"Only Sleeping"", ""And Your Bird Can Sing"" and ""Doctor Robert"". All tracks written by Lennon–McCartney except those marked with (<nowiki>*</nowiki>), which are by George Harrison. According to Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald: The Beatles Additional musicians and production Revolver (Beatles album) Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 5 August 1966, it was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology up to that time, building on the advances of their late 1965 release ""Rubber Soul"". The album's diverse"
"Doctor Robert ""Doctor Robert"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released in 1966 on their album ""Revolver"", apart from in North America, where it instead appeared on ""Yesterday and Today"". The song was written by John Lennon (and credited to Lennon–McCartney), although Paul McCartney has said that he co-wrote it. The Beatles recorded the track in seven takes on 17 April 1966, with vocals overdubbed on 19 April. The song is written in the key of A major, although the key center is B, thereby making it in the Mixolydian mode. The musical arrangement"
"Beatles' Real-Life Dr. Robert Had the Feel-Good Cure for Celebs"" (4 September 2009), ""Spinner""'s James Sullivan considers candidates for the real ""Doctor Robert"" referred to in the eponymous song on The Beatles' ""Revolver"" album: ""The more literate among them might have suspected that 'Dr. Robert' came from a character of the same name in the last novel of noted LSD advocate Aldous Huxley."" English band Friendly Fires named their second album and the track 'Pala', after the name of the island in the book. Island (Huxley novel) Island is the final book by English writer Aldous Huxley, published in 1962."
"about a New York doctor who administered amphetamine doses to his wealthy patients, ""Doctor Robert"", and ""Got to Get You into My Life"", which McCartney said he wrote as ""an ode to pot"". For the North American version of ""Revolver"", however, Capitol Records omitted ""Doctor Robert"", together with two other Lennon-written tracks; as a result, the eleven-song US release reinforced the level of contribution from McCartney and from Harrison. According to Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner, Harrison's ""Revolver"" compositions – ""Taxman"", which opened the album, the Indian music-styled ""Love You To"", and ""I Want to Tell You"" – established him as"
"part of the Beatles' box set ""The U.S. Albums"". Mixes included on the mono/stereo 2014 CD differ from the original North American LP releases. ""Drive My Car"" in mono has been replaced with the UK mono mix, and ""Doctor Robert"" in mono omits Lennon's very quiet spoken words at the end. All tracks in stereo except ""Day Tripper"" and ""We Can Work It Out"" have been replaced with versions from the 2009 UK-format stereo CDs. The cover is the ""butcher"" cover, but included in the CD is a sticker with the ""trunk"" cover. Yesterday and Today Yesterday and Today is"
"Dr. Lyle Evans. The name caused much speculation among reviewers, and a spike in Google Searches for the name. Rather than a real-life person, Dr. Evans turned out to be a doctor who once performed an unnecessary orchiectomy on Bert Cooper. The episode ends with the song ""Bleecker Street"" from Simon & Garfunkel's 1964 album ""Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M."". On its original American broadcast on September 5, 2010, on AMC, the episode was viewed by 2.17 million people. The episode received universal praise from television critics and is considered by many to be the series' greatest episode. ""The A.V. Club"""
"a November 2004 episode of the TV series """" included an evil character named Dr. Benway (named for an amoral physician who appears in a number of Burroughs' works.) This is an echo of the hospital scene in the movie ""Repo Man,"" made during Burroughs' life-time, in which both Dr. Benway and Mr. Lee (a Burroughs pen name) are paged. Burroughs was cited by Robert Anton Wilson as the first person to notice the ""23 Enigma"": Burroughs appears on the cover of The Beatles' eighth studio album, ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". Burroughs participated on numerous album releases by"
"technique, after the Beatles had attended a seminar by the Maharishi in Bangor, Wales, where they publicly disavowed LSD. Contrary to the Beatles' wishes, Capitol Records, EMI's North American affiliate, included ""Baby You're a Rich Man"" and other tracks from the band's 1967 singles on the US album ""Magical Mystery Tour"", released in November that year. In the company's rush to prepare the album, a duophonic (or ""mock stereo"") mix of the song was used for the stereo version of the LP. While the song was featured in the 1968 film ""Yellow Submarine"", it was not included on the accompanying"
