Flying
“Ahh”
An instrumental built on a 12-bar blues chord sequence in C, with all four Beatles chanting a wordless 'Aah' melody over Lennon's Mellotron. Notable as the band's only track credited collectively to Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starkey.
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Direct injection first appears on a Beatles record on 'Flying' (1967).
RecordedSeptember 8, 28, 1967
ReleasedNovember 27, 1967
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Tags on this page are original analysis, transcribed and cross-checked against the fine work of others: Alan W. Pollack's “Notes on…” series, the Beatles Complete Scores (Hal Leonard), Mark Lewisohn's session histories, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, Dave Rybaczewski's Beatles Music History and Andy Babiuk's Beatles Gear for the instruments and studio equipment, and others besides – then verified by ear against the recordings. Full bibliography: Sources & thanks.
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