No reply

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No reply
The Beatles
publication 4th December 1964
length 2 min 16 s
Genre (s) Folk rock
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
Label Parlophone
album Beatles for Sale

No Reply ( english not to say ) is a song by British band The Beatles in 1964. It opened the fourth studio album by the band Beatles for Sale . The song was mainly composed by John Lennon , but is under the copyright Lennon / McCartney .

background

Originally the song was not supposed to be played by the Beatles, but it was intended for the singer Tommy Quickly , who was also under contract with Brian Epstein , the manager of the Beatles. No Reply is about a young man who cannot reach his apparently unfaithful girlfriend even though he knows she is at home. Thematically, Lennon was inspired by the song Silhouettes from 1957 by the American band The Rays .

admission

The recordings for No Reply took place in London's Abbey Road Studios . The song was produced by George Martin , assisted by Norman Smith .

Still assuming that the song should be interpreted by Tommy Quickly, the Beatles recorded a demo version for him on June 3, 1964 . On that day the drummer of the band Ringo Starr was absent due to illness. Nevertheless, drums can be heard on this demo version . It is not known who is playing the drums on the recording. Paul McCartney , who would then have left the bass to George Harrison , or the drummer Jimmie Nicol , who represented Ringo Starr at a few concerts in the following days, would come into question .

Ultimately, No Reply was not published by Tommy Quickly, so the Beatles recorded their own version on September 30, 1964. This took eight takes . The band experimented with the structure of the song during the recording, for example they repeated the middle section in take five, after which the song was about a minute longer.

publication

No Reply appeared on December 4, 1964 as the first song on the Beatles for Sale album . The demo version from June 3, 1964 was unknown for over 30 years because it was incorrectly filed in the EMI archive . It was only rediscovered in 1995 and released on the album Anthology 1 . An alternative version, which was created on September 30, 1964, was also released on the same album.

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