Lady Madonna

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Lady Madonna
The Beatles
publication March 15, 1968
length 2 min 16 s
Genre (s) Rock music
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney

Lady Madonna is a song by the British rock band The Beatles . It was released on March 15, 1968 (with the B-side The Inner Light by George Harrison ) as the group's 17th single . It appeared as usual under the author name Lennon / McCartney , although the composition was by Paul McCartney , who also sang the song.

The piece and especially the intro are similar to Humphrey Lyttelton's Bad Penny Blues from 1956. John Lennon helped Paul McCartney write the lyrics. The line “see how they run” was a suggestion of his.

history

The recordings for Lady Madonna took place on February 3rd and 6th, 1968 in London's Abbey Road Studios . The producer was George Martin . McCartney played the piano and bass during the recordings , John Lennon and George Harrison played the guitar - to achieve the special sound they had in mind, both instruments were connected to the same amplifier . Ringo Starr played the drums , using brooms instead of sticks . Various overdubs were added during the recording session on February 6, 1968 , but the results were not entirely satisfactory. When McCartney found that the piece was still missing winds , Laurie Gold quickly hired the four saxophonists Harry Klein , Ronnie Scott , Bill Jackman and Bill Povey to develop the desired break together with McCartney, translate it into sheet music and record it.

The single was released in March 1968, reached in the UK No. 1 on the charts. In Germany, number 2 was the best rating, in the USA it was number 4. A promotional film that was shot in color was released that same year for the single . However, he does not show the group recording Lady Madonna , but recording the song Hey Bulldog .

That same year coverte Fats Domino the song on single on Reprise Records released. In 1971 Elvis Presley covered the song; The recording was only released in 1995 in the box set Walk a Mile in My Shoes .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles Recording Sessions . New York 1988, p. 132
  2. David Sheff: All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono . New York 2000, p. 201
  3. Concerning the Instrumental Break in Lady Madonna ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thebeatlesrarity.com
  4. Fats Domino - Lady Madonna / One for the Highway at Discogs (English)
  5. David Neale: Roots of Elvis. iUniverse, 2003, ISBN 0595295053 , p. 77.
  6. Lady Madonna. In: Elvis 100%. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .