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«Only a Northern Song» (с англ. — «Лишь северная песня») — песня, написанная Джорджем Харрисоном и исполненная группой «Битлз». Песня была записана во время сессий, посвящённых альбому Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, однако была выпущена на альбоме Yellow Submarine (вошла также в одноимённый мультфильм). По мнению отдельных критиков песня является личным порицанием Харрисоном музыкальной индустрии «Битлз». "Only a Northern Song" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 soundtrack album Yellow Submarine. Written by George Harrison, it was the first of four songs the band provided for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists. The song was recorded mainly in February 1967, during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but the Beatles chose not to include it on that album. The group completed the recording two months later, straight after finishing work on Sgt. Pepper. «Only a Northern Song» (en español «Solo una Canción del Norte») es una canción de The Beatles escrita por George Harrison. Fue grabada en 1967 durante las sesiones del álbum Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band pero fue omitida de este. Aparece por primera vez en la película Yellow Submarine de 1968 y fue publicada oficialmente en su undécimo álbum, Yellow Submarine de 1969. Only a Northern Song (englisch Lediglich ein Northern Song) ist ein Lied der britischen Rockband The Beatles, das erstmals 1969 auf dem Soundtrack-Album Yellow Submarine des gleichnamigen Films erschien. Komponiert wurde es von George Harrison. Only a Northern Song is een lied van The Beatles, gecomponeerd door groepslid George Harrison. Het staat op het album Yellow Submarine van januari 1969, dat nummers van The Beatles bevat naast instrumentale composities van hun vaste producer George Martin. Het is een van de twee Harrison-composities op het album, naast It's All Too Much. Only A Northern Song est une chanson des Beatles écrite par George Harrison qui se trouve sur l'album Yellow Submarine publié en 1969. Elle est pourtant plus ancienne et a été composée et enregistrée début 1967 pour l'album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Sur une musique cacophonique, la chanson est un prétexte à un règlement de comptes avec la société Northern Songs Ltd., chargée de l'édition des compositions des Beatles. Harrison se sent en effet volé par cette société, et juge trop dérisoire la place qui lui est accordée au sein du groupe. Only a Northern Song è un brano dei Beatles scritto da George Harrison e pubblicato sull'album Yellow Submarine. 「オンリー・ア・ノーザン・ソング」(Only a Northern Song)は、ビートルズの楽曲である。1969年に発売された10作目のイギリス盤公式オリジナル・アルバム『イエロー・サブマリン』に収録された。作詞作曲はジョージ・ハリスンで、ユナイテッド・アーティスツとの契約上の義務を果たすために、1968年に公開されたアニメーション映画『イエロー・サブマリン』のためにビートルズが提供した楽曲の1つである。本作の主なレコーディングは、1967年2月の『サージェント・ペパーズ・ロンリー・ハーツ・クラブ・バンド』のセッション中に行なわれ、同作のためのセッションが終了した2か月後に完成した。 本作は、ハリスンがビートルズの音楽出版社であるノーザン・ソングスの契約ソングライターとしての地位に不満を持って書いた楽曲となっている。不協和音のようなトランペットやテープループなどが使用され、2本のテープをシンクロさせて完成させているが、ステレオ・ミックスではこれを再現することが困難であったため、長らくステレオ盤には疑似ステレオ・ミックスが収録されていた。 Only a Northern Song (Harrison) är en låt av The Beatles, inspelad 1967. Only a Northern Song (algo como 'Apenas Uma Canção do Norte') é uma canção dos Beatles que aparece no filme e no álbum Yellow Submarine de 1969. Foi escrita e cantada por George Harrison. A base da faixa foi gravada em 13 de Fevereiro de 1967, com overdubs adicionados no dia 14 do mesmo mês e no dia 20 de Abril. Originalmente, a canção iria aparecer no álbum Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. De acordo com o engenheiro de som dos Beatles, Geoff Emerick, a música foi deixada de fora do álbum porque os membros da banda acharam que ela não combinava com o resto das músicas. Tendo uma letra que faz referência ao próprio escritor, uma forma musical inconvencial e instrumentação pouco usual, incluindo trompetes distorcidos, um órgão com reverb (reverberação), sinos, e um glockenspiel, esta é
