Ten Interesting Facts About The Beatles Abbey Road Medley

the beatles abbey road medley a collection of songs that has to be one of the most integral moments in rock and roll history you never give me your money sun king and so many more unfinished songs strung together brilliantly to create the iconic end to one of the beatles most celebrated albums today it gives me great joy to show you 10 very interesting facts about the beatles abbey road medley the long one kicking off the abbey road medley in perfect beatles fashion is wouldn't you know a micro medley containing three unfinished songs paul mccartney had composed for the sake of clarity we'll title these pieces you never give me your money out of college and one sweet dream unlike john lennon and george harrison paul didn't usually write songs about his life specifically yes of course he did make a few like hey jude for john's son julian and penny lane about his childhood but while john had songs like in my life a day in the life and julia touching upon deep-rooted personal experiences paul enjoyed concentrating on creative narratives that were fictitious paul's lyricism wasn't often literal and he recalls george harrison commenting on paul's ability to author a story from nothing stating i remember george once saying to me i couldn't write songs like that he writes more from personal experience jon's style was to show the naked truth if i was a painter i'd probably mask things a little bit more than some people but during the time of abbey road with an imminent disbanding looming for the beatles paul elects to take a more literal approach to you never give me your money which is a direct reference to the business turmoil the lads were going through in 1969 with a bit of a mask to hide anything overt after marrying linda eastman in march 1969 and spending three weeks in new york meeting his new in-laws in april that year paul begins the tune about his perspective on money troubles paul says this was me directly lambasting alan klein's attitude to us no money just funny paper all promises and it never works out it's basically a song about no faith in the person that found its way into the medley on abbey road john saw the humor in it george harrison continues this explanation of funny paper saying that's what we get we get bits of paper saying how much we earned and what this and that is but we never actually get it in pounds shillings and pens we've all got a big house and a car and office but to actually get the money we've earned seems impossible you never give me your money is i think all these business meetings that we had to go through to sort out the past it came out in paul's song the second segment of the song out of college goes on to comment on the success of the beatles and their ascension into fame and fortune getting the sack from a job you despise and the magic feeling of finally attaining your dreams on paul's original lyrics scrolled on a piece of paper we can see that nowhere to go is spelled with a k for no like knowing where to go indicating out of the misery of business issues paul finds a silver lining and thus leads us into the most uplifting part of the song once we dream which just has the most fantastic story behind it shifting gear and quite literally getting away this segment of the song depicts a true habit of paul and linda as they quite enjoyed getting into a car on their own and getting lost in the countryside to escape london linda concurs by saying as a kid i love getting lost i would say to my father let's get lost then when i moved to england to be with paul we would put martha in the back of the car and drive out of london as soon as we were on the open road i'd say let's get lost and we'd keep driving without looking at any signs and finally the little phrase one two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven is a children's jump rope rhyme that was certainly around during the beatles childhoods but it could have easily been inspired by linda's daughter heather to paul the full poem goes one two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven when you get there god will say where's that book you stole away if you say i don't know he will send you down below where everything is red hot peppers one two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven when you get there angels say your school name children right this way being perhaps the inception of the idea for george harrison's here comes the sun while john could be heard in the studio singing here comes the sun woe the sun on the proto version of sun king before george had written here comes the sun john had been working on sun king for weeks but it just never found itself complete as their schedule was full to the brim songwriting time must have been very hard to find for the beatles serendipitously paul inquires if jon had any partial unfinished songs for his medley concept on the second side of abby road john agrees mentioning it just seemed like the easier option than attempting to actually finish it john says it was just half a song i had which i had never finished which was one way of getting rid of it without ever finishing it then in the medley we just wanted a change of atmosphere and here comes the sun king why not and here he comes and everybody's happy and cuando para mucho etc not without mentioning later that it was quote a piece