. No book has been written about him although he wrote his memoirs, ''Living The Beatles' Legend'', from which extracts were released on 20 March 2005.<ref name="Milesp601">Miles (1997) p601</ref><ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts">{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424669.ece |title=Mal Evans' diary extracts |publisher=The Times |date=2005-03-20 |accessdate=2007-03-02}}</ref> Anything known about him starts in 1961, when Evans married a [[Liverpool]] girl, Lily, after meeting her at a funfair in [[New Brighton, Merseyside|New Brighton]], [[Merseyside]], and their first child, Gary, was born in the same year.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> The Beatles were the house band at [[Liverpool]]'s [[Cavern Club]] when Evans first heard them perform during his lunch break. He was then living in Hillside Road, [[Mossley Hill]] and working as a telephone engineer for the [[Royal Mail|Post Office]].<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1">{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424674.ece |title=Here, there and everywhere |date=2005-03-20 |page=1 |first=Mark |last=Edmonds |publisher=The Times |accessdate=2009-08-17}}</ref> He became a committed fan, even though his musical hero at the time was [[Elvis Presley]].<ref name="Portfolio">{{cite web |url=http://www.beatlesagain.com/bmal.html |title=Mal Evans Portfolio |publisher=The Internet Beatles Album |accessdate=2007-02-20}}</ref>

He first befriended Harrison, who put forward Evans' name to the Cavern Club's manager, Ray McFall, when he needed a [[bouncer (doorman)|doorman]].<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> The 27-year-old Evans was accepted — even though he wore thick-framed [[glasses]] — mainly because of his burly 6ft 6in frame, which was an asset when holding back the numerous fans at the Cavern's door, and later as an unofficial [[bodyguard]] for them.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> He was later nicknamed the "Gentle Giant" and "Big Mal".<ref name="Milesp93">Miles (1997) p93</ref> In 1962, Evans wrote that it was "a wonderful year", as he had Lily (his wife), his son Gary, a house, a car, and he was working at the Cavern club, which he wrote into a 1963 Post Office Engineering Union diary, which also had information concerning [[Ohm's law]] and Post Office pay rates.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/>

==The Beatles==
[[Image:Aspinall and Evans.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Neil Aspinall]] and Evans in 1963.]]
Three months after starting at the Cavern Club, Evans was hired by [[Brian Epstein]] as road manager, on 11 August 1963.<ref name="Milesp92">Miles (1997) p92</ref><ref name="MilesBeatlesDiary">Miles, Charlesworth (1998) </ref> Evans and [[Neil Aspinall]]’s duties was to drive the van while the band was on tour, set up and test the [[Vox (musical equipment)|equipment]], and then pack it up again.<ref>[http://www.memb.nl/ memb.nl - Photo of Evans backstage] memb Retrieved: 26 February 2007 </ref> The Beatles were being driven back to Liverpool from London by Evans through heavy fog on 21 January 1963, when the windscreen was hit by a pebble and cracked, so Evans had to break a large hole in it to see the road ahead.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> This was in winter, so The Beatles had to lie one on top of the other in the back with a bottle of whisky and try to stay warm in the freezing temperatures; something McCartney later reffered to as a "Beatle sandwich" <ref name="TheBeatlesAnthologyDVD">”The Beatles Anthology” DVD 2003 (Episode 2 - 0:15:41) McCartney, Harrison and Starr talking about the broken window in Aspinall’s van.</ref>

Evans had many other duties. As well as acting as a bodyguard, he was sent to buy anything they needed, such as suits, boots, meals, or drinks.<ref name="Milesp92-93">Miles (1997) pp92-93</ref> If Lennon said "Socks, Mal", Evans would have to rush to a local [[Marks and Spencer]] store and buy six pairs of cotton socks for him.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep2">{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424674.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2 |title=Here, there and everywhere |date=2005-03-20 |page=2 |first=Mark |last=Edmonds |publisher=The Times |accessdate=2009-08-17}}</ref> In 1967, Evans wrote in his diaries that he "bought Ringo [Starr] some [[underpants|undies]] for his visit to the doctor".<ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts"/> The Beatles' [[memorabilia]] is in continuous demand, but a full set of [[autographs]] by all four could be [[forgery|forgeries]]: Evans and Aspinall used to sign many of them when Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr were too busy.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3580794.stm |title=Beware of Beatles 'bargains' |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2007-02-19}}</ref>

The Beatles started their first European tour in January 1964, and Evans was allowed to take his wife and son with him, but was involved in a "big punch-up" with photographers in [[Paris]] whilst protecting them.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep2"/>
Epstein’s associate, [[Alistair Taylor]], once asked him why he was driving an [[Austin Princess]] limousine, rather than a [[Daimler Motor Company|Daimler]], a [[Bentley]], or a [[Rolls-Royce (car)|Rolls-Royce]]. The Beatles were forced to choose an Austin (as Evans explained) because they had tested every car to see how wide the doors would open as they (literally) had to "dive into the car" to escape their fans.<ref name="Spitzp445">Spitz (2005) p445</ref>

===America and the Philippines ===
The Beatles were introduced to [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] by [[Bob Dylan]] in [[New York]] in 1964, and McCartney remembered asking Evans "again and again" to write down McCartney's newly found cannabis-influenced thoughts about life by repeating "Get [write] it down, Mal, get it down!"<ref name="MilesPage188-189">Miles (1997) pp188-189</ref> Evans was as affected by the drug as everybody else, so took a very long time to find a pencil and a piece of paper.<ref>Brown (2002) p145</ref> The next morning Evans gave the sheet of paper to McCartney, who noted that McCartney had dictated: "There are seven levels!" (of life, as he later explained).<ref name="MilesPage188-189">Miles (1997) pp188-189</ref> The Beatles attended "The Night of 100 Stars" at the [[London Palladium]] on 23 July 1964, and during the show Evans constantly supplied them with whisky and Coca-Cola, which he delivered to them balanced on a wooden oar he had found backstage.<ref name="Spitzp515-516">Spitz (2005) pp515-516</ref>

The Beatles were assisted by Evans on their American tour, and when they played two shows at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in the summer of 1965. Epstein arranged for them all to have a four-day rest in a luxurious horseshoe-shaped house on stilts in [[Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California|Benedict Canyon]] off [[Mulholland Drive]] in Los Angeles. They spent their time there smoking large [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] joints, and Evans and Lennon swam in the large outdoor swimming pool with cigarettes in their mouths, to see who could keep them alight the longest.<ref name="Spitzp579">Spitz (2005) p579</ref> After recording sessions in London, Lennon, Harrison, and Starr would be chauffeured back to their houses in the “stockbroker belt” of southern England, but Evans, Aspinall, and McCartney would drive to a late-night club to eat steak, chips, and [[mushy peas]].<ref name="MilesPage166-167">Miles (1997) pp166-167</ref> [[The Bag O'Nails]] nightclub was one of their favourites, at 8 Kingly Street in [[Soho]], London, as it also presented [[Concert|live music]].<ref name="Nails">{{cite web |url=http://www.revolverbook.co.uk/beatleslondon.html |title=The Beatles' London, 1965-66 |accessdate=2007-02-11}}</ref><ref name="Milesp141">Miles (1997) p141</ref> In his memoirs Evans wrote: January 19 and 20: "Ended up [[drunk|smashed]] in Bag O'Nails with Paul [McCartney] and Neil [Aspinall]. Quite a number of people attached themselves, oh that it would happen to me... freak out time baby for Mal."<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep2"/> In July 1966, The Beatles toured the [[Philippines]], and unintentionally snubbed the nation's first lady, [[Imelda Marcos]].<ref name="Spitzp619">Spitz (2005) p619</ref> After the snub was broadcast on Philippine television and radio, all of The Beatles' police protection disappeared. The group and their entourage had to make their way to [[Manila]] airport on their own. At the airport, road manager Evans was beaten and kicked, and the band members were pushed and jostled about by a hostile crowd.<ref name="Spitzp623">Spitz (2005) p623</ref> Once the group boarded the plane, Epstein and Evans were ordered off, and Evans said, "Tell my wife that I love her."<ref name="Spitzp624">Spitz (2005) p624</ref> Epstein was forced to give back all the money that the band had earned while they were there before being allowed back on the plane.<ref name="Spitzp625">Spitz (2005) p625</ref>

===Kenya and ''Sgt. Pepper''===
The Beatles' last concert was at [[Candlestick Park]], [[San Francisco]], on 29 August 1966, but Evans continued to run errands for them and to work with them in the studio. After recording ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]'' in 1966, McCartney went by himself on holiday to France, but arranged to meet Evans in [[Bordeaux]] at the Grosse Horloge church, on the corner of cours Victor Hugo and rue St. James.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&GridE=-0.57093&GridN=44.83522&lon=-0.57093&lat=44.83522&search_result=Rue%20Saint-Eloi%2C%2033000%2C%20Bordeaux%2C%20Gironde&GridN=44.83522&GridE=-0.57093&lang=&db=FR&keepicon=true&place=Rue%20Saint-Eloi%2C%2033000%2C%20Bordeaux%2C%20Gironde&pc=&advanced=&addr2=saint%20eloi&client=public&addr3=Bordeaux&overviewmap=&scale=5000 |title=Location of the Grosse Horloge, Bordeaux |publisher=Multimap |accessdate=2007-02-19}}</ref> At exactly the pre-arranged time of one o'clock Evans was standing under the church clock when McCartney arrived.<ref name="Milesp302">Miles (1997) p302</ref> They later drove to [[Madrid]] together, but got bored, and phoned Epstein's office in London and asked to be booked on a safari holiday in [[Kenya]]. When they arrived there they visited the [[Amboseli Reserve]] at the foot of [[Mount Kilimanjaro]], and also stayed at the exclusive [[Treetops Hotel]], where the rooms are built on the branches of trees.<ref name="Milesp302">Miles (1997) p302</ref>

