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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Difficulty: Beginner (0/6)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". Shortly before the album's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled "LSD", the initialism commonly used for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide. Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.[3]
The Beatles recorded "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in March 1967. Adding to the song's ethereal qualities, the musical arrangement includes a Lowrey organ part heavily treated with studio effects, and drone provided by an Indian tambura. The song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre. Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John, with a guest appearance by Lennon, was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada.
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Difficulty: Beginner (0/6)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". Shortly before the album's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled "LSD", the initialism commonly used for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide. Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.[3]
The Beatles recorded "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in March 1967. Adding to the song's ethereal qualities, the musical arrangement includes a Lowrey organ part heavily treated with studio effects, and drone provided by an Indian tambura. The song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre. Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John, with a guest appearance by Lennon, was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada.

![While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles: Rock Band Expert Drums 100% FC
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
Album: The Beatles [White Album] (Disc 1) (1968)
Difficulty: Beginner (0/6)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the White Album). It was written by George Harrison, the bands lead guitarist. Harrison wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the worlds unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as the love there thats sleeping.
The song also serves as a comment on the disharmony within the Beatles following their return from studying Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968. This lack of camaraderie was reflected in the bands initial apathy towards the composition, which Harrison countered by inviting his friend and occasional collaborator, Eric Clapton, to contribute to the recording. Clapton overdubbed a lead guitar part, although he was not formally credited for his contribution. Harrison first recorded it with a sparse backing of acoustic guitar and harmonium – a version that appeared on the 1996 Anthology 3 outtakes compilation and, with the addition of a string arrangement by George Martin, on the Love soundtrack album in 2006. The full group recording was made in September 1968, at which point the songs folk-based musical arrangement was replaced by a production in the heavy rock style. The recording was one of several collaborations between Harrison and Clapton during the late 1960s and was followed by the pair co-writing the song Badge for Claptons group Cream.
On release, the song received praise from several music critics, and it has since been recognised as an example of Harrisons maturing as a songwriter beside his Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Rolling Stone ranked While My Guitar Gently Weeps 136th on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, seventh on the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time, and at number 10 on its list of The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs. Claptons performance was ranked 42nd in Guitar Worlds 2008 list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. Harrison and Clapton often performed the song together live, during which they shared the lead guitar role over the closing section. Live versions featuring the pair were included on the Concert for Bangladesh album in 1971 and Live in Japan in 1992. Backed by a band that included McCartney and Ringo Starr, Clapton performed the song at the Concert for George in November 2002, a year after Harrisons death. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles: Rock Band Expert Drums 100% FC](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DPGwOXxK1iM/mqdefault.jpg)








