Misery (song)

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Misery
The Beatles
publication March 22, 1963
length 1 min 49 s
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album Please Please Me

Misery ( English misery ) is a song by the British band The Beatles , which was released in 1963 as the second song on their first album Please Please Me . It was composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and published under the author's name Lennon / McCartney .

background

John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed the song on January 26, 1963 while touring with Helen Shapiro at King's Hall in Stoke-on-Trent . Lennon and McCartney began their composition before their concert in the backstage area and finished it in McCartney's childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road , Liverpool .

The two composers offered the song to Helen Shapiro, but their manager Norrie Paramor rejected Misery because of the lyrics. Kenny Lynch, who was also on this tour, accepted the offer, sang the song while the tour was still on and released his own version on a single by Misery , making Lynch the first artist to record a cover version of a Lennon / McCartney song .

admission

Ten of the fourteen songs from the Beatles' first album Please Please Me recorded the band on February 11, 1963 in London's Abbey Road Studios - including Misery . The producer was George Martin , assisted by sound engineer Norman Smith . The band recorded a total of eleven takes between 5 and 6 p.m. On February 20, 1963 - in the absence of the Beatles - George Martin played the piano for Misery . George Martin spent February 25, 1963, also without the Beatles, mixing the recordings in mono and stereo . The stereo version of Misery is a little shorter than the mono version.

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publication

On March 22, 1963, Misery appeared in the UK on the Beatles' first album Please Please Me .

On November 1, 1963 Misery appeared on the EP The Beatles (No. 1) in Great Britain and reached number 24 on the charts.

On January 28, 1964, the single Misery / Ask Me Why was released in Germany , which reached number 37 in the German charts.

Misery was first released on January 10, 1964 on the US debut album Introducing… The Beatles .

The Beatles recorded seven additional versions of Misery for BBC Radio under live conditions , of which the recording was made on March 6, 1963 at the BBC Playhouse Theater , London, on the album On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 on November 8 Appeared in 2013.

On December 17, 2013, the album The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 was released on which there are two studio versions (Take 1 and 7) of the song Misery .

Cover versions

Since its publication in 1963, the following cover versions of Misery have appeared in addition to the aforementioned version by Kenny Lynch :

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Misery Single by Kenny Lynch
  2. ↑ Differences in Mixtures from Misery
  3. ^ Richie Unterberger: The Unreleased Beatles Music & Film. P. 28.
  4. ↑ Shake Some Action by Flamin 'Groovies
  5. ↑ Unplugged by the band Eva Braun