[[Image:Mal Evan and Paul at airport.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Evans and McCartney at [[Heathrow]] airport in 1966, after their African trip.]]
They spent their final night in [[Nairobi]] at a [[YMCA]], before they returned to London. The Beatles — according to McCartney — needed a new name, and on the flight back to England Evans and McCartney played with words to see if they could come up with something new. Evans innocently asked McCartney what the letters “S” and “P” stood for on the pots on their meal trays, and McCartney explained that it was for salt and pepper, which led to the ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' name.<ref name="Milesp303-304">Miles (1997) pp304-304</ref> They arrived back in London on 9 November 1966.<ref name="Milesp303">Miles (1997) p303</ref> Before the cover of ''[[Sgt. Pepper]]'' could be completed by [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]], Evans and Aspinall were sent out to find photographs of all of the people that were to be shown on the front cover.<ref name="Milesp336">Miles (1997) p336</ref>

In the spring of 1967—as soon as Sergeant Pepper was completed—Evans flew with McCartney to Los Angeles to see McCartney's then-fiancée, [[Jane Asher]], who was acting with the [[Old Vic]] theatre company. The three of them went on a trip to the [[Rockies]], returning to LA by Frank Sinatra's jet: "We left Denver in Frank Sinatra's Lear Jet, which he very kindly loaned us. A beautiful job with dark black leather upholstery and, to our delight, a well-stocked bar."<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3">{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424674.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3 |title=Here, there and everywhere |date=2005-03-20 |page=3 |first=Mark |last=Edmonds |publisher=The Times |accessdate=2009-08-17}}</ref> When they were back in LA, they were invited to visit the house of Michelle and John Phillips, from [[the Mamas & the Papas]].<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep2"/> [[Brian Wilson]] was there later, as he was working on [[the Beach Boys]] ''Smile'' album. Evans wrote about singing "[[On Top of Old Smokey]]" with McCartney and Wilson, but was not impressed by Wilson's avant-garde attitude to music: "Brian [Wilson] then put a damper on the spontaneity of the whole affair by walking in with a tray of water-filled glasses, trying to arrange it into some sort of session."<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/>

===Greece and ''Magical Mystery Tour''===
The Beatles and Evans flew to [[Greece]] in late 1967 with encouragement from Greek-born [[Alex Mardas (Magic Alex)|"Magic Alex"]], the director of [[Apple Electronics]], to buy an island or a group of islands.<ref name="CampbellNewStatesman3August1979">{{cite journal |last=Campbell |first=Duncan |authorlink=Duncan Campbell (investigative journalist) |journal=[[New Statesman]] |date=1979-08-03 |pages=158-160}}</ref> The idea was that the whole Apple entourage would live on the islands in their own separate homes, but would be connected to each other by tunnels leading to a central dome. Evans and his family were included in the plan, but it was abandoned as being unworkable after McCartney refused to participate.<ref name="Spitzp704">Spitz (2005) p704</ref> McCartney had no housekeeper in 1967, so Evans moved in with him at 7 Cavendish Avenue, [[St John's Wood]], near the [[Abbey Road Studios]].<ref name="MilesPage166-167"/> It was at Cavendish Avenue that McCartney bought his first [[Old English Sheepdog]], Martha, although Evans often complained about the dog fouling the beds.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep2"/> Evans later bought a house in [[Sunbury-on-Thames]], which was between McCartney's house, and Lennon, Harrison, and Starr's houses outside London.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep2"/>

While working on the ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' film, Evans wrote about his work duties: "I would get requests from the four of them to do six different things at one time and it was always a case of relying on instinct and experience in awarding priorities. They used to be right sods for the first few days until they realised that everything was going to go smoothly and they could get into the routine of recording... Then I would find time between numerous cups of tea and salad sandwiches and baked beans on toast to listen to the recording in the control room."<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/>

After the Magical Mystery Tour recordings, Evans flew to [[Nice]] with McCartney to film [[The Fool on the Hill]] clip, although McCartney set off without luggage or a passport.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/> McCartney got past customs by saying “You know who I am”, but he and Evans were not allowed into the hotel restaurant in Nice because they, “didn't look the part”, and had to eat dinner in Evans’ room.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/> Because the money they had with them had been spent on clothes, and NEMS was supposed to send them more, they arranged for credit over two nights in a nightclub: "We took advantage of our credit standing, as money had still not arrived from England. News about Paul's [McCartney] visit to the club the previous night had spread, and the place was jammed. Now Paul, being a generous sort of person, had built up quite a bar bill, when the manager of the club arrived demanding that we pay immediately. On explaining who Paul was and what had happened, he answered, 'You either pay the bill, or I call the police.' It certainly looked like we were going to get thrown in jail. It was ironical, sitting in a club with a millionaire, unable to pay the bill."<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/>

===India and Apple===
The Beatles flew to [[India]] in February 1968, to visit the [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]]'s [[ashram]], after meeting him on 24 August 1967 at the London Hilton.<ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts"/> Evans had arrived in India a few days earlier to inspect the ashram, but soon as Starr got off the plane, he demanded that Evans find a doctor, as his inoculation shots were causing him pain: “When we arrived at the local hospital, I tried to get immediate treatment for him [Starr], to be told curtly by the Indian doctor, 'He is not a special case and will have to wait his turn.' So off we go to pay a private doctor ten rupees for the privilege of hearing him say it will be all right."<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/> Evans wrote in his diary on 17 February 1968: "The [[Mass media|press]] really tried kicking down the gates into the Ashram, the Indian people on the Ashram called me half way through, but as soon as an Indian reporter told me "No bloody foreigner is going to stop me in my own country", I cooled it."<ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts"/> Evans’ diary says that he enjoyed his time in India: “It’s hard to believe that a week has already passed. I suppose the peace of mind and the serenity one achieves through meditation makes the time fly," and that he also enjoyed the food, unlike Starr, who had brought a suitcase full of baked beans with him.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/> After India, Harrison and Evans flew to New York, visiting Bob Dylan and [[The Band]], who were rehearsing at their ''Big Pink'' house/studio, in Woodstock.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep4">{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424674.ece?token=null&offset=36&page=4|title=Here, there and everywhere |date=2005-03-20 |page=4 |first=Mark |last=Edmonds |publisher=The Times |accessdate=2009-08-17}}</ref>

When [[Apple Corps|Apple]] was formed in 1968, Evans was promoted from road manager to [[personal assistant]], although his weekly [[£]]38 salary remained the same: "January 13, 1969: Paul [McCartney] is really cutting down on the Apple staff members. I was elevated to office boy [Evans was made MD of Apple very briefly] and I feel very hurt and sad inside — only big boys don't cry. Why I should feel hurt and reason for writing this is ego... I thought I was different from other people in my relationship with The Beatles and being loved by them and treated so nice, I felt like one of the family. Seems I fetch and carry. I find it difficult to live on the £38 I take home each week and would love to be like their other friends who buy fantastic homes and have all the alterations done by them, and are still going to ask for a rise. I always tell myself — look, everybody wants to take from, be satisfied, try to give and you will receive. After all this time I have about £70 to my name, but was content and happy. Loving them as I do, nothing is too much trouble, because I want to serve them. Feel a bit better now — EGO?"<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep4"/> Evans' financial problems started to become such a problem that he had to ask Harrison for money: "April 24: "Had to tell George [Harrison] — 'I'm broke'. Really miserable and down because I'm in the red, and the bills are coming in, poor old Lil [his wife] suffers as I don't want to get a rise. Not really true don't want to ask for a rise, fellows are having a pretty tough time as it is."<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep5">{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424674.ece?token=null&offset=48&page=5 |title=Here, there and everywhere |date=2005-03-20 |page=5 |first=Mark |last=Edmonds |publisher=The Times |accessdate=2009-08-17}}</ref>

Evans was the only member of the Apple entourage to be invited to attend (and be a [[marriage|witness]]) when McCartney and [[Linda McCartney|Linda Eastman]] were married at [[Marylebone]] Registry Office on 12 March 1969.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2029059.stm |title=McCartney: Then and now |publisher=BBC News |date=2002-06-10 |accessdate=2007-02-19}}</ref> Evans wrote in his diary that he was due to be there at 9.45am but McCartney's brother, [[Michael McCartney]]'s train from [[Birmingham]] was delayed. [[Peter Brown (music industry)|Peter Brown]] and Evans passed the register office at 9.15 and saw that there were only a few photographers and ardent fans standing in the rain, but when they left after the wedding at 11.30am they were mobbed by a crowd of about 1,000 people.<ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts"/> When the Beatles played on the roof of Apple's offices in Savile Row, Evans was given the job of setting up the equipment (as always) and was then told to delay the policemen as long as possible.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep4"/>

