See, the ones I like are the ones that stand as words, without melody. In fact, it could be the best.” He continued, “It’s good poetry, or whatever you call it, without chewin’ it. Lennon says it is one of his most-liked Beatles songs, noting that it has “one of the best lyrics I’ve written. For “Across The Universe,” he removed the nature sounds and added an orchestra and choir to make a fuller arrangement. Phil Spector was tasked to produce Let It Be from its project tapes after the Beatles broke up. Nobody was interested in doing the tune originally.” Wall of Sound They came in and were singing all off-key. I was singing out of tune, and instead of getting a decent choir, we got fans from outside. Lennon shared that “the original track was a real piece of s–t. When they decided to add falsetto harmonies to the song, Lennon was singing out of tune so McCartney went outside and grabbed two fans named Lizzie Bravo and Gaylene Pease to help with the harmonies. It’s a known fact that Lennon and Paul McCartney almost always disagreed on the bands’s creative direction. The organization was responsible for suing the World Wrestling Federation to make them drop the WWF branding. Wrestling No MoreĪs mentioned earlier, the song first surfaced on the No One’s Gonna Stop Our World charity album by various artists in 1969 for the World Wildlife Fund. The “Om” at the end is meant to ring out as “ooooohm” as a way to reference the natural vibrations of the universe. ![]() As the Beatles have already been acquainted with Transcendental Meditation through the Maharishi, it comes as no surprise when they opted to reference the phrase “Jai Guru Deva Om”, which meant “I Give Thanks to Guru Dev” in Sanskrit.
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