The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life”
The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” Were we to take bets on the single most widely heard alarm clock, the one included on the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” would surely be a popular choice. It comes, you’ll recall, at the beginning of the song’s middle section, when Paul takes over from John and sings about waking up, combing his hair, catching a bus, and having a smoke. Given the lyrics’ subject matter, its inclusion seems natural, and even like one of the most straightforwardly explicable choices in the entire recording. In fact, the alarm clock was never meant to stay in the mix: the band’s assistant Mal Evans set it off as a gag after doing a placeholder count of 24 measures in the middle of the sessions, but it just happened to work perfectly with the form the song eventually took. That’s just one of the fortuitous accidents music YouTuber David Hartley recounts in the video above, on the complete making of “
About John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. Born in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. In 1956, he formed the Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. He initially was the group's de facto le...
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