Roadâs Studio One by inviting Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Eric Clapton and Keith Moon to hold balloons, wave placards and join in on the chorus. George Martin accentuated the message of international unity by opening the song with bars from La Marseillaise (France), and closing it with snatches from âIn The Moodâ (America) the Brandenburg concerto (Germany) and âGreensleevesâ (England).
The single was released on July 7, and became the anthem of the Summer of Love, a paean to peace, love and understanding. âWe had been told that weâd be seen recording it by the whole world at the same time,â said Paul. âSo we had one message for the world â love. We need more love in the world.â
BABY YOUâRE A RICH MAN
As with â A Day In The Lifeâ, two unfinished songs were sewn together to create âBaby Youâre A Rich Manâ, which opens with Johnâs section, originally titled âOne Of The Beautiful Peopleâ, and then moves up a gear for Paulâs ârich manâ chorus.
âThe beautiful peopleâ was a term applied to the hip in-crowd who, with their long hair, free love and dope, created an alternative to âstraightâ society. They used the word âbeautifulâ freely in their conversations to describe anything of which they approved. âAt the back of my mind somewhereâ¦there is something which tells me that everything is beautiful,â said Paul in a stoned interview with International Times in January 1967. âInstead of opposing things like âOh, I donât like that television showâ or âNo, I donât like the theatreâ I know really that itâs all great and that everythingâs great and thereâs no bad ever if I can think of it all as great.â
In 1967, San Francisco was regarded as the city of the beautiful people because it was here that the hippy movement was first spotted by the media and where the first psychedelic âhappeningsâ and open-air âtribal gatheringsâ had taken place. Although the Beatles played San Francisco in 1964, 1965 and 1966, they didnât really get to explore the city until 1967. Paul was the first to visit, on April 4, when he dropped in on a Jefferson Airplane rehearsal and jammed on guitar. George was next, on August 7, when he came to Haight Ashbury, the San Francisco district that had given birth to underground newspapers, psychedelic poster art, communes, crash pads, head shops, free clinics and legions of exotic street people. Pattieâs sister Jenny was living in the area. âYou are our leader, George,â one hippy shouted as he set off walking from the cornerof Haight and Masonic with Pattie, Neil Aspinall and Derek Taylor beside him. âYou know where itâs at.â
George was taken aback at the drug-glazed adoration of those who pushed flowers, poems, posters and drugs at him. âItâs you who should be leading yourself,â he told his would-be followers. âYou donât want to be following leaders â me or anyone else.â When he arrived at a park, George sat on the grass, listened to other peopleâs songs and then started to sing âBaby Youâre A Rich Manâ.
The rich man in Paulâs section is reputed to be manager Brian Epstein and in a demo version of the song, John maligns him by singing âBaby, youâre a rich fag Jewâ. âThe point was,â said John, âstop moaning. Youâre a rich man and weâre all rich men.â
HELLO GOODBYE
Alistair Taylor, Brian Epsteinâs assistant, remembered once asking Paul how he wrote his songs, and Paul took him into his dining room to give a demonstration on a hand-carved harmonium. He told Taylor to shout out the opposite of whatever he sang as he struck the keys. And so it went â black and white, yes and no, stop and go, hello and goodbye. âIâve no