Posted on 02/24/2009 10:17:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise
A previously unreleased version of The Beatles' 'Revolution 1' has found its way online.
The recording, which is supposedly 'Take 20' of the song, is available to listen to via a YouTube link below.
'Take 20' of the song is notable, as it appears to bridge the gap between The Beatles' 'Revolution 1' and 'Revolution 9'.
The main difference in the 'new' version of 'Revolution 1' and the version of the same song that appeared on 'The Beatles' (commonly known as 'The White Album') is the track's length. The unreleased version is a full seven minutes longer than its released counterpart.
Lyrically and structure-wise, the song doesn't differ wildly from the released version, although the entire second half of the unreleased version is made up of tape loops, vocal effects and studio trickery - some of which appears to have been sampled by The Beatles for use on their sample-heavy 'Revolution 9' track, which also appears on 'The White Album'.
'Take 20' of the song begins with the band talking in the studio, where John Lennon is heard saying "Take your knickers off and let's go" in a high-pitched voice.
The band then begin playing the song.
Although 'Revolution 1 (Take 20)' soon mutates into five minutes of assorted backwards singing and screaming from the band, the drums, guitars and George Harrison's vocal of "Om-shooby-do-wop" still remain throughout.
Towards the ten-minute mark, the song breaks down into a barrage of speech and from John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Blogs across the internet are hosting the song, with some fans hailing it as 'the holy grail' of unreleased material.
However, it is yet to be officially confirmed as being authentic.
“Turn me on dead man”. There. I proved Paul is dead!
TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?
JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
http://beatlesnumber9.com/lostlennon.html
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John Lennon lyrics - Power To The People
Album: Shaved Fish
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
A million workers working for nothing
You better give 'em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Now, now, now, now
Oh well, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
http://johnlennon.lyrics.info/powertothepeople.html
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Back In The USSR Song Lyrics
by The Beatles:
http://www.songlyrics.com/the-beatles/back-in-the-ussr/169721/
they suck
How long until I come down?
Beattallica is better. “Enter Taxman” is a hoot.
Did their business guru Aspinwall die recently? I am sure this was leaked to stir up interest in a new album. I bought that Love compilation which was remixes for the Circuq Soliel circus and it pretty much sucked. I did not like the remixes.
What George Martin was able to do with a 4-track tape recorder on the original stuff was pretty amazing.
Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings!?
Soon to be heard on an elevator near you!
(chuckle)
absolutley love about 80% of their music....couldnt care less about 10% and hated 10%.
I really hated their politics....
but the music is timeless.
To quote Dennis Leary, “What kind of country is this where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f’ing bullet? Explain THAT to me!”
At least Lennon recognized that “Revolution” - the Single Version - was a very counter-revolutionary song. ‘If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.’ ‘Taxman’ is also a great conservative protest song.
commie enemy combatants.
LOL, never heard that one.
The only thing worse than RAM, was RAM on 8-Track.
Bono's role model.
$10,000 question....What does “Beatles” mean?
“Help!” was made offshore as a tax-holiday for the boys to escape the British tax system. Hypocrites one and all. Never did explain to Pete Best why he was kicked out of the band. All that talk of peace and love and Paul & John only ever got together 2 nights (to do some blow in the studio with Stevie Wonder) after the Beatles broke up.
Nice of them to talk of putting difference aside and singing Kumbaya when they couldn’t even mend their own friendships.
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