She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
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| "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| from the album Abbey Road | ||
| Released | September 26, 1969 | |
| Recorded | July 9-July 11, August 6, 1968 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 1:57 | |
| Label | Apple Records | |
| Writer(s) | Lennon-McCartney | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Abbey Road track listing | ||
| "Polythene Pam" (12) |
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" (13) |
"Golden Slumbers" (14) |
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" is a song written by Paul McCartney (although credited to Lennon-McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on their album Abbey Road. The subject of the song is a real life event. A fan named Diane Ashley found a ladder in McCartney's garden and used it to climb up to the bathroom window, which was slightly open. "I was the one who climbed up and got in," she says. Diane was surprised to have become the subject of a Beatles song. "I didn't believe it at first, because he'd hated it so much when we broke in. But then I suppose anything can inspire a song, can't it? I know that all his neighbours rang him when they saw we'd got in and I'm sure that gave rise to the lines, 'Sunday's on the phone to Monday/Tuesday's on the phone to me'."
This song was performed directly after "Polythene Pam", the song on the preceding track, without pause. Allegedly, Paul plays lead guitar on this song, while George Harrison plays the bass part.
In 1976, The Bee Gees covered the song for the ephemeral musical documentary All This and World War II.
In the 2006 DVD documentary The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues (DVD UK, released Oct 2006), Mike Pinder, the former keyboard player of Birmingham R'n'B band The Moody Blues, states that the inspiration for the song actually rests with an incident that happened to them - a groupie climbing into an open bathroom window in the bands' home and spending the night with band member Ray Thomas. The next day, Mike and Ray recounted the story to Paul, who - guitar in hand - strummed and sang 'She came in through the bathroom window.....'
Paul McCartney played "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" in his 2005 US Tour in combination with the song "Too Many People" from his solo album Ram
A slower, ethereal version of this song can be heard on the Anthology 3 CD.
[edit] References
- Turner, Steve. A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song, Harper, New York: 1994, ISBN 0-06-095065-X
- Brewer, Jon (director/producer). The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues, DVD UK Ltd, 2006, catalogue number: DVDCASMB002
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