Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
song by Lennon and McCartney
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production by Martin
recording by the Beatles
- In the Beatles: Reinventing rock music: Yesterday and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
…the carnivalesque soundscape of “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” (1967), which featured stream-of-consciousness lyrics by Lennon and a typically imaginative arrangement (by George Martin) built around randomly spliced-together snippets of recorded steam organs—a tour de force of technological legerdemain quite typical of the band’s studio work in…
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