"[9] The bassline descends stepwise A, G, F, E, D, C, and B, while the strings part rises A, B, C, D, E, F♯, G: this sequence repeats as the song fades, with the strings rising higher on each iteration. [citation needed], Although it has been reported that Lennon wrote "I Am the Walrus" to confuse those who tried to interpret his songs, there have nevertheless been many attempts to analyse the meaning of the lyrics[citation needed]. Oswald: (3:52) Slave, thou hast slain me. Seen in the Magical Mystery Tour film singing the song, Lennon, apparently, is the walrus; on the track-list of the accompanying soundtrack album, however, underneath "I Am the Walrus" are printed the words " 'No you're not!' Musicologist Alan W. Pollack analyses: "The chord progression of the outro itself is a harmonic Moebius strip with scales in bassline and top voice that move in contrary motion. "I Am the Walrus" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour. Upon the British party. To (4:08) Edmund, Earl of Gloucester; (4:10) seek him out Slap it on a butty, ten-foot thick,

The basic backing track featuring the Beatles was released in 1996 on Anthology 2. In those days I was writing obscurely, à la Dylan. Verse 2, however, involves a ♭VI–♭VII–I Aeolian ascent: "waiting" (F chord) "for the van" (G chord) "to come" (A chord). Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. A 5.1 surround sound full stereo remix of the song appeared on the DVD release of Anthology in 2003, on disc 4. Lennon tuned around the dial and settled on the 7:30 pm to 11 pm[18] broadcast of the play on the BBC Third Programme.[19]. George Martin arranged and added orchestral accompaniment that included violins, cellos, horns, and clarinet. Die Mütter ermahnen die Kinder allerdings, brav im Zimmer zu bleiben und zu schlafen. During the fade of the song the second main extract (ll. In addition to the stereo remixes prepared for the Love show and the 2012 Apple reissue referenced above, the DVDs that were released for those same projects contain a 5.1 surround sound mix of the song, making three distinct 5.1 remixes of the same song. Die Kinder gehen trotzdem aus dem Zimmer und kommen erst später wieder zu ihren Müttern zurück, worauf sie ausgeschimpft werden. The Mike Sammes Singers, a 16-voice choir of professional studio vocalists, also joined the recording, variously singing nonsense lines and shrill whooping noises. The first excerpt (ll. [14], In 2015, founding Moody Blues member Ray Thomas said in an interview that he and fellow band member Mike Pinder contributed backing vocals to the song, as well as harmonicas to "The Fool on the Hill". In the film, the song underscores a segment in which the band mime to the recording at a deserted airfield. The second idea was a short rhyme about Lennon sitting amidst his garden, while the third was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake. The words 'Element'ry penguin' meant that it's naïve to just go around chanting Hare Krishna or putting all your faith in one idol. The song ends using a Shepard tone, with a chord progression built on ascending and descending lines in the bass and strings, repeated as the song fades. Written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was released as the B-side to the single "Hello, Goodbye" and on the Magical Mystery Tour EP and album. He stated that the song "begins with an intro sounding suspiciously like one of John Barry's James Bond film scores", then quoted some of the lyrics before saying that "the whole thing fades out to what sounds like people being fried on electric fences and pigs rooting in a bucket of swill. Urmel singt ein Lied von Kindern, die von der Entdeckungslust gepackt werden und „schöne Sachen sehen“ wollen. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system. Listen to Walross | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.. Paris. Since the "Hello, Goodbye" single and the Magical Mystery Tour EP both reached the top two slots on the British singles chart in December, "I Am the Walrus" holds the distinction of reaching numbers one and two simultaneously.

Unable to finish the three different songs, he combined them into one. The final piece of the song came together when Lennon's friend and former fellow member of the Quarrymen, Pete Shotton visited, and Lennon asked him about a playground nursery rhyme they sang as children. Critical reception at the time of the track's release was largely positive: Richard Goldstein of The New York Times wrote that the song was "their most realized work since 'A Day In The Life'" and described it as "a fierce collage" with a "musical structure [that] mirrors this fragmentation". [13], "I Am the Walrus" was the first studio recording made by the Beatles after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, in August 1967. This came about because the radio broadcast had been added "live" into the mono mix-down and so was unavailable for inclusion in the stereo mix; hence, fake stereo from the mono mix was created for this portion of the song.[21]. [15], The dramatic reading in the mix is Shakespeare's King Lear (Act IV, Scene 6), lines 219–222 and 249–262.

An early, overdub-free mix of the song released on Anthology 2 reveals John singing the lyrics "Yellow mat-" too early—this was edited out. According to this biography, Lennon remarked to Shotton, "Let the fuckers work that one out."

[7], Lennon claimed he wrote the first two lines on separate acid trips; he explained much of the song to Playboy in 1980:[8], The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. ", Robert Fontenot, "I Am the Walrus", on Oldies Music page from about.com, "Network 3 Programme Listings for Friday, 29 September, 1967", "flavour of new zealand - search listener", "Styx's Live Walrus Recording to Debut on iTunes; Styx's Version of "I Am the Walrus" Hits Top 10 on Classic Rock Charts", "Who was the walrus?