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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) Needs sections, copyediting (reads like a list in places), citations, expansion if possible. --kingboyk 23:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Release date

Evidently January 1971, must refer to England, because here in the U.S. this single was released In Novemebr 1970. It was number one by Christmas 1970. -- Tom A. Roberts

[edit] Clapton on guitar?

A new addition to the article says Clapton played guitar. I know he played on the album but was he on this song? Sounds like George's lead (stylistically), and acoustics, to me. I don't have my CD with me so I can't check the sleeve notes. Anyone? --kingboyk 15:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[1] says it's true, but I'll reword it to remove the, er, humour, I suppose you'd call it. At a push. --Cherry blossom tree 22:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It's still bothering me. Clapton may have played on the track, but it's not one of his famous contributions. Why is it in the first line of the intro? Why are the other session musicians not listed? The emphasis on Clapton makes it seem that it was a Harrison/Clapton collaboration, but as far as I know he was just a (very famous and highly esteemed) session guy. --kingboyk 19:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Clapton may be on guitar. He did do some takes on the song, but I don't know whether these were used or not. --Tom A. Roberts

[edit] WikiProject:The Beatles

Added info box and a cover image.--Dakota ~ ° 06:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Did some expansion concerning the suit and royalties on adopted article.--Dakota ~ ° 02:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This is the "First Beatles single to #1 on both sides of the Atlantic" ??

Is that correct? It sounds wrong somehow. Could it be first POST Beatles single by a Beatle to hit #1 ? The Beatles had a LOT of #1s I thought... See 20_Greatest_Hits and 1 (album) all hits that hit #1 somewhere. (but maybe?? none that were both?) There is another source for this data but I can't think of the article title off hand. Nice work on the cleanup overall! ++Lar: t/c 06:24, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

It was wrong. You are right (first post breakup single by a Beatle is right). I reworded it. Harrison was an interesting person.--Dakota ~ ° 07:39, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cryptomnesia as replacement for "unintentionally plagiarized"

cryptomnesia seems like it's not necessarily the only replacement for unintentionally plagiarized.. (ised) so I suggest we consider not using the term unless we have a cite that it was that specific condition that caused the issue. ++Lar: t/c 10:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

You beat me to it Lar. It's a lovely word (a new one for me), and if that's what happened, great. However, I've only ever heard it referred to as "unconscious plagiarism". It might have been cryptomnesia, or it might have been that by sheer coincidence he wrote the same melody. I don't know which it was. --kingboyk 10:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

It's actually quite relevant to Yesterday (song), which was in fact a McCartney original but it came to him in his sleep and he didn't know if it was someone else's tune or not :) --kingboyk 10:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sections tag

Right after I added a bit of length to this article, someone added a tag saying it needs to be divided into sections. I actually thought of that as I was adding the material, but now that I look at the article again, I am not sure how you would do it. You could have two sections (after the first paragraph), and the second section could be called "Legal Controversy" but I am not sure what the first section would be called. If you try to divide the information after the first paragraph but before the lawsuit information into more than one additional section (for a total of three or more), some of the sections would be only a few lines long, and would look silly. It might be better to leave it as it is. 6SJ7 00:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

The songs riff was used in the Oasis Song Supersonic. This sounds like original reasearch, and if there is no citation added it should be deleted.