John's Wood, London, can be estimated to have occurred in early May of 1967, during the time they were putting the finishing touches on the soon-to-be-released “ Sgt.

It was going to be like a Four Tops kind of song, the chord changes are like that, but it never developed and we made a joke of it.” The front page of a monthly 1967 London telephone directory, as shown above, contains the phase “* You have their NAME? Look up their NUMBER” in bold print at the bottom. He said something like, 'You know the name, look up the number.'.the phone book was on the piano with the words, 'You know my name, look up the number.' That was like a logo, and I just changed it. “I was waiting for him in his house.Paul was making a phone call and I saw the phone book was on the piano. “That was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record with Paul,” John stated in his 1980 Playboy interview. Pepper” album of 1967, John Lennon proposed the recording of what arguably is the strangest Beatles track of all time, finally released as the breakup of The Beatles was officially being announced. Upon the completion of the monumental “ Sgt. What we failed to realize at first was that, as we discovered upon later invenstigation, this track was a very humorous example of Beatles ingenuity that matched what was contained on many Beatles Christmas Records of previous years, something we were also oblivious to at the time.

Personally, my brother and I did flip the record over once on the day that our parents bought it for us, but we only listened to the first twenty seconds or so until we heard the screamed lyrics “ YOU KNOW MY NAME.,” at which point we immediately turned it back over to hear ' Let It Be' once again, not bothering to give it another chance for many years. Because of the obvious appeal of the song “ Let It Be,” however, not many thought to turn the 45 over to see what was on the b-side. Many b-sides of their US singles charted independently, sometimes because of the ambiguity as to which side of their recent release was the most commercial of the two, other times because the b-side was just too good to pass up. “Probably my favorite Beatles track,” Paul McCartney said of “You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) in a 1987 interview for Mark Lewisohn's book “The Beatles Recording Sessions.” Unfortunately, it can safely be said that most Beatles fans don't know of the song's existence, originally languishing on the b-side of the ' Let It Be' single before eventually becoming the final track of their 'Past Masters' sets.

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