ビートルズ『リボルバー』最大の新発見、ジョンの歌う♪イエロー・サブマリン♪が意味するもの
2022(令和四)年10月22日(土) 07:50 Rob Sheffield ローリングストーン日本版 提供
ザ・ビートルズ(The Beatles)の『リボルバー』スペシャル・エディション(10月28日世界同時リリース)から2曲が先行配信された。そのうちの一つ、「Yellow Submarine (Songwriting Work Tape / Part 1)」が大きな注目を集めている理由とは?
ビートルズの音楽は、他のバンドにはないエモーショナルな力を持っている。1966年の傑作『Revolver』はジョン、ポール、ジョージ、リンゴが手がけた、心に響く瞬間に溢れている。しかし、「イエロー・サブマリン」はそう思われていなかった。実際、この曲は子供向けの陽気なノベルティソングとして、世界中で大切にされてきた。だからこの曲で、ジョン・レノンがギターをかき鳴らし、悲しいアコースティック・バラードとして歌っているのは、本当にショッキングなことだと言える。10月28日に世界同時発売される『Revolver』スーパー・デラックス・エディションに収録されるこのテイクは、最大の驚きのひとつだ。「イエロー・サブマリン」に感情的な深みを期待した人などいるだろうか?今回のスーパー・デラックス・エディションに収録されている多くの未発表曲と同様、この「イエロー・サブマリン」もまた、彼らについて知っているつもりになっていたことをすべて考え直させるものだ。『Revolver』でビートルズが自分たちのコンフォートゾーンから飛び出し、どこまでも実験することを望んでいたことのは明らかだ。「このアルバムは全体を通じて、彼らが『よし、今までとまったく違うものにしようぜ 』と言っているような作品だ」と、新バージョンのプロデューサーで、オリジナル・プロデューサー、ジョージ・マーティンの息子であるジャイルズ・マーティンは語る。「これは、すべてを吹き飛ばすニトログリセリンだったんだ」今回公開された「イエロー・サブマリン」のデモは、ブートレグで世に出たこともなければ、筋金入りのビートルマニアの間でさえ噂になったことはない。ジョンはこの曲を、フォーキーなギターのピッキングに乗せて、”僕が生まれた場所では/誰も気にかけてくれなかった/僕が生まれた名前も/誰も気にかけてくれなかった"と哀愁漂う告白のように歌っている。「ストロベリー・フィールズ・フォーエバー』や「ディア・プルーデンス」「ジュリア」に通じる、幼い頃の辛い思い出を打ち明けているような手触りだ。『ホワイト・アルバム』や『ジョンの魂』に収録されていてもおかしくない。これが「イエロー・サブマリン」だって?
■♪イエロー・サブマリン♪ジョンとポールの証言■誰もが口ずさめる普遍的なコーラスを書いたのはポール・マッカートニーだが、そもそもあのジョンが「イエロー・サブマリン」にここまで深く関わっていたというだけでも衝撃的だ。「アウトテイクを確認し始めるまで、まったく知らなかった」とマーティンは述懐する。「これはレノン=マッカートニーの曲だったんだ。ポールに言ったよ、『今までずっと、あなたが書いてリンゴに渡した曲だと思っていました」って。全然そうじゃなかったんだ。
世界中のリスナーがこの曲を、いつも子供たちの人気者であるリンゴ・スターのショーケースとして認知している。ポールが今回のリイシューに寄せた序文で振り返っているように。「ある薄明の夜、居眠りする前にベッドで横になっていると、リンゴに似合いそうな、それと同時に当時の熱狂的な雰囲気を取り入れた曲を思いついた。”イエロー・サブマリン”ーードラッグの影響を受けた子供向けの歌で、リンゴは今でもこの歌で聴衆を驚かせている」
しかし実際には、「A Day in the Life」や「We Can Work It Out」のように、ジョンとポールが個別の断片を完璧な曲へと昇華させたケースだった。彼らは1966年、「イエロー・サブマリン」でアイヴァー・ノヴェロ賞を受賞したときのラジオ・インタビューで、この曲の由来を語っている。「僕が”サブマリン”について覚えているのは……」とジョンはポールに言った。「コーラスの部分は、君が一緒に加わってくれたんだ。他の部分は僕が先に書き上げていたもので、それを一つにくっつけたんじゃなかったっけ?」。ポールは「そうだね」と同意した。「ああ、そのとおりだ」
◆動画◆The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life (Second Version / Unnumbered Mix) https://youtu.be/azvE5dh2f1A
㊤↑の曲は昨日
2022(令和四)年10月21日(金)に公開された、2つの『Revolver』アウトテイクのうちの1つである。もう1曲は、Stax調のメンフィスR&Bに挑戦した「Got To Get You Into My Life」の、素晴らしくハイエナジーな初期バージョン。ジョージ・ハリスンがファズトーンのギターでフックを弾いており、ガレージバンドのような雰囲気だ。しかし、今回の「イエロー・サブマリン」こそ、まったく新しい旅へといざなう曲だ。ボックス・セットに収録された別のテイクでは、エバリー・ブラザーズのようなハーモニー・デュエットとして一緒に歌っている。ポールは、自分の仲間がパーソナルゾーンの奥深くに入り込んでいることを認識し、必要なだけの余裕を与えて、手を引いているのがわかる。ジョンがこの曲で弱音を吐き、それをポールに渡してリンゴのヒット曲に作り変えたと思うと、呆気にとられる。多くの美しいビートルズの物語が、この一曲に集約されている。60年近くも聴かれることなく保管されていた、この小さな断片には、ビートルズ独自のケミストリーが凝縮されている。
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『リボルバー』スペシャル・エディション
‡2022(令和四)年10月28日(金) 世界同時発売
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┃ THE BEATLES INTERVIEW ┃ DM's Beatles site
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‡1962(昭和37)年10月28日(sun) October 28
According to renown Beatles author Mark Lewisohn, this is the Beatles' first-ever radio interview! Lewisohn accurately describes it as rare and fascinating, not just for historical importance, but also because it's wonderfully intriguing.
