5/15/2023 0 Comments Across the universe songsHowever, the song had been heard by Spike Milligan during these 1968, and he thought it would be a good inclusion for an album he was trying to put together for the World Wildlife Fund. It was recorded over the next few days along with “Lady Madonna”, “Hey Bulldog” and “Inner Light” but in the end was shelved along with “Inner Light” while the other two were released. The back-up vocals were provided by the two teenagers Lizzie Bravo and Gayleen Pease who had just been outside in the street and the sitar was performed by George Harrison. The song was first recorded in mono on 4th February 1968 when The Beatles were recording a single before they left for a visit to India. Lennon said that he thought they were maybe the most poetic and best lyrics he’d written when interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine in 1970. Once he’d finished he went back upstairs to bed. The other lyrics included the mantra “Jai guru devaom”, roughly translated as “Hail to God divine”, which link the verse to the chorus. Using the influence of his current interest in transcendental meditation he added extra lines and wrote the whole song there and then. That prompted him to get up and go downstairs to use the words he heard, “words are flowing out like endless rain in a paper cup”, as lyrics for a song. She fell asleep but he stayed awake with the same words going round and round in his head. It came about after he had been lying in bed with his wife when she started to drone on about something. Although this song is credited to Lennon & McCartney it was written solely by John Lennon in 1967.
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