1968 | The Beatles | Revolution | lyrics⇲ *)
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**) - The B-side of The Beatles' best selling single “Hey Jude”, “Revolution” has John Lennon expressing doubt in regard to some of the tactics used by the 1968 protests. While the song was originally recorded as the calmer, bluesier “Revolution I” (with John using one of the takes to create the sound collage “Revolution 9” ), Paul and George felt it was too slow to follow John’s suggestion to use it as a single. Thus “Revolution” was re-recorded as a distortion-heavy hard rock track. John Lennon: "I wanted to put out what I felt about revolution. I thought it was time we fucking spoke about it, the same as I thought it was about time we stopped not answering about the Vietnamese war when we were on tour with Brian Epstein and had to tell him, ‘We’re going to talk about the war this time, and we’re not going to just waffle.’ I wanted to say what I thought about revolution.
*) - Beatles fun fact - at :06 Paul McCartney screams. During the recording session, Paul always liked to walk around barefoot until that day, when he went to plug into the phone jack, there was a short in the wire and received an electrical jolt. The tape reels continued recording, Pauls scream in agony was left in the original recording....
**) - The B-side of The Beatles' best selling single “Hey Jude”, “Revolution” has John Lennon expressing doubt in regard to some of the tactics used by the 1968 protests. While the song was originally recorded as the calmer, bluesier “Revolution I” (with John using one of the takes to create the sound collage “Revolution 9” ), Paul and George felt it was too slow to follow John’s suggestion to use it as a single. Thus “Revolution” was re-recorded as a distortion-heavy hard rock track. John Lennon: "I wanted to put out what I felt about revolution. I thought it was time we fucking spoke about it, the same as I thought it was about time we stopped not answering about the Vietnamese war when we were on tour with Brian Epstein and had to tell him, ‘We’re going to talk about the war this time, and we’re not going to just waffle.’ I wanted to say what I thought about revolution.
***) - “Revolution” was written in response the the Beatles' famous song by the same name, released a year earlier. The lyrics of Simone’s song respond to the themes of the Beatles'. Simone expresses the urgency of the civil rights movement and the necessity of change in contrast to the Beatles' critique of the many social movements in 1960s U.S.
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