At the time of this 1962 interview, the Beatles are still making regular visits to Hamburg, and Ringo Starr is so new to the group that he's still keeping track of how long he's been a Beatle by number of weeks!! This interview takes place following the release of their first single 'Love Me Do,' and BEFORE the final version of 'Please Please Me' had been arrived at. At the time of this interview they have not yet had a 'number one' song. It is a very rare glimpse of the early Beatles - their first radio interview--recorded on October 28th, 1962 at Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight, on the Wirral in England.
This new group of youngsters is interviewed by Monty Lister, with additional questions from Malcolm Threadgill and Peter Smethurst.
Monty: It's a very great pleasure for us this evening to say hello to an up-and-coming Merseyside group, The Beatles. I know their names, and I'm going to try and put faces to them. Now, you're John Lennon, aren't you?"
John: "Yes, that's right."
Monty: "What do you do in the group, John?"
John: "I play harmonica, rhythm guitar, and vocal. That's what they call it."
Monty: "Then, there's Paul McCartney. That's you?"
Paul: "Yeah, that's me. Yeah."
Monty: "and what do you do?"
Paul: "Play bass guitar and uhh, sing? ...I think! That's what they say."
Monty: "That's quite apart from being vocal?"
Paul: "Well... yes, yes."
Monty: "Then there's George Harrison."
George: "How d'you do."
Monty: "How d'you do. What's your job?"
George: "Uhh, lead guitar and sort of singing."
Monty: "By playing lead guitar does that mean that you're sort of leader of the group or are you...?"
George: "No, no. Just... Well you see, the other guitar is the rhythm. Ching, ching, ching, you see."
Paul: "He's solo guitar, you see. John is in fact the leader of the group."
Monty: "and over in the background, here, and also in the background of the group making alot of noise is Ringo Starr."
Ringo: "Hello."
Monty: "You're new to the group, aren't you Ringo?"
Ringo: "Yes, umm, nine weeks now."
Monty: "Were you in on the act when the recording was made of 'Love Me Do'?"
Ringo: "Yes, I'm on the record. I'm on the disc."
(the group giggles)
Ringo: (comic voice) "It's down on record, you know?"
Monty: "Now, umm..."
Ringo: "I'm the drummer!"
(laughter)
Monty: "What's that offensive weapon you've got there? Those are your drumsticks?"
Ringo: "Well, it's umm... just a pair of sticks I found. I just bought 'em, you know, 'cuz we're going away."
Monty: "When you say you're going away, that leads us on to another question now. Where are you going?"
Ringo: "Germany. Hamburg. For two weeks."
Monty: "You have standing and great engagements over there, haven't you?"
Ringo: "Well, the boys have been there quite alot, you know. and I've been there with other groups, but this is the first time I've been there with the Beatles."
Monty: "Paul, tell us. How do you get in on the act in Germany?"
Paul: "Well, it was all through an old agent."
(laughter)
Paul: (chuckles) "We first went there for a fella who used to manage us, and Mr. Allan Williams of the Jacaranda Club in Liverpool. and he found the engagements so we sort of went there, and then went under our own..."
John: "Steam."
Paul: "Steam... (laughs)
John: "...as they say."
