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Шаблон:Distinguish Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox song "Blue Jay Way" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Written by George Harrison, it was released in 1967 on the group's Magical Mystery Tour EP and album. The song was named after a street in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles where Harrison stayed in August 1967, shortly before visiting the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. The lyrics document Harrison's wait for music publicist Derek Taylor to find his way to Blue Jay Way through the fog-ridden hills, while Harrison struggled to stay awake after the flight from London to Los Angeles.

As with several of Harrison's compositions from this period, "Blue Jay Way" incorporates aspects of Indian classical music, even though the Beatles used only Western instrumentation on the track, including a drone-like Hammond organ part played by Harrison. Created during the group's psychedelic period, the track makes extensive use of studio techniques such as flanging, Leslie rotary effect, and reversed tape sounds. The song appeared in the Beatles' 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour, in a sequence that visually re-creates the sense of haziness and dislocation evident on the recording.

While some reviewers have dismissed the song as monotonous, several others have admired its yearning quality and dark musical mood. The website Consequence of Sound describes "Blue Jay Way" as "a haunted house of a hit, adding an ethereal, creepy mythos to the City of Angels".[1] Artists who have covered the song include Bud Shank, Colin Newman, Tracy Bonham and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Background and inspiration

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View of Los Angeles from Griffith Park, at the eastern end of the Hollywood Hills

George Harrison wrote "Blue Jay Way" after arriving in Los Angeles on 1 August 1967 with his wife Pattie BoydШаблон:Sfn and Beatles aides Neil Aspinall and Alex Mardas.Шаблон:Sfn The purpose of the trip was to spend a week with Derek Taylor,Шаблон:Sfn the Beatles' former press officer and eventual publicist for California-based acts such as the Byrds and the Beach Boys.[2] The visit also allowed Harrison to reunite with his sitar tutor, Ravi Shankar,Шаблон:Sfn whose Kinnara School of Music[3] and upcoming concert at the Hollywood Bowl he helped publicise.Шаблон:Sfn[4]

Шаблон:Quote box The title of the song came from a street named Blue Jay Way, one of the "bird streets" high in the Hollywood Hills West area overlooking the Sunset Strip,[5] where Harrison had rented a house for his stay.Шаблон:Sfn Jet-lagged after the flight from London, he began writing the composition on a Hammond organШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn as he and Boyd waited for Taylor and the latter's wife, Joan, to join them.Шаблон:Sfn The home's location, on a hillside of narrow, winding roads, together with the foggy conditions that night, created the backdrop for the song's opening lines: "There's a fog upon LA / And my friends have lost their way."Шаблон:Sfn Harrison had almost completed the song by the time the Taylors arrived,Шаблон:Sfn around two hours later than planned.[6]

The week with Taylor proved to be important for the direction of the Beatles.Шаблон:Sfn At the height of the Summer of Love and the popularity of the band's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album,Шаблон:Sfn Harrison, Taylor and their small entourage visited the international "hippie capital" of Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco,Шаблон:Sfn on 7 August.Шаблон:Sfn Harrison had expected to encounter an enlightened community engaged in artistic pursuits[7][8] and working to create a viable alternative lifestyle;Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn instead, he was disappointed that Haight-Ashbury appeared to be populated by drug addicts, dropouts and "hypocrites".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Following his return to England two days later,Шаблон:Sfn Harrison completed work on "Blue Jay Way" at his home in Esher,Шаблон:Sfn and he shared his disillusionment about Haight-Ashbury with John Lennon.Шаблон:Sfn The Beatles then publicly denounced the popular hallucinogen LSD (or "acid") and other drugsШаблон:Sfn in favour of Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose seminar in Bangor in Wales the band attended in late August.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn While noting Harrison's role in "inspir[ing] the West's mainstream acquaintance with Hindu religion" through his leadership in this aspect of the Beatles' career, author Ian MacDonald describes "Blue Jay Way" as a "farewell to psychedelia", just as "It's All Too Much", which the Beatles recorded in May 1967,Шаблон:Sfn became Harrison's "farewell to acid".[9]