===Allen Klein===

[[Image:Mal Evans on the roof.jpg|thumb|right|200px| Evans (behind Starr in red jacket) on the Apple Records’ roof during filming for Let It Be.]]
Evans enjoyed an executive position at Apple until 1969, when [[Allen Klein]] was hired as a manager to reorganise the whole company. Evans was fired by Klein the next year, because Klein complained to Lennon that Aspinall and Evans were "living like kings—like fucking emperors", although Evans was later reinstated after McCartney, Harrison and Starr complained.<ref name="Spitzp827">Spitz (2005) p827</ref><ref name="Milesp546">Miles (1997) p546</ref> On 13 September 1969, Evans accompanied Lennon, [[Yoko Ono]], [[Klaus Voorman]], [[Alan White (Yes drummer)|Alan White]] and [[Eric Clapton]] to [[Toronto]], Canada, for the [[Toronto Rock and Roll Revival]] Concert.<ref name="TorontoRock'N'Rollrevivalconcert">{{cite web |url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob13.html |title=John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Live Peace in Toronto, 1969 |publisher=Ntlworld |accessdate=2007-02-27}}</ref> He later commented about the concert: "I was really enjoying myself. It was the first show I had roadied for three years and I was really loving every minute of plugging the amps in and setting them up on stage, making sure that everything was right. Everyone wanted the show to go particularly well because Allen Klein, who had flown over, had organised for the whole of John's performance to be filmed. This was on top of it being video-taped by Dan Richter."<ref name="TorontoRock'N'Rollrevivalconcert"/>

==Musical contributions==
Evans contributed to many recordings,<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> including lending his voice to "[[Yellow Submarine (song)|Yellow Submarine]]". Before recording it on 26 May 1966, at Abbey Road, Evans and Aspinall ransacked the store cupboard next to Studio Two for a range of instruments and implements, such as chains, a ship's bell, whistles, hooters and thunderstorm machines that were to be used on the recording. After recording the overdubs, Evans strapped on a marching [[bass drum]] and led everybody in a line around the studio doing the [[conga line|conga]] dance while banging rhythmically on the drum.<ref name="Spitzp612">Spitz (2005) p612</ref> Evans played single [[organ (music)|organ]] notes on "[[You Won't See Me]]",<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> and [[harmonica]], [[kazoo]], and organ on "[[Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!]]".<ref name="helpfromhisroadiefriend"/> McCartney explained that he showed Evans where the notes were on the organ, and then nodded his head when he wanted Evans to play, and shook it when he wanted him to stop.<ref name="Milesp438">Miles (1997) p438</ref> During the recording of [[Lovely Rita]], Evans was sent to Abbey Road's lavatories to collect toilet paper (which was stamped with the words, "[[EMI|PROPERTY OF EMI]]").<ref name="Spitzp670">Spitz (2005) p670</ref> This was used to cover [[hair comb]]s, which were played to resemble the sound of a [[kazoo]] [[orchestra]].<ref name="Spitzp670"/>

On "[[A Day in the Life]]", Evans controlled an [[alarm clock]] and counted the [[Bar (music)|measures]] in the original 24-bar break.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep2"/> The intent was to edit out the alarm clock when the missing section had been filled with music, but as it complemented McCartney's piece (the first line of McCartney's section began with, "woke up, got out of bed") the decision was made to keep the ringing, although [[George Martin]] later commented that editing it out would have been unfeasible.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stevesbeatles.com/songs/a_day_in_the_life.asp |title=A Day in the Life|publisher=stevesbeatles.com |accessdate=2007-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.applecorp.com/aditl/notes.htm |title=A Day in the Life |publisher=Apple Corps |accessdate=2007-03-02}}</ref> Evans was also one of the five piano players simultaneously hitting the last chord of the song.<ref name="Milesp438">Miles (1997) p438</ref> Evans played [[tambourine]] on "[[Dear Prudence]]" and [[saxophone]] on "[[Helter Skelter (song)|Helter Skelter]]". He played a double solo with Lennon, although neither of them was proficient on the instrument.<ref name="Spitzp793">Spitz (2005) p793</ref> Evans contributed background vocals and shovelled a bucket of [[gravel]] (as part of the rhythm) on "[[You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)]]".<ref name="Milesp438">Miles (1997) p438</ref> Evans also contributed to the ''[[The Beatles (album)|White Album]]'' outtake "[[What's the New Mary Jane]]", and hit an [[anvil]] on "[[Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]",<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/><ref name="Milesp438">Miles (1997) p438</ref><ref name="GeoffEmerickonAbbeyRoadp5">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/beatles-engineer-geoff-emerick-on-abbey-road-219542/5|title=Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on Abbey Road (p5)|first=Joe |last=Bosso |page=5|publisher=Music Radar |date=2009-09-10|accessdate=2009-09-18}}</ref> because Starr could not lift the hammer high enough to get the right sound and keep in time with the song.<ref name="GeoffEmerickonAbbeyRoadp5"/>

===Lyric contributions===
According to his diaries—from which extracts were released in 2005—Evans stated that he helped to compose songs on the ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)|Sgt. Pepper]]'' album. Evans wrote, on 27 January 1967: "Sgt Pepper. Started writing song with Paul [McCartney] upstairs in his room, he on piano. What can one say about today—ah yes! [[Four Tops]] concert at [[Royal Albert Hall|Albert Hall]]. The Beatles get screams they get the clap. Off to [[The Bag O'Nails|Bag]] after gig. Did a lot more of "where the rain comes in" [a lyric from "[[Fixing a Hole]]"]. Hope people like it. Started Sergeant Pepper".<ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts"/>
On 1 February: "Sergeant Pepper sounds good. Paul tells me that I will get royalties on the song—great news, now perhaps a new home.<ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts"/><ref name="helpfromhisroadiefriend"/> On 2 February: "Recording voices on Captain [sic] Pepper. All six of us doing the chorus in the middle, worked until about midnight."<ref name="MalEvansDiaryExtracts"/>

Keith Badman (author of ''The Beatles off the Record'') referred to a tape recording of Evans speaking shortly before his death, on which Evans reiterated some of the statements made in the diary. According to Badman, Evans was asked at the time if it would be a problem that he was not credited, as the [[Lennon/McCartney]] writing name was "a really hot item".<ref name="helpfromhisroadiefriend">{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article432505.ece|title=McCartney wrote Sgt Pepper ‘with a little help from his roadie friend’ (20 March 2005) |first=Mark |last= |publisher= |accessdate=2009-08-19}}</ref> Evans did not receive any royalties and stayed at his £38-a-week pay (£488.68 today).<ref name="helpfromhisroadiefriend"/> Evans later co-wrote "You and Me (Babe)" with Harrison, which appears on Starr's solo album, ''[["Ringo"|Ringo]]'', in 1973.<ref name="Leng2002p105"> Leng (2002) p105</ref>

===Producer===

In 1968, Evans discovered the band [[Badfinger]] (then known as The Iveys) and suggested that they be signed to Apple. Although not trained as a studio technician, Evans produced several songs recorded by the Iveys/[[Badfinger]] in 1969 and 1970. The most notable of these is the song "[[No Matter What (Badfinger song)|No Matter What]]" by Badfinger, which charted on Billboard's Top 10 in December 1970.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mal+Evans|title=Mal Evans |publisher=[[Discogs]] |accessdate=2008-01-13}}</ref> Evans also produced some tracks for [[Keith Moon]]'s solo album ''[[Two Sides of the Moon]]''.<ref name="amg-moon">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xe5f8qptbtq4~T2 |title=Credits for "Two Sides of the Moon" |publisher=[[Allmusic]] |accessdate=2007-03-05}}</ref>

==On film and portrait==
[[Image:London NPG.JPG|left|200px|thumb|The National Portrait Gallery in London, where the portrait of Evans is on display.]]
Evans appeared in three (out of five) Beatles' films.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> In ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]'', Evans plays a confused [[English channel|channel swimmer]] who pops up through an ice-hole in [[Austria]], and on a beach in the Bahamas.<ref name="MalonFilm">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A13900114 |title='Help!' - the Film and Album |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2007-02-19}}</ref> During the visit to India on 24 August 1967, photographer Philip Townsend took a photo portrait of Evans, which is on display in Room 32 at the [[National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp84199&rNo=0&role=sit |title=The Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |accessdate=2007-02-26}}</ref>

The Beatles asked Evans and Aspinall to find and hire the actors they wanted to perform in the ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' film, and to hire an old 60-seater [[Coach (vehicle)|coach]], on which they were told to paint the ''Magical Mystery Tour'' [[logo]] which McCartney had designed.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep3"/> Evans later appeared in the film as one of the [[Magician (paranormal)|magicians]] who cast mysterious spells on the passengers of the bus.<ref name="Spitzp723">Spitz (2005) p723</ref>