Paul: "As they say, afterwards, you know. and we've just been going backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards."
Monty: (surprised) "You're not busy at all?"
Paul: "Well yes, actually. Yes. It's been left-leg in all the war."
(laughter)
Monty: "George, were you brought up in Liverpool?"
George: "Yes. So far, yes."
Monty: "Whereabouts?"
George: "Well, born in Wavertree, and bred in Wavertree and Speke - where the airplanes are, you know."
Monty: "Are you all 'Liverpool types,' then?"
Ringo: "Yes."
John: "Uhh... types, yes."
Paul: "Oh yeah."
Ringo: "Liverpool-typed Paul, there."
Monty: "Now, I'm told that you were actually in the same form as young Ron Wycherley..."
Ringo: "Ronald. Yes."
Monty: "...now Billy Fury."
Ringo: "In Saint Sylus."
Monty: "In which?"
Ringo: "Saint Sylus."
John: "Really?"
Ringo: "It wasn't Dingle Bay like you said in the Musical Express."
Paul: "No, that was wrong. Saint Sylus school."
Monty: "Now I'd like to introduce a young disc jockey. His name is Malcolm Threadgill, he's 16-years old, and I'm sure he'd like to ask some questions from the teenage point of view."
Malcolm: "I understand you've made other recordings before on a German label."
Paul: "Yeah."
Malcolm: "What ones were they?"
Paul: "Well, we didn't make... First of all we made a recording with a fella called Tony Sheridan. We were working in a club called 'The Top Ten Club' in Hamburg. and we made a recording with him called, 'My Bonnie,' which got to number five in the German Hit Parade."
John: "Ach tung!"
Paul: (giggles) "But it didn't do a thing over here, you know. It wasn't a very good record, but the Germans must've liked it a bit. and we did an instrumental which was released in France on an EP of Tony Sheridan's, which George and John wrote themselves. That wasn't released here. It got one copy. That's all, you know. It didn't do anything."
Malcolm: "You composed 'P.S. I Love You' and 'Love Me Do' yourself, didn't you? Who does the composing between you?"
Paul: "Well, it's John and I. We write the songs between us. It's, you know... We've sort of signed contracts and things to say, that now if we..."
John: "It's equal shares."
Paul: "Yeah, equal shares and royalties and things, so that really we just both write most of the stuff. George did write this instrumental, as we say. But mainly it's John and I. We've written over about a hundred songs but we don't use half of them, you know. We just happened to sort of rearrange 'Love Me Do' and played it to the recording people, and 'P.S. I Love You,' and uhh, they seemed to quite like it. So that's what we recorded."
Malcolm: "Is there anymore of your own compositions you intend to record?"
John: "Well, we did record another song of our own when we were down there, but it wasn't finished enough. So, you know, we'll take it back next time and see how they like it then."
(long pause)
John: (jokingly) "Well... that's all from MY end!"
(laughter)
Monty: "I would like to just ask you - and we're recording this at Hume Hall, Port Sunlight - Did any of you come over to this side before you became famous, as it were? Do you know this district?"
Paul: "Well, we played here, uhh... I don't know what you mean by famous, you know.
(laughter)
Paul: "If being famous is being in the Hit Parade, we've been over here - we were here about two months ago. Been here twice, haven't we?"
John: "I've got relations here. Rockferry."
Monty: "Have you?"
John: "Yes. Oh, all sides of the water, you know."
Paul: "Yeah, I've got a relation in Clorton Village - Upton Road."
Ringo: (jokingly) "I've got a friend in Birkenhead!"
(laughter)
Monty: "I wish I had."
George: (jokingly) "I know a man in Chester!"
(laughter)
Monty: "Now, that's a very dangerous thing to say. There's a mental home there, mate. Peter Smethurst is here as well, and he looks like he is bursting with a question."
Peter: "There is just one question I'd like to ask. I'm sure it's the question everyone's asking. I'd like your impressions on your first appearence on television."
Paul: "Well, strangely enough, we thought we were gonna be dead nervous. and everyone said, 'You suddenly, when you see the cameras, you realize that there are two million people watching,' because there were two million watching that 'People and Places' that we did... we heard afterwards. But, strangely enough, it didn't come to us. We didn't think at all about that. and it was much easier doing the television than it was doing the (live musical performance) radio. It's still nerve-wracking, but it was a bit easier than doing radio because there was a full audience for the radio broadcast."
Monty: "Do you find it nerve-wracking doing this now?"
(laughter)
Paul: (jokingly) "Yeah, yeah."
