Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey ( Rus. Everyone has something to hide, except me and my monkey ) - the song The Beatles from a double album of the same name written by John Lennon.
| Everybody's Got Something to Hide Me and My Monkey | ||||
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| Executor | The beatles | |||
| Album | The beatles | |||
| Date of issue | November 22, 1968 | |||
| Record date | June 27, 1968 ( Abby Road Studio , London ) | |||
| Genre | hard rock [1] | |||
| Song language | English | |||
| Duration | 2:24 | |||
| Label | Apple Records | |||
| Author | Lennon - McCartney | |||
| Composer | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
| The track list of the album " The Beatles " | ||||
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Content
About the song
In 1980, Lennon said: “It was something like a nice line that I had invented for a song. She was about me and Yoko . Everyone seemed to be paranoid, except for the two of us who were in the light of love. When you are in love, everything is clear and open. All around us were, as it were, tense, you know: “What is she doing here at the session? Why is she with him? “. All this madness is happening around us because it just so happened that we always want to be together ” [2] .
George Harrison said that the first part of the song title came from the quotation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi [3] ; however, he doesn’t know where the part “... except me and my monkey” came from, although Paul McCartney thinks it’s a reference to Lennon’s heroin addiction [4] : “John started talking about drugs and monkeys. It was a complicated terminology that the rest of us did not understand. ” Lennon recalled: “We breathed a little while we were really hurt. We took heroin because the Beatles and their buddies did it to us ” [5] .
Record Members
- John Lennon - vocals , rhythm guitar , percussion , claps
- Paul McCartney - background vocals , bass guitar , bell [6] , claps
- George Harrison - backing vocals, lead guitar , percussion, claps
- Ringo Starr - drums , percussion, claps
Notes
- ↑ Sound & Vision, 2001 , p. 103
- ↑ Sheffield, p. 190-91
- ↑ MacDonald, s. 293
- ↑ Levison, p. 139
- ↑ Rolling Stone - 100 Greatest Beatles Songs: Everyday's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
- ↑ Emeric; Messi, s. 387
Sources
- Emerick, jeff; Messi, Howard. Here, There and Everywhere: The Life of the Beatles . Penguin Books, New York: 2006. ISBN 1-59240-179-1 .
- Levison, Mark. The Beatles Recording Sessions . Harmony Books, New York: 1988. ISBN 0-517-57066-1 .
- MacDonald, Yen. Revolution in the Heads: The Beatles Records and the Sixties . Pimlico, London: 2005. ISBN 1-84413-828-3 .
- Sheffield, David. All We Are Saying: John Lennon and Yoko Ono . St. Martin's Press, New York: 2000. ISBN 0-312-25464-4 .
- Sound & Vision, Volume 67, Issues 2-5 . - Michigan: Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, 2001. - “Go ahead to 1968 and the Beatles”. Side 3: "Birthday," "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey," "Helter Skelter" ”.