In the ''[[Let It Be (film)|Let It Be]]'' film, Evans can be seen playing the anvil during early versions of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", and can be seen talking to [[police]] officers on the [[Savile Row]] rooftop when they came to stop the live performance.<ref name="Milesp438">Miles (1997) p438</ref> Before the rooftop concert, Evans placed a camera and a microphone in a corner of Apple's reception area, so that when the police came in to complain about the noise—which was expected—they could be filmed and recorded.<ref name="Spitzp816">Spitz (2005) p816</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maccafan.net/Gallery/GetBackRehearsals/Rooftop.htm |title=The Rooftop Concert |publisher=maccafan.net |accessdate=2007-02-27}}</ref> The Beatles were often filmed by Evans during his time with them (without sound) and a collection of his recordings was later released on [[DVD]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6943272/a/Complete+Mal+Evans+Silent+Films+:+Beatles.htm |title=Beatles - The Complete Mal Evans Silent Films DVD |publisher=cduniverse.com |accessdate=2007-02-02}}</ref>

==Death==
Evans separated from his wife in 1973, and subsequently moved from the UK to [[Los Angeles]], where Lennon had moved to live with [[May Pang]] after his own separation from [[Yoko Ono]]. Evans is credited on the [[John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band]] album as providing "tea and sympathy".<ref name="Love">{{cite web |first=Patrick |last=Cadogan |url=http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/lennonlove.html |title=The Making of John Lennon's "Love" |publisher=Abbeyrd's Beatle Page |date=[[2008-08-19]] |accessdate=2008-08-23}}</ref>

Before his death Evans was asked to produce the group [[Natural Gas (band)|Natural Gas]],<ref name="Badmanp183">Badman (2000) p183</ref> and was working on a book of memoirs called ''Living The Beatles' Legend'', which he was supposed to deliver to his publishers, [[Grosset & Dunlap]], on 12 January 1976. Friends said that Evans was [[clinical depression|depressed]] about his separation from his wife Lil Evans—who had asked for a [[divorce]] before [[Christmas]]—although he was then living with new girlfriend Fran Hughes in a rented motel apartment at 8122 W. 4th Street in Los Angeles.<ref name="Milesp601">Miles (1997) p601</ref><ref name="LAPDSHOT">{{cite web |url=http://www.feelnumb.com/?p=839 |title=Beatles’ Roadie Shot by LAPD Here (photo of house) |publisher=Feel Numb |accessdate=2009-08-19}}</ref> On 5 January 1976, Evans was so despondent that Fran Hughes phoned his collaborator on his book, John Hoernie, and asked him to visit them. Hoernie saw Evans "really doped-up and groggy", and Evans told Hoernie to make sure that he finished ''Living The Beatles' Legend''.<ref name="Milesp601"/> Hoernie helped Evans up to an upstairs bedroom, but during an incoherent conversation Evans picked up a 30.30 air rifle. Hoernie struggled with Evans, but Evans, being much stronger, held onto the weapon.<ref name="Milesp601"/>

Hughes then phoned the police and told them that Evans was confused, had a rifle,<ref name="helpfromhisroadiefriend"/> and was on [[valium]]. Four [[Los Angeles Police Department|policemen]] arrived and three of them, David D. Krempa, Robert E. Brannon and Lieutenant Higbie, went up to the bedroom.<ref name="Huntleyp139">Huntley (2004) p139</ref> They later reported that as soon as Evans saw the three policemen he pointed a rifle at them.<ref name="Milesp600">Miles (1997) p600</ref> The officers repeatedly told Evans to put down the rifle (which they did not know at the time was an air rifle) but Evans constantly refused.<ref name="LosAngelesTimes5January1976">''Los Angeles Times'' (5 January 1976) p3</ref> The police fired six shots, of which four struck Evans, killing him instantly.<ref name="Milesp601-602">Miles (1997) pp601-602</ref> Evans had previously been awarded the badge of "Honorary [[Sheriff]] of [[Los Angeles County]]",<ref name="Milesp601"/> but in the ''Los Angeles Times'', he was referred to as a “jobless former road manager for The Beatles”.<ref name="LosAngelesTimes5January1976"/>

Evans was cremated on 7 January 1976, in Los Angeles. None of The Beatles attended his funeral, but [[Harry Nilsson]] and other friends attended, although Harrison arranged for Evans' family to receive £5,000, as Evans had not maintained his life insurance premiums, and was not entitled to a pension.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep5"/> Evans' [[Cremation|ashes]] were sent by post back to England, but were misplaced and lost in the postal system. Upon learning of the lost remains, Lennon joked: "They should look in the dead letter file".<ref name="Milesp601"/> Evans' ashes were later found and given to his family.<ref name="RollingStoneFeb121976">''Rolling Stone'' magazine, 12 February 1976</ref><ref name="WiththeBeatles">{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/with-the-beatles-1579908.html |title=With The Beatles|first= |last= |publisher=The Independent |accessdate=2009-08-04}}</ref>

==The Mal Evans archive==

10 years after his death, Ono was asked if she would accept a trunk containing Evans' diaries and other effects that had been found in the basement of a New York publisher. Ono then arranged for them to be sent to his family in London.<ref name="HerethereandeverywhereTimep1"/> In 1992, Lennon's original pages of lyrics to "[[A Day in the Life]]" were sold by the Evans estate for £56,600 at [[Sotheby's]], in London, to an unknown collector.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4623524.stm |title=Lennon original lyrics for sale |publisher=BBC News |date=2008-01-01 |accessdate=2007-02-19}}</ref> Other lyrics collected by Evans have been subject to legal action over the years: In 1996, McCartney went to the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] in England and prevented the sale of the original lyrics to "[[With a Little Help from My Friends]]" that Evans' [[widow]] Lily had tried to sell, by claiming that the lyrics were collected by Evans as a part of his duties and belonged to the individual Beatles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/147112.stm |title=Beatles songbook up for sale |publisher=BBC News|date=1998-08-07 |accessdate=2007-02-19}}</ref>

A notebook in which McCartney wrote the lyrics for "[[Hey Jude]]" was sold in 1998 at an auction for £111,500. The notebook also contains lyrics for "[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]" and "[[All You Need Is Love]]". It also contains lyrics, notes, drawings and poems by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr, as well as by Evans.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/171821.stm |title=Beatles lyrics get back to where they once belonged |publisher=BBC News |date=1998-09-15 |accessdate=2007-02-19}}</ref>

A suitcase that Evans was carrying at the time of his death, which was supposed to contain unreleased recordings, photos and other memorabilia, was lost by the police during the investigation and became known as the lost "Mal Evans Archive".<ref name="SuitcaseholdsBeatlestreasuresBBC">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/3891635.stm |title=Suitcase holds Beatles treasures |first= |last= |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2009-08-16}}</ref> It was reported in June 2004 that an English tourist, Frasier Claughton, bought the suitcase for $36 at a [[flea market]] just outside of [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]; unaware of its contents.<ref name="SuitcaseholdsBeatlestreasuresBBC"/> By August 2004, experts had determined that the documents within the suitcase were [[photocopy|photocopies]] made in the 1990s, and declared the supposed archive a fake.<ref name="Beatlessuitcasefulloffakes">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3579976.stm |title=Beatles suitcase 'full of fakes' |first= |last= |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2009-08-16}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last=Badman |first=Keith |title=Beatles: Off the Record |publisher=Music Sales Corporation |year=2000 |isbn=978-0711979857}}
* {{cite book |last=Brown |first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Brown (music industry) |last2=Gaines |first2=Steven |authorlink2=Steven Gaines |title=The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles |year=2002 |publisher=New American Library |location=New York |isbn=0-451-20735-1}}
* {{cite book |last=Huntley |first=Elliot J. |title=Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Breakup of the Beatles |publisher=Guernica Editions Inc. |year=2004 |isbn=978-1550711974}}
* {{cite book |last=Leng |first=Simon |authorlink= |title=The Music of George Harrison: While My Guitar Gently Weeps |publisher=Firefly Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=978-0946719501}}
* {{cite book |last=Lennon |first=Cynthia |authorlink=Cynthia Lennon |title=John |publisher=[[Hodder & Stoughton]] |year=2006 |isbn=0-340-89828-3}}
* {{cite book |last=Miles |first=Barry |authorlink=Barry Miles |title=''[[Many Years From Now]]'' |publisher=[[Vintage (publisher)|Vintage]]-[[Random House]] |year=1997 |isbn=0-7493-8658-4}}
* {{cite book |last=Spitz |first=Bob |title=The Beatles: The Biography |publisher=[[Little, Brown and Company]] |location=New York |year=2005 |isbn=1-84513-160-6}}
* {{cite book |author=The Beatles |authorlink=The Beatles |title=[[The Beatles Anthology]] (DVD) |publisher=[[Apple records]] |year=2003 |id=ASIN: B00008GKEG (Bar Code: 24349 29699)}}

==External links==
*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424674.ece Times online, ''Here, There, and Everywhere'']
*[http://www.harrynilsson.com/about-mal-evans.html Mal Evans at the Harry Nilsson Web Pages]
*[http://www.memb.nl/ The Dutch “mal evans memorial band”]
*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1533142,00.html Timesonline: Evans' diaries say that he co-wrote the Sgt Pepper song and others]

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*[[January 3]]-[[George Martin]], Beatles producer born.