Composition

Music

"Blue Jay Way" was one of several songs that Harrison composed on a keyboard over 1966–68 – a period when, aside from in his work with the Beatles, he had abandoned his first instrument, the guitar, to master the sitar,Шаблон:Sfn[10] partly under Shankar's tutelage.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The song is in 4/4 time throughout; its structure consists of an intro, three combinations of verse and chorus, followed by repeated choruses.[11] While MacDonald gives the musical key as "C major (minor, diminished)",Шаблон:Sfn musicologist Alan Pollack views it as a mix of C major and C modal, and comments on the "highly unusual" incorporation of the notes DШаблон:Music and FШаблон:Music.[11] The inclusion of the latter note suggests the Lydian mode,Шаблон:Sfn which, according to musicologist Walter Everett, had only been heard previously in popular music in the Left Banke's 1966 single "Pretty Ballerina".Шаблон:Sfn

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A Hammond B3 organ, beside a Leslie speaker cabinet. Both the Hammond organ and sound treatment via a Leslie speaker feature significantly on the Beatles' recording.

The song's melody oscillates over the chords of C major and C diminished,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn a chord favoured by Harrison in his Indian music-inspired compositions for the Beatles.Шаблон:Sfn Acknowledging Harrison's statement that the tune is "slightly Indian",Шаблон:Sfn Everett considers "Blue Jay Way" to be related to Kosalam and Multani – ragas from, respectively, the Carnatic and Hindustani traditions of Indian classical music.Шаблон:Sfn Alternatively, ethnomusicologist David Reck says the melody uses the scale from the Carnatic raga Ranjani,Шаблон:Sfn while according to author Simon Leng, Harrison based the song partly on the Hindustani Raga Marwa.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Following the inclusion of a raga-style introduction (or alap) in his previous Indian compositions, "Love You To" and "Within You Without You",Шаблон:Sfn "Blue Jay Way" begins with a preview of the song's melody played softly, in free time, over the opening drone.[11]Шаблон:Refn Author Ian Inglis credits the song's incorporation of ambient drone, specifically its role in providing "an anchorage point for vocal and instrumental improvisation", as one of the first examples of a musical device that soon became prevalent in the work of Fairport Convention, the Incredible String Band and other folk artists.Шаблон:Sfn

The length of the verses falls short of an even eight bars through the omission of a final beat. Pollack recognises this detail as reflecting a sense of impatience, in keeping with the circumstances surrounding the song's creation.[11] Following the third verse–chorus combination, the outro comprises four rounds of the chorus, with the lyrics to the final round consisting of the repeated "Don't be long" refrain. As a feature that Pollack terms "compositionally impressive", each of the four sections in this outro varies in structure by being either shorter in length or less musically detailed.[11]

Lyrics

The lyrics to "Blue Jay Way" relate entirely to Harrison's situation on that first night in Los Angeles.Шаблон:Sfn He refers to fighting off sleep and recalls his advice to Taylor to ask a policeman for directions to Blue Jay Way.[12] Author Jonathan Gould views the song as "darkly funny", with the singer's concern over his friends' tardiness almost resembling "a metaphysical crisis".Шаблон:Sfn In the choruses, Harrison repeatedly urges "Please don't be long / Please don't you be very long",Шаблон:Sfn a refrain that Inglis identifies as central to the composition's "extraordinary sense of yearning and melancholy".Шаблон:Sfn

Taylor later expressed amusement at how some commentators interpreted "don't be long" as meaning "don't belong" – a message to Western youth to opt out of society – and at how the line "And my friends have lost their way" supposedly conveyed the idea that "a whole generation had lost direction".Шаблон:Sfn With regard to whether Harrison was telling contemporary listeners not to "belong", Inglis writes, this "alternative reading" of the song aligned with Timothy Leary's catchphrase for the 1960s American psychedelic experience, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn In Gould's opinion, the continual repetition of the line at the end of "Blue Jay Way" transforms the words into "a plea for nonattachment – 'don't belongШаблон:'".Шаблон:Sfn Rather than attaching any countercultural significance to this, however, Gould views it as the Beatles repeating the wordplay first used in the chorus of Lennon's 1963 song "It Won't Be Long".Шаблон:Sfn

