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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 ...
The line-up was Lennon on acoustic 12-string guitar, Harrison on lead guitar, Paul McCartney on bass, and Ringo Starr on drums. [8] Lennon sang an off-mike guide vocal on his song, while McCartney did the same on "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window". [8] During the guitar solo on "Polythene Pam", Lennon shouted out words of encouragement ...
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 ...
The song's basic track features McCartney singing and playing bass, George Harrison on electric guitar and Ringo Starr on drums. On the band's first take, the song did not yet have a definitive ending, McCartney telling Harrison and Starr after the last chorus to "keep it going". [14] [note 1] The final attempt – take seven – was marked ...
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 ...
This is a list of cover versions by music artists who have recorded one or more songs written and originally recorded by English rock band The Beatles.Many albums have been created in dedication to the group, including film soundtracks, such as I Am Sam (2001) and Across the Universe (2007) and commemorative albums such as Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988) and This Bird Has Flown (2005).
Whereas you have a lot of bass players playing the root of the guitar chord, and that’s your song, [here] I’m playing one line, he’s playing a contradictory line, and it creates this cacophony.
Something New is an album by English rock band the Beatles, released in 1964 for the North American market only. The album is the third Capitol LP release and fifth American album release overall by the band, following the United Artists release of A Hard Day's Night .