The Beatles’ ‘Revolution’ featured two versions: one hard rock, one blues
Responsible for several successes of Beatles beside Paul McCartney, John Lennon didn’t like everything he did with the legendary British rock band, also formed by Ringo Starr It is George Harrison. Even the singer thought he was a “coward” for one of the versions of “revolution.”
According to information from Cheat Sheet Showbizthe book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon (2016) features an interview the artist did with the communist activist Tariq Ali. At one point, he is asked if he ever “hit on politics” in the song in question.
“Oh, sure. There are two versions of the song’revolution.’ Of course, the underground left took the one that says, ‘Don’t count on me,'” he said. Lennon. “But the original version, which ended up on the record, said, ‘When you talk about destruction, you can count on me.’ In and out – I put both because I wasn’t sure.”
In all, there were two songs left: “revolution“hard rock, and the blues”revolution 1.” The artist also spoke about the differences between the two: “The one I released as a single, we did it in a more commercial style – the single is much faster than the album version – and I left the ‘count on me’ out. Because I’m a coward – I don’t want to get killed and all that.”
“I didn’t really know much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few, and like, painting themselves green and standing in front of the police and getting arrested,” he continued. John Lennon. “I just thought it wasn’t subtle. I don’t think the original communist revolutionaries went around screaming about it. They kept quiet.”
Source: Rollingstone
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