Neapolitan

Revolution 9 appears on The Beatles (the White album) where the album is a collection of individual and group efforts. I am not too bothered to the point where I wouldn't considered it a Beatle song because it is mainly a John Lennon track. Yesterday was the first solo effort that made it onto a Beatles album. It is basically Paul McCartney and his Epiphone Texan folk guitar back by a string quartet. Compare it to Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones where members of the band played the instruments: double bass, piano and recorder. Yesterday is not a band effort yet it is still one of the most quintessential Beatles songs. It's one of their most cover songs.

As a band they were always pushing the envelope. The Beatles played a variety of music, even starting when they were a cover bar band. They covered a show tune "Till There Was You". I don't think they deliberately picked it because it was from a Broadway musical number. It was a song Paul like. It was a song they did back in their Hamburg days, even before they were recording albums. It's not the typical Rock song with a I-IV-V chord progression, it's chock full of Jazzy chords. They set to the tune to a Latin rhythm. They did stuff like that because they were fans of music.

I think it would enviable that they eventually get into something like Musique concrète. I know it's a one-off, but that doesn't bother me I didn't see them as a band that really dwell on anything for long. The Beatles didn't stay together for long compared to other bands. When you think of their discography you can't but notice how their music evolved (along with the whole the decade of the 60s).

Tomorrow Never Knows- tape loop for the drum track
Recorded: 6, 7 and 22 April 1966
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - cut-up samples randomly spliced together
Recorded: 17 and 20 February and 28, 29, 31 March 1967
Revolution 9 - sound collage
Recorded: May–June 1968

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