Comments on: I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

By: Danny Holmes

Danny Holmes — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:52:48 +0000

I heard an old blues number with the same chord changes as the “She’s so heavy” section once, while setting up for a gig.
I haven’t been able to find out what song it was I heard.
John, like George did with the “He’s So Fine”/”My Sweet Lord” lift, did the same with the old PP&M song “Stewball” with his “Happy Christmas/War is Over.”

By: MikeP

MikeP — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:10:36 +0000

Except, I do like John’s guitar work, Paul’s bass, and Ringo’s “jazzy” drumming throughout (well, up to the “tornado” part).
The arrangement is certainly much greater than the song, which isn’t much of one.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 03:49:39 +0000

It would have been a great 5 minute song instead of 8.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 23:27:32 +0000

This was played by Martin Barre at this years prog rock festival in Wales
Fantastic

By: There4IM

There4IM — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:50:43 +0000

Would love any insight into who made the decision to “cut” the ending and why. I grew up with this album, and at five years old, this track was nightmare inducing. “Want you” at that age meant the boogey-man. And the sudden “death” at the end made an indelible impact. In my memory, the end of the song is actually *skritch-skritch-pop, skritch-skritch-pop, skritch-skritch-pop*.

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:50:09 +0000

In the last three minutes, the guitars are literally mass overdubbed (as stated in this above article and by listening to how deep the guitar chord sounds)

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:17:21 +0000

He plays bass on Helter Skelter also

By: andypandy

andypandy — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:54:11 +0000

I have to agree with those who regard this the most boring track on Abbey Road. Not politically correct, but a fact. We got the message after 30 seconds, the rest is endless, painful repetition…

By: Jake Gerber

Jake Gerber — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:54:10 +0000

That’s a great question when you get to a song like this. On most ,but certainly not all, you can tell who’s who, as it were. Lennon had an uncanny knock to come up with rather sophisticated riffs in respect to arpeggios. On Honey Pie ( a song I’m in no way thrilled by ) apparently John played the intro guitar line. I NEVER would have expected that to be Lennon. Then on Get Back, Lennon plays the lead, and it sounds like something he would do,same goes for Revolution,and his third and sixth guitar solos on The End . The Beatles were musical chameleons…

By: Jake Gerber

Jake Gerber — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:47:56 +0000

That depends on which section of the song you’re refrring to . A,B,C,D etc. If you’re thinking of the outro it sounds very influenced melodically like Paul. Remember they recorded this in sections …

By: Jake Gerber

Jake Gerber — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:45:07 +0000

Where do you hear George and John playing in unison ? They played off each other, but I don’t hear anything with two Guitars playing exactly the same notes. The intro is either George or John playing an arpeggio under or over ( depending on how the listener wants to hear it ) the melodic single notes line . When the verse arrives it’s just Lennon playing the melody to his vocal.

By: Jake Gerber

Jake Gerber — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:43:32 +0000

By: Brett Moskowitz

Brett Moskowitz — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 03:58:15 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. Is it Lennon?

By: Craig Aikman

Craig Aikman — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:23:55 +0000

Paul has always been my favorite bassist. Not that he was necessarily played the hardest licks, but that his playing was so melodic and beautiful and strayed far from simply being rhythmic. I have never enjoyed any bass player more then Paul. Truly 1 part of the “4- headed monster”!

By: Kenny McNeil

Kenny McNeil — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:25:55 +0000

That dynamite blues riff in intro (George) is never mentioned, whoa- but what a start!

By: EmileJ

EmileJ — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 22:35:13 +0000

I still remember the first time I heard this song as a teenager, I had bought the Abbey Road album on cassette, and when the song cut off at the end, I honestly thought I had got a defective tape, I couldn’t believe a song would just be cut off midway through. It wasn’t until years later that I discovered that it indeed was intentionally done that way.

It’s an absolutely epic rocker from the Beatles, and it’s one of my favourite songs they ever did.

By: Jason Pellegren

Jason Pellegren — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:11:16 +0000

And many picked McCartney. Why did you pick DeNiros vote? Seems random.

By: David Hutchison

David Hutchison — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:38:36 +0000

A wonderful Lennon bookend to side one of Abbey Road, and a single of Come Together with I Want You would have been perfect ?. Then, after almost eight minutes, you get to put on side two with the sparkle of Here Comes The Sun kicking it off. This ‘track arrangement’ – a piece of theatre – is an aspect which is (sadly) missing in the digital world – it *did* alter the appreciation of albums (all of them, but especially Abbey Road I think).

By: 2much4mymirror

2much4mymirror — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:59:47 +0000

In the documentary “Lennon or McCartney” on YouTube, in which heaps of musicians, actors and other luminaries give their one-word answer to that question, Robert De Niro answers “Lennon.” I imagine songs like this are why – just the raw emotion in it and the way it captures the ravages of obsessive, unsatisfied sexual desire. That said, kudos to Paul’s crucial bass.

By: BGLove

BGLove — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:17:46 +0000

I swear at one point it sounds like George singing….this song sounds different every time I listen, it seems.