1. The album cover was created by Klaus Voormen who also played bass. He played on both George Harrison and John Lennon records.
2. The beautiful 3 part harmony behind " Here, There and Everywhere" was created by George Martin. ( like a lot of other musical moments )
3. The sound effects in " Tomorrow Never Knows" were created with loops of tape created by the Beatles on their own. They were actually 20 or 30 second loops that played some weird sound over and over. This song had many of these incorporated into the track.
4. George Harrison came up with the line " Ah....Look at all the lonely people " hook for " Eleanor Rigby.
5. McCartney was influenced by The Loving Spoonful song " Daydream" and wrote " Good Day Sunshine. There's even a bootleg tape that has Lennon and McCartney trying to figure out the chords to the Spoonful song.
6. The strings in Eleanor Rigby had no reverb and lots of compression. Very unusual. McCartney also wanted no vibrato played by the musicians, but some had to be used to avoid sounding amateurish.
7. Here' There and Everywhere was influenced by the Beach Boys.
8 , Yellow Submarine was written for Ringo to sing by McCartney and Lennon. ( mostly McCartney ) They wrote less than an octave of notes so it would be easier to sing. Donavan helped with some of the lyrics.
9. None of the Beatles voices were used for the film's speaking parts. ( actors instead)
10. Marianne Faithfull , Patti Boyd ( George's wife at the time) and Rolling Stone's Brian Jones provided background voices for Yellow Submarine. ( song)
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Way cool!
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