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'"A Day in the Life" - that was something. I dug it. It was a good piece of work between Paul and me. I had the "I read the news today" bit, and it turned Paul on. Now and then we really turn each other on with a bit of song, and he just said "yeah" - bang, bang, like that. It just sort of happened beautifully ..."
Thus John Lennon regarding the song that when Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heartsclub Band was released was hailed as the musical equivalent of T.S. Eliot The Waste Land by the critics and even now is bound to turn up in people's "best songs of all time" lists. I actually have a bit of a distant relationship towards it - it's the Robert Altman movie of Pepper to me, i.e. I admire it intellectually yet there are other songs that do far more for me emotionally both on that particular album and in the Beatles song catalogue - but then alienation is one of the emotions the song goes for. Also it just happens to be one of the songs where we have the minutae from inspiration to production, and a great illustration of the psychedelic, experimental phase of the 60s. A Day in the Life also showcases just how many people contributed to a song, and why studio production at this point took a leap forward.
( I read the news today, oh boy )
Thus John Lennon regarding the song that when Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heartsclub Band was released was hailed as the musical equivalent of T.S. Eliot The Waste Land by the critics and even now is bound to turn up in people's "best songs of all time" lists. I actually have a bit of a distant relationship towards it - it's the Robert Altman movie of Pepper to me, i.e. I admire it intellectually yet there are other songs that do far more for me emotionally both on that particular album and in the Beatles song catalogue - but then alienation is one of the emotions the song goes for. Also it just happens to be one of the songs where we have the minutae from inspiration to production, and a great illustration of the psychedelic, experimental phase of the 60s. A Day in the Life also showcases just how many people contributed to a song, and why studio production at this point took a leap forward.
( I read the news today, oh boy )