Oh! Darling

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	"'''Oh! Darling'''" is a song of The Beatles composed by [[Paul McCartney]] (credited to [[Lennon/McCartney]]) and appearing as the fourth song on the [[Abbey Road\|Abbey Road album]] in 1969. Its working title was "Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm)".		"'''Oh! Darling'''" is a song of The Beatles composed by [[Paul McCartney]] (credited to [[Lennon/McCartney]]) and appearing as the fourth song on the [[Abbey Road\|Abbey Road album]] in 1969. Its working title was "Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm)".

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Happiness Is a Warm Gun

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"'''Happiness Is a Warm Gun'''" is a song by [[The Beatles]] featured on the eponymous double-disc album ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' also known as ''The White Album''. It is primarily a [[John Lennon]] composition, credited to [[Lennon/McCartney]]. The original working title of the song was "Happiness Is a Warm Gun in Your Hand," which was inspired by a magazine containing the phrase, which in turn parodied "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy," a ''[[Peanuts]]'' book written and illustrated by [[Charles Schulz]] in 1962.

==Inspiration==

According to Lennon, the title came from the cover of a gun magazine that producer [[George Martin]] showed him: "I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' It was a gun magazine. I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something."{{sfn|Wenner|2000|pp=114–115}}

"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is Paul McCartney's favourite song on the White Album. Although tensions were high among the band during the album's recording sessions, they reportedly collaborated as a close unit to work out the song's challenging rhythmic and meter issues, and consequently considered it one of the few true "Beatles" songs on the album.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}

==Structure==
Lennon said he "put together three sections of different songs ... it seemed to run through all the different kinds of rock music."{{sfn|Wenner|2000|pp=114–115}} The song begins with a brief lilting section ("She's not a girl who misses much..."). Drums, bass and distorted guitar are introduced as this portion of the song proceeds. The surreal imagery from this section is allegedly taken from an [[LSD|acid]] trip that Lennon and [[Derek Taylor]] experienced, with Taylor contributing the opening lines.{{sfn|Hertsgaard|1995|p=257}} After this, the song transitions into a Lennon song fragment called "I Need a Fix," built around an ominous-sounding guitar riff. This section drifts into the next section, a chorus of "Mother Superior jumped the gun."

The final section is a [[doo-wop]] send up, with the back-up of vocals of "bang, bang, shoot shoot." The song's multiple sections inspired [[Radiohead]]'s three part "[[Paranoid Android]]" on ''[[OK Computer]]''.{{sfn|Green Plastic Radiohead|2007}}

One of the most salient musical features of the song is its frequent shifts in [[time signature]]. Beginning in 4/4 time, the song has one measure of 6/4 time for the line "She's well acquainted..." before changing back to 4/4 time for the next line ("The man in the crowd..."). It then uses a measure of 5/4 followed by a measure of 4/4 for the line "a soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust". The subsequent guitar solo features a measure of 9/8 followed by two measures of 12/8. This pattern is repeated in the "I need a fix..." section. This gives way to alternating 9/8 and 10/8 measures in the "Mother Superior..." section before returning to 4/4 for the doo-wop style ending. The "When I hold you..." section slows down dramatically and employs one of the few examples of [[polyrhythm]] in the Beatles, where the drums play triplets while the rest of the instruments and background vocals use a duple rhythm.

==Interpretations==

Many different interpretations of the song have been offered down the years. It has been said that, in addition to the obvious reference mentioned above, the "Warm Gun" could also allude to Lennon's sexual desire for [[Yoko Ono]]{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}} and also to his well documented problems with [[heroin]] at the time of the recording of The White Album (in this case, the gun being a loaded syringe, although Lennon claimed to have snorted, rather than injected, heroin during the time that he used the drug). Another heroin reference in the song is the line "I need a fix, 'cuz I'm going down/Down to the bits that I left uptown."

==Credits==
*[[John Lennon]] - [[lead vocals]], [[backing vocals]], [[lead guitar]]
*[[Paul McCartney]] - [[bass guitar]], backing vocals
*[[George Harrison]] - [[Fuzzbox|fuzzed]] lead guitar, backing vocals
*[[Ringo Starr]] - [[drums]], [[tambourine]]

==Cover versions==
* [[Tori Amos]], on the album ''[[Strange Little Girls]]''
* [[Phish]], on the album ''[[Live Phish Volume 13]]''
* [[U2]], as a B-side of the single "[[Last Night on Earth]]"
* [[Alanis Morissette]], during the 1995-1996 Can't Not Tour
* [[Joe Anderson]] with [[Salma Hayek]], for the soundtrack of ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]''{{sfn|IMDB|2009}}
* [[Guns N' Roses]] on the [[Use Your Illusion Tour]].
* [[The Breeders]], on the album ''[[Pod (album)|Pod]]''
* [[Marc Ribot]], on the album ''[[Saints (Marc Ribot album)|Saints]]''
* [[Dream Theater]], circulating in live [[Bootleg recording|bootlegs]] online
* [[Hajime Chitose]], on the album Kataritsugu Koto
* [[World Party]], on the EP ''Thank You World''
* [[Gavin DeGraw]], at the White Concert, Denmark, December 2008
* [[Danger Mouse]], used as a sample in "[[The Grey Album]]"

==Other Uses==

It was featured in the Michael Moore documentary ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'' in a montage sequence and in the film ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'' in which Maxwell is being injected with morphine. Marilyn Manson's single "Get Your Gunn" contains a remix entitled "Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn," a reference to the line "Mother Superior jump the gun."

The song was not met warmly by American and British censors, being banned by the BBC for risk of damage since the 1966 "We're more popular than Jesus"-"[[Butcher Cover]]" fiasco.

The main drugs pusher in Irvine Welsh's ''Trainspotting'' is called / nicknamed Mother Superior.

==Notes==
{{Reflist|colwidth=22em}}

==References==
* {{cite web |publisher=Green Plastic Radiohead |title=Paranoid Android |url=http://www.greenplastic.com/lyrics/paranoidandroid.php |accessdate=2007-09-21 |ref={{SfnRef|Green Plastic Radiohead|2007}}}}
* {{cite book |last=Hertsgaard |first=Mark |year=1995 |title=A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles |publisher=[[Delacorte Press]] |location=New York |isbn=0-385-31377-2 |ref=harv}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/soundtrack |title=''Across the Universe'' soundtrack |publisher=[[Internet Movie Database|IMDB]] |accessdate=2009-09-24 |ref={{SfnRef|IMDB|2009}}}}
* {{cite book |last=Wenner |first=Jann S |authorlink=Jann Wenner |title=Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in [[Rolling Stone]] magazine) |year=2000 |publisher=Verso |location=London |isbn=1-85984-600-9 |ref=harv}}

I'm a Loser

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"'''I'm a Loser'''" is a song by [[The Beatles]] originally released on ''[[Beatles for Sale]]'' (on ''[[Beatles '65]]'' in the US). "I'm a Loser" was once considered for release as a single in the UK until Lennon wrote "[[I Feel Fine]]".

On the original pressings of ''Beatles for Sale'', the song was misprinted as "I'm a Loseer".

==Composition==

The song's refrain sings, "I'm a loser, and I've lost someone who's near to me. I'm a loser, and I'm not what I appear to be." The lyrics appear to be about a man who lost a woman; however Lennon later suggested that he constantly felt like a loser in life. Lennon would later compose self-oriented songs without using love as a metaphor.

Lennon hits a low G in the verses, a note usually reserved for bass singers. This is atypical of Lennon, considering he sang the bulk of his Beatles songs in a higher, tenor register. However, he also sang a low G in "[[Happiness Is a Warm Gun]]" and the backing vocals of "[[Love Me Do]]".

Singer [[Jackie DeShannon]] was on The Beatles' summer 1964 North American tour. She recalled that Lennon was writing this song on the plane during the tour. According to music critic [[Richie Unterberger]], "Musically, 'I'm a Loser' is also notable for being perhaps the first Beatles song to directly reflect the influence of [[Bob Dylan]], thus nudging folk and rock a little closer together toward the folk-rock explosion of the following year."{{sfn|Unterberger|2009}}

==Recording and release==

The Beatles recorded this song on 14 August 1964, the same day as "[[Mr. Moonlight]]" and "[[Leave My Kitten Alone]]". It was recorded in eight takes with no overdubs.{{sfn|The Beatles Bible|2009}}

It was released four months after it was recorded, but beforehand, it was previewed on BBC Radio on 17 August, along with three other songs from ''[[Beatles for Sale]]'' and also the "[[I Feel Fine]]"/"[[She's a Woman]]" single.{{sfn|The Beatles Bible|2009}}

==Personnel==
*[[John Lennon]] – [[Lead vocalist|vocal]], [[Acoustic guitar|acoustic]] [[rhythm guitar]], [[harmonica]]
*[[Paul McCartney]] – [[Backing vocalist|harmony vocal]], [[Bass guitar|bass]]
*[[George Harrison]] – [[lead guitar]]
*[[Ringo Starr]] – [[Drum kit|drums]], [[tambourine]]
:Personnel per [[Ian MacDonald]]{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=124}}

==Covers==

This song was covered by the [[Lost Dogs]] on their 1993 album, ''[[Little Red Riding Hood (album)|Little Red Riding Hood]]''. In 2004 [[The Punkles]] did a cover of this song on their third album ''Pistol''. The bands [[Sum 41]] and [[Eels (band)|Eels]] have also covered it live in concert, the latter releasing it on ''[[Sixteen Tons (Ten Songs)]]''. [[Doug Kershaw]] covered the song on his 1977 album ''Flip, Flop, and Fly.''

