A Complete Track Listing

Side One

1. Back in the USSR (2:43)
Recorded: August 22, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Aug 23, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 23 Aug 1968
Stereo-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
John Lennon — 6-string Fender Bass VI, back­ground vocal
Paul McCart­ney — lead vocal, lead gui­tar, piano, drums, back­ground vocal
George Har­ri­son — Fender Jazz bass, back­ground vocal
Notes: This song was writ­ten while on Med­i­ta­tion by Paul with help from Mike Love of the Beach Boys. It is a par­ody of Beach Boys songs such as “Surfin’ USA.” The men­tion of “Ukraine girls” and “Geor­gia” was thought by many to be sym­pa­thetic to Com­mu­nism and was denounced. The plane sound effects dif­fer in mono and stereo. Mono has louder piano, a yell after the open­ing plane sound, and drum­beats under the clos­ing plane sound. Stereo has extra gui­tar chords at the start of the solo, and shouts and piano dur­ing the gui­tar solo.
2. Dear Pru­dence (3:57)
Recorded: August 28, 1968 at Tri­dent Stu­dios, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added August 29–30, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Stereo-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, lead gui­tar, tam­bourine, back­ground vocal
Paul McCart­ney — lead vocal, bass gui­tar, piano, drums, flugel­horn, back­ground vocal
George Har­ri­son — acoustic gui­tar, back­ground vocal
Mal Evans — tambourine
Notes: John wrote “Dear Pru­dence” for Pru­dence Far­row, the younger sis­ter of Mia Far­row, who was on the med­i­ta­tion trip with the Bea­t­les. She was much more involved in the med­i­ta­tion process and spent her free time in med­i­ta­tion. John wrote the song as a plea for her to “come out and play”, to inter­act, with the rest of the group.
3. Glass Onion (2:17)
Recorded: Sep­tem­ber 11, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Sep­tem­ber 12, 13, 16 and Octo­ber 10, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Stereo-mixed: 10 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 10 Oct 1968
John Lennon — double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, piano, flute
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums, tam­bourine
Ses­sion musi­cians — orchestra
Notes: Much like “I Am The Wal­rus”, “Glass Onion” was writ­ten by John as a sort of joke for peo­ple who ana­lyzed Bea­t­les songs look­ing for mean­ings. The song is filled with non­sense lyrics and wild images. The title “Glass Onion” came from the name that John wanted The Iveys, a new band on the Apple label, to use. They later used “Badfin­ger”. The stereo ver­sion has slightly more tre­ble and fades to a lower vol­ume at the end.
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (3:09)
Recorded: July 3, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added July 4–5, 1968, a remake July 8, 1968 and more over­dub­bing July 11, 1968 and July 15, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 3d Gen­er­a­tion
Stereo-mixed: 12 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 12 Oct 1968
John Lennon — marac­cas, back­ground vocal
Paul McCart­ney — lead vocal, bass gui­tar, piano
George Har­ri­son — acoustic gui­tar, back­ground vocal
Ringo Starr — drums
Ses­sion musi­cians — brass
Notes: The phrase “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is from the Yoruba tribe (Niger­ian) and it means “life goes on”, a phrase used fre­quently by conga player Jimmy Scott, whom Paul had met. After Paul used the phrase Scott wanted a roy­alty, how­ever Paul insisted that it was a com­mon phrase. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is cited as the first white reg­gae; involv­ing Jamaican peo­ple and genre. Dur­ing the record­ing ses­sions the Bea­t­les went through numer­ous takes with sev­eral dif­fer­ent sounds until John, who hated the song to begin with, just went up to the piano and banged out the open­ing notes, which they kept for the mas­ter. Paul wanted to use the song as a sin­gle, but when John refused the song was rere­corded by the band Mar­malade and became a British hit. A deriv­a­tive of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” was used in the theme song to the 1980s tele­vi­sion show “Life Goes On”. The stereo ver­sion is lack­ing Paul’s added vocal “oh yeah” at the end of the break. The mono-mix unearthed for “Anthol­ogy 3″ has var­i­ous sound effects, of which only the whis­tle after “fool on the hill” was used in the stan­dard mix. This edit adds the end orches­tral piece. The orches­tra was added on Oct 10 and used for the stan­dard versions.
5. Wild Honey Pie (1:02)
Recorded: August 20, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 4-track
Mono-mixed: 20 Aug 1968
