How do you sleep lennon tab

Oh boy. Ad — content continues below. The song was written shortly after McCartney legally dissolved the Beatles as a legal partnership in the London High Court. Lennon had already attacked his former songwritig partner in what would come to be known as the Lennon Remembers interview with Rolling Stone in December Paul and his wife Linda responded by taunting John and Yoko in full-page ads in the music press.

Lennon thought McCartney was running out of ideas, having been shell-shocked by the reception of the album Sgt. Lennon even began the song with the sounds of the string players tuning up, a subliminal reference to the opening of Sgt. Nicky Hopkins and John Tout duel on pianos. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! But if we look past the personal rancor, what we hear on the track is some of Harrison's finest slide-guitar work. As always, Harrison wasn't a speed demon; his talent lay in his note choices, phrasing and emotional delivery a trait he shared with David Gilmour ; in this song, he uses the slide to achieve a sustained, singing tone.

OK, he wasn't Jeff Beck, Steve Howe or Ritchie Blackmore, but Harrison, who, as a Beatle, influenced millions of humans to play guitar, suddenly started playing slide in , inventing an entirely new "guitar persona" for himself. What he came up with was a distinctive, non-blues-based style that incorporated hints of Indian music, some pointers he picked up while learning sitar and other Beatles-esque odds and ends.

The top video shows the initial "How Do You Sleep? Besides Lennon who's playing his trusty Epiphone Casino , Ono and Harrison, some faces you might or might not recognize belong to producer Phil Spector who looks very much like he did in that classic I Dream of Jeannie episode , keyboardist Nicky Hopkins who also can be heard on the Beatles' "Revolution" , bassist Klaus Voormann, former Beatles roadie Mal Evans and drummer Alan White, who would go on to join Yes in The clip is interesting because it shows Lennon taking some aforementioned musical advice from Ono; it also shows Ono giving the musicians pointers.

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