of garbage i had laying around john had alluded to the idea that the song came to him in a dream not uncommon for our beatles seeing that let it be came to paul in his dreams john being an avid reader was perhaps influenced by nancy mitford's book entitled the sun king it's possible john after reading the book dreamt of the king in his palace seeing everyone laughing everyone happy a fan favorite of the song is the use of spanish interludes full of errant phrases the lads knew john says you know singing cuando para mucho so we just made it up paul knew a few spanish words from school you know so we just strung any spanish words that sounded vaguely like something and of course we got chica ferdi in that's a liverpool expression just like sort of it doesn't mean anything just like chica ferry is a scouse dialect phrase as john said to taunt other children paul hilariously remarks on this term by saying there was a thing in liverpool that us kids used to do which is instead of saying [ __ ] off we would say chica ferry in that song we just kind of made up things and we were all in on the joke we were thinking that nobody would know what it meant and most people would think oh it must be spanish or something but we got a little seditious word in there written in the spring of 1968 in india by john mean mr mustard was actually in consideration for the beatles previous white album but never made it there instead it found itself recorded back to back with sunken i personally adore this song which i'm sure many of you do as well however john really didn't seem to feel the same way as you'll see in this next quote john says it mean mr mustard i said his sister pam originally it was his sister shirley in the lyric i changed it to pam to make it sound like it had something to do with polythene pam they are only finished bits of crap that i wrote in india that's me writing a piece of garbage i'd read somewhere in the newspaper about this mean guy who had five pound notes not up his nose but somewhere else no it had nothing to do with cocaine in that article we can see direct lyrical influences such as this excerpt that john must have read mean husband who shaved and went to bed in the dark to save light he also insisted that the lights be turned off while he and his wife were listening to the radio because it was not necessary to see in order to listen of course this inspired the lyrics shaves in the dark trying to save paper firstly i don't know what it is about this song but it's one of my favorite beatles songs to work out to it's got such a fantastic groove really gets you going but it's story is even more intriguing again born in india in 1968 by john john tells the tale of a sexually liberated woman that was inspired by two separate people one being pat dawson with the sober cave polythene pat with a t and the other was b poet royce and ellis's girlfriend stephanie how pat got that nickname has got to be one of the most bizarre facts you'll hear today probably polythene is plastic and while pat liked to eat plastic she was also an early adopter and friend of the beatles when she was a child pat says i started going to see the beatles in 1961 when i was 14 and got quite friendly with them if they were playing out of town they'd give me a lift back home in their van it was about the same time that i started getting called polythene pat it's embarrassing really i just used to eat polythene all the time i tie it into knots and then eat it sometimes i even used to burn it and then eat it when it got cold then i had a friend who got a job in a polythene bag factory which was wonderful because it meant i had a constant supply okay and the second was a bit more shall we say fetishy john remarks on meeting poet royson ellis and his girlfriend stephanie for what might have been a particularly groovy night for john john says that was me remembering a little event with a woman and a man who was england's answer to alan ginsberg who gave us our first exposure this is so long you can't deal with all of this you see everything triggers amazing memories i met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and i had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet he said she dressed in polythene which she did she didn't wear jack boots and kilts i just sort of elaborated perverted sex in a polythene bag just looking for something to write about in august 1963 the couple invited john to their apartment and the three wore polythene and shared a bed for that evening but before you start getting ideas this quote by the poet put their evening in better perspective he says we read all these things about leather and we didn't have any leather but i had my oil skins and we had some polythene bags from somewhere we all dressed up in them and wore them in bed john stayed the night with us in the same bed i don't think anything very exciting happened and we all wondered what the fun was in being kinky it was probably more my idea than john's polythene pam and she came in through the bathroom window were recorded as one in july 1969 inspired by some mischievous fans known as the apple scruffs when paul would vacate his london home these kids would literally break into his house and steal his stuff jesus christ that's terrifying anyway it's believed that some fans found a ladder in his garden and used it to launch themselves through his