Kite".) Regarding the former, however, Lennon's opinions changed with time. (Though he disliked the lyrics, apparently he liked the melody well enough because he reused it in "Mr. 'I was always ashamed of that because of the abominable lyrics,' he admitted in 1969" (Turner 82). Kite" is melodically to "It's Only Love", and regarding the latter, "It was one of the few Beatles' songs that John really hated. In my 11/29 post I demonstrated how similar "Mr. Kite" is one of several Beatles songs in which the recording is better than the song. But since the verses begin in C minor, and the break begins in D minor, one had to be changed to fit the other, so the verses' melody was transposed up a whole step and then could be overlaid on to the break. The coda combines music from the verses and break, both of which use similar chord progressions, so they overlap easily. Kite":Ĭoda (v & m8) 1:53-2:37* D minor, E minorĬomments: Verses 1 and 2 are contiguous (as they were in "Love Me Do", "Do You Want to Know a Secret", "Misery", "Anna (Go To Him)", "Boys", "Chains", Twist and Shout, "From Me To You", "Till There Was You", "Little Child", "Not a Second Time", "Can't Buy Me Love", "And I Love Her", "I Should Have Known Better", "If I Fell'', "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You", "A Hard Day's Night", "Matchbox", "I'll Cry Instead", "Things We Said Today", "I Don't Want To Spoil the Party", "What You're Doing", "No Reply", "Eight Days a Week", "She's a Woman", "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey", "Words of Love", "Ticket to Ride", "I Need You", "Yes It Is", "The Night Before", "You Like Me Too Much", "Tell Me What You See", 56b] "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", "Bad Boy", "I've Just Seen a Face", "Yesterday", "If I Needed Someone", "We Can Work it Out", "Michelle", "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Paperback Writer", "Doctor Robert", "Taxman", "Yellow Submarine", "I Want To Tell You", "She Said She Said", "Penny Lane", "A Day in the Life", "Fixing a Hole", and "Only a Northern Song"). (Click to enlarge.)įormal structure of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Though I included a photo of the poster in "A Three Ring Circus", I just now found a better resolution picture (in which you can read the text much more easily) and have included it below. I have never encountered any quotes from either Lennon or Martin to support this idea, but the facts do fit and they seem to fit too well to be coincidence. Kite" was Martin's doing (he played the organ in the break section, was responsible for the calliope collage coda, and is probably behind the ingenious three-part tonal structure), Lennon's selection of the name "Henry" to replace "Zanthus" seems like Lennon's way of acknowledging Martin's contributions to his song. And since much of "Being for the Benefit of Mr.
In addition to being easier to sing, I see two reasons why Lennon might have chosen the name Henry over other equally easy to sing options: (1) "Henry the horse" features alliteration as both nouns start with the letter "h" and more significantly (2) t o avoid confusion between George Harrison and George Martin, the latter was sometimes referred to as Henry - Martin's middle name (Emerick, page 6).
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR KITE I WANT YOU HELTER SKELTER LYRICS LICENSE
"Zanthus" is a bit unwieldy to sing, so it is not surprising that Lennon took liberties on grounds of artistic license (rather similar to Paul McCartney changing the original "Hey Jules" to "Hey Jude"), but there are any number of two syllable names that Lennon could have chosen that woul d have worked just fine. In "A Three Ring Circus", I discussed the text painting of the line "And of course Henry the horse dances the waltz". Observing the original poster that inspired Lennon to write the song in the first place, however, you can see that the horse's name was actually Zanthus, not Henry. I tried to be quite thorough in that post, however I have recently discovered a new and intriguing aspect to this song, and that is what will be discussed in this post. On 2012.12.01 I posted a blog titled "A Three Ring Circus" all about the song "Being for the Benefit of Mr.
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