For No One

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For No One
The Beatles
publication 5th August 1966
length 2 min 0 s
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
Label Parlophone
album revolver

For No One ( English For no one is) a song of the British band The Beatles in 1966. It appeared on the album Revolver . The song was written by Paul McCartney , but published under the usual Beatles ' name Lennon / McCartney .

background

McCartney describes in the song the end of a love affair . He wrote the song while on a skiing holiday in Switzerland with his girlfriend at the time, Jane Asher . Originally the song was called Why Did It Die?

admission

For No One was recorded in May 1966 at Abbey Road Studios , London . The producer was George Martin , assisted by Geoff Emerick . George Harrison and John Lennon do not play on the recording. On May 9, 1966, ten takes were recorded with Ringo Starr on drums and Paul McCartney on piano . Then the striking clavichord played by McCartney was added by overdubbing . This instrument from the private collection of George Martin was transported from Martin's house to the studio. McCartney recorded his vocals on May 16, 1966.

Alan Civil played the French horn in
For No One

The solo in For No One was recorded on a French horn at McCartney's request . He had composed the solo with George Martin, deliberately using a note that is outside the usual range of a French horn.

The British horn player Alan Civil was booked for the recording session on May 19, 1966, when the French horn solo was to be recorded . He reacted in surprise to the fact that he should play a note for which a French horn is not suitable, but he managed it anyway. George Martin later reported that McCartney failed to see how brilliantly Civil had played the solo and asked him to play it better, to which he was very angry. The solo was not repeated. Civil played French horn again in 1967 on two more Beatles songs: A Day in the Life and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

For No One Mono was mixed on June 6, 1966 - this version was discarded and repeated on June 21, 1966. For No One was also mixed in stereo that day .

publication

On August 5, 1966, For No One appeared on the seventh studio album of the Beatles Revolver . The song was not released as a single .

Cover versions

Since its release, For No One has released numerous cover versions , including by Cilla Black , Liza Minnelli , Maceo Parker , Emmylou Harris , Rickie Lee Jones , Anne Sofie von Otter with Elvis Costello , Rick Springfield , Diana Krall and Meret Becker . Paul McCartney released a new recording of the piece on the soundtrack of his musical film Broad Street in 1984 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Mark Lewisohn (1988): The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1
  3. ↑ [2]
  4. ↑ For No One on www.coverinfo.de