I read the news today about a luck man who made the grade. Though the news was rather sad, I just had to laugh.
John Lennon had a song about a news item about the death of Tara Brown and Paul had an unfinished song that he collaborated with John to write "A Day In the Life."
A Day in the Life was banned by the BBC due to references of drug use. The Beatles denied the drug references despite the fact that Paul had just admitted to have taken LSD, a drug that all four Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein had taken.
Anthology version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1s_O8QrNmI&feature=PlayList&p=FA4069C735E88EE5&playnext_from=PL&index=71
Promotional film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBJj10rYmdg&feature=related
Home movies with Anthology version Day in the Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfrvY8zAL4A&feature=PlayList&p=FA4069C735E88EE5&playnext_from=PL&index=111
Paul, John and George Martin talk about Day in the Life
If you have your dog listen closely the dog can hear a dog whistle dubbed in by John Lennon as a joke. Rare Beatles memorabilia collectors can find the Sgt Pepper album that contains the inner groove track following A Day in the Life that was later included on the compact disc release.
John Lennon had stated that he took over a thousand acid trips in his lifetime, many of which were taken drug the writing and production the Sgt Pepper album. The Beatles had been smoking marijuana since Bob Dylan introduced pot to the band in 1964. Do you believe John and Paul when they say that this song has absolutely nothing to do with drug use?
Here is the Rock Band version
In this song it’s a drug reference. In She’s a Woman it’s a sexual reference.
it’s actually very interesting because if anything john and paul kind of knew that they were putting a potential drug reference into the song!
if you watch beatles anthology number 6,paul was talking about the song and he says that they actually knew that it could be taken as a drug reference!
from paul in anthology 6:"one of the things i remember about this song(a day in the life) was that it was a gorgeous song and learned the chords off of him,we developed it and then we got to the one bit which we didn’t have yet ‘i love to turn you on’ and we looked at each other and said:’we do realize what we’re doing don’t we,we’re actually using words like turn you on’,which was already part of the culture anyway,so then we said:’do it,do it,get it down!’"
its kind of funny because they’d used something similar in she’s a woman!
the line turns me on when i get lonely was said by paul to have been written in order to"give bob dylan a real drug reference to spot",of course that song wasn’t banned by the BBC at all
but i think by 1967,with drug use being more widespread and a big part of the culture,the BBC knew more of what to look for so to speak,of course they were always overly conservative anyway!
it’s actually very interesting because if anything john and paul kind of knew that they were putting a potential drug reference into the song!
if you watch beatles anthology number 6,paul was talking about the song and he says that they actually knew that it could be taken as a drug reference!
from paul in anthology 6:"one of the things i remember about this song(a day in the life) was that it was a gorgeous song and learned the chords off of him,we developed it and then we got to the one bit which we didn’t have yet ‘i love to turn you on’ and we looked at each other and said:’we do realize what we’re doing don’t we,we’re actually using words like turn you on’,which was already part of the culture anyway,so then we said:’do it,do it,get it down!’"
its kind of funny because they’d used something similar in she’s a woman!
the line turns me on when i get lonely was said by paul to have been written in order to"give bob dylan a real drug reference to spot",of course that song wasn’t banned by the BBC at all
but i think by 1967,with drug use being more widespread and a big part of the culture,the BBC knew more of what to look for so to speak,of course they were always overly conservative anyway!
References :
i’m paraphrasing the quote slightly!
I’m already turned on…
References :
to the Beatles that is.