“Nobody I Know,” 74
“Norwegian Wood,” 121-22
“Not a Second Time,” 64-65
“Not Guilty,” 220, 331, 344 , 361
“Nothin’ Shakin’ (But the Leaves on the Trees),” (Eddie Fontaine) 342, 351
“Nowhere Man,” 122-23
“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” 236-37
“Octopus’s Garden,” 287-88 , 329
Off the Ground (solo album by Paul McCartney), 331, 346
“Oh My Love,” 339
“Oh Yoko!” 339
“Oh! Darling,” 287 , 328, 381
“Old Brown Shoe,” 277
On Air — Live at the BBC Volume 2 album, 341, 366
“One After 909,” 265, 324-25 , 365
“One And One Is Two,” 73
“Only a Northern Song,” 274-75
Ono, Yoko, 116, 128, 173, 210, 219, 225-26, 232, 235, 238, 240, 249, 253-54, 259, 266, 275, 278, 281, 302-4, 307, 336, 361; collaborates with John, 249, 289-91, 339; influences John’s songs and experimental music, 260-62, 278, 290-91; a subject for John’s lyrics, 249, 274, 277-77, 289, 319-20, 346
“Oo You,” 316
“Ooh! My Soul,” (Little Richard) 352
Orbison, Roy, 34-35, 46n, 59
“P.S. I Love You,” 33-34
“Paperback Writer,” 139-40 , 147
Paramor, Norrie, 40-41
Paris, 70-73, 78, 113
“Paul’s Bass Jam,” 365
“Paul’s Piano Piece,” 328 , 365
“Penina,” 279
“Penny Lane,” 131, 164, 169-71 , 216
Perkins, Carl, 26, 78, 92, 99, 306
Pet Sounds album, Beach Boys, influenced Revolver , 149, influenced Sgt. Peppers, 173-74
Pickett, Wilson, 72, 86
“Piggies,” 244
Plastic Ono Band (solo album by Lennon), 12, 19, 258, 337 ; most songs composed after the Beatle period, 337
“Please Mr. Postman,” (the Marvelettes) 61
Please Please Me album, 37ff. ; aside from two earlier singles, recorded in one day, 37; ends with a screamer, in live show tradition, 45, 76; includes offbeat songs, in live show tradition, 38; live show aesthetics of, 38
“Please Please Me,” 34-36 , 42, 55
polls, artistic accomplishment of Beatle albums assessed from, 163, 171n, 379
“Polythene Pam,” 293-95
Porter, Cole, 55
Portugal, 114-16, 279
Presley, Elvis, 106, 134, 306, 330, 346, 348-49, 352, 354, 364, 376, 383
Preston, Billy, 267, 332-34
Proby, P. J., 119
Quickly, Tommy, 50-51
“Rain,” 140-41
Ram (solo album by Paul McCartney), 338
“Ramona,” (Gene Austin) 149
“Raunchy,” (Bill Justis) 363
“Real Love,” 360
“Red Sails in the Sunset,” (Nat King Cole) 343
Rembrandt, Heswall, Merseyside (Jim McCartney residence), 137, 297
“Reminiscing,” (Buddy Holly) 342
“Revolution 1,” (album version), 228, 257
“Revolution No. 9,” 260-62
“Revolution,” (fast version), 228
Revolver album, 113, 142ff. ; first album of Beatles’ full maturity, 135; includes experimental music, 135-36, 145, 151, 154, 160-64; influenced by American music, 149, 156; 159; sometimes regarded as Beatles’ best album, 163, 379
Rhone, Dorothy “Dot”, 56
rhythm and blues, 26, 42, 44, 97, 287
Richards, Cliff, 23
Richards, Keith, 63, 332
“Rip It Up,” (Little Richard) 329, 362
Rishikesh, the Himalayas, India, 218, 234, 236, 238, 248, 254, 338
Robinson, William “Smokey”, 59, 62, 64, 68-69, 130
“Rock and Roll Music,” (Chuck Berry) 96
“Rock Of All Ages,” 305
Rock of Gibraltar, 276
“Rocky Raccoon,” 245
“Roll Over Beethoven,” (Chuck Berry) 62, 76
Rolling Stones, 58, 63-64
Rorem, Ned, 15-16
Rubber Soul album, 102, 118, 120ff. , 135; beginnings of experimentalism, classical textures, 122, 131; transitional between early Beatle exuberance and sophisticated Beatle maturity, 118; represents attempt to shed Beatle teen-age image, 118
“Run For Your Life,” 134 , 135, 308
Russell, Leon, 308
