Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! | |
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The Beatles | |
publication | June 1, 1967 |
length | 2 min 38 s |
Genre (s) | Psychedelic rock , experimental rock , circus music |
Author (s) | Lennon / McCartney |
album | Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! ( English in favor of Mr. Kite! ) is a song by the Beatles , which was released in 1967 as the seventh track on the LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . It concludes the first page of the LP.
The composition by John Lennon was recorded on February 17th and from March 28th to 30th, 1967 at Abbey Road Studios . Lennon / McCartney are named as the copyright holder .
During the shooting of the promotional film of Strawberry Fields Forever on 31 January 1967 in Sevenoaks ( Kent ) John Lennon discovered in an antique shop an old poster for Pablo Fanques Circus Royal and bought it. He developed the song from its text.
Lennon envisioned a real fun fair atmosphere. In the archive of Abbey Road Studios there were tapes with excerpts from marches played by steam and fairground organs. Copies of these tapes were cut into small snippets by sound engineer Geoff Emerick and then randomly taped back together. The result was a chaotic sound collage that Lennon liked. Parts of this tape have been mixed into the end of the song and let it end.
At Being for the Benefit of Mr.Kite! Lennon wanted "that you could literally smell the sawdust". Such statements were typical of him. It was up to producer George Martin and sound engineer Geoff Emerick to implement these wishes. Emerick always tried very hard to create the recordings according to the ideas of the Beatles.
Still, Lennon wasn't entirely satisfied with the end product because he didn't think the song was the result of real work, which he told Beatles biographer Hunter Davies in 1967. Over time, he revised his judgment and in an interview for Playboy magazine from 1980 he described the song as “cosmically beautiful […] The song is pure, like a painting, a pure watercolor”.
The text of the poster
PABLO FANQUE'S CIRCUS ROYAL, |
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . Hamlyn, London 1988. p. 98
- ↑ George Martin: Summer of Love . Macmillan, London 1994. pp. 90-93
- ^ Geoff Emerick: Here, There and Everywhere . Gotham Books, New York 2007. p. 167
- ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write . HarperCollins, New York 2005. p. 128