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What Goes On (Beatles song)

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neighbors." Starr likely recorded a guide vocal on the basic track, wiped over by his final vocal overdub. The original guide vocal can be heard through the drum mike during Starr's solo and during the coda. As well, during the verse before the lead break after Starr sings "tell me why," Lennon says,
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believes those longer sections were written by McCartney. Starr contributed to the lyrics, his first-ever composing credit on a Beatles song. When asked about his contribution Starr jokingly responded, " about five words to 'What Goes On' and I haven't done a thing since." MacDonald and musicologist
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asserts that the song is "quite arguably the weakest and most incongruous track on the album." Professor of English and writer James M. Decker writes the song represents, "a retrograde achievement lyrically," then adds, "Lyrically formulaic and musically plain (though perhaps the 'country' feel is
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home demo of the song in 1965: "When Paul wanted to show Ringo how 'What Goes On' sounded he made up a multi-track tape. Onto this went Paul singing, Paul playing lead guitar, Paul playing bass and Paul playing drums. Then Ringo listened to the finished tape and added his own ideas before the
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magazine writes, "Changing chords, rewriting melody, overhauling rhythms and resequencing large chunks of lyrics, the ever-ambitious Sufjan Stevens turns 'What Goes On' inside out with an intricate stop-and-start arrangement that affirms
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Tennessean guitar is muted during the last two bars of the mono mix. Everett suggests this likely happened because the engineer meant to mute the vocal track but forgot that Harrison's guitar was on that track as well.
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writes the song is an "enjoyable if lightweight" country & western-flavoured entry in the Beatles catalogue. He praises Harrison's guitar work, which "again marks him as the finest disciple of
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s elastic strength." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic was less favourable, describing Stevens track as, "the only severe misstep in an album filled with good, generally pleasant covers."
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offered as an arch parody of the lyrics), 'What Goes On' anchors the Beatles in the very tradition that they are exploding during many other moments on
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write that Starr's contribution was the lyric "Waiting for the tides of time". MacDonald calls these lines, "pseudo-
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The Beatles released "What Goes On" in both mono and stereo in the U.K. on the 3 December 1965 release
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Critics have generally been unfavourable towards the song when comparing it with the others on
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band with choral interludes, diving strings, and a surprisingly gritty jam." Barry Walters of
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nearly recorded the song in March 1963, but ultimately did not do so until November 1965 for
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for two weeks, reaching #81. Capitol pulled the track from the North American release of
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Womack, Kenneth (2009). "Beatles Discography, 1962–1970". In Womack, Kenneth (ed.).
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and Graham Platt. Everett writes that Lennon's guitar part is in the style of
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of this version in 1963, but the song was not used until 1965 as
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Martin, assisted by Smith and Jerry Boys, mixed the song for
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and instead included it on the North American-only album
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also claimed that McCartney and Starr combined for the
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on lead vocals. The song reached number 81 on the US
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Index

What Goes On (The Beatles song)

Single
the Beatles
A-side
Nowhere Man
Rubber Soul
Studio
EMI
Genre
Country and western
rockabilly
Label
Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Lennon–McCartney
Starkey
Producer(s)
George Martin
The Beatles
We Can Work It Out
Day Tripper
Nowhere Man
Paperback Writer
the Beatles
Rubber Soul
Nowhere Man
Yesterday and Today
Lennon–McCartney
Starkey

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