Production

Recording

The Beatles began recording "Blue Jay Way" on 6 September 1967 at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The song was Harrison's contribution to the television film Magical Mystery Tour,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn the first project undertaken by the band following the death of their manager, Brian Epstein.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Author Nicholas Schaffner describes "Blue Jay Way" as the first Harrison-written Beatles recording on which he "adapt[ed] some of his Indian-derived ideas to a more Western setting" through the choice of musical instruments.Шаблон:Sfn In the song's arrangement, Hammond organ re-creates the drone of a tambura,Шаблон:Sfn while a cello acts as an Indian sarod.Шаблон:Sfn

The group achieved a satisfactory rhythm track in a single take.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On 7 September, this recording – comprising two organ parts, bass guitar and drums – was reduced to two tracks on the 4-track master tape, after which Harrison overdubbed his double-tracked lead vocal, and he, Lennon and Paul McCartney added backing vocals.Шаблон:Sfn Among Beatles biographers, MacDonald credits Harrison as the sole organ player on the song,Шаблон:Sfn while Kenneth Womack and John Winn write that Lennon played the second keyboard part.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Recording was completed at Abbey Road on 6 October, with the addition of tambourine, played by Ringo Starr,Шаблон:Sfn and cello.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The latter was performed by an unnamed session musician.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn As with all the songs recorded for Magical Mystery Tour,Шаблон:Sfn final mixing was carried out on 7 November.Шаблон:Sfn

Studio effects

"Blue Jay Way" features extensive use of three studio techniques employed by the Beatles over 1966–67:Шаблон:Sfn[12] flanging, an audio delay effect;Шаблон:Sfn sound-signal rotation via a Leslie speaker;Шаблон:Sfn and (in the stereo mix only) reversed tapes.Шаблон:Sfn Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn compares "Blue Jay Way" with two Lennon tracks from this period, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus", in that the recording "seized upon all the studio trickery and technical advancements of 1966 and 1967 and captured them in one song".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Together with the pedal drone supplied by the keyboard parts, the various sound treatments reinforce the sense of dislocation evident in the song.Шаблон:Sfn

In the case of the reversed-tape technique, a recording of the completed track was played backwards and faded in at key points during the performance.Шаблон:Sfn This effect created a response to Harrison's lead vocal over the verses, as the backing vocals appear to answer each line he sings.Шаблон:Sfn Due to the limits of multitracking, the process of feeding in reversed sounds was carried out live during the final mixing session.Шаблон:Sfn Described by Lewisohn as "quite problematical",Шаблон:Sfn the process was not repeated when the Beatles and their production team worked on the mono mix.Шаблон:Sfn

Appearance in Magical Mystery Tour film

Шаблон:Quote box The song's segment in Magical Mystery Tour was shot mainly at RAF West Malling, an air force base near Maidstone in Kent,Шаблон:Sfn during the week beginning on 19 September.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Described by Womack as "the movie's hazy, psychedelic sequence",Шаблон:Sfn it features Harrison sitting on a pavement and playing a chalk-drawn keyboard.Шаблон:Sfn Dressed in a red suit,Шаблон:Sfn he is shown busking on a roadside; next to his keyboard are a white plastic cup and a message written in chalk, reading: "2 wives and kid to support".Шаблон:Sfn The depiction of Harrison, seated cross-legged, matched his public image as the most committed of the Beatles to Transcendental Meditation and Eastern philosophy.Шаблон:Sfn

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Harrison performing in the "Blue Jay Way" film sequence

