Comments on: Birthday

By: TS

TS — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:40:10 +0000

After you actually learn to read you’ll discover that it pretty much was, as described in the text, aka words for readin’, on this page.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:50:16 +0000

Good theory. But Paul did play bass here, and it’s a 50-50 collaboration (they’re even both singing lead on it).

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:47:57 +0000

One of the great things about the 50th anniversay book is that it – hopefully! – will put many discussions to rest.
THIS is the line-up of this song: John – guitar, George – guitar, tambourine, Paul – BASS, piano, Ringo – drums.
NO Paul on guitar, even though so many pointed out how much and “just so” it was “his style”.
Personally I’ve always wondered if it was Ringo or Paul who did the yells over the drum break – it was Paul.
Now let’s go over to “Dear prudence” and see if people already noticed their “That’s definitely RINGO on the drums” theory got the final nail in the coffin…

By: r5e5c5

r5e5c5 — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:17:44 +0000

A piece of garbage. Such self-loathing sometimes from John.

By: klaus schmidt

klaus schmidt — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:35:13 +0000

I thought it was one of their better rockin tunes myself. Its fun to play on the guitar as well sometimes the best songs take the least amount of time.

By: STEVEN GRAHAM

STEVEN GRAHAM — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 02:51:46 +0000

I like it a lot…always reminded me of Roy Orbison`s Pretty Woman …..

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:48:29 +0000

That soaring high guitar in the break makes me think it’s George, especially when it gets intricate.

By: Kirby Rasch

Kirby Rasch — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:12:25 +0000

“four– five–six– SEVEN!–EEiIIGGHHTT!!!!” Man they really got into these potboiler songs! I love every moment in the song, but having just the women sing “Birthday” was a treat.

By: johannes bols

johannes bols — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:42:10 +0000

This song sounds spontaneous and actually joyous, compared to the radioactive shrapnel that characterized these sessions. I notice a recent telly clip of Paul saying something about how this song came about. It was absolutely nothing to do with what we know to be the series of events. I was annoyed with him for trotting out some tall tale about this song when now with the advent of the internet the true events can be unearthed in a matter of seconds.
*Then*, seeing the different recollections by the different band members WHO WERE ALL THERE AT THE SAME TIME, and seeing how very much at variance their accounts are, I was reminded of something.

It’s not always the best bet to rely on eyewitness testimony because a lot of it is couched in the shock of the moment. So, who knows why there are different accounts from the guys? Remember that unlike us civilians, the events of their lives happened bigger, faster, stranger, and certainly far druggier than we could conceive.

By: From Me To You

From Me To You — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:16:43 +0000

I meant to say similarity between riffs on Lucille and on Hold Me Tight.

By: From Me To You

From Me To You — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:15:05 +0000

I’m no musician, but reading this post, I thought of the similarity between riffs on this and on “Hold Me Tight”.

By: BeatleKen

BeatleKen — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:14:26 +0000

Listen to this song, it is Paul on lead guitar(such his style),John on 2nd lead guitar, and George on bass. George didint use the vibrato like Paul did especially on this song.

By: Barry Smith

Barry Smith — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:28:43 +0000

Birthday is one song I really like listening to in headphones. Although most of the instrumentation is in monaural, the vocals have an interesting stereo effect. Sounds like the vocals were recorded separately and then added to each side of the stereo spectrum. Really cool sound.

By: James Feith

James Feith — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:35:28 +0000

Who’s doing the counting before they break into “yes were going to a party party”

By: Marc Pepin

Marc Pepin — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:13:12 +0000

It baffles me on this one that in a lot of books it says its John on bass and Paul on piano here.Who is right ?

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:32:14 +0000

Paul McCartney owned a colour TV in 1968, and therefore everyone involved in The Birthday session watched The Girl Can’t Help It in Colour on BBC2 in the UK. BBC2 had already been a colour channel for a year when the film was shown.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:02:43 +0000

Let’s all relax! It’s a cool Beatle song! A great Beatle sound with Ringo’s drum intro and the guitars and piano sound. Who cares who came up with it. It’s the Beatles! The White album is historic because of its nature. A disconnected, disjointed amalgam of eclectic sounding Beatle songs. It’s what it is because of all the great stuff and the disposable stuff as well. Like Paul said, ‘it’s the Beatles, it’s the bloody White Album, leave it alone’

By: The Man

The Man — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:08:30 +0000

Lennon exaggerated a lot and said a lot of stuff about George(He cant sing) Ring (he cant play or sing) and of course his old buddy Paul. By the time Lennon did his playboy interview he had been high on heroin and drugs for years and had not played live for years. He was washed up and Paul already had so many Platinum albums, Seven #1 albums, Grammys, Biggest selling song ever in Britain, many #1 songs and so many top tens that John was envious. His last album only made it big because he died. This always happens when someone dies that was a star. sales go up and their is interest. Just imagine how big Paul McCartney will be when he dies. I would not take John Lennon’s Playboy interview seriously, As he was not a truthful person and did not treat people or his own son with respect. He makes a lot of mistakes in the interview and says a lot of B.S about The Beatles and others.

By: Baggio

Baggio — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 03:49:56 +0000

“4) John called it “garbage” – a strong indication that it wasn´t his idea”

John was dismissed of many of his own songs as well – It’s Only Love, Run For Your Life, Mean Mr Mustard, Dig A Pony, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite, Good Morning Goog Morning…

Was Paul too generous? Hmmm He didn’t seem very shy to claim some credit for a lot of the Beatlemania songs that are usually associated with John. I don’t think he was generous or cruel, but in some cases his memory may be betraying him.

This may be more of a Paul than a John song (yes, it’s more Paul’s style) but based on their comments they both contributed to it.

By: ForgetScowl

ForgetScowl — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 04:36:06 +0000

Of course it was Paul. So much of The Beatles was Paul. So much so became the resentment.