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite web
|work=The Beatles Bible
|year=2009
|title=I'm a Loser
|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/im-a-loser/
|accessdate=2009-04-14
|ref={{SfnRef|The Beatles Bible|2009}}}}
* {{cite book
|last=MacDonald
|first=Ian
|year=2005
|authorlink=Ian MacDonald
|title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties
|publisher=Pimlico (Rand)
|edition=Second Revised
|location=London
|isbn=1-844-13828-3
|ref=harv}}
* {{cite web
|last=Unterberger
|first=Richie
|year=2009
|authorlink=Richie Unterberger
|title=Review of "I'm a Loser"
|publisher=[[allmusic]]
|url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:wvfexqqkldke
|accessdate=2009-09-25
|ref=harv}}

==External links==
* {{noteson|http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ial.shtml|I'm a Loser}}

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*[[1966]]-[[Capitol Records]] pulls the original [[Yesterday and Today]] "[[butcher cover]]" from shelves in the [[US]].
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1933

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*[[18 February]]- [[Yoko Ono]] is born in [[Tokyo, Japan]].

The Early Beatles

Hailey C. Shannon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:41:04 GMT

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'''''The Early Beatles''''' is the [[The Beatles]]' sixth release on [[Capitol Records]], and their seventh album for the American market, released in [[Monaural|mono]] (catalogue number T 2309) and [[stereo]] (ST 2309). The album resembles more of an early compilation because all of the tracks had previously been featured on the early 1964 [[Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay]] release ''[[Introducing... The Beatles]].'' The front cover photo for this album is the same as the back cover photo for the British LP ''[[Beatles for Sale]]''. This album is available on [[compact disc]] as part of ''[[The Capitol Albums, Volume 2]]'' [[box set]] (catalogue number CDP 0946 3 57498 2 3.)

Vee-Jay had gained American rights to the tracks before the group became popular in America (because Capitol, the US division of [[EMI]] which owns The Beatles' record label [[Parlophone]], had refused to release the group's records), and their releases had initially failed to chart. But after the group became popular, Vee-Jay, still having the rights to the early material, were able to re-release them in America and this time the records sold in the millions. Capitol tried to stop Vee Jay from releasing the tracks, but were not successful. But by 1965, Capitol was finally able to get the American distribution rights from Vee-Jay, who had decided to return to their core business of selling [[R&B]] records.

Though Vee-Jay had compiled four Beatles albums from these sessions (all of which charted), when released on Capitol, the album still sold and charted inside the top 50.

==Track listing==
The album includes eleven of the fourteen tracks from the group's first British LP ''[[Please Please Me]]''. Tracks not included are: "[[I Saw Her Standing There]]" (included on ''[[Meet the Beatles!]]''), "[[Misery (The Beatles song)|Misery]]", and "[[There's a Place]]". The latter two tracks would finally get a Capitol LP release in 1980 in the American version of the ''[[Rarities (American Beatles compilation)|Rarities]]'' album. Two other tracks originally released by Vee-Jay in America but also not included in this album were "[[From Me To You]]" ( which wasn't released on an LP in America until the post breakup compilation "[[1962-1966]]" and "[[Thank You Girl]], which Capitol had already released on the LP "[[The Beatles Second Album]]"

===Side one===
#"[[Love Me Do]]" ([[John Lennon]]/[[Paul McCartney]])
#"[[Twist and Shout]]" ([[Phil Medley]] and [[Bert Russell]])
#"[[Anna (Go to Him)]]" ([[Arthur Alexander]])
#"[[Chains (song)|Chains]]" ([[Gerry Goffin]] and [[Carole King]])
#"[[Boys (The Shirelles song)|Boys]]" ([[Luther Dixon]] and [[Wes Farrell]])
#"[[Ask Me Why]]" (Lennon/McCartney)

===Side two===
#"[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]" (Lennon/McCartney)
#"[[P.S. I Love You (1962 song)|P.S. I Love You]]" (Lennon/McCartney)
#"[[Baby It's You]]" ([[Burt Bacharach]], [[Hal David]], and [[Luther Dixon|Barney Williams]])
#"[[A Taste of Honey (song)|A Taste of Honey]]" ([[Ric Marlow]] and [[Bobby Scott (musician)|Bobby Scott]])
#"[[Do You Want to Know a Secret]]?" (Lennon/McCartney)

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'''''Anthology 2''''' is a [[compilation album]] by [[The Beatles]], released on [[Apple Records]] in March of 1996. It is the second of a three-volume collection, all of which tie-in with the televised special ''[[The Beatles Anthology]]'', and contains "[[Real Love (John Lennon song)|Real Love]]," the second of the two recordings that reunited the Beatles by means of [[magnetic tape]]. Like its predecessor it topped the [[Billboard 200]] album chart, and has been certified [[platinum album|2× Platinum]] by the [[RIAA]].

==Content==
''Anthology 2'' features [[outtakes]], rarities, and alternative performances from the [[1965]] [[recording session|sessions]] for ''[[Help! (album)|Help!]]'' to sessions just prior to their [[The Beatles in 1968|trip to India]] in February of [[1968]]. It starts off with the second new Beatles track, "Real Love," as with "[[Free As A Bird]]" again based on a [[demo (music)|demo]] made by [[John Lennon]] and given to [[Paul McCartney]] by Lennon's widow, [[Yoko Ono]]. The three surviving Beatles added [[guitars]], [[bass guitar|bass]], [[drum kit|drums]], [[percussion]], and [[backing vocals]], but unlike with the previous song did not re-work either lyric or music, "Real Love" remaining solely credited to Lennon.

Disc one contains three unreleased compositions, one being an [[instrumental]] entitled "[[12-Bar Original]]" recorded for ''[[Rubber Soul]]'' but subsequently unused. Two other songs recorded for ''Help!'', "[[If You've Got Trouble]]" and "[[That Means a Lot]]," were abandoned and never returned to again by the band. The former was originally slated to be the usual vocal spot for [[Ringo Starr]] on ''Help!'', and the latter was eventually given to singer [[P.J. Proby]]. The version of "[[Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby]]" from the group's famed August of 1965 show at [[Shea Stadium]] but left off [[The Beatles at Shea Stadium|the documentary]] appears here for the first time. "[[Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)]]" and "[[I'm Looking Through You]]" appear in early versions before they were remade in the forms known from their release on ''Rubber Soul''.

Disc two contains work-in-progress versions of tracks from ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' and ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]''. "[[Your Mother Should Know]]" also appears in an early version different from the known release, and tracks one and 15 are demo recordings respectively by Lennon and McCartney. The take of "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]" that made up the first minute of the released record appears in its entirety on track three. Although recorded or started during this period, "[[Only a Northern Song]]," "[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]," and "[[Across the Universe]]" would not see release until years later, in [[1969]] and [[1970]].

One track that remains officially unreleased from this time, "[[Carnival of Light]]," was vetoed off this set by [[George Harrison]].<ref>[http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/carnival-of-light/2/ Carnival of Light - The Beatles Bible]</ref>

==Reception==
Like its predecessor, ''[[Anthology 1]]'', ''Anthology 2'' sold well. In the [[United States]], it debuted at #1, selling 442,000 copies the first week. The next week, it fell to #2, selling 201,000 copies, being replaced by [[Alanis Morissette]]'s ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]''. The album spent two more weeks on the Top 10, at #4 and then #8, remaining for 22 consecutive weeks on the [[Billboard 200]] and then re-entering the charts twice, marking a #96 reach during the [[Christmas]] season of 1996. In all, the album spent 37 weeks on the charts (eight more than ''Anthology 1'') and sold 1,707,000 copies. In the [[United Kingdom]], the success was similar. ''Anthology 1'' debuted at #2 album when released in 1995; but its successor reached #1, where it remained for one week. The album spent a total of 13 weeks on the [[UK Album Chart]].

==Track listing==
''All songs written by [[Lennon/McCartney]] and in [[stereophonic|stereo]] except where noted.''

