About This Track
“A Day in the Life” is a song by the British rock band The Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song appears as the final track on their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The song includes portions originally authored independently by Lennon and McCartney, and two cacophonous, part-improvised, orchestral crescendos.
Lennon was inspired by newspaper articles on the death of Tara Browne, and a civic plan to fill four thousand potholes in Blackburn. While recording the song, the Beatles were not certain how to fill the gap between Lennon’s and McCartney’s portions of the song. It was later decided that a partly-improvised crescendo by an orchestra would serve as the bridge. The final chord was produced by all 4 Beatles and George Martin banging on 3 pianos simultaneously. As the sound diminished, the engineer boosted to faders. The resulting note lasts 42 seconds, and the studio air conditioners can be heard toward the end as the faders were pushed to the limit to record it.
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doubleshell wrote:
just beautiful
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KeithandLor wrote:
chills again..this song reminds me so much of my musical upbringing, thanks mom and dad.lor
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WWOMENN wrote:
It's a masterpiece!!!!! LOVE!!!!!!!
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Ariues wrote:
whats a hole?
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ben12a wrote:
Probably their best song. It doesn't get better than this."4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall" Classic John poking fun at society
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Ariues wrote:
i saw a film today oh boy
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RJG1999 wrote:
John Lennon is my favorite Beatle---his lyrics are beautifully ethereal.
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tymon3 wrote:
The moment with orchestra is one of the scariest things i've ever heard.
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RockSaurier wrote:
one of the best songs ever written for sure
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kell_salvador wrote:
I don't think there will ever be a more epic song than this. Jesus.
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power2themusic wrote:
it seems like they only have stuff from Sgt. Pepper
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pier007 wrote:
it's like a musical tidal wave!
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upesupernova wrote:
My favourite Beatles song, and that's saying a lot. Probably the best song ever. Everything in it is amazing: the lyrics, the way the two voices complement themselves, the crescendos.
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Dav759 wrote:
My favorite Beatles song...
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BlueOclock wrote:
They're playing the Anthology version...very interesting! Of course not as good as the finished version....but still it's the same song, which happens to be one of the greatest.
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Ginormous621 wrote:
sugar plum fairy, sugar plum fairy
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CSH_Navik wrote:
The greatest song ever penned by mankind. Hands down.
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m0mo- wrote:
excellent
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pablo323 wrote:
Never ever thought that there is such thing as a perfect song, but this one seems rather close.[2]
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reynan_mtv wrote:
AMAZING.
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