Stereo-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
Paul McCart­ney — vocals, bass gui­tar, elec­tric gui­tar, acoustic gui­tar, drums
Notes: “Wild Honey Pie” was taken from a singalong/jam ses­sion while on med­i­ta­tion. Patti Har­ri­son liked the song very much, so it was included on the album. The mono-mix lacks hand­claps in the intro, heard in stereo.
6. The Con­tin­u­ing Story of Bun­ga­low Bill (3:05)
Recorded: Octo­ber 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Stereo-mixed: 9 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 9 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar, organ
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, back­ground vocal
George Har­ri­son — acoustic gui­tar, back­ground vocal
Ringo Starr — drums, tam­bourine, back­ground vocal
Yoko Ono — back­ground vocal, har­mony vocal (cho­rus), lead vocal (“not when he looked so fierce”)
Mau­reen Starkey — har­mony vocal (cho­rus)
Chris Thomas — mellotron
Notes: “Bun­ga­low Bill” was actu­ally an Amer­i­can named Richard Cooke, III, who had met the Bea­t­les and was on a tiger hunt with his mother three hours away from Rishikesh, where the Bea­t­les were med­i­tat­ing. Cooke shot a tiger on the hunt when it jumped at him and his mother. When she started talk­ing about the kill to the Mahar­ishi and some of his fol­low­ers, the Mahar­ishi became vis­i­bly dis­turbed. It was then that Cooke began to think that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea. Mahar­ishi asked, “You had the desire Rik and now you no longer have the desire?” to which John asked, “Don’t you call that slightly life destruc­tive?” Cooke replied, “Well, John, it was either the tiger or us. The tiger was jump­ing right where we were.” Those words became, “If looks could kill it would’ve been us instead of him”. Of the two vocal tracks, one is louder in stereo, the other in mono.
7. While My Gui­tar Gen­tly Weeps (4:45)
Recorded: July 25, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land, remade August 16, 1968 with over­dubs Sept 3, 1968, and remade again Sep­tem­ber 5, 1968 with over­dubs Sep­tem­ber 6, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8 track
Mono-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
Stereo-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
John Lennon — acoustic gui­tar, organ, har­mony vocal
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, piano, har­mony vocal
George Har­ri­son — double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar, lead gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums, cas­tanets, tam­bourine
Eric Clap­ton — Gib­son Les Paul lead guitar
Notes: George was read­ing the Chi­nese book I Ching (the book of changes) when he decided that his song­writ­ing would start to be writ­ten based on chance. He took a book off the shelf intend­ing to write a song based on the first words he read, which were “gen­tly weeps”. This is the first 8 track record­ing (by any­one) at EMI Abbey Road. The Clap­ton gui­tar remains loud in mono after the solo break, not in stereo. Near the end of the fade­out only the stereo has “yeah yeah yeah”, even though it is a few sec­onds shorter than the mono mix.
8. Hap­pi­ness is a Warm Gun (2:44)
Recorded: Sep­tem­ber 23–24, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Sept 25, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 26 Sep 1968
Stereo-mixed: 15 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, lead gui­tar, tam­bourine, back­ground vocal
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, back­ground vocal
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar, back­ground vocal
Ringo Starr — drums
Notes: The 2d gen­er­a­tion mas­ter is an edit of (copies of) two takes with more mate­r­ial over­dubbed. Mono has tap­ping (organ) on the beat from the start until the drums come in, but it is soft and mixed out 4 beats ear­lier in stereo. In the “I need a fix” sec­tion in stereo, by error, although the first line was mixed out, the last “down” is just audi­ble. Mono has louder bass in the “I need a fix” sec­tion. Mono has laugh­ter near the very end, just before the last drum­beat, not heard in stereo. “No, it’s not about heroin. A gun mag­a­zine was sit­ting there with a smok­ing gun on the cover and an arti­cle that I never read inside called “Hap­pi­ness Is a Warm Gun.” I took it right from there. I took it as the ter­ri­ble idea of just hav­ing shot some animal…it was at the begin­ning of my rela­tion­ship with Yoko and I was very sex­u­ally ori­ented then. When we weren’t in the stu­dio, we were in bed…I call Yoko Mother or Madam just in an off­hand way. The rest doesn’t mean any­thing. It’s just images of her.” – John Lennon, Play­boy, 1980