The filming took place in an aircraft hangar, with the scene designed to re-create a typically smog-ridden Los Angeles.Шаблон:Sfn Music journalist Kit O'Toole writes that the smoke surrounding Harrison "almost engulf[s] him, mimicking the 'fog' described in the lyrics".[12] Through the use of prismatic photography,Шаблон:Sfn the "Blue Jay Way" segment also shows Harrison's "image refracted as if seen through a fly's eye", according to author Alan Clayson, who describes the scene as mirroring "the requisite misty atmosphere" suggested by the recording.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn In its preview of Magical Mystery Tour in 1967, the NME highlighted the segment as one of the film's "extremely clever" musical sequences, saying: "For 'Blue Jay Way' George is seen sitting cross-legged in a sweating mist which materialises into a variety of shapes and patterns. It's a pity that most TV viewers will be able to see it only in black and white."[13]

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The cello featured in the "Blue Jay Way" film sequence, on display at the Liverpool Beatles Museum[14]

At other times during the sequence, the four Beatles alternate in the role of a solo cellist.Шаблон:Sfn These scenes were filmed on 3 November, on the back rockeryШаблон:Sfn at Sunny Heights, Starr's house in Weybridge, Surrey.Шаблон:Sfn[15] Tony Barrow, the band's press officer, recalled that as "a colourful conclusion" to the segment, they set off fireworks that had been bought for the upcoming Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.Шаблон:Sfn The version of "Blue Jay Way" appearing in the 2012 DVD release of Magical Mystery Tour is an alternative edit and includes some previously unused footage.[16] O'Toole admires the "Blue Jay Way" sequence as "one of the film's too-few bright spots" and "a perfect representation of the track's hallucinatory qualities".[12]

Release and reception

"Blue Jay Way" was issued in Britain as the final song on the Magical Mystery Tour double EP on 8 December 1967.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In America, where Capitol Records combined the six EP tracks with five songs issued on the band's singles throughout the year, creating a full album,[17]Шаблон:Sfn the release took place on 27 November.Шаблон:Sfn Reck comments that despite the Beatles' association with the Maharishi and Eastern culture, only two of the six new songs – "Blue Jay Way" and "I Am the Walrus" – directly reflected this interest.Шаблон:Sfn

Reviewing the EP for the NME, Nick Logan considered it to be "Sergeant Pepper and beyond, heading for marvellous places", during which "we cruise down 'Blue Jay Way' with [Harrison] almost chanting the chorus line. A church organ starts this one off and leads us into a whirlpool of sound ..."[18][19] Bob Dawbarn of Melody Maker lauded the record as "six tracks which no other pop group in the world could begin to approach for originality combined with the popular touch".[20] He said "Blue Jay Way" had the "requisite Eastern overtones" and was a "sinister little tune", which made it the hardest track to appreciate immediately.[21]

Among reviews of the US release, Mike Jahn of Saturday Review admired the album as a "description of the Beatles' acquired Hindu philosophy and its subsequent application to everyday life",[22] while Hit Parader praised the band for further "widening the gap between them and 80 scillion other groups". The reviewer added, with reference to the concurrently issued Their Satanic Majesties Request by the Rolling Stones: "The master magicians practice their alchemy on Harrison's 'Blue Jay Way', recorded perhaps in an Egyptian tomb, and 'I Am The Walrus', a piece of terror lurking in foggy midnight moors. These two songs accomplish what the Stones attempted."[23]

Richard Goldstein of The New York Times rued that, more so than Sgt. Pepper, the soundtrack demonstrated the Beatles' departure from true rock values in favour of studio effects, and he found artifice in the "waft of foggy music" accompanying Harrison's declaration that "There's a fog upon LA". Typically of Harrison's recent songs, Goldstein continued, "Blue Jay Way" was "filled with fascinating tones and textures" but the message was confused and laboured, and he complained that it was sung with a vocal that was "[more] sandpaper than Satori".[24] Rex Reed, in a highly unfavourable review of the album for HiFi/Stereo Review, said the song "consists of three minutes and fifty seconds of the Beatles sounding as if they are singing under water or gargling with Listerine" and dismissed it as "boring as hell".[25] By contrast, Robert Christgau wrote in Esquire that, despite three of the new songs being "disappointing", Magical Mystery Tour was "worth buying ... especially for Harrison's hypnotic 'Blue Jay WayШаблон:'". Christgau described the track as "an adaptation of Oriental modes in which everything works, lyrics included".[26]

