The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

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The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
The Beatles
publication November 1968
length 3 min 11 s
Genre (s) Folk rock
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
Label Apple Records
album The Beatles

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill is a folk song the Beatles . He was first published in November 1968 by the label Apple on the album The Beatles , also known as the White Album .

Authorship and Inspiration

The copyright for The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill , like almost all Beatles songs , is owned by Lennon / McCartney . Written but it was of John Lennon . He composed it at the beginning of 1968 in the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India, where the Beatles wanted to learn the Transcendental Meditation .

The text is inspired by Richard "Rikki" A. Cooke III, who was also staying at the ashram with his mother Nancy. During his time in India, Cooke shot a tiger , which Lennon found inappropriately destructive and therefore wrote the derisive text about the hunting mothers son Bungalow Bill - a play on words related to Buffalo Bill .

admission

The Beatles recorded The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill on October 8, 1968 at Abbey Road Studios . They needed a total of three takes for this , later supplemented by several overdubs . The producer of the recordings was George Martin , the sound engineer was Ken Scott . The Beatles recorded the song in the following line-up:

Also involved were:

Others

Yoko Ono's line “Not when he looked so fierce” is the only female lead vocals on a Beatles song.

The avid hunter Richard A. Cooke III worked as a photographer for 40 years , mostly for the National Geographic Society . During this time he also devoted himself to animal photography .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Beatles: The Beatles (Liner Notes)
  2. ↑ www.icce.rug.nl: The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (musical structure)
  3. ↑ a b c d e The Beatles Bible: The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (production details)
  4. ↑ a b www.thealohabear.com: Richard A. Cooke III on “Bungalow Bill” ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 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.thealohabear.com
  5. ↑ www.rikkicooke.com: Richard A. Cooke III (short biography)