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[In "Eleanor Rigby", the Beatles are] asking where all the lonely people come from and where they all belong as if they really want to know. Their capacity for fun has been evident since the beginning; their capacity for pity is something new and is a major reason for calling them artists. [96] –
"She Said She Said" is in the key of B ♭ Mixolydian, based on three chords: B ♭ (I), A ♭ (♭ VII), and E ♭ (IV). [37] The key centre shifts to E ♭ major during the bridge sections by means of an F minor (v) chord, a pivot chord that the Beatles had used to modulate to the subdominant before on "From Me to You" and "I Want to Hold ...
Between 1963 and 1966, the Beatles' songs were released on different albums in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK, 30 songs were released as non-album singles, while appearing on numerous albums in the US. Since the remastering of the band's catalogue on CDs in the 1980s, the Beatles have a primary "core catalogue" of 14 albums ...
The use of dual, harmonised lead guitar parts on the track was still in its infancy in 1966. The editors of Guitar World comment that this type of pop-rock arrangement would later be popularised by Southern rock bands such as the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, as well as hard rock and metal acts such as Thin Lizzy, Boston and Iron ...
In 1986, "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby" was reissued in the UK as part of EMI's twentieth anniversary of each of the Beatles' singles and peaked at number 63 on the UK Singles Chart. [171] The 2015 edition of 1 and the expanded 1+ box set includes a video clip for the song, compiled from footage from the 1968 animated film. [ 172 ]
In December 1965, the Beatles' Rubber Soul album was released to wide critical acclaim. [2] According to author David Howard, the limits of pop music "had been raised into the stratosphere" by the release, resulting in a shift in focus away from singles to creating albums of consistently high quality. [3]
The group's debut studio album, Just Zoot, was released in July 1970 and reached number 12 on the Australian Kent Music Report. In August 1970, Zoot finished second to the Flying Circus at the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds competition. [1] [12] In December 1970, Zoot released a hard rock cover of the Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby".
The album includes the song "A Hard Day's Night", with its distinctive opening chord, [4] and "Can't Buy Me Love", both transatlantic number-one singles for the band. Several songs feature George Harrison playing a Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar, with its sound influencing the Byrds and other groups in the emerging folk rock and jangle ...