Side Two

1. Martha My Dear (2:29)
Recorded: Oct 4, 1968 at Tri­dent Stu­dios, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Oct 5, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 23 Aug 1968
Stereo-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
John Lennon — bass gui­tar
Paul McCart­ney — double-tracked lead vocal, piano
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums
Ses­sion musi­cians — strings, brass
Notes: The record­ing con­tains an unusu­ally exces­sive amount of tape hiss.
2. I’m So Tired (2:03)
Recorded: Octo­ber 8, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Mono-mixed: 15 Oct 1968.
Stereo-mixed: 15 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar, lead gui­tar, organ
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, har­mony vocal
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar, rhythm gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums
Notes: Paul’s har­mony at the first “You’d say” is louder in mono. The mut­ter­ing after the song is part of this recording.
3. Black­bird (2:18)
Recorded: June 11, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 4-track
Stereo-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
Paul McCart­ney — double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar, percussion
Notes: The tap­ping song heard through­out the song is Paul tap­ping his foot on the floor.
4. Pig­gies (2:05)
Recorded: Sep­tem­ber 19, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Sep­tem­ber 20, 1968 and Octo­ber 10, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 11 Oct 1968
Stereo-mixed: 11 Oct 1968
John Lennon — tape loops
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar
George Har­ri­son — lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar
Ringo Starr — tam­bourine
Chris Thomas — harp­si­chord
Ses­sion musi­cians — strings
Notes: The over­dubs of bird sounds were done dif­fer­ently in mono ver­sus stereo, dur­ing mixing.
5. Rocky Rac­coon (3:41)
Recorded: August 15, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 15 Aug 1968
Stereo-mixed: 10 Oct 1968
John Lennon — har­mon­ica, har­mo­nium, back­ground vocal
Paul McCart­ney — lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar
George Har­ri­son — bass gui­tar, back­ground vocal
Ringo Starr — drums
George Mar­tin — honky-tonk piano
6. Don’t Pass Me By (3:42)
Recorded: June 5, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added June 6, 1968 and July 12, 1968 and an edit piece (tin­kling piano intro) recorded July 22, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 3d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 11 Oct 1968 edited
Stereo-mixed: 11 Oct 1968 edited
(Remixed in 1996 for the “Anthol­ogy 3″ CD)
John Lennon — acoustic gui­tar, tam­bourine
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar
Ringo Starr — lead vocal, drums, piano
Jack Fal­lon — violin
Notes: The Mono ver­sion runs faster, and it has more fid­dle through­out the song, and dif­fer­ent fid­dle at the end. The fid­dle at the end of stereo seems to a repeat of a bit of the cho­rus. The edit added the intro.

The Anthol­ogy mix has only work from 5 and 6 June with­out the fid­dle or intro added in July. It’s at the speed of the stereo mix.

7. Why Don’t We Do It in the Road? (1:41)
Recorded: Oct 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Oct 10, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 16 Oct 1968
Stereo-mixed: 16 Oct 1968
Paul McCart­ney — double-tracked lead vocal, bass gui­tar, lead gui­tar, piano, drums
Notes: The Mono ver­sion lacks hand­claps in the intro.
8. I Will (1:47)
Recorded: Sept 16, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Sept 17, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 26 Sep 1968
Stereo-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
Paul McCart­ney — double-tracked lead vocal, bass gui­tar, acoustic gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums, bon­gos, maraccas
Notes: This started as 4 track and was copied to 8 track, so it’s 2d gen­er­a­tion. The “bass” (vocal) starts later in mono, after the first verse. The bass line is actu­ally per­formed vocally by Paul.
9. Julia (2:45)
Recorded: Octo­ber 13, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 4-track
Stereo-mixed: 13 Oct 1968
Mono:mixed: 13 Oct 1968
John Lennon — double-tracked lead vocal, double-tracked acoustic guitar
Notes: “The song is for her – and for Yoko.” – John Lennon, Play­boy, 1980


