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The basic backing track was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes on 6 May 1969. Recording ran from 3 pm to 4 am the next morning. [8] McCartney sang lead and played piano, Lennon played an Epiphone Casino guitar, George Harrison played a Fender Telecaster guitar fed through a Leslie speaker, and Ringo Starr played drums. [9]
On 23 February while the Beatles filmed scenes for Help! in The Bahamas, engineers Smith and Malcolm Davies mixed the song for stereo twice, preferring the second mix over the first. [8] On 30 March the Beatles recorded more overdubs onto the song. [9] An electric piano and Harrison's original guitar solo were erased from the original tape.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for ...
The group returned to take 3 of "Only a Northern Song" on 20 April, a day when members of the Yellow Submarine production team visited them in the studio. [57] The band started working on the song less than 45 minutes after completing the final mixing on Sgt. Pepper, demonstrating what Lewisohn terms a "tremendous appetite" to continue recording.
Lennon wrote the song about his love for Yoko Ono. [4] It begins in 6 8 time, with an arpeggio guitar theme in D minor, progressing through E 7(♭ 9) and B ♭ 7 before cadencing on an A augmented chord. In this chord sequence, the F note is a drone. The bass and lead guitar ascend and descend with a riff derived from the D minor scale.
A simple twelve-bar blues number extended into fourteen-bars, [10] the song uses only the chords I, IV and V. [9] One of the few Beatles songs to feature a simple verse form, [11] musicologist Alan W. Pollack suggests that, in the context of the Beatles' 1965 compositions, its simple format is stylistically regressive. [9]
Instead, it was designed to trick fans into thinking their songs meant more than they actually do." [9] For the 50th-anniversary editions of The Beatles, a music video was created by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney. [10] The song served as a namesake for the 2022 film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and is featured in the film's end-credits.
"Why Worry?" (Clannad song), a 1991 single "Why Worry Blues" by Jack Prentice (words) and Bud Shepard, George Webb and Vic Sell (music) for the silent film Why Worry? "Why Worry", a 1951 song with words by John Sexton and music by Ralph Edwards, recorded by Billy Cotton Band "Why Worry", a 1952 song by the Andrews Sisters