Retrospective assessments

A critic of the Beatles' output immediately post-Sgt. Pepper,[27] Ian MacDonald found "Blue Jay Way" "as unfocused and monotonous as most of the group's output of this period", adding that the song "numbingly fails to transcend the weary boredom that inspired it".Шаблон:Sfn Writing for Rolling Stone in 2002, Greg Kot considered it to be "one of [Harrison's] least-memorable Beatles tracks … a song essentially about boredom – and it sounds like it".Шаблон:Sfn Similarly unimpressed with Magical Mystery Tour, Tim Riley describes "Blue Jay Way" as a song that "goes nowhere tiresomely", with a vocal that "sounds as tired and droning" as the musical accompaniment.Шаблон:Sfn In Walter Everett's view, the track's combination of unusual musical scales, reversed tape sounds and imaginative engineering makes it "the most mysterious Beatles sound between 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Glass OnionШаблон:'", but the lyrics are "dull" by comparison.Шаблон:Sfn

Ian Inglis writes that the emotion Harrison conveys on the track "belies its apparently trivial lyrics" and that, together with the instrumentation and backing vocals, his pleas "create an unusually atmospheric and strangely moving song".Шаблон:Sfn Writing for Rough Guides, Chris Ingham deems the song to be "essential Beatlemusic"; he views it as Harrison's "most haunting and convincing musical contribution of the period", after "Within You Without You", as well as "possibly the most unnerving of all Beatles tracks".Шаблон:Sfn In a 2002 review for Mojo, Charles Shaar Murray described the song as "eerie, serpentine" and "a fine and worthy companion for PepperШаблон:'s Within You Without You".[20] Writing in Uncut that same year, Carol Clerk called it "a weirdly atmospheric triumph".[28]

Шаблон:Quote box In his book Indian Music and the West, Gerry Farrell refers to the song when discussing its author's contribution to popularising Indian classical music,Шаблон:Sfn writing: "It is a mark of Harrison's sincere involvement with Indian music that, nearly thirty years on, the Beatles' 'Indian' songs remain among the most imaginative and successful examples of this type of fusion – for example, 'Blue Jay Way' and 'The Inner Light.Шаблон:'"Шаблон:Sfn Simon Leng writes of the song: "Harrison was working at a sophisticated level of extrapolating Indian scales to the Western setting, something no one else had done … 'Blue Jay Way' explores the structures of Indian music just as 'Within You Without You' debates its philosophical roots."Шаблон:Sfn Former Record Collector editor Peter Doggett, writing in Barry Miles' The Beatles Diary, similarly admires the recording, saying that the Beatles rendered the song "an exotic, almost mystical journey" that evokes a mysterious Eastern mood "without a single Indian instrument being employed".Шаблон:Sfn Music critic Jim DeRogatis ranks "Blue Jay Way" at number 7 in his list of the Beatles' best psychedelic rock songs.Шаблон:Sfn

In a 2009 review for Consequence of Sound, Dan Caffrey highlights the track among the "stellar moments in the album's first half" and considers it to be "George Harrison's most underrated song". Caffrey adds: "For a piece inspired by the simple act of waiting for a friend to arrive at his Los Angeles home on a foggy night, 'Blue Jay Way' is a haunted house of a hit, adding an ethereal, creepy mythos to the City of Angels."[1] Writing for The A.V. Club, Chuck Klosterman describes the song as being among "the trippiest ... material [the Beatles] ever made",[29] while Mark Kemp of Paste views it as "wonderfully wobbly".[30] Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork includes "Blue Jay Way" among the EP's four "low-key marvels", saying: "Few of them are anyone's all-time favorite Beatles songs ... yet this run seems to achieve a majesty in part because of that: It's a rare stretch of amazing Beatles music that can seem like a private obsession rather than a permanent part of our shared culture."[31]

In 2001, the song was ranked 39th on UncutШаблон:'s list of "The 50 Greatest Beatles Tracks".Шаблон:CN Q magazine included it in their list of "The 500 Greatest Lost Tracks", published in 2007.Шаблон:CN In 2018, the music staff of Time Out London ranked "Blue Jay Way" at number 46 on their list of the best Beatles songs.[32]

