Fact #181598
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Short story:
The Beatles begin recording Come Together at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Timothy Leary (acid guru) : I was running for governor of California against Reagan, and John said, 'What can I do?' So I said, 'Write a campaign song.' He said, 'What's the motto of your campaign?' I said, 'Come together - join the party' which was invented by my wife Rosemary. John immediately picked up on that and began strumming on tape - 'Come together, right now, over me/All I can say is you got to be free.' - And that was basically my campaign song.
John Lennon : The thing was created in the studio. It's gobbledygook; Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldn't come up with one. But I came up with this, Come Together, which would've been no good to him - you couldn't have a campaign song like that, right?
Paul McCartney : There were some great things during the recording of Abbey Road. I remember John bringing in Come Together. He brought it in as a sort of uptempo thing. I was a bit worried that it was a bit too much like a Chuck Berry thing and I said, 'Hey, man, it's a bit too like You Can't Catch Me. I just thought we'd get sued. So I suggested that we swamp it down a bit, and we got that very solid drum beat with my bass lick, and John really liked that idea, so he bought that one. I bought lots of his ideas and he bought that from me. That was an exciting session, and I'm glad to say that my bass line off that still appears on lots of hip hop records.
I don't know if you know this, but a lot of drummers remember drum patterns by making up phrases that match the beats, like, one of them is, 'Elephant, elephant, duck-billed platypus.' So Ringo's drum pattern on Come Together was 'Sure could have done with a packet of tea'.
And we loved doing those guitar solos, trading those three guitar solos, which was so cool. They were done live. It was great. And once you know who's playing, you can match the solo to the personality. It's me first, George second, then John. You can tell. George is easily the best player, he plays like a guitarist, and me and John play with great personality. John was third, and he's a really funky, dirty, lead player, making these licks that sound like a dog barking. That's a great memory.
Goerge Harrison : Come Together was one of the last ones to be recorded. One of John's songs. Y'know, John was in an accident, so he was off for a period of time, and then when we got back, we - which was only a week or so before we finished the album, we did this one.
It's sort of twelve-bar type of tune. And, uh, just - it's very - it's one of the nicest sounds we've got, actually. Nice drumming from Ringo. And it's sort of up-tempo, I s'pose you'd call it, a rocker. Rocker-beat-a-boogie.
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John Lennon : The thing was created in the studio. It's gobbledygook; Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldn't come up with one. But I came up with this, Come Together, which would've been no good to him - you couldn't have a campaign song like that, right?
Paul McCartney : There were some great things during the recording of Abbey Road. I remember John bringing in Come Together. He brought it in as a sort of uptempo thing. I was a bit worried that it was a bit too much like a Chuck Berry thing and I said, 'Hey, man, it's a bit too like You Can't Catch Me. I just thought we'd get sued. So I suggested that we swamp it down a bit, and we got that very solid drum beat with my bass lick, and John really liked that idea, so he bought that one. I bought lots of his ideas and he bought that from me. That was an exciting session, and I'm glad to say that my bass line off that still appears on lots of hip hop records.
I don't know if you know this, but a lot of drummers remember drum patterns by making up phrases that match the beats, like, one of them is, 'Elephant, elephant, duck-billed platypus.' So Ringo's drum pattern on Come Together was 'Sure could have done with a packet of tea'.
And we loved doing those guitar solos, trading those three guitar solos, which was so cool. They were done live. It was great. And once you know who's playing, you can match the solo to the personality. It's me first, George second, then John. You can tell. George is easily the best player, he plays like a guitarist, and me and John play with great personality. John was third, and he's a really funky, dirty, lead player, making these licks that sound like a dog barking. That's a great memory.
Goerge Harrison : Come Together was one of the last ones to be recorded. One of John's songs. Y'know, John was in an accident, so he was off for a period of time, and then when we got back, we - which was only a week or so before we finished the album, we did this one.
It's sort of twelve-bar type of tune. And, uh, just - it's very - it's one of the nicest sounds we've got, actually. Nice drumming from Ringo. And it's sort of up-tempo, I s'pose you'd call it, a rocker. Rocker-beat-a-boogie.
(Source : not known)