Monty: "Over at Cleaver Hospital, a certain record on Parlophone - the top side has been requested. So perhaps the Beatles themselves would like to tell them what it's going to be."
Paul: "Yeah. Well, I think it's gonna be 'Love Me Do.'"
John: "Parlophone R4949."
(laughter)
Paul: "'Love Me Do.'"
Monty: "and I'm sure, for them, the answer is P.S. I love you!"
Paul: "Yeah."
Source: Transcribed from the flexi-disc included in original-edition copies of the 1986 book 'The Beatles Live' by Mark Lewisohn
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‡1996(平成八)年10月28日(mon) JP Released
‡1996(平成八)年10月28日(mon) UK Released
1996(平成八)年10月29日(tue) US Released
■Disc one (CD1) Total length:74:05
◎LP A面 (Record Disc 1)
01."A Beginning" (instrumental) George Martin
1968(昭和43)年07月22日(mon) EMI Studios, London, UK 0:50
02."Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (home demo; mono)
1968(昭和43)年05月28日(tue) Kinfauns, Esher, UK 2:15
03."Helter Skelter" (Take 2 edited; mono)
1968(昭和43)年07月18日(thu) EMI Studios 4:38
04."Mean Mr. Mustard" (home demo)
1968(昭和43)年05月29日(wed) Kinfauns 1:58
05."Polythene Pam" (home demo)
1968(昭和43)年05月29日(wed) Kinfauns 1:26
06."Glass Onion" (home demo)
1968(昭和43)年05月28日(tue) Kinfauns 1:51
07."Junk" (home demo) Paul McCartney
1968(昭和43)年05月28日(tue) Kinfauns 2:25
08."Piggies" (home demo; mono) George Harrison
1968(昭和43)年05月28日(tue) Kinfauns 2:01
09."Honey Pie" (home demo; edited from 2:01)
1968(昭和43)年05月28日(tue) Kinfauns 1:19
10."Don't Pass Me By" (Takes 3 & 5) Richard Starkey
1968(昭和43)年06月05日(wed) EMI Studios 2:42
1968(昭和43)年06月06日(thu) EMI Studios 2:42
11."Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (Take 5)
1968(昭和43)年07月03日(wed) EMI Studios 2:56
1968(昭和43)年07月04日(thu) EMI Studios 2:56
1968(昭和43)年07月05日(fri) EMI Studios 2:56
12."Good Night" (rehearsal & Take 34)
1968(昭和43)年06月28日(fri) EMI Studios 2:38
1968(昭和43)年07月22日(mon) EMI Studios 2:38
◎LP B面 (Record Disc 1)
13."Cry Baby Cry" (Take 1)
1968(昭和43)年07月16日(tue) EMI Studios 2:46
14."Blackbird" (Take 4)
1968(昭和43)年06月11日(tue) EMI Studios 2:19
15."Sexy Sadie" (Take 6)
1968(昭和43)年07月19日(fri) EMI Studios 4:07
16."While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (demo) Harrison
1968(昭和43)年07月25日(thu) EMI Studios 3:28
17."Hey Jude" (Take 2)
1968(昭和43)年07月29日(mon) EMI Studios 4:21
18."Not Guilty" (Take 102; edited from 4:28) Harrison
1968(昭和43)年08月08日(thu) EMI Studios 3:22
1968(昭和43)年08月09日(fri) EMI Studios 3:22
1968(昭和43)年08月12日(mon) EMI Studios 3:22
19."Mother Nature's Son" (Take 2)
1968(昭和43)年08月09日(fri) EMI Studios 3:17
◎LP C面 (Record Disc 2)
20."Glass Onion" (original mono mix)
1968(昭和43)年09月11日(wed) EMI Studios 2:08
1968(昭和43)年09月12日(thu) EMI Studios 2:08
1968(昭和43)年09月13日(fri) EMI Studios 2:08
1968(昭和43)年09月16日(mon) EMI Studios 2:08
1968(昭和43)年09月26日(thu) EMI Studios 2:08
21."Rocky Raccoon" (Take 8)
1968(昭和43)年08月15日(thu) EMI Studios 4:13
22."What's the New Mary Jane" (Take 4)
1968(昭和43)年08月14日(wed) EMI Studios 6:12
23."Step Inside Love / Los Paranoias" (jam) Lennon-McCartney / John Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey
1968(昭和43)年09月16日(mon) EMI Studios 2:31
24."I'm So Tired" (Takes 3, 6 & 9)
1968(昭和43)年10月08日(tue) EMI Studios 2:14
25."I Will" (Take 1)
1968(昭和43)年09月16日(mon) EMI Studios 1:55
26."Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" (Take 4; mono)
1968(昭和43)年10月09日(wed) EMI Studios 2:15
27."Julia" (Take 2)
1968(昭和43)年10月13日(sun) EMI Studios 1:58
■Disc two (CD2) Total length:71:31
