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Songs(25)
A Hard Day's Night
Title from Ringo's malapropism
Eight Days a Week
Phrase from McCartney's chauffeur
She Said She Said
Peter Fonda's LSD remark in L.A.
Tomorrow Never Knows
Lyrics lifted from Leary/Metzner/Alpert's The Psychedelic Experience
Lovely Rita
US term 'meter maid' overheard by McCartney
Good Morning Good Morning
Kellogg's Corn Flakes TV jingle
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
1843 Victorian circus poster
A Day in the Life
Daily Mail articles, January 17, 1967
She's Leaving Home
Daily Mail story on Melanie Coe
I Am the Walrus
Police siren; schoolboy letter on Beatles lyrics
The Inner Light
Juan Mascaró's Lamps of Fire translation
Cry Baby Cry
An old nursery rhyme and an advertising slogan
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Maharishi ashram tiger-hunt incident
Revolution 9
EMI test-tape voice; tape loops from EMI archive
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Two monkeys mating in a Rishikesh road
Savoy Truffle
Mackintosh's Good News chocolate box
Mother Nature's Son
Maharishi lecture in Rishikesh on nature
Julia
Kahlil Gibran's 'Sand and Foam'
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
American Rifleman magazine cover, May 1968
Octopus's Garden
Sardinian boat captain on octopuses
Golden Slumbers
Thomas Dekker 1603 lullaby poem
Polythene Pam
Liverpool fan Pat Hodgett; Royston Ellis polythene
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Real break-in by Apple Scruff Diane Ashley
Mean Mr. Mustard
Newspaper story about a miser hiding cash
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Phone book on McCartney's piano
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