It's All Too Much

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It's All Too Much
The Beatles
publication January 13, 1969
length 6 min 25 s
Genre (s) Psychedelic rock
Author (s) George Harrison
album Yellow Submarine

It's All Too Much ( English It's all too much ) is a song by British rock band The Beatles , which on the 1969 LP Yellow Submarine published and George Harrison was written. The recordings were made in 1967, shortly after the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , and should actually appear on the next album Magical Mystery Tour , but this was discarded.

admission

The song was recorded on May 25th, 31st and June 2nd, 1967 at De Lane Lea Studios , 129 Kingsway, London , making it one of the few Beatles tracks that were not recorded in Abbey Road Studios . Harrison took on the lead vocals on the recording, with Lennon and McCartney accompanying him. At the beginning of the track, bits of speech from Harrison appear, who also played the distorted guitar intro with John Lennon . Then the Hammond organ played by George Harrison kicks in , while the three other musicians in the band ensure the constant, monotonous rhythm ; they beat various tom-toms , drums and cymbals with drumsticks , supported by Mal Evans on the tambourine . Several overdubs were recorded in the days that followed . Five studio musicians were hired for the wind passages; a clarinetist and five trumpeters, including David Mason, who played the piccolo trumpet solo on Penny Lane's recording .

Composition and lyrics

The piece mostly remains in G major , with harmonic twists like Harrison used in other Beatles songs like Long, Long, Long   and The Inner Light . There is a musical constant in music and text:

“It's all too much for me to see,
a love that's shining all around here.
The more I am, the less I know,
and what I do is all too much. "

The song is based on components of other songs; the line “With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue” was taken from the song Sorrow , which former The Merseybeats members Tony Crane and Billy Kinsley recorded as The Merseys, and the trumpets process Jeremiah Clarke's Prince of Denmark's March .

Cover versions

Various cover versions of Harrison's song were made in the following years . a. by Steve Hillage , Grateful Dead, and Journey .

Web links

literature

  • Hans Rombeck and Wolfgang Neumann: The Beatles . Bergisch Gladbach, Bastei-Lübbe, 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Chronicle . Hamlyn, 2006, ISBN 0-600-61001-2 . P. 256.
  2. ↑ Kevin Ryan, Brian Kehew: Recording the Beatles: the studio equipment and techniques used to create their classic albums . Curvebender, 2006, p. 196
  3. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . Hamlyn, 2004, ISBN 0-681-03189-1 . P. 116.
  4. ^ Alan W. Pollack. Notes on It's All too Much (1998) www.recmusicbeatles.com Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ Dominic Pedler. The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles . Music Sales Limited. Omnibus Press. NY. 2003. p. 302 fn15.
  6. ^ Dominic Pedler: The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles . Omnibus Press, London, 2003 ISBN 978-0-7119-8167-6 , p. 524.
  7. ^ Alan W. Pollack. Notes on It's All too Much (1998) www.recmusicbeatles.com .
  8. ↑ Maginnis, Allmusic
  9. ↑ James E. Perone, Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion , 89.