Истории создания песен Beatles

Друзья бесценные!
Давайте делиться знаниями о том, как Beatles сочиняли и записывали ту или иную песню.
Думаю, всем будет безумно интересно!

Например, все знают, что "I wanna Be your man" писали прямо в присутствии Роллингов и специально для них.
Когда Мик стал мешать и кривляться, Джон с Полом вышли на пять минут, и вернулись с готовым хитом.

Кто следующий...?

А я знаю , что битлы безжалостно выбрасывали черновики , и сохранились они благодаря битловскому биографу который бегал по студии и спасал безценную писанину от уборщиц.

Однажды дома у Джэйн Пол во сне упал с кровати и проснулся. В голове была мелодия.
Сел за пианино и .... получилась Yesterday, но с другими словами.

Scrambled eggs (1964)
Have an omelet with some muenster cheese.
Put your dishes in the washbin please
so I can clean the scrambled eggs.
Join me, do
There are lots of eggs for me and you
I've got ham and cheese and bacon too
so go get two and join me, do.
Fried or sunny-side
just aren't right. The mix-bowl begs.
Quick - go get a pan
and we'll scram-ble up some eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs.
Scrambled eggs
Good for breakfast, dinnertime or brunch
Don't buy six or twleve - buy a bunch
and we'll have lunch
on scrambled eggs.

Прежде чем попасть в альбомы, некоторые песни имели другие (рабочие) названия:

Please Please Me

I Saw Her Standing There - "Seventeen"

Help!

Yesterday - "Scrambled Eggs"
It's Only Love - "That's a Nice Hat"
I've Just Seen a Face - "Auntie Gin's Theme"

Rubber Soul

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - "This Bird Has Flown"
Think for Yourself - "Won't Be There With You"

Revolver

Tomorrow Never Knows - "Mark I"
Love You To - "Granny Smith"
I Want to Tell You - "Laxton's Superb"
(misspelled "Laxstone Superbe) then "I Don't Know"
Good Day Sunshine - "A Good Day's Sunshine"
Eleanor Rigby - "Daisy Hawkins"
She Said, She Said - "He Said, He Said"

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
(jokingly referred to as "One Down, Six to Go")

With a Little Help From My Friends - "Bad Finger Boogie"
A Day in the Life - "In the Life Of..."
Within You Without You - "Untitled"

Flying - "Aerial Tour Instrumental"
Hello, Goodbye - "Hello Hello"
Baby, You're a Rich Man - "One of the Beautiful People"

The White Album

Revolution 1 - "Revolution"
Don't Pass Me By - "Ringo's Tune (Untitled)" then "This is Some Friendly"
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey - "Untitled" then "Come On Come On"
Good Night - "Untitled"
Happiness is a Warm Gun - "Happiness is a Warm Gun in Your Hand"
Long Long Long - "It's Been a Long Long Long Time"
Rocky Raccoon - "Rocky Sassoon"
Sexy Sadie - "Maharishi, What Have You Done? You Made a Fool of Everyone"

Yellow Submarine

Only a Northern Song - "Not Known"
It's All Too Much - "Too Much"
Hey Bulldog - "Hey Bullfrog"

Let it Be

Dig a Pony - "All I Want is You"
Two of Us - "On Our Way Home"
For You Blue - "George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)"
Get Back - evolved from "Commonwealth", "No Pakistanis", "Get Off White Power" etc etc

Abbey Road
(almost known as "Everest")

She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - "Bathroom Window"
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - "I Want You"
Oh! Darling - "Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm)"
The End - "Ending"
Sun King - "Here Comes the Sun King"

Singles (Past Masters)

Thank You Girl - "Thank You Little Girl"
I'll Get You - "Get You in the End"
The Inner Light - "Untitled"
The Ballad of John and Yoko - "The Ballad of John and Yoko (They're Gonna Crucify Me)"
Hey Jude - "Hey Jules"

Misc and Bootleg

Shirley's Wild Accordion - "Accordion (Wild)"
Cat Call - "Catswalk"
Badge - "Bridge"
Cry for a Shadow - "Beatle Bop"

Solo Songs
Isn't it a Pity - "George's Demo"
Junk - "Jubilee"

В одном из интервью на ВBC в 1963 году у Ринго спросили, сочинил ли он уже какую нибудь песню. Веселый драммер ответил, что начал работать над песней “Don’t Pass Me By»…
Так сколько лет нужно, чтобы сочинить шедевр? ;-)

Кто еще знает что-нибудь интересное о создании песен?

По поводу Yesterday... Я где-то читала, что первоначально Пол напевал такие слова:

Scrambled eggs
Oh my baby, how I love your legs...
:-)

Однажды парни из Бельгии пели ALL MY LOVING с такими словами:

Close your eyes, spread your leggs
And I'll fertilize your eggs
Remember I'll always be true
And meanwhile you're away
I'll write home everyday
And I'll send all my sperm spots to you

?!

