I've Got a Feeling
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| "I've Got a Feeling" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| from the album Let It Be | ||
| Released | May 8, 1970 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 3:37 | |
| Label | Apple, EMI | |
| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Let It Be track listing | ||
| "Maggie Mae" (7) |
"I've Got a Feeling" (8) |
"One After 909" (9) |
"I've Got a Feeling" is a song by The Beatles, from the 1970 album Let It Be. It is actually a combination of two unfinished songs strung together: Paul McCartney's "I've Got a Feeling" and John Lennon's "Everybody Had a Hard Year", with the main guitar riff coming from Lennon's unfinished "Watching Rainbows". McCartney's song was written for his girlfriend Linda Eastman, whom he soon married, telling her that she was the girl he had always been looking for. Lennon's song was a litany where every line started with the word "everybody".
While McCartney's song was very optimistic, Lennon had actually had a hard year - he had divorced his wife, Cynthia Powell, he was estranged from his son Julian Lennon, his girlfriend Yoko Ono had a miscarriage, he was arrested for drug possession, and his money was dwindling.
In the film Let It Be, Lennon claims he wrote "Everybody Had a Hard Year" the night before.
The song was covered by Yukio Tanaka, a character in the 2004 Japanese Anime & Manga, Beck.
Pearl Jam covered the song and it is featured on the "covering" bootleg album, the band covered the song around 25 times from 1991 to 1994. Baltimore based jam band The Bridge have recently, as of 2006, included this song as part of their live repertoire.
[edit] External links
- Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "I've Got a Feeling"
- I've Got a Feeling Lyrics
- I've Got a Feeling Tab
- YouTube: Beatles' performance of "I've Got a Feeling" from the rooftop concert, 30 January 1969
[edit] References
Turner, Steve. A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song, Harper, New York: 1994, ISBN 0-06-095065-X