◎LP D面 (Record Disc 2)
01."I've Got a Feeling" (Savile Row sessions)
1969(昭和44)年01月23日(thu) Apple Studio, Savile Row, London 2:49
02."She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" (Savile Row sessions)
1969(昭和44)年01月22日(wed) Apple Studio 3:37
03."Dig a Pony" (Savile Row sessions)
1969(昭和44)年01月22日(wed) Apple Studio 4:18
04."Two of Us" (Savile Row sessions)
1969(昭和44)年01月24日(fri) Apple Studio 3:27
05."For You Blue" (Savile Row sessions) Harrison
1969(昭和44)年01月25日(sat) Apple Studio 2:23
06."Teddy Boy" (Savile Row sessions; edited from 5:55) McCartney
1969(昭和44)年01月24日(fri) Apple Studio 3:18
1969(昭和44)年01月28日(tue) Apple Studio 3:18
07."Medley: Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll / Blue Suede Shoes" (Savile Row sessions) Robert Blackwell, John Marascalco / Charles Calhoun / Carl Perkins
1969(昭和44)年01月26日(sun) Apple Studio 3:11
◎LP E面 (Record Disc 3)
08."The Long and Winding Road" (Savile Row sessions; master track with Phil Spector alterations removed)
1969(昭和44)年01月26日(sun) Apple Studio 3:42
09."Oh! Darling" (Savile Row sessions; edited from 6:37)
1969(昭和44)年01月27日(mon) Apple Studio 4:07
10."All Things Must Pass" (demo) Harrison
1969(昭和44)年02月25日(tue) EMI Studios 3:05
11."Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" (Savile Row sessions) Ruth Roberts, Bill Katz, Stanley Clayton
1969(昭和44)年01月29日(wed) Apple Studio 1:56
12."Get Back" (Live at the Beatles' rooftop concert)
1969(昭和44)年01月30日(thu) Apple Building rooftop, Savile Row 3:09
13."Old Brown Shoe" (demo) Harrison
1969(昭和44)年02月25日(tue) EMI Studios 3:03
14."Octopus's Garden" (Takes 2 & 8) Starkey
1969(昭和44)年04月26日(sat) EMI Studios 2:49
15."Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (Take 5)
1969(昭和44)年07月09日(wed) EMI Studios 3:50
◎LP F面 (Record Disc 3)
16."Something" (demo; mono) Harrison
1969(昭和44)年02月25日(tue) EMI Studios 3:19
17."Come Together" (Take 1)
1969(昭和44)年07月21日(mon) EMI Studios 3:40
18."Come and Get It" (demo by McCartney) McCartney
1969(昭和44)年07月24日(thu) EMI Studios 2:30
19."Ain't She Sweet" (jam) Milton Ager, Jack Yellen
1969(昭和44)年07月24日(thu) EMI Studios 2:08
20."Because" (a cappella)
1969(昭和44)年08月04日(mon) EMI Studios 2:24
21."Let It Be" (Take 1)
1969(昭和44)年01月25日(sat) Apple Studio 4:05
22."I Me Mine" (Take 16) Harrison
1969(昭和44)年01月03日(fri) EMI Studios 1:48
23."The End" (remix featuring final chord of "A Day in the Life")
1967(昭和42)年02月22日(wed) EMI Studios 2:53
1969(昭和44)年07月23日(wed) EMI Studios 2:53
1969(昭和44)年08月05日(tue) EMI Studios 2:53
1969(昭和44)年08月07日(thu) EMI Studios 2:53
1969(昭和44)年08月08日(fri) EMI Studios 2:53
1969(昭和44)年08月15日(fri) EMI Studios 2:53
1969(昭和44)年08月18日(mon) EMI Studios 2:53
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┃ 『THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY 3』 ┃
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2011(平成23)年6月14日(tue) Released 23曲 ⇒ 1時間09分
15 Something (Anthology 3 Version) 3:19
16 Not Guilty (Anthology 3 Version) 3:22
17 Octopus's Garden (Anthology 3 Version) 2:49
18 All Things Must Pass (Anthology 3 Version) 3:04
19 Come And Get It (Anthology 3 Version) 2:30
20 Good Night (Anthology 3 Version) 2:38
21 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Anthology 3 Version) 3:27
22 The Long And Winding Road (Anthology 3 Version) 3:42
(C) This Compilation 2011 Apple Corps Ltd. / Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group) c 2011 Apple Corps Ltd
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