Yellow Submarine - I Am the Walrus Mystery Cache
Yellow Submarine - I Am the Walrus
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I Am the Walrus
"I Am the Walrus" was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon-McCartney. The song was featured in the Beatles' 1967 television film, as a track on the associated double EP Magical Mystery Tour and its American counterpart LP, and was the B-side to the number 1 hit single "Hello, Goodbye". Since the single and the double EP held at one time in December 1967 the top two slots on the British singles chart, the song had the distinction of being at number 1 and number 2 simultaneously. "I Am the Walrus" was the first studio recording made after the death of the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein in August 1967. George Martin arranged and added orchestral accompaniment that included violins, cellos, horns, clarinet and a 16-piece choir. A large group of professional studio vocalists named the Mike Sammes Singers, took part in the recording as well, variously singing "Ho-ho-ho, hee-hee-hee, ha-ha-ha", "oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper!", "everybody's got one" and making a series of shrill whooping noises.
The dramatic reading in the mix is a few lines of Shakespear's 'King Lear' (Act IV, Scene VI), which were added to the song direct from an AM radio Lennon was fiddling with that happened to be receiving the broadcast of the play on the 'BBC Third Programme'. The excerpt begins at Act IV, Sc vi,II lines 224-25, most pointedly (given Lennon's problematic history with his own father) where the disguised Edgar talks to his estranged and maliciously blinded father the Earl of Gloucester: Glo: "Now good sir, what are you? Edg: A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows." Edgar then kills Oswald the steward of Goneril (who cries out "Slave, thou has't slain me"). Edgar describes the dead Oswald in words heard in the song's coda as a "serviceable villain." Gloucester asks "What, is he dead?" and Edgar replies "Sit ye down father, rest you.
Answer the following question for the correct coords.
"I Am the Walrus" was the first studio recording made after the death of the Beatles' manager [who?] in August 1967.
A. George Martin - N 30 23.256 W 082 32.269
B. Brian Epstein - N 30 22.831 W 082 32.699
C. Billy Preston - N 30 22.525 W 082 32.145
D. Pete Best - N 30 23.031 W 082 33.122
The container is a small peanut butter jar.
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