Side Three

1. Birth­day (2:43)
Recorded: Sep­tem­ber 18, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 8-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 18 Sep 1968
Stereo-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead gui­tar, back­ground and occa­sional lead vocal
Paul McCart­ney — lead vocal, piano
George Har­ri­son — bass gui­tar, tam­bourine
Ringo Starr — drums
Yoko Ono, Patti Har­ri­son — chorus
Notes: The last “daaaance” starts twice, maybe a double-track error or a leak from a guide vocal, as heard on stereo, but cov­ered up by other sound in mono.
2. Yer Blues (4:01)
Recorded: August 13, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added August 14, 1968 and the ‘counted intro’ added August 20, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 2d gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 14,20 Aug 1968
Stereo-mixed: 20 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, lead gui­tar
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums
Notes: The 2d gen­er­a­tion tape is an edit of two takes, each of the two tapes being itself a mix­down from the orig­i­nal 4-track. The edit causes an abrupt tran­si­tion at the end of the gui­tar solos. In stereo, traces of other vocal and gui­tar parts can be heard through­out the song in the left chan­nel, includ­ing some­thing shouted over parts of the vocal and what sounds like another dif­fer­ent gui­tar solo. After the edit, the trace lead vocal sug­gests we are hear­ing the first part of the song from the other take. The edit in the mixes added the count­down intro, which is louder in mono. Mono is also 11 sec­onds longer, long fade.
3. Mother Nature’s Son (2:48)
Recorded: August 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added August 20, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Stereo-mixed: 12 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 12 Oct 1968
Paul McCart­ney — double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar, bon­gos, tim­pani
Ses­sion musi­cians — horns
4. Everybody’s Got Some­thing to Hide Except for Me and My Mon­key (2:55)
Recorded: June 27, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added July 1, 1968 and July 23, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 4th Gen­er­a­tion
Stereo-mixed: 12 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 12 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, lead gui­tar, marac­cas
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, back­ground vocal
George Har­ri­son — rhythm gui­tar, fire­bell
Ringo Starr — drums
Notes: The scream­ing after “come on” in the last verse is dif­fer­ent in mono and stereo.
5. Sexy Sadie (3:15)
Recorded: July 19, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land but remade July 24, 1968 and remade again August 13, 1968 with over­dubs added August 21, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 4th Gen­er­a­tion
Mono-mixed: 21 Aug 1968
Stereo-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, rhythm gui­tar, acoustic gui­tar, organ, back­ground vocal
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, piano, back­ground vocal
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar, back­ground vocal
Ringo Starr — drums, tambourine
Notes: Stereo ver­sion has an extra tap at the start. Mono lacks bass until the vocal starts.
6. Hel­ter Skel­ter (4:30)
Recorded: Sept 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with an over­dub added Sept 10, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Mono-mixed: 17 Sep 1968
Stereo-mixed: 12 Oct 1968
John Lennon — bass gui­tar, lead gui­tar, sax­o­phone, back­ground vocal
Paul McCart­ney — lead vocal, bass gui­tar, lead gui­tar
George Har­ri­son — rhythm gui­tar, back­ground vocal
Ringo Starr- drums
Mal Evans — trumpet
Notes: The basic song runs about 3:10 to a pause shortly after Paul’s dis­torted vocal, too close to the micro­phone. Mono then is edited into more of the same take, with sound effects noises, and fades at 3:36. Stereo is edited instead to a dif­fer­ent part of the take, fad­ing out and then back in again, with another edit, end­ing finally at 4:29 after Ringo shouts “I’ve got blis­ters on my fingers!”.

Is the dis­torted vocal “Can you hear me speak­ing– woo!” or “My baby is sleep­ing, ooh!, dreaming”?

7. Long Long Long (3:04)
Recorded: Oct 7, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Oct 8–9, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Stereo-mixed: 10 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
John Lennon — acoustic gui­tar
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, piano, Ham­mond organ
George Harrison — double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums
Notes: Double-tracking starts at the first “long” in stereo, the third “long” in mono, and sounds some­what dif­fer­ent there­after. In mono the rhythm gui­tar is softer but the lead gui­tar is louder, espe­cially in the later part of the song.