Russia, 233
Sardinia, 288
“Savoy Truffle,” 258
Schwartz, Francie, 226
Scott, Jimmy, 236-37
“Searchin’,”(The Coasters) 27, 347, 357
“Sexy Sadie,” 254-55
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, 3-4, 6, 163, 171ff. , 311-12; as concept album, 173-77, 195-96; often viewed as greatest rock album in history, 171, 379; shows Beatles’ interest in experimental music, 172-73, 195, 200; strong McCartney impact on, 164, 173, 176
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band reprise,” 195-96
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” 174-77
Shadows, The, 23
“Shake, Rattle and Roll,” (Bill Haley and his Comets) 329, 362
Shakespeare, William, 298-99
Shankar, Ravi, 148, 190-91
Shapiro, Helen, 40
“She Came in Through the Bathroom Window,” 295-97
“She Loves You,” 52-54
“She Said She Said,” 154-55
“She’s a Woman,” 92, 93-94
“She’s Leaving Home,” 2, 164, 185-88
“Sheila,” (Tommy Roe) 343
Shenson, Walter, 78-80
Sheridan, Tony, 21-25
Shimmy Like Kate,” (The Olympics) 343
Shotton, Pete, 144-45, 158, 211, 240, 261-62
“Shout!,” (the Isley Brothers) 359
Simone, Nina, 125-26
Sinatra, Frank, 315
“Sing One for the Lord,” 332
“Singalong Junk,” 317
ska, 77n
“Slow Down,” (Larry Williams) 77-78
Smith, Mimi Stanley (John’s aunt), 34, 167, 170n, 185
Smothers, Tommy, 278
“So How Come (No One Loves Me),” (Everly Brothers) 352
“Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms),” (Arthur Alexander) 346, 349
“Some Other Guy,” (Richard Barrett) 348
song, as music, 15, 69; as lyrics, 103
“Sour Milk Sea,” 224-25
Spector, Phil, 26, 68, 349; produces “Instant Karma” for John, 300; “reproduces” Let It Be album, 266, 275, 300-302, 310, 321, 327, 364, 381
standards (songs), 55, 61, 149, 191-92, 257, 262-63, 384
Starr, Ringo (Richard Starkey), 4, 23, 33, 38, 42, 63, 99, 102, 104, 111, 127, 139, 144, 147, 153, 178-79, 214, 225, 230, 246-47; 257, 261-62, 272; collaborates with George Harrison, 287-89; contributed lines and phrases to Beatle songs, 78-80, 161
“Step Inside Love,” 221 , 362
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 161, 201, 260, 382
Storm, Rory, 23, 38, 42
Strangers, The, with Mike Shannon, 73
“Strawberry Fields Forever,” 164, 167-71 , 172-73, 180, 204, 216, 373, 385, 390
“Suicide,” 315 , 366
“Sun King,” 293
“Sure to Fall (in Love with You),” (Carl Perkins) 348
surrealism, in Beatle lyrics, 150-53, 171, 179-81, 209-11, 240, 285, 320
“Suzy Parker,” 328
“Sweet Little Sixteen,” (Chuck Berry) 26n, 351
“Taking a Trip to Carolina,” 365
Tao Te Ching , 223-24, 335
tape loops, 135-36, 161-62, 214, 232, 260-62; McCartney discovers, 382-83
“Taxman,” 17, 135, 142
Taylor, Alastair, 208
Taylor, Derek, 215, 240-41, 258, 278
Taylor, James, 285
“Teddy Boy,” 317 , 362
“Tell Me What You See,” 111-12
“Tell Me Why,” 83
“Thank You Girl,” 47-48
“That Means A Lot,” 119 , 361
“That Would Be Something,” 313
“That’ll Be the Day,” (Buddy Holly) 20, 354
“That’s All Right (Mama),” (Elvis Presley) 348, 364
“The Ballad of John and Yoko,” 276-77
The Beatles (The White Album) double album, 1, 6, 113, 191, 232ff. , 284-85, 287, 303, 309-10, 316, 326, 362; Lennon’s favorite Beatle album, 172, 219; many of its songs composed in India, 218; Lennon felt that this album reflected the real Beatles breakup, 373; most songs from had no collaboration between Lennon and McCartney, 218; increased tension between Beatles in the recording studio during, 219, 344; song fragment aesthetics of, 313
