The Beatles Bible - Topic: De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

GniknuS on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Thu, 27 May 2010 19:37:13 +0100

I've always wondered what 'oh, no' following John's 'oh yeah' was from...thanks for this!

Happy Nat on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Thu, 27 May 2010 19:32:06 +0100

Glass Onion is a pretty interesting little tune. The Love version rocks. Apparently, they spent a lot of thought in the studio figuring out how to present it. The version on Anthology has a way different feel to it than what ended up in the White Album and a really weird alternate ending. I have another quite different version of it posted as a rarity on my BeatlesRarity site here. It does not have all of the strings added later by George Martin (some are
there, but not all) but it does have an organ ...

skye on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:44:29 +0100

Also, I'm trying to update the list, are both of these true?

Freaky echoey voices at the end (not sure where from – any ideas?) (McLerristarr)
- In Eleanor Rigby, the intro and bridge is "Ah, look at all the lonely people". The "Ah" is what is drawn out in various places in Love. (McLerristarr/ paulbass)
- The string fade-out from 'Glass Onion' is overlaid with what sounds like a part of the ending from 'Mr. Kite'.(PeterWeatherby)

Joe on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:53:26 +0100

Yes, you're right. I thought they might be the staccato notes during the Penny Lane solo, at 1'18, but they're clearly the MMT ones.

paulsbass on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:24:23 +0000

Joe said:

Just to clarify, those are trumpets rather than horns. Are they definitely from MMT? My thought was also that they were from Penny Lane.

The way they get faster and faster is the same way the trumpets do in MMT (when Paul sings "The Magical MYstery Tour is waiting to take you away" (harmonies) "waiting to take you away").

In Penny Lane the trumpets are mostly the same all the time, just playing on the quarter beats.

PeterWeatherby on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:03:09 +0000

They well may be from MMT. They sounded like Penny Lane to me, though. I claim no infallibility for these notes.

Joe on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:46:28 +0000

Just to clarify, those are trumpets rather than horns. Are they definitely from MMT? My thought was also that they were from Penny Lane.

paulsbass on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:15:37 +0000

PeterWeatherby said:

Song begins with the drum pattern from the recorded version, but is immediately followed by the opening acoustic guitar strums from 'Things We Said Today' (this is repeated at 0:05).

At 0:03 the first part of Paul's falsetto "Oh no" from 'Hello, Goodbye' is heard, and repeated at 0:06.

Paul's sung "hello" from 'Hello Goodbye' appears at 0:17, and is followed by a digitally manipulated horn section from 'Penny Lane'.

At 0:36 a snippet of the 'Penny Lane' trumpet solo is heard in the left channel, and is answered by another snippet from the same solo in the ...

PeterWeatherby on De-constructing "Love": Glass Onion

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:42:03 +0000

Song begins with the drum pattern from the recorded version, but is immediately followed by the opening acoustic guitar strums from 'Things We Said Today' (this is repeated at 0:05).

At 0:03 the first part of Paul's falsetto "Oh no" from 'Hello, Goodbye' is heard, and repeated at 0:06.

Paul's sung "hello" from 'Hello Goodbye' appears at 0:17, and is followed by a digitally manipulated horn section from 'Penny Lane'.

At 0:36 a snippet of the 'Penny Lane' trumpet solo is heard in the left channel, and is answered by another snippet from the same solo in the right channel ...