"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" | |
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![]() Cover of the Maclen Music sheet music | |
Song by the Beatles | |
from the album The Beatles | |
Released | 22 November 1968 |
Recorded | 27 June and 1, 23 July 1968 |
Studio | EMI, London |
Genre | Hard rock,[1] rock and roll[2] |
Length | 2:24 |
Label | Apple |
Songwriter(s) | Lennon–McCartney |
Producer(s) | George Martin |
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The lyrics contain sayings the Beatles heard from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, with whom they studied Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968. In his subsequent comments on the song, Lennon said it addressed his bandmates' initial reaction to his relationship with Yoko Ono. Recorded early in the sessions for the White Album, the track typifies Lennon and the Beatles' return to a rock sound in 1968 after their psychedelic period.
Go forward to 1968 and The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album) and you get a veritable hard-rock clinic on what used to be, in the days of vinyl, Side 3: 'Birthday,' 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey,' 'Helter Skelter' ...
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