Cover versions and cultural references

Lord Sitar included "Blue Jay Way" on his 1968 album of Indian music-style recordings, titled Lord Sitar.Шаблон:Sfn[33] The artist credit was a pseudonym for London session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan,[34] although rumours circulated that Lord Sitar was in fact Harrison himself,Шаблон:Sfn[35] partly as a result of EMI/Capitol's refusal to deny the claim.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Also in 1968, jazz saxophonist and flautist Bud Shank, another associate of Ravi Shankar,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn recorded the song for his album Magical Mystery.[36]

"Blue Jay Way" was a rare Beatles song released before their 1968 self-titled double album that Charles Manson adopted as part of his theory of an impending social revolution in the United States,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn a scenario that led to his followers carrying out a series of murders in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969.Шаблон:Sfn Finding parallels between the Beatles' lyrics and the Book of Revelation, and believing himself to be the messiah,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Manson interpreted Harrison's opening verse and chorus as the Beatles calling out to Jesus Christ.Шаблон:Sfn

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Colin Newman (pictured in 2011) covered the song on his 1982 album Not To.

Colin Newman, singer and guitarist with the post-punk band Wire,[37] included a cover of "Blue Jay Way" on his 1982 solo album Not To.[38] In March 2015, the song was his selection for the NMEШаблон:'s "100 Greatest Beatles Songs" poll. Newman cited the track as an example of how the Beatles were "properly serious about their art" and why they now "need to be rescued from the clammy clutches of the heritage industry".[39]

Borbetomagus released a live recording of the song on their 1992 album Buncha Hair That Long, a version that Trouser Press later said "could easily reunite the Beatles for good if it were played in the presence of the surviving trio".[40] On their 2003 live album Seven Year Itch, Siouxsie and the Banshees included a reading that, according to The GuardianШаблон:'s reviewer, "transformed [the song] into an apocalyptic howl".[41] Other artists who have covered "Blue Jay Way" include Tracy Bonham, on her 2007 album In the City + In the Woods,[42] and the Secret Machines, whose version appears in the Julie Taymor-directed film Across the Universe (2007).Шаблон:Sfn Former Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes recorded a ukulele rendition for his 2008 solo album The Beatles Uke.[43]

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Downtown Los Angeles (viewed from the Hollywood Hills) – the city has continued to be associated with the Beatles' song.

Harrison's experience when writing "Blue Jay Way" is referenced in the Jonathan Kellerman novel Obsession (2007), as the lead character, Alex Delaware, waits among the "bird streets" overlooking Sunset Strip.Шаблон:Sfn The US hip hop group Death Grips included a reversed sample of "Blue Jay Way" as well as a quote from the song's lyrics in their 2012 track "Double Helix", released on The Money Store,[44] an album that Clash magazine described as sounding like "the burning skies of LA's decaying empire".[45]

In a 2011 interview, music producer and radio host Kim Fowley identified "Blue Jay Way" as the first song in which a member of the Beatles wrote about America and cited it as evidence of Harrison's standing as "the most American of all the Beatles" during the 1960s. Fowley highlighted this connection – including Harrison's friendships with David Crosby of the Byrds and other California-based musicians, such as Leon Russell – as the foundation for rock music's first all-star charity concert, the Concert for Bangladesh, which Harrison staged in New York in August 1971.[46]Шаблон:Refn

Due to the attention created by the Beatles' song, the street signs for Blue Jay Way have long been collector's items for fans visiting the Hollywood Hills.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In May 2015, a lane in the Heavitree area of Exeter, in the English county of Devon, was named Blue Jay Way after the song.[47] In addition to much of the filming for Magical Mystery Tour having taken place at various locations in the West Country,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn the title commemorates the Beatles' three concert appearances at Exeter's ABC Cinema over 1963–64.[48]

Personnel

According to Ian MacDonald,Шаблон:Sfn except where noted:

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