Το τραγούδι του George Harrison [επίλεκτου μέλους του February Born Musician Club] ηχογραφήθηκε στη διάρκεια των sessions για το Sgt. Peppers, αλλά δεν συμπεριλήφθηκε σ αυτό. Θα έμπαινε τελικά στο Yellow Submarine. Υπήρξε ανόητα υποτιμημένο στην εποχή του από πολλούς και διάφορους, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του ίδιου του George Martin. Όπως μπορεί καθένας ν’ ακούσει, πρόκειται για ένα “τυπικό” μπιτλικό αριστούργημα.
[Distinguished February Born Musician Club member] George Harrison’s song was recorded during the Sgt. Peppers sessions but was not included in the track list. It ended up in the Yellow Submarine album. It was absurdly underrated by various people, including George Martin himself. As anyone can hear, this is a “typical” Beatles masterpiece.
If you’re listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they’re not, we just wrote it like that
When you listen late at night
You may feel the words are not quite right
But they are, they just play it like that
It doesn’t really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it’s only a Northern song
It doesn’t really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it’s only a Northern song
If you think the harmony
Is a little off and out of key, you’re correct
There’s nobody there
And I told you there’s no one there
I’ve always thought George was the underrated Beatle, his talent marginalized.
I don’t remember this song. Thank you!
I ‘m not sure about it. He didn’t have John & Paul’s songwriting skills. Great talent indeed, but these two were monsters! I have a special place in my heart for GH songs like “Here Comes The Sun”, “I Want To Tell You”, “Old Brown Shoe” etc, but Lennon-McCartney he certainly wasn’t. And he didn’t make a great album after The Beatles, apart from All Things Must Pass.
Neither did Paul as a matter of fact. The only one who kept producing high quality work was Lennon of course.
Agree 100% about Lennon. He wasthe one.
Paul, very talented & many hits on his own, but there was always something “Nursery Rhymes” about his work.
I make 1 exception. “Let Me Roll It:” gives me shivers.
A superb song and one of my favourites. Undoubtedly influential to the growing psychedelic movement of the time too.
I believe the song arose out of Harrison’s frustrations with Northern Songs, the Beatle’s publishing label, where Harrison earned less from his own songs than the other shareholders did – in other words, Lennon and McCartney!
It is a song that, harmonically and melodically, continues to be ahead of its time in many ways. Could Pink Floyd’s ‘Don’t Leave Me Now’ have been written without this song?
Of course not. It is a cliche but …The Beatles truly started everything – including ‘progressive rock’ which I grew up with.
I absolutely agree with what you write about this incredible song, one of my favorites also.