Girl (The Beatles song)
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| "Girl" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| from the album Rubber Soul | ||
| Released | December 3, 1965 | |
| Recorded | November 11, 1965 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 2:33 | |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| Writer(s) | John Lennon (Lennon-McCartney) | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Rubber Soul track listing | ||
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"Girl" is a Lennon/McCartney song, mainly written by John Lennon,[1][2] which was first released in 1965 on the Beatles' album Rubber Soul, and was the last complete song recorded for it.[3][4] The song's lyrics describe a girl the singer loves, but with misgivings: "She's the kind of girl who puts you down / When friends are there, you feel a fool."
Backing the bridges is a refrain sung by Lennon while Paul McCartney and George Harrison repeatedly sing a syllable for vocal percussion ("tit-tit-tit-tit") as a joke.[2][3] The deep breaths in the chorus were rumoured to have symbolised taking a long inhalation (drag) off of a marijuana joint.[5]
According to McCartney, he wrote the lines "Was she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure" and "That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure."[2]
In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine on 5 December 1980, Lennon said his 1980 song "[Woman] reminds me of a Beatles track, but I wasn't trying to make it sound like that. I did it as I did 'Girl' many years ago. So this is the grown-up version of 'Girl.'"[6] ("Woman" was the second single released from the Double Fantasy album, and the first Lennon single issued after his death on 8 December 1980.)
[edit] Credits
- John Lennon – lead vocal, acoustic guitar
- Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass guitar
- George Harrison – lead acoustic guitar
- Ringo Starr – drums
[edit] November 1977
In November 1977, Capitol Records scheduled the US release of "Girl" backed with "You're Going to Lose That Girl" as a single (Capitol 4506) to accompany the release of Love Songs, a Beatles' compilation album that contains both of these songs. However, the single was cancelled before it was issued.
[edit] Notes
- ^ David Sheff (interview) (2000). All We Are Saying. New York: St. Martin's Press, 197. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.
- ^ a b c Barry Miles (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 275-276. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6.
- ^ a b Mark Lewisohn (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books, 68. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- ^ Ian MacDonald (1994). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 145. ISBN 0-8050-2780-7.
- ^ Mark Hertsgaard (1995). A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles. New York: Delacorte Press, 154. ISBN 0-385-31377-2.
- ^ Jonathan Cott (1980-12-05). 1980 Rolling Stone Interview with John Lennon. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on October 27, 2006.
