| "Wild Honey Pie" | ||||
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| Song by The Beatles
from the album The Beatles |
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| Released | 22 November 1968 | |||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 20 August 1968 |
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| Genre | Experimental rock | |||
| Length | 0:52 | |||
| Label | Apple Records | |||
| Writer | Lennon/McCartney | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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"Wild Honey Pie" is a short song by The Beatles written by Paul McCartney[1] (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and released on The Beatles (also known as The White Album).
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Background
McCartney is the sole performer on the recording.[2][3][4] John Lennon and Ringo Starr were working on other White Album songs, and George Harrison was on holiday in Greece.[3]
McCartney said of this song: "We were in an experimental mode, and so I said, 'Can I just make something up?' I started off with the guitar and did a multitracking experiment in the control room or maybe in the little room next door. It was very home-made; it wasn't a big production at all. I just made up this short piece and I multitracked a harmony to that, and a harmony to that, and a harmony to that, and built it up sculpturally with a lot of vibrato on the [guitar] strings, really pulling the strings madly. Hence, 'Wild Honey Pie', which was a reference to the other song I had written called 'Honey Pie'."[1]
According to McCartney the song might have been excluded from The Beatles album, but Pattie Boyd "liked it very much so we decided to leave it on the album."[4]
Personnel
- Paul McCartney – vocals, acoustic guitars, percussion
- Credits per Ian MacDonald[2]
Cover versions
The song has been covered by:
- Pixies in 1988, included on their 1998 album Pixies at the BBC.
- Part Chimp - they recorded the song in 2005 for BBC Radio 1's anniversary of John Lennon's death.[5]
- Blue October borrowed the spanish-sounding guitar tune at the end of the song (leading into Bungalow Bill) in the beginning of their song Overweight.
- Phish in 1994 on Halloween in New York
Notes
- ^ a b Miles 1997, p. 497.
- ^ a b MacDonald 2005, p. 309.
- ^ a b Lewisohn 1988, p. 150.
- ^ a b Harry 2000, p. 1151.
- ^ "Part Chimp News". http://www.partchimp.com/news.html. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
References
- Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2.
- Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised Edition ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
- Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6.
External links
- Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Wild Honey Pie"
- Quotes on "Wild Honey Pie" and other tracks on The Beatles album
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