===Disc one===
#"[[Real Love (John Lennon song)|Real Love]]" (Lennon) – 3:54
#* ''Lennon demo recorded at [[The Dakota]], [[1979]]; Beatles version recorded February, [[1995]]''
#"[[Yes It Is]]" (takes 2 & 14) – 1:50
#* ''Recorded at [[Abbey Road Studios]], [[London]], [[February 16]], [[1965 in music|1965]]''
#"[[I'm Down]]" (take 1) – 2:53
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[June 14]], 1965''
#"[[You've Got to Hide Your Love Away]]" (takes 1, 2 & 5) [mono] – 2:45
#"[[If You've Got Trouble]]" (take 1) – 2:48
#* ''Tracks 4-5 recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[February 18]], 1965''
#"[[That Means a Lot]]" (take 1) – 2:27
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[February 20]], 1965''
#"[[Yesterday (song)|Yesterday]]" (take 1) – 2:34
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, June 14, 1965''
#"[[It's Only Love]]" (takes 2 & 3) [mono] – 1:59
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[June 15]], 1965''
#"[[I Feel Fine]]" [mono] – 2:16
#"[[Ticket to Ride]]" [mono] – 2:45
#"Yesterday" [mono] – 2:43
#"[[Help! (song)|Help!]]" [mono] – 2:55
#* ''Tracks 9-12 recorded live at [[Syndicate Blackpool|ABC Theatre]], [[Blackpool]], on [[August 1]], 1965 for [[Blackpool Night Out]] television broadcast
#"[[Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby]]" ([[Carl Perkins]]) [mono] – 2:45
#* ''Recorded live at [[Shea Stadium]], [[Queens]], [[New York]], [[August 15]], 1965
#"[[Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)]]" (take 1) – 1:59
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[October 12]], 1965''
#"[[I'm Looking Through You]]" (take 1) – 2:54
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[October 24]], 1965''
#"[[12-Bar Original]]" (edited take 2) (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey) – 2:55
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[November 4]], 1965''
#"[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]" (take 1) – 3:14
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[April 6]], [[1966 in music|1966]]''
#"[[Got to Get You Into My Life]]" (take 5) [mono] – 2:54
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[April 7]], 1966''
#"[[And Your Bird Can Sing]]" (take 2) – 2:13
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[April 20]], 1966''
#"[[Taxman]]" (take 11) (Harrison) – 2:32
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[April 21]], 1966''
#"[[Eleanor Rigby]]" (take 14) – 2:06
#* ''Backing [[string section]] without vocals; recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[April 28]], 1966''
#"[[I'm Only Sleeping]]" (Rehearsal) [mono] – 0:41
#"I'm Only Sleeping" (take 1) [mono] – 2:59
#* ''Tracks 22-23 recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[April 29]], 1966''
#"[[Rock and Roll Music]]" ([[Chuck Berry]]) [mono] – 1:39
#"[[She's a Woman|She's A Woman]]" [mono] – 2:55
#* ''Tracks 24-25 recorded live at [[Nippon Budokan Hall]], [[Tokyo]], [[June 30]], 1966

===Disc two===
#"[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]" (demo sequence) [mono] – 1:42
#* ''Lennon demo recorded at 'Kenwood', [[Weybridge]], November 1966
#"Strawberry Fields Forever" (take 1) – 2:35
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[November 24]], 1966''
#"Strawberry Fields Forever" (take 7 & edit piece) [mono] – 4:14
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, November 24 and [[December 9]], 1966''
#"[[Penny Lane]]" (take 9 horn overdub) – 3:13
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[December 29]], 1966 through [[January 17]], [[1967 in music|1967]]''
#"[[A Day in the Life]]" (takes 1, 2, 6 & orchestra) – 5:05
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[January 19]] & [[January 20|20]], and [[February 10]], 1967''
#"[[Good Morning Good Morning]]" (take 8) – 2:40
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[February 8]] & [[February 16|16]], 1967''
#"[[Only a Northern Song]]" (takes 3 & 12) (Harrison) – 2:44
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[February 13]] & [[February 14|14]], and [[April 20]], 1967''
#"[[Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!]]" (takes 1 & 2) – 1:05
#"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (take 7 & effects tape) – 2:34
#* ''Tracks 8-9 composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[February 17]] & [[February 20|20]], 1967''
#"[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]" (takes 6, 7 & 8) – 3:06
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[March 1]] & [[March 2|2]], 1967''
#"[[Within You Without You]]" (Harrison) – 5:27
#* ''[[Instrumental]] backing track; composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[March 15]] through [[April 3]], 1967''
#"[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)]]" (take 5) [mono] – 1:27
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[April 1]], 1967''
#"[[You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]]" – 5:43
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[May 17]] through [[April 30]], [[1969 in music|1969]]''
#"[[I Am the Walrus]]" (take 16) – 4:02
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[September 3]], 1967''
#"[[The Fool on the Hill]]" [mono] – 2:48
#* ''McCartney demo recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[September 6]], 1967''
#"[[Your Mother Should Know]]" (take 27) – 3:02
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[September 16]], 1967''
#"The Fool on the Hill" (take 4) – 3:45
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[September 25]], 1967''
#"[[Hello, Goodbye]]" (take 16 and overdubs) – 3:18
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[October 2]] & [[October 19|19]], 1967''
#"[[Lady Madonna]]" (takes 3 & 4) – 2:22
#* ''Composite of takes recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, [[February 3]] & [[February 6|6]], [[1968 in music|1968]]''
#"[[Across the Universe]]" (take 2) – 3:29
#* ''Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, February 4, 1968''

==Chart positions==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!Year
!Chart
!Position
|-
|1996
|align="left"|The Billboard 200
|1<ref>{{cite web |title=Anthology 2 - The Beatles |url=http://www.billboard.com/album/the-beatles/anthology-2/183388#/album/the-beatles/anthology-2/183388 |publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date= |accessdate=2009-10-17}}</ref>
|}

==Release history==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%"
! Country
! Date
! Label
! Format
! Catalog
|-
|rowspan="3"| [[United Kingdom]]
|rowspan="3"| 1996-03-18
|rowspan="3"| [[Apple Records|Apple]], [[EMI]]
|[[Gramophone record|Triple vinyl LP]]
|PCSP728 / 72438 34448 1 6
|-
|[[Compact disc|Double CD]]
|CDPCSP728 / 7243 8 34448 2 3
|-
|Cassette
|TCPCSP728
|-
|rowspan="2"| [[United States]]
|rowspan="2"| 1996-03-19
|rowspan="2"| Apple, [[Capitol Records|Capitol]], EMI
|Triple vinyl LP
|CDP 7243 8 34448 1 6
|-
|Double CD
|CDP 7243 8 34448 2 3
|-
|}

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pcsp728.html ''Anthology 2''] at Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages

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[[1997 ]]- The U.S. premiere of Paul's "[[Standing Stone]]" was played in [[Carnegie Hall]] by St. Luke's Orchestra. <br /><br />[[2001 ]]- Jools Holland's album "Small World Big Band" was released. George's "[[Horse to the Water]]" appeared on the album. <br /><br />[[2002]] - George's final album "[[Brainwashed]]" is released.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

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'''The Ed Sullivan show''' was a long-running varitey/entertainment program on CBS television in the United States, hosted by [[Ed Sullivan]], which ran from [[1948]] to [[1971]]. The Beatles made 5 live apperences on the show, these are among the program's best remembered and most watched episodes.

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	==About==		==About==
-	The album project had originally been titled Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but after it was discovered that Dr. Pepper was a trademarked name for an American soft drink, The Beatles changed the title to Sgt. Pepper's... ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' was recorded after the band stopped touring. The album's songs were each designed so that they could not be played live. From that point on the Beatles became an entirely studio-based band. For the first time in their careers, the band had more than ample time with which to prepare their next record. As EMI's premier act and Britain's most successful pop group they had almost unlimited access to the state of the art technology of Abbey Road Studios. All four band members had already developed a preference for long, late night sessions, although they were still extremely efficient and highly disciplined in their studio habits. All of The Beatles experimented with new sounds while recording the album, so each song is very different. It is rumored that drugs took a big part while the band was making the album. The song "[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]" was said to be about LSD, but [[John Lennon]] denied this, claiming it was about a drawing his son [[Julian Lennon]] had drawn.	+	The album project had originally been titled Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but after it was discovered that Dr. Pepper was a trademarked name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Pepper an American soft drink], The Beatles changed the title to Sgt. Pepper's... ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' was recorded after the band stopped touring. The album's songs were each designed so that they could not be played live. From that point on the Beatles became an entirely studio-based band. For the first time in their careers, the band had more than ample time with which to prepare their next record. As EMI's premier act and Britain's most successful pop group they had almost unlimited access to the state of the art technology of Abbey Road Studios. All four band members had already developed a preference for long, late night sessions, although they were still extremely efficient and highly disciplined in their studio habits. All of The Beatles experimented with new sounds while recording the album, so each song is very different. It is rumored that drugs took a big part while the band was making the album. The song "[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]" was said to be about LSD, but [[John Lennon]] denied this, claiming it was about a drawing his son [[Julian Lennon]] had drawn.

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Nowhere Man

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-	'''Nowhere Man''' is a song written mostly by [[John Lennon]], credited [[Lennon/McCartney]]. I appeared on the animated movie Yellow Submarine.	+	'''Nowhere Man''' is a song written mostly by [[John Lennon]], credited [[Lennon/McCartney]]. It appeared on [[Rubber Soul]] and in the animated movie [[Yellow Submarine.]]

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Heya, just happened in.

