Come Together
"Come Together" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles written mostly by John Lennon[2] and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song is the first song on the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road. One month later it was released as a single with "Something", their twenty-first single in the United Kingdom and twenty-sixth in the United States. The song reached the top of the charts in the US,[3] and peaked at number four in the UK.[4] The song was also featured in a scene in the movie A Bronx Tale starring Robert De Niro.
| "Come Together" | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song by the Beatles | |||||
| from Abbey Road" | |||||
| A-side | "Something" (double A-side) | ||||
| Released | 6 October 1969 | ||||
| Recorded | 21–30 July 1969, EMI Studios, London | ||||
| Genre | Blues rock[1] | ||||
| Length | 4:19 | ||||
| Label | Apple | ||||
| Songwriter(s) | Lennon–McCartney | ||||
| Producer(s) | George Martin | ||||
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The song has been covered by several other artists, including Ike & Tina Turner, Arctic Monkeys, Aerosmith, Eurythmics, Joe Cocker, Michael Jackson, and Gary Clark Jr.
Come Together Media
Timothy Leary (centre) with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (centre left and centre right) during the Montreal Bed-in for Peace, 1 June 1969
A Fender Rhodes electric piano, similar to the one McCartney plays on the recording
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References
- ↑ Freeman, Phil (2007). Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81485-3.
It's a surface-heavy blues-rock tune, flanging and wailing away…
- ↑ Sheff 2000, p. 201.
- ↑ Wallgren 1982, p. 57.
- ↑ everyHit.com 2009.
- "The Beatles Bible: Come Together". The Beatles Bible. 15 March 2008.
- Emerick, Geoff; Massey, Howard (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 1-592-40179-1.
- "Something / Come Together". everyHit.com. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
- Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
- Miles, Barry (1997). Many Years From Now. London: Seeker & Warburg. ISBN 0-436-28022-1.
- "The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2007. https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
- Self, Joseph C. (1992). "Lennon vs. Levy - The 'Roots' Lawsuit". abbeyrd.net. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
- Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.
- Wallgren, Mark (1982). The Beatles on Record. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-45682-2.
- Wenner, Jann S (2000). Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in Rolling Stone magazine). London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-600-9.
