Another Girl
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| "Another Girl" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| from the album Help! | ||
| Released | 6 August 1965 | |
| Recorded | February 15 & February 16, 1965 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 2:04 | |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Help! track listing | ||
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"Another Girl" is a song by the Beatles released in 1965 on the album Help!. The song was written by Paul McCartney[1][2] but credited to Lennon/McCartney. McCartney wrote the song while on vacation in Hammamet, a resort in Tunisia.[1] In the film Help!, McCartney lip-syncs "Another Girl" while standing on a coral reef on Balmoral Island in the Bahamas, and plays a girl in a bikini as if she is a guitar.[1]
McCartney said of this song and other album tracks, "It's a bit much to call them fillers because I think they were a bit more than that, and each one of them made it past the Beatles test. We all had to like it."[1]
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[edit] Recording
The Beatles recorded the song on 15 February 1965 in 1 take, with 10 edits of a George Harrison guitar "flourish" which was not used.[3] The master take was take 1 with a guitar solo overdub by McCartney on 16 February.[3] It was remixed on 18 February and 23 February.[4]
This is one the first Beatle songs in which McCartney plays lead guitar, in addition to his usual bass.[5] Music analyst and critic Ian MacDonald suggests that McCartney may have played lead guitar on "She's a Woman", recorded four months previously.[6] MacDonald and others assign the lead guitar credit to McCartney for "Ticket to Ride", recorded the same day as the first session for "Another Girl," and one day before the lead guitar overdub for it.[7][8]
[edit] Credits
- Paul McCartney — double-tracked lead vocal, bass guitar, lead guitar
- John Lennon — harmony vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar
- George Harrison — harmony vocal, electric rhythm guitar
- Ringo Starr — drums
- Credits per Ian MacDonald[9]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 194. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6.
- ^ Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press, 195. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.
- ^ a b Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books, 54. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- ^ Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions, 55, 56.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, Second Revised Edition, London: Pimlico (Rand), 46-144. ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, 133-134.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, 142.
- ^ Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing, 1074. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head, 145.
