A day in the life

I think that this is the most difficult post in all the year. To choose my favourite song! I don't know!!!!!!!!!! But I'm sure about the authors of so mystery song: The Beatles. I think that the sense of the harmony, the melody and the content of the song, is very deep in that guys. I did a list with my favourites songs of The Beatles: Lovely Rita, A day in the life, I'm the Walrus, Strawberry Fields, Happiness is warm gun, Cry baby cry, Because and, finally, The End. Now, the difficult part, to choose one of those songs. I think that my favourite song of all times is.....A day in the life.

I choose this song because I think that represent the sense of the psychedelics years of the Beatles, and because is a great song.

I can remember that I liked it to the first time that I heard it. I don't know why. A friend showed me and taught me how to hear the music of the real Beatles (since Revolver until Abbey Road).

A day in the life was written by John Lennon. Originally, he wrote a lyric with a notice that he read in the newspaper. The methodology of work of the Beatles was very participative, somebody wrote a song and then he showed the song to the group, and then they did it the musical arrangements. The composition was a group task. John Lennon showed his creation to the group, and then, Paul McCartney wrote a verses.

In the documentary called Anthology, The Beatles and George Martin (producer) explain how did and recorded the song. Paul McCartney related the part when he and John written the song, and when they decided to include a verse with sexual connotations: “I’d love to turn you on”. In the same documentary they explain how they manage to build a symphonic arrangement to the song, and that part where the clock rings announce when the group must come together and things like that...

I think that what took my attention was the beautiful melody and the John voice, so deep. And then, when I heard the orchestra... all in that song is really wonderful! Isn’t a human creation!

Here there is a link with a video, WATCH IT :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nY0SRsAeaw&feature=related