The Beatles Anthology DVD, 363
The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 album, 366
“The Bells of Rhymney,” (the Byrds) 133-34, 290
“The End,” 298-99
The Family Way , movie soundtrack, 165-67
The Girl Can’t Help It , movie, 250
“The Hippy Hippy Shake,” (Chan Romero) 346, 351
“The Honeymoon Song,” (Marino Marini) 350
“The Inner Light,” 221-22
“The Long and Winding Road,” 266, 268, 326-27
“The Lovely Linda,” 313
“The Night Before,” 108
“The Sheik of Araby,” (Joe Brown) 357
“The Word,” 124
“There’s a Place,” 44
“Things We Said Today,” 85
“Thingumybob,” 229
“Think For Yourself,” 124
“Thinking of Linking,” 363-64
Thirty Three & 1/3 (solo album by George Harrison), 340-41
“This Boy,” 68-69 , 104
“Three Cool Cats,” (the Coasters) 357
three-part harmony, 68, 92, 104, 291
Tibetan Book of the Dead , 160
“Ticket to Ride,” 103-4 , 110
“Till There Was You,” (Peggy Lee) 25, 61
“Tip of My Tongue,” 51
“To Know Him [Her] Is to Love Him [Her],” (The Teddy Bears) 26, 68, 349
“Tomorrow Never Knows,” 17, 135, 160-63
“Too Much Monkey Business,” (Chuck Berry) 347
Townshend, Peter, 255
Transcendental Meditation, 218-19, 223, 234, 238, 242, 271
Troy, Doris, 308-9, 331-32
“Twist and Shout,” (the Isley Brothers) 45, 381
“Two of Us,” 318-19
Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins album, 232
Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions album, 275
Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) (McCartney solo album), 342
“Valentine Day,” 314
Varèse, Edgard, 260
Vaughan, Ivan, 38, 126
Vaughan, Jan, 126
Vietnam War, 228
Vincent, Gene, 22n, 24, 250, 342-43
“Wah Wah,” 336
“Wait,” 133
Warhol, Andy, 158
We Can Work It Out,” 137-38
Wedding Album , 302
“Wedding Bells are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine” (Gene Austin), 49
“What Goes On,” 127-28
“What You’re Doing,” 101
“What’s the New Mary Jane,” 361-62
“When I Get Home,” 86
“When I’m Sixty-Four,” 191-93
“Where Have You Been All My Life?” (Arthur Alexander) 343
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” 239-40
Who, The, 215, 255
“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road,” 248 , 381
“Wild Honey Pie,” 237-38 , 313
Williams, Larry, 77-78, 105, 117
“With a Little Help from My Friends,” 178-79
With the Beatles album, 59ff.; live album aesthetics of, 59, 65; pronounced Motown influence on, 59, 61-62, 64
“Within You Without You,” 190-91 , 223
“Woman,” 138
“Woman Don’t You Cry for Me,” 340-41
Wonderwall Music , movie soundtrack, 229-30
Wooler, Bob, 351
“Words of Love,” (Buddy Holly) 99
Yellow Submarine album, 268-69
Yellow Submarine movie, 268
“Yellow Submarine,” 150-54 , 229, 268, 377
“Yer Blues,”237, 242, 252 , 306
“Yes It Is,” 104
“Yesterday,” 108, 113ff. , 373
“You Can’t Catch Me,” (Chuck Berry) 282
“You Can’t Do That,” 72 , 86
“You Give Me Joy Joy, ” 332
“You Know My Name (Look Up My Number),” 311-12
“You Know What to Do,” 359
“You Like Me Too Much,” 111
“You Never Give Me Your Money,” 292
“You Really Got A Hold On Me,” (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) 62, 329
“You Won’t See Me,” 122
“You’ll Be Mine,” 356
“You’re Gonna Lose That Girl,” 110
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” 108-9
“Young Blood,” (The Coasters) 347
“Your Feet’s Too Big,” (Fats Waller) 341
“Your Mother Should Know,” 215-16
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