beatles exam 2

What lyric in "Hey Jude" did Paul tell John was "crummy" and he would change, to which John replied, "You won't! That's the best line in the song!"

"the movement you need is on your shoulder"

Written whilst "trapped in suburbia," this song of John's ends in a cacophony of animal sounds, arranged in sequence per John's request by engineer Geoff Emerick.

Good Morning, Good Morning

What Beatles composition started life as an echo of two-note English police siren?

I Am The Walrus

What over-the-top Beatles song features a troupe of singers doing vocal gymnastics, a 20th-century orchestral arrangement, and a radio broadcast of Shakespeare's King Lear?

I Am The Walrus

"Strawberry Fields" is a reference to

LSD

What Sgt. Pepper song alternates between a dream-like 3/4 waltz in the verse and a heavy 4/4 beat in the chorus?

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

What project's music soundtrack was a runaway success, while the accompanying movie was mercilessly panned by the critics?

Magical Mystery Tour

Ringo Starr's lead vocal contribution to the Sgt. Pepper LP is

With A Little Help From My Friends

Which Beatles track combines traditional Indian instruments (sitar, tabla) with Western orchestral instruments in an "East meets West" fashion?

Within You, Without You

Which project's soundtrack was considered a low priority and a repository for sub-standard Beatles songs?

Yellow Submarine

What is the last song on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP?

a day in the life

What song contains a massive orchestral build-up achieved by recording a group of musicians going from their lowest to highest note and recording it multiple times?

a day in the life

The Abbey Road LP is striking for its use of

a medley of songs strung together as one continuous symphonic work

What underrated John Lennon composition was inexplicably rejected by its composer after the recording was completed in early 1968, and instead given away to a wildlife charity?

across the universe

This song's recording session was broadcast live from EMI to 26 different countries via the world's first satellite transmission linkup in 1967.

all you need is love

What song's recording contains a mashup of other melodies, including "Greensleeves," "In The Mood," a Bach two-part invention, the French national anthem, and "She Loves You"?

all you need is love

Which "musical reporting" song was John so hot to record that only he and Paul wound up playing on the record?

ballad of john and yoko

What is the new "lead" instrument plastered all over the Sgt. Pepper LP?

bass

What Abbey Road song was inspired by Yoko Ono playing Beethoven on the piano, and features soaring choir-like harmonies from John, Paul, and George?

because

What White Album track is a solo Paul McCartney performance on acoustic guitar and vocal, with the first three chords taken from Baroque composer J.S. Bach?

blackbird

Much of the Magical Mystery Tour film takes place on a

bus

This song, featuring one of the most sampled bass lines of all time, was originally penned for Timothy Leary's California gubernatorial campaign against Ronald Reagan.

come together

This song was written for a female in the Maharishi's ashram who was meditating too much and had an adverse psychological reaction ("an attack of the horrors").

dear prudence

Which of these is NOT a key ingredient of British "pastoral" psychedelia?

distorted electric guitars

The phasing, jet-plane-like effect pioneered during the Sgt. Pepper recordings was given this name as a joke, which became known worldwide (even to this day) as

flanging

This song, which became a wildly successful single, started out as a jam containing lyrics satirizing anti-immigrant attitudes, until the group realized they could be grossly misinterpreted!

get back

What White Album song leads Beatle lyric interpreters on a wild goose chase with "clues," referencing no less than five previous Beatles songs?

glass onion

The video for this song features the Beatles donning their Sgt. Pepper suits one last time (and dancers in Hawaiian grass skirts for the song's coda).

hello goodbye

This Paul McCartney-written single, which spent 7 weeks at the top of the U.K. charts over Christmas 1967, was the winner in a contentious "battle for the A-side" which wound up infuriating John Lennon.

hello goodbye

What song was written in Eric Clapton's garden by a Beatle "playing hooky" from the endless Apple business meetings?

here comes the sun

This song, a magnum opus featuring a tortuous repeating chord progression with the sound of a windstorm or hurricane, could've gone on forever had its composer not ordered the tape to be slashed, jarring the listener into complete and total silence.

i want you

The majority of the songs on the "White Album" were written in

india

Which fuzzy, electric George Harrison composition contained a wry line aimed at the "part-time hippies" or "day trippers" (or even, self-deprecatingly, himself!) about asking for enlightenment so he could return home in time for tea.

