MUS321H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: With A Little Help From My Friends, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Good Morning Good Morning
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Strawberry fields / penny lane did not reach #1 on uk charts. The lyric is a walk down memory lane. Mcc deftly caricatures some characters (barber, banker, fireman) who meet up in the barber shop by the end of the song. Function of the refrain: refrain is about the singer"s experience of his reminiscences; phrase meanwhile back shakes us from our reverie and takes us back to the scene of the memory itself. Bright tone (key of b major); bouncy arrangement joie-de-vivre. Stunning piccolo-trumpet playing (possibly best classical solo on any pop record) Lennon could not have written it, just as mccartney could not have written sff or tomorrow never knows . Unusual feature: verses are in b major but refrain is in a major. Final statement of refrain boosted to b for the outro (feels even brighter) Early 1967, press rumours about break-up of the band. No live converts, beatles were in hiding".
