On the subsequent single, Lennon only sang " out. And if you needed any more proof of the Beatles' greatness: "Revolution," which would have been a career highlight for thousands of bands, was relegated to the B-side. The A-side was " Hey Jude ," which stayed at No. Home News. Dave Lifton Published: August 26, Watch the Beatles Perform 'Revolution'.
Or rather just before the ascending line. This is my favorite version of Revolution. If you listen to the Esher demos, John plays Revolution at a pretty snappy tempo, so maybe even then and even in an acoustic context this tempo was what seemed natural to him.
Regarding the group contretemps over releasing or deciding not to release Revolution 1 as a single, it really would have been far out and Solomonic to have put out both versions on the same single.
Although I think the uptempo Revolution is the more commercial and indeed I like it better it would have been mind-blowing to make it the B side. Wind down Rev 1 with the fade out, then flip it over and that screaming riff and screaming scream, hello! Has anyone heard another version of Revolution? Where can I get this version? I just heard it today on satellite radio. Brilliant John Lennon song. Funnily enough Nicky Hopkins played on both songs. What a brilliant musician he was.
Great song, great recording. Also shows what a great rhythm player Lennon was. His riffs and voicings keep you riveted the whole way through. Iconic song. Has to be the best double-A side record of all time. Both versions of Revolution are valid. The laid back, almost lounge version is darker, more biting than the loud one, actually. The single version is pure street, dirty and gritty. Both work. Take nothing John Lennon did at face value.
He was a brilliant man. The mind was always spinning. Was John on heroin at this point? There is no better version of Revolution. They are all great. I love watching John on YouTube with the starting riff then the Beatles come in. Trebly, buzzing like mosquitoes on meth, thin sound, all the wrong harmonics. Smooth, but crunchy distortion.
I wanted to put out what I felt about revolution. We recorded the song twice. The Beatles were getting real tense with each other. We got into distortion on that, which we had a lot of complaints from the technical people about. Well, we went to the limit and beyond.
But because they were so upset over the Yoko thing and the fact that I was becoming as creative and dominating as I had been in the early days, after lying fallow for a couple of years, it upset the applecart.
Join the Fab Forum discussion on Revolution ». Latest Comments. BeatleMark Wednesday 2 December Joseph Brush Wednesday 16 December Vonbontee Monday 24 January And the new Beatles album. We had you in mind! Instead, the single featured a new, faster version, with heavily distorted guitar and an electric piano solo from Nicky Hopkins.
From the US press release :. They are the message, are the medium. They have written and produced two sides for this new single which you know, you know beyond the thinnest wisp of a shadow of a doubt, will engage the most profound admiration from the public, from the industry, from those in other groups, who strive to match the Beatles achievements. This is the new Beatle peace — with strength message, with the voices forced out of the grooves by a backing as new for Capitol now as Strawberry Fields was for then.
The Beatles are without peer. Their music is magnificent. It can be said again and again as they sing and sing it again. The four first Apple singles were:.
In the US, a different press kit was sent to radios. The kits were packaged in white envelopes with an Apple logo in the upper left corner serving as the return address. The post mark indicated that the package cost a then hefty eighty cents to air mail. The lucky recipients of these envelopes would be among the first people in America to see and hear what the Beatles new Apple venture was all about. Upon ripping open the envelope, the recipient encountered a glossy cream colored folder with a large Apple logo on its front side.
Inside was a treasure of sound, visuals and text. In contrast to the white envelope and folder were four distinguished-looking black center cut record sleeves. Peeking out of the center of each sleeve was a record label covered with a Granny Smith green apple.
The sleeves were not the only thing different about the singles. While most records had the same label design on both sides, these discs had a full green apple on one side and a sliced apple was its exposed white innards on the other side.
The singles also had something new to most Americans — a slip guard consisting of interlocking serations surrounding the label. Although the tiny grooves appeared to be an innovation of Apple, several British labels had been pressing discs with slip guards for years. By coincidence, Capitol had re-tooled its pressing plants for slip guard singles at the beginning of the month, so the Apple singles were among the first Capitol manufactured titles to take on the new look.
The Beatles are represented by their cartoon images from the Yellow Submarine film. Jackie Lomax and the lovely looking Mary Hopkin are each featured in vertical pictures.
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