Girl (The Beatles song)
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| "Girl" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| from the album Rubber Soul | ||
| Released | December 3, 1965 | |
| Recorded | November 11, 1965 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 2:33 | |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| Writer(s) | John Lennon (Lennon-McCartney) | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Rubber Soul track listing | ||
| What Goes On (8) |
"Girl" (9) |
I'm Looking Through You (10) |
"Girl" is a Lennon/McCartney song, mainly written by John Lennon, which was first released on the 1965 Beatles' album Rubber Soul.
Backing the bridges is a refrain sung by John Lennon while Paul McCartney and George Harrison repeatedly sing a syllable for vocal percussion ("tit-tit-tit-tit") as a joke. The deep breaths in the chorus were rumoured to have symbolised taking a drug.
According to McCartney he wrote the line "a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure".[1]
In November 1977, Capitol Records scheduled the US release of "Girl" backed with "You're Going to Lose That Girl" as a single (Capitol 4506) to accompany the release of Love Songs, a Beatles' compilation album that contains both of these songs. However, the single was cancelled before it was issued.
In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine on December 5, 1980, Lennon said his 1980 song "Woman" was a "grown-up version" of "Girl".[2] "Woman" was the second single released from the Double Fantasy album, and the first Lennon single issued after his death on December 8, 1980.
[edit] References
- ^ Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now; Barry Miles; Henry Holt and Company, Inc 1997
- ^ 1980 Rolling Stone Interview with John Lennon by Jonathan Cott. Retrieved on October 27, 2006.
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