I've Got a Feeling
| "I've Got a Feeling" | |
|---|---|
| Song by the Beatles from the album Let It Be | |
| Released | 8 May 1970 |
| Recorded | 30 January 1969 (rooftop concert) |
| Genre | Blues rock,[1] hard rock[2] |
| Length | 3:37 |
| Label | Apple, EMI |
| Writer(s) | Lennon–McCartney |
| Producer(s) | Phil Spector |
"I've Got a Feeling" is a song by the Beatles, from the 1970 album Let It Be. It is one of the songs on the album from the Beatles' rooftop concert. It is a combination of two unfinished songs: Paul McCartney's "I've Got a Feeling", and John Lennon's "Everybody Had a Hard Year".
Composition
Lennon's song was a litany where every line started with the word "everybody". The song had been recorded twice before by Lennon, prior to the Let It Be sessions. The first occurred in early December 1968 at Lennon's Kenwood estate on a portable cassette tape.[3] For this, the lyric was "Everyone had a hard year" instead of the later "Everybody".[3] Later in December 1968, with the lyric changed to "everybody," Lennon was filmed performing the song in the back garden of Kenwood. This footage was used in the Yoko Ono art film Rape: Film No. 6, which was broadcast on Austrian National Television on 31 March 1969.[4]
While McCartney's song was very optimistic, Lennon had actually endured a "hard year"—he divorced his first wife, Cynthia Lennon; his girlfriend Yoko Ono had a miscarriage; he was battling a heroin addiction; he was arrested for drug possession; he was estranged from his son Julian; and he had grown deeply unhappy in the Beatles.
In the film Let It Be, Lennon jokingly claimed he had written "Everybody Had a Hard Year" the night before.
Personnel
- Paul McCartney – bass, lead vocals
- John Lennon – rhythm guitar, co-lead vocals
- George Harrison – lead guitar
- Ringo Starr – drums
- Billy Preston – electric piano
- Personnel per Ian MacDonald[5]
Notes
- ↑ "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
- ↑ "Let It Be - The Beatles". Allmusic. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- 1 2 Winn, John C. (2009). That Magic Feeling. New York: Three Rivers Press. p. 230-231. ISBN 0307452395.
- ↑ Winn, John C. (2009). That Magic Feeling. New York: Three Rivers Press. p. 235. ISBN 0307452395.
- ↑ MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). p. 332. ISBN 1-84413-828-3.