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Eleanor Rigby

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-	"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by [[The Beatles]], originally released on the 1966 album [[Revolver]]. The song was primarily written by [[Paul McCartney]], although [[John Lennon]] claimed that "the first verse was his and the rest are basically mine." Pete Shotton, a close friend of Lennon who was present at the time, said "Though John (whose memory could be extremely erratic) was to take credit, in one of his last interviews, for most of the lyrics, my own recollection is that 'Eleanor Rigby' was one 'Lennon-McCartney' classic in which John's contribution was virtually nil." McCartney also says that Lennon helped on about "half a line." It remains one of The Beatles' most recognizable and unique songs, with a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin, and striking lyrics about loneliness. The song continued the transformation of the group, started in Rubber Soul, from a mainly pop-oriented act to a more serious and experimental studio band.	+	"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by [[The Beatles]], originally released on the 1966 album [[Revolver]]. The song was primarily written by [[Paul McCartney]], although [[John Lennon]] claimed that "the first verse was his and the rest are basically mine." Pete Shotton, a close friend of Lennon who was present at the time, said "Though John (whose memory could be extremely erratic) was to take credit, in one of his last interviews, for most of the lyrics, my own recollection is that 'Eleanor Rigby' was one 'Lennon-McCartney' classic in which John's contribution was virtually nil." McCartney also says that Lennon helped on about "half a line." It remains one of The Beatles' most recognizable and unique songs, with a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin, and striking lyrics about loneliness. The song continued the transformation of the group, started in Rubber Soul, from a mainly pop-oriented act to a more serious and experimental studio band. It appeared in the Yellow Submarine animated movie.

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	The Beatles finished off the song in the music room of John Lennon's home at Kenwood. [[John Lennon]], [[George Harrison]], [[Ringo Starr]], and their friend Pete Shotton all listened to McCartney play his song through and contributed ideas. Someone suggested introducing a romance into the story, but this was rejected because it made the story too complicated. Starr contributed the line "writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear " and suggested making "Father McCartney" darn his socks, which McCartney liked, and Harrison came up with the line "Ah, look at all the lonely people". Shotton then suggested that McCartney change the name of the priest, in case listeners mistook the fictional character in the song for McCartney's own father. McCartney couldn't decide how to end the song, and Shotton finally suggested that the two lonely people come together too late as Father McKenzie conducts Eleanor Rigby's funeral. At the time, Lennon rejected the idea out of hand, but McCartney said nothing and used the idea to finish off the song, later acknowledging Shotton's help.		The Beatles finished off the song in the music room of John Lennon's home at Kenwood. [[John Lennon]], [[George Harrison]], [[Ringo Starr]], and their friend Pete Shotton all listened to McCartney play his song through and contributed ideas. Someone suggested introducing a romance into the story, but this was rejected because it made the story too complicated. Starr contributed the line "writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear " and suggested making "Father McCartney" darn his socks, which McCartney liked, and Harrison came up with the line "Ah, look at all the lonely people". Shotton then suggested that McCartney change the name of the priest, in case listeners mistook the fictional character in the song for McCartney's own father. McCartney couldn't decide how to end the song, and Shotton finally suggested that the two lonely people come together too late as Father McKenzie conducts Eleanor Rigby's funeral. At the time, Lennon rejected the idea out of hand, but McCartney said nothing and used the idea to finish off the song, later acknowledging Shotton's help.

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Don't Let Me Down

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	"''Don't Let Me Down''" is a love song by [[The Beatles]]. It is one of four Beatles songs credited to the Beatles with [[Billy Preston]]. It first appeared on the B-side of the ''[[Get Back]]'' single on April 11, [[1969]]. it has been covered numerous times, and appeared in the [[2007]] film ''[[Across The Universe (film)\|Across the Universe]]''.		"''Don't Let Me Down''" is a love song by [[The Beatles]]. It is one of four Beatles songs credited to the Beatles with [[Billy Preston]]. It first appeared on the B-side of the ''[[Get Back]]'' single on April 11, [[1969]]. it has been covered numerous times, and appeared in the [[2007]] film ''[[Across The Universe (film)\|Across the Universe]]''.
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	==Credits==		==Credits==
-	[[John Lennon]] – lead vocals and rhythm guitar <br/>	+	[[John Lennon]] – lead vocals and rhythm guitar <br />
-	[[Paul McCartney]] – bass guitar and backing vocals<br/>	+	[[Paul McCartney]] – bass guitar and backing vocals<br />
-	[[George Harrison]] – lead guitar and backing vocals<br/>	+	[[George Harrison]] – lead guitar and backing vocals<br />
-	[[Ringo Starr]] – drums<br/>	+	[[Ringo Starr]] – drums<br />
-	[[Billy Preston]] – organ and electric piano<br/>	+	[[Billy Preston]] – organ and electric piano<br />

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Drive My Car

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-	The song was written by [[Paul McCartney]], in an attempt to soothe [[Julian Lennon]], [[John Lennon]]'s son, after his father and mother, John's first wife [[Cynthia Lennon\|Cynthia]], got a divorce. McCartney thought it up in his car while driving to Lennon's house to babysit his son Julian. "[[Revolution]]" was released as its B-side.	+	The song was written by [[Paul McCartney]], in an attempt to soothe [[Julian Lennon]], [[John Lennon]]'s son, after his father and mother, John's first wife [[Cynthia Lennon\|Cynthia]], got a divorce. McCartney thought it up in his car while driving to Lennon's house to babysit his son Julian. "[[Revolution]]" was released as its B-side.
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Yellow Submarine (song)

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	In the town where I was born, <br />Lived a man who sailed the sea, <br />And he told us of his life, <br />In the land of submarines. <br /><br />So we sailed on to the sun, <br />Till we found the sea of green, <br />And we lived beneath the waves, <br />In our yellow submarine. <br /><br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br /><br />And our friends are all aboard, <br />Many more of them live next door, <br />And the band begins to play. <br /><br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br /><br />As we live a life of ease, <br />Everyone of us has all we need, <br />Sky of blue and sea of green, <br />In our yellow submarine. <br /><br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.		In the town where I was born, <br />Lived a man who sailed the sea, <br />And he told us of his life, <br />In the land of submarines. <br /><br />So we sailed on to the sun, <br />Till we found the sea of green, <br />And we lived beneath the waves, <br />In our yellow submarine. <br /><br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br /><br />And our friends are all aboard, <br />Many more of them live next door, <br />And the band begins to play. <br /><br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br /><br />As we live a life of ease, <br />Everyone of us has all we need, <br />Sky of blue and sea of green, <br />In our yellow submarine. <br /><br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, <br />We all live in a yellow submarine, <br />Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

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I Me Mine

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	It is also the title of George Harrison's autobiography, published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by [[Genesis Publications]]. Limited to 2,000 signed copies, I Me Mine also featured a foreword by Derek Taylor. The Genesis limited edition sold out soon after publication, and was subsequently published in hardback and paperback in black ink only by Simon and Schuster in New York and by W H Allen in London. I Me Mine was re-published, with a new Foreword from Olivia Harrison, in 2002.		It is also the title of George Harrison's autobiography, published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by [[Genesis Publications]]. Limited to 2,000 signed copies, I Me Mine also featured a foreword by Derek Taylor. The Genesis limited edition sold out soon after publication, and was subsequently published in hardback and paperback in black ink only by Simon and Schuster in New York and by W H Allen in London. I Me Mine was re-published, with a new Foreword from Olivia Harrison, in 2002.
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Fixing a Hole

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	In another version of the story, [[John Lennon]] arrived at the studio, found the man hanging around the front door, and it was Lennon who invited him in.		In another version of the story, [[John Lennon]] arrived at the studio, found the man hanging around the front door, and it was Lennon who invited him in.
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Nowhere Man

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-	'''Nowhere Man''' is a song written mostly by [[John Lennon]], credited [[Lennon/McCartney]].	+	'''Nowhere Man''' is a song written mostly by [[John Lennon]], credited [[Lennon/McCartney]]. I appeared on the animated movie Yellow Submarine.

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		+	He's a real nowhere man,<br />Sitting in his Nowhere Land,<br />Making all his nowhere plans<br />for nobody.<br /><br />Doesn't have a point of view,<br />Knows not where he's going to,<br />Isn't he a bit like you and me?<br /><br />Nowhere Man please listen,<br />You don't know what you're missing,<br />Nowhere Man,the world is at your command!<br /><br />(lead guitar)<br /><br />He's as blind as he can be,<br />Just sees what he wants to see,<br />Nowhere Man can you see me at all?<br /><br />Nowhere Man, don't worry,<br />Take your time, don't hurry,<br />Leave it all till somebody else<br />lends you a hand!<br /><br />Doesn't have a point of view,<br />Knows not where he's going to,<br />Isn't he a bit like you and me?<br /><br />Nowhere Man please listen,<br />you don't know what you're missing<br />Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!<br /><br />He's a real Nowhere Man,<br />Sitting in his Nowhere Land,<br />Making all his nowhere plans<br />for nobody.<br />Making all his nowhere plans<br />for nobody.<br />Making all his nowhere plans<br />for nobody!

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Paperback Writer

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	"'''Paperback Writer'''" is a pop rock song credited to [[Lennon/McCartney]] and was released by [[The Beatles]] on the A-side of their eleventh single. It went to the number one spot in the United States, Britain, West Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. This was the first UK Beatles single that was not a love song (though "[[Nowhere Man]]", which was a single in the U.S., was their first album song released with that distinction). On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, "Paperback Writer"'s two-week stay at number one was interrupted by Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night".		"'''Paperback Writer'''" is a pop rock song credited to [[Lennon/McCartney]] and was released by [[The Beatles]] on the A-side of their eleventh single. It went to the number one spot in the United States, Britain, West Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. This was the first UK Beatles single that was not a love song (though "[[Nowhere Man]]", which was a single in the U.S., was their first album song released with that distinction). On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, "Paperback Writer"'s two-week stay at number one was interrupted by Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night".