"his part, with little guidance from McCartney or Martin at the overdubbing session. While recognising McCartney's ""customary logic"" in the song's musical structure, MacDonald comments on the sense of detachment conveyed in the lyrics to this ""curiously phlegmatic account of the end of an affair"". MacDonald suggests that McCartney was attempting to employ the same ""dry cinematic eye"" that director John Schlesinger had adopted in his 1965 film ""Darling"". The third track omitted from the US ""Revolver"" LP, ""Doctor Robert"" was written by Lennon, although McCartney has since claimed co-authorship. A guitar-based rock song in the style of ""And Your"
"station Radio London on 12 May and officially on the BBC Light Programme's show ""Where It's At"", by Kenny Everett, on 20 May. Everett played the entire album apart from ""A Day in the Life"". On 26 May, ""Sgt. Pepper"" was given a rush-release in the UK, where it had originally been scheduled for 1 June. The US release followed on 2 June. It was the first Beatles album where the track listings were exactly the same for the UK and US versions. The band's eighth LP, it topped the ""Record Retailer"" albums chart (now the UK Albums Chart) for"
"the musical revue ""Smokey Joe's Cafe"". The Beatles played ""Young Blood"" in their Cavern Club repertoire. It is one of twelve songs recorded by them in July 1962 on a tape, which was re-purchased by Paul McCartney at a Sotheby's auction in 1985. A previously unreleased version performed by The Beatles (for the BBC radio show ""Pop Go the Beatles"" broadcast on June 11, 1963) is included on their album ""Live at the BBC"", released in 1994. It was recorded at the BBC Paris Studio, London on June 1, 1963, and George Harrison is the lead vocalist on this recording;"
"Beatles songs, such as ""Penny Lane"", ""Paperback Writer"", ""A Day in the Life"", ""Eleanor Rigby"", ""Helter Skelter"", ""Piggies"", ""The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"", ""Strawberry Fields Forever"", ""Doctor Robert"", and ""The Fool on The Hill"". Between 80 and 100 allusions to the Beatles' story, music and lyrics in the video have been estimated. Although the bird can be heard at the beginning of the video, it is never seen. Neil Aspinall (Apple Records executive at the time) said that this was because no-one could agree on what kind of bird it should be. Pytka had to send his ideas to"
"in the recording of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. He thoroughly enjoyed playing music and exploring the tardis stage set in the Dr Who cult science fiction BBC TV series during his involvement in the 1960s–1970s including with the fourth Dr Who Tom Baker in the Ribos Operation. Other session examples notably include his involvement in over 13 James Bond 007 films with composer John Barry amongst others as the John Barry Orchestra between 1963 and 1990, and included working closely with Paul McCartney on ""Live and Let Die"" which is the main theme song of"
"The Beatles (album) The Beatles, also known as The White Album, is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed, which was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's previous LP ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". Although no singles were issued from ""The Beatles"" in Britain and the United States, the songs ""Hey Jude"" and ""Revolution"" originated from the same recording sessions and were issued on a"
"with his music in there that it didn't have with temp music."" The score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. During the recording session, Paul McCartney heard one of Giacchino's cues being recorded, which he likened to The Beatles song ""I Am the Walrus"". All music composed by Michael Giacchino. Derrickson, a Bob Dylan fan, looked for a place in the film to include one of his songs, but could not find one. However, he was able to include the Pink Floyd song ""Interstellar Overdrive"". Doctor Strange (soundtrack) Doctor Strange (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the"
"Beatles"" and recorded by the British group on Friday 24 May 1963. This recording was not included in either BBC albums. The melody of ""Pop Goes the Weasel"" was used as a leitmotif in several episodes of the 1960s science fiction series ""The Prisoner"", particularly in the series' penultimate episode ""Once Upon a Time"" in which the lead character, under an intense form of interrogation, obsessively sings the song, with ""POP"" identified as a meme representing the directive ""protect other people"". In 1964, American musical comedian Allan Sherman recorded a parody entitled ""Pop Hates the Beatles"", written from the standpoint"
