Lovely Rita

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Lovely Rita
The Beatles
publication June 1, 1967
length 2 min 42 s
Genre (s) Psychedelic pop , pop-rock
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Lovely Rita ( English Lovely Rita ) is a song by British band The Beatles , the 1967 as the tenth track on the LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.

The recordings for this Paul McCartney composition took place on February 23 and 24 and on March 7 and 21, 1967 at Abbey Road Studios . Lennon / McCartney are named as the copyright holder .

Emergence

The studio work, which also involved experimenting with tape speeds , extended over four days. George Martin's piano solo was recorded more slowly and later accelerated. In addition, the drive roller of the tape machine was taped with editing tape, which lifted the tape slightly and ran. This gave the piano an old-fashioned honky-tonk sound. George Harrison had the idea to blow on a comb and paper. Parts of this also flowed into the final recording.

After all, the Beatles had the feeling that the song lacked that “certain something”. So they began to improvise mouth sounds in a wild manner, which, underlaid with strong reverb, can be heard especially at the end of the piece. John Lennon didn't particularly appreciate this piece because he thought it was boring. George Martin didn't like the songs on the Sgt. Pepper album either.

content

The text allegedly refers to a friendly encounter with a policewoman named Meta Davis, who reportedly gave McCartney a ticket. McCartney recalled someone telling him that in American slang , policemen who checked parking meters are called meter maids . At first he is said to have thought of a satirical mockery song , but soon he found it better to describe a kind of flirtation . The expression maid also appealed to him.

Others

Thomas Brasch named a drama after this song in 1975, the protagonist of which, Rita Grabow, embodies the living antithesis of the song's Rita.

literature

  • The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology. Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07132-9 .
  • Geoff Emerick , Howard Messey: "You make the Beatles". How I reinvented the band's sound . Blanvalet, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-36746-7 .
  • Georg Geppert: Songs of the Beatles. Texts and interpretations . Kösel, Munich 1968.
  • Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Total Beatles. The stories behind the songs . Delius, Klasing & Co. Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3881-8 .
  • Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1426-7 .
  • George Martin, William Pearson: Summer of Love. How Sgt. Pepper came about . Henschel, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89487-271-3 .
  • Barry Miles : Paul McCartney. Many years from now . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60892-8 .
  • Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. Hamlyn, London 1988, ISBN 0-600-55798-7 .
  • David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview . Hannibal, Höfen 2002, ISBN 3-85445-202-0 .
  • Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song . Heel, Königswinter 1996, ISBN 3-89365-500-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Miles: Paul McCartney. Many years from now , p. 375; David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview, p. 202
  2. ^ Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years, pp. 100, 101, 104
  3. ↑ George Martin, William Pearson: Summer of Love. How Sgt. Pepper came about, pp. 129–130
  4. ↑ George Martin, William Pearson: Summer of Love. How Sgt. Pepper came about, p. 131; Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. Das Song-Lexikon, p. 259; Geoff Emerick, Howard Messey: "You make the Beatles". How I Reinvented the Band's Sound, p. 271
  5. ↑ George Martin, William Pearson: Summer of Love. How Sgt.Pepper came about, p. 130
  6. ↑ David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview, p. 202; Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Total Beatles. The stories behind the songs, p. 398
  7. ↑ George Martin, William Pearson: Summer of Love. How Sgt.Pepper came about, p. 132
  8. ^ Georg Geppert: Songs of the Beatles. Texts and interpretations, p. 74: "The topic of the first meeting between two people is understandably very popular and is also taken up and modified again and again by the Beatles, most recently in Michelle and Got to Get You into My Life ."
  9. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song, p. 131
  10. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The Song Lexicon, p. 258
  11. ↑ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology, p. 247: "[...] for me there was a 'maid', a little young girl, always a little sexy thing [...]"