Johnnie Scott, a flautist and musical arranger, first recorded a tenor flute as The Beatles taped their parts. ‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away’ was the first Beatles song since ‘Love Me Do’ to feature an outside musician. The third track had more 12-string acoustic guitar, this time played by Harrison, maracas played by McCartney, and tambourine by Starr.
Track two was an overdub of Lennon’s vocals. Track one contained Lennon on 12-string acoustic guitar, George Harrison on a Spanish acoustic guitar, Paul McCartney on bass guitar, and Ringo Starr playing drums with brushes. It also incorporated a count-in from the aborted take one, and John Lennon saying that Paul McCartney had broken a glass in the studio.
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The Beatles taped nine takes, only two of which were complete.Īnthology 2 featured take five, the only other full version recorded. ‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away’ was recorded in the afternoon of 18 February 1965. It has also been claimed that ‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away’ was about an affair with a woman that Lennon was having at the time. Whether the song relates to the incident, or even to Epstein, is debatable. “John wasn’t a homosexual but he was daft enough to try anything once,” Davies wrote in The Beatles, Football And Me, his 2006 autobiography. Lennon and Epstein went on holiday to Barcelona, Spain together in April 1963 upon their return rumours began to spread in Liverpool that the pair had shared a sexual experience.Īlthough this was always denied by the pair, The Beatles’ biographer Hunter Davies later claimed that Lennon did admit to him, off the record, that an encounter took place in Spain. It has been suggested that the song was written for The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, who was a homosexual. “Let’s leave that in, actually,” he told his childhood friend Pete Shotton. ‘I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Have Never Met)’ Bob Dylanĭuring the recording Lennon mistakenly sang ‘two foot small’ instead of ‘two foot tall’.