Elmiruel, ты права насчет любви к ногам :))), я прочитала об этом в Many years from now by Barry Miles, вся книга построена на интервью с Полом. Вот отрывок из нее про написание Drive my car:

The lyrics were disastrous and I knew it. Often you just block songs out and words just come into your mind and when they do it's hard to get rid of them. You often quote other songs too and you know you've got to get rid of them (…) This is one of the songs where John and I came nearest to having a dry session. The lyrics I brought in were something to do with golden rings, which is always fatal. "Rings" is fatal anyway, "rings" always rhymes with "things" and I knew it was a bad idea. (…) The tune was nice, the tune was there, I'd done the melody. Well, we tried, and John couldn't think of anything, and we tried, and eventually it was "Oh let's leave it, let's get off this one". "No. no. We can do it, we can do it". So we had a break, maybe had a cigarette or a cup of tea, then we came back to it, and somehow it became "drive my car" instead of "Golden rings", and then it was wonderful…

:)))))))
А насчет Yesterday другими словами… По-моему, у Пола была одна строка, весь мир об этом знает, и вот какой-нибудь талантливый человек решил прикола ради продолжить эту строку про яичницу :))) Не думаю, что у Пола были слова песни про яичницу до конца, хотя кто знает :)))

Други! Когда Ринго спросили (кстати, Димсон, по поводу времени сочинительства шедевра), сколько времени требуется для создания песни, тот вышел в другую комнату, и через 10 мин. принес "Norwegian Wood".

Или Джордж - автор этой песни? Уже не помню, где и когда эту историю прочитал/услышал. Поправьте, если ошибаюсь.

Все правильно. Только это был не Ринго. И не Джордж. И, скорее всего, не Norwegian Wood :))))

Да,Irinity, на счет scrambled eggs я тоже согласна. Правда на каком-то сайте я видела утверждение, что все же Пол написал этот текст, но я сомневаюсь, надо бы проверить...

А еще я читала в одном из старых Ровесников, подробное описание создания "Сержанта". И мне очень запомнился один момент( правда это не относится к написанию песен) когда Пол настаивал на том, чтобы на обложке диска все они держали в руках духовые инструменты и как-то в музыкальном магазине, отчаявшись хотел стянуть рожок ( почему-то денег нехватило:-))
Вот...:-)

Жрать охота прям ужас , а вы все про яичницу :))) Вот например The ballad of John and Yoko тоже интересная песенка. И записали ее Пол С Джоном вдвоем да еще и в один день и все это в такой сложный период.

В PENNY LANE сначала были такие слова

Penny Lane is one I'm missing
Up Church and to the clock tower.
In the circle of the abbey.
I have seen some happy hours.

Past the tramshed with on trams
On the 5 bus into town
Past the Dutch and St. Columbus
To the dockers umbrella that they pulled down

WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

I look at the sky and I notice it's clouding
While my guitar gently weeps
I'm wondering why your cigars keep on burning
Still my guitar gently weeps


Кто знает, какие песни Битлы сочинили в Индии?

Sexy Sadie
Dear Prudence
...
???

Obladi, oblada
Don't pass me by
I will
Julia
Dear prudence
Bungalow Bill
Mr. Mustard
Across the Universe
Cry baby cry
I'm so tired
Polythene Pam
Yer blues
Wild honey pie
Rocky Racoon
Back in the USSR
Mother nature's son

Информация позаимствована из Many years from now :))

Dehra Dun !

Кажется Sexy Sadie была написана не в Индии...

В книге Хантера Дэвиса есть замечательнейшие описания битловских сессий звукозаписи времён "Сержанта"...

По-моему, Пол на спор с Дастином Хофманом за десять минут написал "Picassos Last words". Взял газету и вытащил оттуда тему для песни.

Paul has told the story of how Dustin Hoffman inspired the writing of 'Picasso's Last Words' many times, but the most detailed version was told to Paul Gambaccini sometime in the last two months of 1973:

PAUL: We were in Jamaica on holiday and we were staying in a little house outside Menego Bay, and we read in the local newspaper, The Daily Gleaner, that Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen were in town filming Papillion. They were just along the coast from us. We were saying it would be great to meet him, have dinner with him, so Linda rang up. She's good at that, I'm always a bit embarrassed. So Linda talked to his wife and suggested having us for dinner. So they said, great, love to see you, they were a bit bored, they weren't too keen on Jamaica, so we went around to their house one night.

We got friendly and were chatting away. We'd been talking about songwriting, and Dustin was saying he thought it was an incredible gift to be able to write a song about something. People think that, but I always maintain it's the same as any gift ...

So he says, you mean you can just do it, like that? He was lovely, Dustin. (Does Dustin Hoffman impersonation.) "You can just do it?" I was saying, I think so. We went back a couple of days later and he said, "I've been thinking about this I've seen a little [piece] in Time magazine about Picasso, and it struck me as being very poetic. I think this would be really great set to music." It was just a little piece out of Time. It was one of those Passed On bits, you know. Transition or whatever they call it .... So he says, there's a little story here. In the article he supposedly said "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more." He went to paint a bit, and then he went to bed at three in the morning. He didn't wake up the next morning and they found him, dead. Dustin thought "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore" was a great parting remark. They were Picasso's last words. So he said "Could you write something to that?" I happened to have my guitar with me, I'd brought it around, and I said, yeah, sure, I strummed a couple of chords I knew I couldn't go wrong on and started singing 'Drink to me, drink to my health,' and he leaps out of his chair and says "Annie! Annie!" That's his wife. He says, "Annie! Annie!" The most incredible thing! He's doing it! he's writing it! It's coming out!" He's leaping up and down, just like in the films, you know. And I'm knocked out because he's so appreciative. I was writing the tune there and he was well chuffed. (McCartney, qtd. in Gambaccini, 79)

According to Brewer (1970-1980), Paul owns a cassette tape, recorded by Dustin Hoffman, of the actual writing of Picasso's Last Words in May of 1973.