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"Something" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 studio album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist.Together with his second contribution to Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun", it is widely viewed by music historians as having marked Harrison's ascendancy as a composer to the level of the Beatles' principal songwriters, John Lennon and ...
He purchased the guitar in Hamburg in its original natural finish and used the guitar extensively throughout the Cavern Club performances. [1] In early 1963 he sent the guitar off to be refinished in its more popular black finish. This is the way the guitar appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show performance in February 1964. Shortly thereafter, he ...
Fender Bass VI: The bass guitar that he and George Harrison would use when Paul McCartney would play piano or guitar. Used by John Lennon on The Beatles and Let It Be, and by George Harrison on The Beatles and Abbey Road. [16] Vox Guitorgan, Lennon had received it as a gift from Dick Denny, the inventor of the instrument. Lennon eventually gave ...
By the mid-1960s, the Beatles became interested in tape loops and found sounds. [36] [37] Early examples of the group sampling existing recordings include loops on "Revolution 9" [37] (the repetitive "number nine" is from a Royal Academy of Music examination tape, some chatter is from a conversation between George Martin and Apple office manager Alistair Taylor, and a chord from a recording of ...
"She Said She Said" was included on the Beatles' 2012 iTunes compilation Tomorrow Never Knows, which the band's website described as a collection of "the Beatles' most influential rock songs". [84] In 2018, the music staff of Time Out London ranked "She Said She Said" at number 19 on their list of the best Beatles songs. [85]
Lennon (on guitar): "Go a bit faster, Ringo." McCartney (on drums): "OK, George!" [10] In choosing to collaborate on the song, Lennon and McCartney set aside the antagonism that existed between them during a period when McCartney was outvoted in the Beatles' choice of a new manager for their failing business enterprise, Apple Corps. [14]
2. "Come and Get It" by Badfinger. 1969 Written and produced by Paul McCartney, this song became a top 10 hit for Badfinger, a band signed to the Beatles’ Apple label.
"The End" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was composed by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.It was the last song recorded collectively by all four Beatles, [2] and is the final song of the medley that constitutes the majority of side two of the album.