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Only a Northern Song è un brano dei Beatles scritto da George Harrison e pubblicato sull'album Yellow Submarine. 「オンリー・ア・ノーザン・ソング」(Only a Northern Song)は、ビートルズの楽曲である。1969年に発売された10作目のイギリス盤公式オリジナル・アルバム『イエロー・サブマリン』に収録された。作詞作曲はジョージ・ハリスンで、ユナイテッド・アーティスツとの契約上の義務を果たすために、1968年に公開されたアニメーション映画『イエロー・サブマリン』のためにビートルズが提供した楽曲の1つである。本作の主なレコーディングは、1967年2月の『サージェント・ペパーズ・ロンリー・ハーツ・クラブ・バンド』のセッション中に行なわれ、同作のためのセッションが終了した2か月後に完成した。 本作は、ハリスンがビートルズの音楽出版社であるノーザン・ソングスの契約ソングライターとしての地位に不満を持って書いた楽曲となっている。不協和音のようなトランペットやテープループなどが使用され、2本のテープをシンクロさせて完成させているが、ステレオ・ミックスではこれを再現することが困難であったため、長らくステレオ盤には疑似ステレオ・ミックスが収録されていた。 音楽評論家のは、本作について「独りよがりの悲歌」と評しているが、Ultimate Classic Rockは本作を「ビートルズのサイケデリック・ナンバーにおける最高傑作の1つ」としている。1996年に発売された『ザ・ビートルズ・アンソロジー2』には、ボーカルを別テイクのものに変更し、サウンド・コラージュのオーバー・ダビングをカットした別アレンジの音源が収録されている。発売後に、らによってカバーされた。 Only A Northern Song est une chanson des Beatles écrite par George Harrison qui se trouve sur l'album Yellow Submarine publié en 1969. Elle est pourtant plus ancienne et a été composée et enregistrée début 1967 pour l'album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Sur une musique cacophonique, la chanson est un prétexte à un règlement de comptes avec la société Northern Songs Ltd., chargée de l'édition des compositions des Beatles. Harrison se sent en effet volé par cette société, et juge trop dérisoire la place qui lui est accordée au sein du groupe. Les enregistrements se déroulent en février et avril 1967, mais la chanson n'est finalement pas retenue sur l'album et Harrison compose à la place Within You Without You. L'année suivante, elle est choisie pour apparaître dans la bande originale du dessin animé Yellow Submarine et donc publiée sur le disque du même nom, en janvier 1969. «Only a Northern Song» (en español «Solo una Canción del Norte») es una canción de The Beatles escrita por George Harrison. Fue grabada en 1967 durante las sesiones del álbum Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band pero fue omitida de este. Aparece por primera vez en la película Yellow Submarine de 1968 y fue publicada oficialmente en su undécimo álbum, Yellow Submarine de 1969. El título está inspirado en la Northern Song Ltd, una empresa de publicación de música formada en 1963 para explotar las composiciones de la dupla Lennon/McCartney. La compañía fue vendida en 1965, pero John Lennon y Paul McCartney poseían un 15% de acciones mientras Harrison era propietario sólo de un 0.8%.​ Harrison era contratado por la compañía como compositor y mantuvo sus derechos de autor, pero Lennon y McCartney al ser accionistas mayoritarios, recibían más ganancias por sus composiciones y George recibía menos por las suyas. La canción refleja su insatisfacción con la discográfica y en particular con su principal accionista Dick James. La letra también sugiere el poco entusiasmo que sentía por la banda, sobre todo después de su último concierto en Candlestick Park en 1966.​ "Only a Northern Song" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 soundtrack album Yellow Submarine. Written by George Harrison, it was the first of four songs the band provided for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists. The song was recorded mainly in February 1967, during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but the Beatles chose not to include it on that album. The group completed the recording two months later, straight after finishing work on Sgt. Pepper. Harrison wrote "Only a Northern Song" out of dissatisfaction with his status as a junior songwriter with the Beatles' publishing company, Northern Songs. The lyrics and music convey his disenchantment at how the company retained the copyright for the songs it published, and at how, following its public listing in 1965, the major shareholders profited more from his compositions than he did. The recording features a Hammond organ, played by Harrison, and an overdubbed montage of assorted sounds including trumpet blasts and spoken voices, anticipating John Lennon's 1968 sound collage "Revolution 9". Due to the difficulty in assembling the completed track from two tape sources, "Only a Northern Song" remained a rare song from the Beatles' post-1963 catalogue that was unavailable in true stereo until 1999. That year, it was remixed for inclusion on the album Yellow Submarine Songtrack. The song has received a varied response from reviewers; while Ian MacDonald dismisses the track as a "self-indulgent dirge", the website Ultimate Classic Rock identifies it as one of the Beatles' best works in the psychedelic genre. A version of the song with a different vocal part, and omitting the sound collage overdubs, was issued on the Beatles' 1996 outtakes compilation Anthology 2. Gravenhurst and Yonder Mountain String Band are among the artists who have covered "Only a Northern Song". Only a Northern Song is een lied van The Beatles, gecomponeerd door groepslid George Harrison. Het