"narration. The film's soundtrack, released as an accompanying double album, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by the Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of the band's albums, 1967's ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" and 1969's ""Abbey Road"". The film covers all of the songs from the ""Sgt. Pepper"" album with the exceptions of ""Within You, Without You"" and ""Lovely Rita"", and also includes nearly all of ""Abbey Road"". The production was loosely adapted from ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road"", a 1974 off-Broadway production directed by Tom O'Horgan. The film was"
"With the Beatles With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band's debut ""Please Please Me"". The album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and ""Don't Bother Me"", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of Motown, rock and roll, and R&B hits). The cover photograph was taken by the fashion photographer Robert Freeman, and it has been mimicked by several music groups over the"
"later used in the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Executioners"", which aired on BBC1 on 22 May. The episode was part of the show's story ""The Chase"" and sees the Doctor using a time–space machine in the future to observe historical figures such as William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and the Beatles. In addition to their television promotion, the group performed the song during their last session for BBC Radio, on 26 May, which was broadcast as ""The Beatles (Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride)"". ""Ticket to Ride"" topped Britain's official singles chart for three weeks. It went straight in"
"The Beatles song. The recording is credited to Reparata and the Delrons, although only Reparata is featured, not any of the Delrons who were still playing live in the US at that time. The B-side is ""Your Life is Gone"", a dramatic story song similar to The Shangri-La's' ""Leader of the Pack"". In the US, it was released on Laurie Records, who had released the Delrons first single back in 1964. The production of ""Octopus's Garden"" uses some vocal effects and sound effects to recapture the quirky mood and sound of the groups' earlier recordings like ""Captain of Your Ship"""
"except spoken word tracks and where noted. Anthology 1 Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with ""Anthology 2"" and ""Anthology 3"", all of which tie in with the televised special ""The Beatles Anthology"". It contains ""Free as a Bird"", billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. The"
"Dear Doctor (song) ""Dear Doctor"" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album ""Beggars Banquet"". Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, ""Dear Doctor"" is a country song with blues inflections. It is a good example of the acoustic guitar-based compositions that has earned ""Beggars Banquet"" its reputation as the Rolling Stones' ""return to form"". Bill Janovitz says in his review of the song, ""With all acoustic instruments — guitar, tack piano, 12-string, harmonica, tambourine, and upright bass — ...the band manages to sound authentically old-time and primitive, with Mick Jagger"
"Go the Beatles"" would later appear on the Beatles' 1994 compilation album ""Live at the BBC"". Their September 3, 1963 BBC recording appeared on the 2013 compilation album ""On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2"". Beatles drummer Ringo Starr later recorded a new version on his 1981 album, ""Stop and Smell the Roses"" featuring producer Paul McCartney on bass and piano, as well as backing vocals from Linda McCartney, Laurence Juber on guitar, Howie Casey on saxophone, and Lloyd Green on pedal steel guitar. The song would also appear on his 1989 greatest hits collection """". Sure to"
"issued as a CD single and a vinyl single in 1995 in both the UK and the US, the Beatles' first in nearly a decade. Both versions have four tracks, making it an EP instead of a regular issue single. The three additional tracks, while from BBC recordings, did not appear on ""Live at the BBC."" Tracks 2 and 4 were later included on ""On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2"", but this recording of track 3 remains unique to this release. The single reached number seven in the UK and number 67 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100."
