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This has to be the most awkwardly fake laugh in the history of whatever
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The Beatles - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
John Lennon bought an 1843 Victorian circus poster while the Beatles were in Kent, and used it as an inspiration for a song. He changed some facts about the actual circus to the one being portrayed in the song: the circus was coming to Bishopsgate (the real one was coming to Rochdale), and the horse’s name is Henry.
“I wrote that as a pure poetic job, to write a song sitting there. I had to write because it was time to write. And I had to write it quick because otherwise I wouldn’t have been on the album. So I had to knock off a few songs. I knocked off A Day In The Life, or my section of it, and whatever we were talking about, Mr Kite, or something like that. I was very paranoid in those days, I could hardly move […]There were all kinds of stories about Henry the Horse being heroin. I had never seen heroin in that period.” - John Lennon
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The Beatles - I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
“A reviewer wrote of She’s So Heavy: ‘He seems to have lost his talent for lyrics, it’s so simple and boring.’ She’s So Heavy was about Yoko. When it gets down to it, like she said, when you’re drowning you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream. And in She’s So Heavy I just sang ‘I want you, I want you so bad, she’s so heavy, I want you,’ like that.” - John Lennon
The song only contains 14 different words.
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The Beatles - Hey Bulldog
The line ‘Some kind of solitude is measured out in you’ was originally ‘measured out in news,’ but Paul claimed to have misread John’s handwriting. The song started as Hey Bullfrog, it became Hey Bulldog after Paul made a barking sound during the session. Paul and John barking and howling towards the end of the song were ad-libbed, and the band decided to keep it in the song.
“I remember Hey Bulldog as being one of John’s songs and I helped him finish it off in the studio, but it’s mainly his vibe. There’s a little rap at the end between John and I; we went into a crazy little thing at the end.” - Paul McCartney
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