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The stereo version is the one that is now the most common.

This was released in mono, but in 1971 it was remixed in stereo along with several other tracks for a German version of Magical Mystery Tour. There is actually no guitar on this song at all. Lennon played clavioline and piano on the song and George Harrison played tambourine. This was released as the B-side of “All You Need Is Love.” A few years earlier, Lennon and McCartney gave The Stones a song called “I Wanna Be Your Man,” which was one of their first hits, and helped convince Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that they should write their own songs. McCartney and Lennon returned the favor by singing on The Stones’ “We Love You.”īrian Jones, the guitarist from The Rolling Stones, played an oboe on this. It was used in the 1968 movie, but didn’t appear on the soundtrack. The Beatles started working on this song with the intention of using it on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. Epstein died later in that year when he overdosed on sleeping pills. He was rich, gay and Jewish, but The Beatles never said this was about him. It was rumored that The Beatles sang “Baby you’re a rich fag Jew” as a slur to their manager, Brian Epstein. The Beatles were rich, but they claimed that money was not that important to them. This song is about how everybody can have the things that matter, and it has nothing to do with material possessions. I’ve never read where John admitted it…and if he would have done that…I don’t see him shying away from admitting it.Įddie Kramer…future producer for the Jimi Hendrix played the vibraphone. Whatever is in your head when you listen…it can become that. Near the end of the song legend has it that John sings “Baby, you’re a rich f*g jew” as a reference to Brian Epstein toward the end of the song. On August 7th, 1967, just three weeks after the single was released in the US, George Harrison and entourage decided to make a brief visit to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California, to visit the highly publicized “beautiful people” of the area and played the song on an acoustic after one was produced from a growing crowd. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote parts of this separately and combined it to make one song… something they would repeat on “A Day In The Life.” At one point, the song was called “One Of The Beautiful People.” The cool sounding instrument on this song is the the Clavioline which John plays. I love the bass sound that Paul got on this song. I first heard this on the Magical Mystery Tour album. We have here a Stones- Beatles collaboration…a slight one with Mick Jagger is said to be singing backups to this song.The John and Paul returned the favor on the Stones song We Love You.