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[edit] Lyrics

I can't find anything in the lyrics for most of those references... Anthony DiPierro 05:12, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Love

Mike Love is hinted to cowrite this song-especially the "Well the Ukraine Girls" part. How come there is no mention of him, even if he didn't?J. M. 13:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Because that would seem to be an unsubstantiated rumor...nothing I've ever read on the song says that anyone but McCartney had a hand in the composition. Compare "Helter Skelter" on the same album: a Who-like song with no Who involvement. --Stlemur 18:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] McCartney never performed the song live until he headlined at Glastonbury 2004?

I mentioned this to some friends of mine & most of them seem to remember Paul playing this at a gig in Red Square, years before Glastonbury 2004.. Can anyone confirm? Vanky 16:22, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I can at least say that he performed it in 2002 during his "Back in the US" tour. That can be verified by the live album from the show. The Glastonbury thing seems slightly dubious to me.

I went to one of his concerts in 2002 too, and I remember him performing it there. Andrea Parton 16:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of anagram line

I took the liberty of removing the line that dealt with an anagram of the title being "sick sunbather". This is rather arbitrary as there are literally thousands of anagrams that can be drawn from these letters. For instance: "rehab sick nuts". I refered to the Internet Anagram Server for this.

[edit] i've got blisters on my fingers

according to the article on Helter_Skelter, this was said after the 18th take of that song, nothing to do with Back in the USSR.. that one is referanced, this one isn't, so i'm removing it. atleast have some consistancy please wikipedia! feel free to revert if some more compelling reasoning is found..

Please sign your posts on talk pages per Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Thanks! Hyacinth 06:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superior beauty of Soviet women

Why does this article uses the line "the "superior" beauty of Soviet women" and not ""the superior beauty of Soviet women"? Where they only joking when they wrote it (?), cause Ukraine actualy has some really good looking woman (Yulia Tymoshenko, Ruslana and my friend Lyudmyla). If nobody comes up with proof Paul McCartney meant it as a parody I will remeove the ""'s. Cause I find it a bit insulting and arrogant otherwise...that's not what Wikipedia is about! Mariah-Yulia 00:56, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

• Agreed. My initial thought when I read that was that it was sarcastic, as if either the song used it sarcastically or the editors of this article disagreed with the notion that Soviet women could be superior (which wouldn't matter as this isn't their opinion for which we're looking, but rather the song's message). UnKnown X 03:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drums?

Is there any evidence supporting that George and John recorded drums for that one as well? As far as I know the only one playing drums (and lead guitar) was Paul.

[edit] 'Georgia on My Mind' refers to the US state?

In this article it is stated that 'Georgia on My Mind' refers to the US state, but on the Georgia on My Mind article I find the following:

While the song's namesake is popularly mistaken as the State of Georgia, it was actually written for Hoagy's sister Georgia Carmichael.

This seems somewhat inconsistent. Dash 06:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)