"as a single in 1962 and it quickly became a regular part of the Beatles' set list, from 1962 through the Beatles Winter 1963 Helen Shapiro Tour in early 1963. A recording of a 1963 Beatles performance of the song on the BBC was released in 2013 on their album ""On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2"". Rory Storm and The Hurricanes also featured the song in their live performances. This version has been recorded by Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas. Bobby Darin recorded a bluesy version of the song with all-new lyrics, but the song was"
"Anthology 1 Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with ""Anthology 2"" and ""Anthology 3"", all of which tie in with the televised special ""The Beatles Anthology"". It contains ""Free as a Bird"", billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. The album topped the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart"
"The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is a live album by the Beatles, released in May 1977, featuring songs compiled from performances at the Hollywood Bowl in August 1964 and August 1965. The album was released by Capitol Records in the United States and Canada and on the Parlophone label in the United Kingdom. A remixed, remastered, and expanded version of the album, retitled Live at the Hollywood Bowl, was released on 9 September 2016 to coincide with the release of the documentary film """", directed by Ron Howard. Capitol Records considered recording the"
"the ""Top of the Pops"" TV program in the UK. A performance of the song on ""The Arthur Haynes Show"" recorded on 7 February 1964 appears as part of the bonus material on the 2012 documentary film ""Crossfire Hurricane"". The Beatles' version was sung by Ringo Starr and appeared on the group's second UK album, ""With the Beatles"", released 22 November 1963 and on the US release ""Meet the Beatles!"", released on 20 January 1964. It was driven by a heavily tremoloed, open E-chord on a guitar played through a Vox AC30 amplifier. John Lennon was dismissive of the song"
"Records in London on January 1, 1962. It was the second of five songs the group performed during their first appearance on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" on February 9, 1964. Live versions of the song were released on ""Live at the BBC"" (1994) and ""Anthology 1"" (1995). A live performance of ""'Till There was You"" by Paul McCartney appears on his 2006 DVD ""The Space Within US"". In 2016, the BBC announced that a ""holy grail"" Beatles record would be auctioned in March of that year. A private pressing, it features two songs, ""Hello Little Girl"" and ""Till There Was"
"LP) collection contains the remastered mono versions of every Beatles album released in true mono. The original 1965 stereo mixes of ""Help!"" and ""Rubber Soul"" are included on the CD version as bonuses on their respective albums. (In 1986 both albums had been remixed by George Martin for their CD release in 1987.) The box contains a new two-disc compilation album titled ""Mono Masters"", which compiles all the mono mixes of singles, B-sides and EP tracks that did not originally appear on any of the UK albums or ""Magical Mystery Tour"". The albums ""Yellow Submarine"", ""Abbey Road"" and ""Let It"
"Past Masters Past Masters is a two-disc compilation album set by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 7 March 1988 as part of the first issue of the band's entire catalogue on compact disc. Compiled by noted Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, this collection of many of the band's biggest hits, as well as rarities, includes every song released commercially by the band that was not available on the Beatles' 12 original UK albums or the ""Magical Mystery Tour"" LP. The majority of the ""Past Masters"" set consists of A- and B-sides from the band's singles, including single versions"
"Meet the Beatles! Meet the Beatles! is the second Beatles album released in the United States. It was the first US Beatles album to be issued by Capitol Records, on 20 January 1964 in both mono and stereo formats. It topped the popular album chart on 15 February 1964 and remained at number one for eleven weeks before being replaced by ""The Beatles' Second Album"". The cover featured Robert Freeman's iconic portrait of the Beatles used in the United Kingdom for ""With the Beatles"", with a blue tint added to the original stark black-and-white photograph. After constantly rejecting requests by"
"two are: The dog appearing on the cover is Arrow, one of the offspring of Martha, the sheepdog that was the inspiration for the title of the song ""Martha My Dear"". The cover photo is from the ""Abbey Road"" cover photoshoot by photographer Iain Macmillan. There are differences between this and the photograph used for the ""Abbey Road"" cover; most notably, the taxi present in the ""Abbey Road"" cover photograph does not feature here. The retouching was done by CGI artist Erwin Keustermans, who erased the Beatles and put in McCartney and the dog, taken from 35 mm pictures by"