bathroom window on one occasion stealing a photo that paul held dear to his heart he even expressed that he would like it returned because of its sentimental value i don't think it has been but i'm not sure it should also be mentioned that the moody blues keyboardist mike pinder told paul a story about a girl sneaking into their bandmates ray thomas's room and spending the night with him perhaps it's a blend of the two furthermore john lennon asserts that maybe it was actually about linda saying that's paul's song he wrote that when we were in new york announcing apple and we first met linda maybe she is the one that came in through the window i don't know somebody came in through the window but that's pretty vague for the quitting of the police department in the song paul mentions that after his two-week stay in new york in a taxi heading to jfk airport the final verse just fell in his lap paul says so i got so i quit the police department which are part of the lyrics to that this was the great thing about the randomness of it all if i hadn't been in this guy's cab or if it had been someone else driving the song would have been different also i had a guitar there so i could solidify it into something straight away inspired by an elizabethan poet thomas decker's poem cradle song that was in paul's stepsister ruth's piano book paul begins to put music to the lyrics that weren't in the actual tune because he couldn't read the music paul says i was flicking through it and came to golden slumbers i can't read music and i couldn't remember the old tomb so i just started playing my own tune to it i liked the words so i kept them and it fitted with another bit of the song i had that was a 400 year old poem and it was set to music by peter warlock in the early 1920s recorded together with golden slumbers carry that weight was yet another mccartney reference to the issues going on in the group even though it was just an uproariously uplifting powerhouse of a tomb paul says i'm generally quite upbeat but at certain times things get to me so much i can't be upbeat anymore and that was one of those times we were taking so much acid and doing so much drugs and all this klein [ __ ] was going on and getting crazier and crazier and crazier carry that weight a long time like forever that's what i meant oh man this has got to be one of my absolute favorite beatles song ever and it really is down to how aesthetic i am over ringo's drum part he hated doing drum solos and to be honest i'm usually not a big fan of them either but just the way he composed it was just so special i mean you can literally sing this entire drum part that's not usually the case with drum solos without counting her majesty this would have been the final song in the album as the beatles exit the medley jeff emrick recalls the work it took to get ringo to do that drum solo jeff says the thing that always amused me was how much persuasion it took to get ringo to play that solo usually you have to try to talk drummers out of doing solos he didn't want to do it but everybody said no no it'll be fantastic so he gave in and turned in a bloody marvelous performance it took a while to get right and i think paul helped with some ideas but it's fantastic i always want to hear more that's how good it is it's so musical it's not just a drummer going off and we can't forget about the smashing duel and guitar solos each one representative of john george and paul's different playing styles jeff continues the idea for guitar solos was very spontaneous and everybody said yes definitely well except for george who was a little apprehensive at first but he saw how excited john and paul were so he went along with it truthfully i think they rather like the idea of playing together not really trying to outdo one another per se but engaging in some real musical bonding yoko was about to go into the studio with john this was commonplace by now and he actually told her no not now let me just do this it'll just take a minute that surprised me a bit maybe he felt like he was returning to his roots with the boys who knows paul wanted to end the song with something meaningful so in shakespearean fashion he wrote one of the most beautiful pieces of lyrics the beatles have ever created and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make and of course john lennon was enamored with that line but as is the case with john he couldn't help but get in a little jab at paul john says that's paul again the unfinished song right we're on abbey road just a piece at the end he had a line in it and in the end the love you get is equal to the love you give which is a very cosmic philosophical line which again proves that if he wants to he can think john is notorious for his critical comments on the beatles music including his own songs so his perspective on the medley can't be neglected in this video john says abby road was really unfinished songs all stuck together everybody praises the album so much but none of the songs had anything to do with each other no thread at all only the fact that we stuck them together i like the a-side i never liked that sort of pop opera on the other side i think it's junk it was just bits of songs thrown together and i can't remember what some of it is come together is all right and some things on it it was a competent album like rubber soul it was together in that