its all to much

On what date was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released in the UK (it was a day later in the US)?

june 1, 1967

The bluesy, boogie-woogie piano riff of this song - a return to a more traditional rock 'n roll sound - was influenced by, if not stolen from, a 1956 recording of "Bad Penny Blues," originally released on Parlophone (the EMI branch run by George Martin).

lady madonna

"Hey Jude" is the longest single to ever top the British charts, clocking in at over 7 minutes, due to its

lengthy mantra at the end

The primitive sampling keyboard the Beatles first used in late 1966 was the

melltron

When the Beatles ran out of tracks on EMI's 4-track tape machine, they would need to

mix to another 4-track and continue recording on it

On what song did Paul come into the studio early each day to sing, in order to get "a rough feel" on his voice?

oh! darling

What orchestral instrument is the featured solo in "Penny Lane?"

piccolo trumpet

What Sgt. Pepper song has only an orchestral score for its accompaniment, composed by an outside arranger and not George Martin?

shes leaving home

All of the songs written during the Beatles' meditation retreat in India were composed on

sitar

This Harrisong (influenced by James Taylor, no less!) became the most covered Beatles song ever except for "Yesterday."

something

Which of the following events did NOT contribute to the Beatles' move away from drugs (and psychedelia in general)?

the drug bust of John and Yoko at Kenwood

This Abbey Road song features Ringo Starr's only drum solo ever on a recording, as well as a lead guitar extravaganza with Paul, George and John all trading solo licks.

the end

Record stores reported customers attempting to return their "Hey Jude" single thinking that its B-side "Revolution" was defective, due to

the fizzy distortion on the guitars

This exquisite, light-as-air track from Magical Mystery Tour - featuring flutes, bass harmonicas, and a recorder played by Paul McCartney - completely throws pop songwriting rules out the window by employing a major-key (light) verse with a minor-key (dark) chorus.

the fool on the hill

This vaudeville-sounding song doesn't date back to the 1920s, but rather to Cavern Club days, a tune of Paul's that he would play when the "amps broke down."

when i'm sixty-four

Who took George's place in the Beatles and jammed with them for two days when he quit the group during the Get Back sessions?

yoko

This up-tempo "potboiler" (as George Martin liked to call them) is a parody of various 1950s and 1960s artists and therefore one of the more traditional rock 'n roll songs on the White Album.

Back In The USSR

What song was directly inspired by an antique circus poster?

Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite

This recording of a George Harrison song contained a veritable feast of psychedelic effects and recording tricks, including flanging, backwards sounds, and voices through a Leslie speaker, to create a swirling sonic picture of thick fog.

Blue Jay Way

What do the videos for "Lady Madonna" and "Hey Bulldog" have in common?

Both use the exact same studio footage

When George Martin quite unexpectedly left in the middle of The Beatles sessions to take a month-long holiday, who sat in the producer's chair?

Chris Thomas

What is Ringo Starr's first-ever composition (he only wrote two for the Beatles!), appearing on the double LP?

Don't Pass Me By

Feeling the group wasn't taking his material seriously, George Harrison invited this guitar virtuoso to play on the classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," putting the other Beatles "on their best behavior."

Eric Clapton

What track on the LP is a tape collage, not a "song" in the traditional sense (lyrics set to melody)?

Revolution 9

What unusual request by John Lennon for "Strawberry Fields Forever" was miraculously executed by their engineer Geoff Emerick?

Take a slow version and a fast version of the song and join them together

George Martin and Geoff Emerick showed up late for the re-make of "Strawberry Fields Forever" to find

The Beatles and their crew all banging on drums together

What animal-activist song was mischievously given an ironic twist by making its chorus resemble a children's singalong?

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

This song, the third and final of his Indian-styled compositions, earned George Harrison his first B-side on a Beatles single.

The Inner Light

This song is Ringo's second of two compositions he supplied to the Beatles during their career.

Octopus's Garden

Which song reflects George Harrison's unhappiness with his publishing agreement?

Only A Northern Song

The "clean, Beach Boys sound" of "Penny Lane" began with Paul McCartney working alone, recording multiple tracks of

Piano