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L’enregistrement de la version finale de la chanson débute aux studios EMI le 26 juin 1968. Ce jour-là est en fait une session de répétitions, dûment enregistrées dans le but de choisir la meilleure version et s’en servir comme piste de base pour compléter le travail[1]. Cependant, le groupe les rejette toutes et recommence le lendemain.

Le 27 juin, les Beatles enregistrent six prises de la chanson, la dernière étant jugée la meilleure. Celle-ci est réduite en une seule piste sur le magnétophone, laissant de nouvelles pistes libres pour ajouter des instruments. Durant la réduction, la bande est jouée plus rapidement ; alors que la chanson durait plus de trois minutes, elle dure maintenant deux minutes et demie. With overdubs onto take eight, the song by the end of the session included drums, two different lead guitars, a vigorously shaken hand-hell and a chocalho. Overdubbing of Paul's bass guitar, reduction mixdowns and overdubbing of John's lead vocal. John's `Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey', was completed during this session, 22 days after take ten had been deemed `best' and the song presumed finished. The original lead vocal was replaced by a rousing new Lennon version which, after the point where he knew the song would be faded out on disc, developed into frantic, jocular screaming. For tape operator Richard Lush it was a taste of things to come: he would be one of the engineers on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, John's first studio album of solo music (recorded at Abbey Road between 26 September and 9 October 1970) in which there was plenty of serious, primal therapy screaming. "As usual, John was wanting his voice to sound different," says Lush. "He would say `I want to sound like somebody from the moon' or anything different. ` Make it different!' And at that time there wasn't the range of instant effects available today." The third reduction mix in the life of `Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' took the song into take 12. Onto this was overdubbed backing vocals and handclaps and the song was then complete. Five mono remixes of this and six of `Good Night' brought the session to a close.

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A bridge between the willful nonsense of I Am The Walrus and the confessional songs of his early solo career, Everybody's Got Something To Hide was written by John Lennon about his relationship with Yoko Ono.

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Ex Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and his awesome Beatles tribute band "Yellow Matter Custard" played this song in their DVD. In the commentary Mike says something like "We all play crazy technical progressive rock stuff in our own bands but when we tried to play this song for the first time; we were just stoned. How complicated this song was completely shocking to us".

In the DVD you can see how concentrated the band was trying not to screw up. Even Paul Gilbert was havng a hard time!

trouver le dvd pour les références

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  • (en) Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions, New York, Harmony Books, , 204 p. (ISBN 0-517-57066-1)
  • (fr) Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head : les enregistrements des Beatles et les sixties, Le Mot et le Reste, , 637 p. (ISBN 978-2-360540082)
  • (fr) Barry Miles, Paul McCartney Many Years From Now : les Beatles, les sixties et moi, Flammarion, , 724 p. (ISBN 2-0806-8725-5)
  • (en) David Sheff, All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, New York, St. Martin's Press, (ISBN 0-312-25464-4)
  • (fr) Steve Turner, L'Intégrale Beatles : les secrets de toutes leurs chansons, Hors Collection, , 288 p. (ISBN 2-258-06585-2)

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