way but it had no life really although john had his issues with the medley it has to be one of the most integral events to the entirety of the beatles catalog proving an unfinished song by the beatles could carry with it enough charm and talent to create a musical menagerie on the b side of an album each one having so much history and storytelling behind it it truly shows the power of songwriting when you think outside of the box and we are all so grateful man abby rose such an incredible album and such a phenomenal medley i wanted to thank you all for supporting the channel and getting us to a hundred thousand subscribers can you believe it a hundred that's incredible and i'm just really just words don't cover it a little bit about me my family's from trinidad and tobago which is a tiny island off the coast of venezuela my parents without a nickel in their pocket immigrated with my brother to the states and had me my dad often tells me without provocation that i was unplanned i grew up in the bronx in the 90s and we were quite poor so poor in fact that we all had to sleep in the same bed till i was five or six years old however being the determined people they were my parents achieved great success and altered the course of our family somehow or another before high school i managed to have not a single friend in the world so i spent a lot of time on my own practicing music my parents exposed me to the music of their generation the beatles cat stevens eagles and i found comfort in the optimistic vibe of the 60s i was a poor student my favorite class in catholic school was religion mostly because i enjoy discussing philosophy and the humanity of people i learned to sing in that church i attended one of the most prestigious performing arts high schools in the northern hemisphere laguardia in manhattan for theater often nicknamed the fame school which has alumni ranging from robert de niro al pacino and all the way to adrian brody i was a professional actor doing commercials off-broadway performances and a few stints on network television through the course of life that was ripped away from me and i found myself in the suburbs of florida i met the love of my life at a play i would marry her years later at a zoo i started a band then another then another we got close to something working with a six-time grammy award-winning producer who took us under his wing but when the veil came down he turned out to be a fiend so i abandoned shipped and this resulted in years of working at my father's business fixing cars new york acting music it was just a distant dream the person i was and the promise i had made to my childhood self i'd failed to fulfill i asked for a sign and was greeted with a catastrophic panic attack that upended my life i went on a long road trip across the country to find myself in my old mustang and when i came back i started this channel and that brings us to today we bought a forest and an antique home a train ride away from manhattan so i could pursue acting all over again but unfortunately for most of us the virus has put the brakes on this endeavor for now but i made a new promise to myself that i knew i could accomplish is that whatever it is i'm looking for i promise i'm going to die trying to find it so that's the story of me and here are some of my favorite clips from the channel we've done a few covers [Music] daddy come home [Music] i'll keep all the others now she's a kind of girl who throw my love away [Music] but i still love it so don't let me know down at me now [Music] all your lies you were only waiting for this moment to be free blackbird fly a few scenes they were so upset over the whole yoko thing and the fact that i was becoming as creative and dominating as i had been in the early days i still had this god will save us feeling about it and it's going to be all right [Music] that's why i didn't i wanted to talk [Music] i wanted to say my piece about revolution i i wanted to tell you or whoever's listening i wanted to say what do you say this is what i say the yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes licked its tongue into the corners of the evening lingered upon the pools that stand in drains let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys slipped by the terrace made a sudden leap and seeing that it was a soft october night curled once about the house and fell [Music] asleep [Music] work with some of my best friends having a laugh they're undisputed masterpieces tax man a song so catchy most people probably don't listen to the lyrics release an album [Music] [Applause] [Music] and been to many places i'd like to thank my brothers rishi and josh my mother and father and my wife's parents best friends brad for being my scene partner dan for producing my music and steph for putting us on the abbey road wall leah robbins our contributing author and social media manager and of course my lovely wife lindsay who is literally the only reason this was possible i thank you all for this opportunity to share my music my interests and the community that has welcomed me regardless of my many shortcomings i don't know what the future has in store for me but whatever it is i know i won't have to face it alone i hope you enjoyed the video and thank you once more for this incredible milestone see you next time [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Tue Sep 15 2020