I Want You (She's So Heavy)
“It's driving me mad”
Lennon composition closing side one of Abbey Road, a blues-rock dirge in D minor built around a riff that alternates between 6/8 and 4/4. The seven-minute track ends with an abrupt edit rather than a fade – Lennon's instruction to Geoff Emerick.
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Billy Preston plays on 10 Beatles recordings: Let It Be, Get Back, Something, I Want You (She's So Heavy), The Long and Winding Road, Dig a Pony, One After 909, I've Got a Feeling, Dig It, and Don't Let Me Down.
Track6 · Side 1 · Side closer
Songwriter(s)LennonCredited as Lennon–McCartney
RecordedFebruary 22 – August 20, 1969
ReleasedSeptember 26, 1969
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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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