Side Four

1. Rev­o­lu­tion 1 (4:16)
Recorded: May 30, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added May 31, June 4 and June 21, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 4th Gen­er­a­tion
Stereo-mixed: 25 Jun 1968
(mono-mixed from the stereo mix)
John Lennon — lead vocal, gui­tar, har­mony vocal
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar, piano, har­mony vocal
George Har­ri­son — gui­tar, har­mony vocal
Ringo Starr — drums
Ses­sion musi­cians — brass
2. Honey Pie (2:41)
Recorded: Octo­ber 1, 1968 at Tri­dent Stu­dios, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Octo­ber 2, 1968 and Octo­ber 4, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Mono-mixed: 5 Oct 1968 at Tri­dent Stu­dios
Stereo-mixed: 5 Oct 1968 at Tri­dent Stu­dios
John Lennon — lead gui­tar
Paul McCart­ney — lead vocal, piano
George Har­ri­son — bass gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums
Fif­teen ses­sion musi­cians — brass
Notes: Mono ver­sion has the full lead gui­tar break, slightly short­ened in stereo.
3. Savoy Truf­fle (2:55)
Recorded: Octo­ber 3, 1968 at Tri­dent Stu­dios, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added Octo­ber 5, 11 and 14, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 8-track
Mono-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
Stereo-mixed: 14 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead gui­tar
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar
George Har­ri­son — double-tracked lead vocal, lead gui­tar, organ
Ringo Starr — drums, tam­bourine
Ses­sion musi­cians — two bari­tone sax­o­phones, four tenor saxophones
Notes:: Mono ver­sion has sound effects dur­ing the instru­men­tal break, and the lead gui­tar con­tin­ues through the break into the refrain after it. The organ is miss­ing from the last verse in mono.
4. Cry Baby Cry (3:11)
Recorded: July 16, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with over­dubs added July 18, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track 2d Gen­er­a­tion
Stereo-mixed: 15 Oct 1968
Mono-mixed: 15 Oct 1968
John Lennon — lead vocal, acoustic gui­tar, piano, organ
Paul McCart­ney — bass gui­tar
George Har­ri­son — lead gui­tar
Ringo Starr — drums, tam­bourine
George Mar­tin — harmonium
Notes: The US Apple release has a drop in sound level dur­ing “by the chil­dren” in the last verse, prob­a­bly a tape problem.
(Can You Take Me Back)
Recorded: Basic Record­ing: 16 Sep 1968
Addi­tional Record­ing: None
Mas­ter Tape: 4-track
Mono-mixed: 16 Oct 1968
Stereo-mixed: 17 Oct 1968
Notes: Rev­o­lu­tion 9 is pre­ceded on the white album by a short song not listed on the album, Can You Take Me Back, which was recorded after Rev­o­lu­tion 9 was mixed. A seg­ment of this impro­vi­sa­tion was placed between Cry Baby Cry and Rev­o­lu­tion 9; it was recorded as a take of I Will.
5. Rev­o­lu­tion 9 (8:13)
Recorded: May 30, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land with effects added June 6, 10, 11, 20 and 21, 1968
Mas­ter tape: 4-track
Stereo-mixed: 21, 25 Jun 1968
(mono-mixed from the stereo mix in 1968)
John Lennon — voice, tape loops
Paul McCart­ney — piano (at the begin­ning)
George Har­ri­son — voice
Ringo Starr — voice
Notes: Tape loops pre­pared on June 6–11 were fed into the mas­ter on Jun 20–25. The basic track was the end of Rev­o­lu­tion 1 (see above). Edit­ing short­ened the piece by almost a minute. Although the mono was made from the stereo, the open­ing lines are more clear in mono: “I would’ve got­ten claret for you but I’ve real­ized I’ve for­got­ten all about it, George, I’m sorry. Will you for­give me?” This is evi­dently a sep­a­rate piece of tape added dur­ing mixing.
6. Good Night (3:12)
Recorded: July 22, 1968 at Abbey Road, Lon­don, Eng­land
Mas­ter tape: 4-track
Mono-mixed: 11 Oct 1968
Stereo-mixed: 11 Oct 1968
Orches­tra­tions: George Martin
Notes: Stereo ver­sion fades in; mono does not.
*All songs writ­ten and com­posed by Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.