Wild Honey Pie
| "Wild Honey Pie" | ||||
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| Song by the Beatles from the album The Beatles | ||||
| Released | 22 November 1968 | |||
| Recorded |
20 August 1968, EMI Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Experimental rock, avant-garde, psychedelic folk[1] | |||
| Length | 0:52 | |||
| Label | Apple Records | |||
| Writer | Lennon–McCartney | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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"Wild Honey Pie" is a short song by the Beatles written by Paul McCartney[2] (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released on The Beatles (also known as the White Album).
Background
McCartney is the sole performer on the recording.[3][4][5] John Lennon and Ringo Starr were working on other White Album songs, and George Harrison was on holiday in Greece.[4]
McCartney said of this song: "We were in an experimental mode, and so I said, 'Can I just make something up?' I started off with the guitar and did a multitracking experiment in the control room or maybe in the little room next door. It was very home-made; it wasn't a big production at all. I just made up this short piece and I multitracked a harmony to that, and a harmony to that, and a harmony to that, and built it up sculpturally with a lot of vibrato on the [guitar] strings, really pulling the strings madly. Hence, 'Wild Honey Pie', which was a reference to the other song I had written called 'Honey Pie'."[2]
According to McCartney the song might have been excluded from The Beatles album, but Pattie Boyd "liked it very much so we decided to leave it on the album."[5]
Personnel
- Personnel per Ian MacDonald[3]
Cover versions
The song has been covered by:
- Pixies in 1988, included on their 1998 album Pixies at the BBC.
- Part Chimp - they recorded the song in 2005 for BBC Radio 1's anniversary of John Lennon's death.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Athitakis, Mark (September–October 2013). "A Beatles Reflection". Humanities 34 (5). National Endowment of the Humanities. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Miles 1997, p. 497.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 MacDonald 2005, p. 309.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lewisohn 1988, p. 150.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Harry 2000, p. 1151.
- ↑ PartChimp.com 2007.
References
- Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2.
- Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised Edition ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-84413-828-3.
- Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now. New York: Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6.
- "Part Chimp News". PartChimp.com. 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2007.
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