staat op het album Yellow Submarine van januari 1969, dat nummers van The Beatles bevat naast instrumentale composities van hun vaste producer George Martin. Het is een van de twee Harrison-composities op het album, naast It's All Too Much. «Only a Northern Song» (с англ. — «Лишь северная песня») — песня, написанная Джорджем Харрисоном и исполненная группой «Битлз». Песня была записана во время сессий, посвящённых альбому Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, однако была выпущена на альбоме Yellow Submarine (вошла также в одноимённый мультфильм). По мнению отдельных критиков песня является личным порицанием Харрисоном музыкальной индустрии «Битлз». Only a Northern Song (englisch Lediglich ein Northern Song) ist ein Lied der britischen Rockband The Beatles, das erstmals 1969 auf dem Soundtrack-Album Yellow Submarine des gleichnamigen Films erschien. Komponiert wurde es von George Harrison. Only a Northern Song (Harrison) är en låt av The Beatles, inspelad 1967. Only a Northern Song (algo como 'Apenas Uma Canção do Norte') é uma canção dos Beatles que aparece no filme e no álbum Yellow Submarine de 1969. Foi escrita e cantada por George Harrison. A base da faixa foi gravada em 13 de Fevereiro de 1967, com overdubs adicionados no dia 14 do mesmo mês e no dia 20 de Abril. Originalmente, a canção iria aparecer no álbum Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. De acordo com o engenheiro de som dos Beatles, Geoff Emerick, a música foi deixada de fora do álbum porque os membros da banda acharam que ela não combinava com o resto das músicas. Tendo uma letra que faz referência ao próprio escritor, uma forma musical inconvencial e instrumentação pouco usual, incluindo trompetes distorcidos, um órgão com reverb (reverberação), sinos, e um glockenspiel, esta é uma das músicas mais psicodélicas dos Beatles. Ao longo da música, Paul McCartney toca trompete, assim como os outros membros tocam instrumentos de percussão tais como glockenspiel, sinos orquestrais e tímpano. Um mellotron também pode ser ouvido em algumas partes da música. Uma versão editada e ligeiramente acelerada da canção sem os overdubs do dia 20 de Abril (apenas órgão, bateria, baixo e vocal) foi lançada no álbum Anthology 2 em 1996, com uma tomada vocal diferente contendo alguma variação na letra. Como a música foi feita com duas tomadas separadas tocando em sincronia, a mixagem original da música, monofônica, só foi lançada em 1999, quando uma versão remixada da faixa foi lançada no álbum de coletânea Yellow Submarine. A letra mostra o descrédito de Harrison para com a própria música, concluindo cada verso com a frase "It's only a Northern song" ('É apenas uma canção do Norte'), que Harrison explicou se referir tanto à cidade natal dos Beatles, Liverpool, que fica no noroeste da Inglaterra, como à companhia de publicações Northern Songs (George ainda não tinha formado sua própria companhia de publicação; 'Northern Songs' era a companhia de publicação de Lennon/McCartney). A música às vezes é interpretada como uma zombaria à Lennon/McCartney, fazendo referência às letras e músicas psicodélicas que os dois faziam na época, e como uma reação às atitudes de menosprezo de Lennon e McCartney para com as composições de Harrison, com ele cantando indiferentemente "It doesn't really matter what chords I play/What words I say or time of day it is/As it's only a Northern song" ('Não importa realmente que acordes eu toco/Que palavras eu digo ou que hora do dia é/Já que é apenas uma canção do norte').
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Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music
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It doesn't really matter what chords I play … as it's only a Northern Song. I remember playing a silly trumpet [on "Only a Northern Song"]. My dad used to play. I can't, but I can mess around a lot – and that song gave me the perfect framework. It was very tongue in cheek. ["Only a Northern Song"] was a joke relating to Liverpool, the Holy City in the North of England. In addition, the song was copyrighted Northern Songs Ltd., which I don't own, so: "Only a Northern Song" was George Harrison realising that the music business is not a lot of fun. That's probably why we got on so well!
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– Paul McCartney, 2000 – Neil Innes of the Rutles, 2003 – George Harrison, 1979
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