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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox song "Come Together" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the opening track on their 1969 album Abbey Road and was also released as a single coupled with "Something". The song reached the top of the charts in the United States and Australia, but peaked at No. 4 in the United Kingdom.

It has been covered by several other artists, including Ike & Tina Turner, Aerosmith, Joe Cocker and Michael Jackson.

Background and inspiration

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Timothy Leary (centre) with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (centre left and centre right) during the Montreal Bed-in for Peace, 1 June 1969

In early 1969, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, held nonviolent protests against the Vietnam War, dubbed the Bed-ins for Peace. In May, during the Montreal portion of the bed-in, counterculture figures from across North America visited Lennon, including American psychologist Timothy Leary, an early advocate of LSD, whom Lennon admired.Шаблон:Sfn Leary intended to run for Governor of California in the following year's election and asked Lennon to write him a campaign song based on the campaign's slogan, "Come Together – Join the Party!"Шаблон:Sfn The resulting chant was only a line long: "Come together and join the party".Шаблон:Sfn Lennon promised to finish and record the song,Шаблон:Sfn and Leary later recalled Lennon giving him a tape of the piece, but the two did not interact again.Шаблон:Sfn

In July 1969, during sessions for the Beatles' album Abbey Road, Lennon used the phrase "come together" from the Leary campaign song to compose a new song for the album.Шаблон:Sfn Based on the 1956 single "You Can't Catch Me" by American guitarist Chuck Berry,Шаблон:Sfn the composition began as an up-tempo blues number,Шаблон:Sfn only slightly altering Berry's original lyric of "Here come a flattop / He was movin' up with me" to "Here come ol' flattop / He come groovin' up slowly".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Lennon further incorporated the phrase "shoot me" from his unfinished and unreleased January 1969 song, "Watching Rainbows".Шаблон:Sfn The lyrics were inspired by his relationship with Ono, and were delivered quickly, as in the Berry song. Author Peter Doggett wrote that "each phrase [passes] too quickly to be understood at first hearing, the sound as important as the meaning".Шаблон:Sfn

When Lennon presented the composition to his bandmates, his songwriting partner Paul McCartney noticed its similarity to "You Can't Catch Me" and recommended they slow it in tempo to reduce the resemblance.Шаблон:Sfn Beatles historian Jonathan Gould has suggested that the song has only a single "pariah-like protagonist" and Lennon was "painting another sardonic self-portrait".Шаблон:Sfn In a December 1987 interview by Selina Scott on the television show West 57th Street, George Harrison stated that he wrote two lines of the song.Шаблон:Sfn

Production

Recording

The Beatles taped the basic track for "Come Together" at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in Studio Three on 21 July 1969, during the sessions for Abbey Road. George Martin produced the session, assisted by the balance engineers Geoff Emerick and Phil McDonald.Шаблон:Sfn At McCartney's request, the session marked Emerick's first with the group since July 1968; Emerick had quit working with the group during sessions for their 1968 album, The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"), due to what he found a tense and negative atmosphere.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn The session also marked Lennon's first new composition for the band in three months, having last recorded "The Ballad of John and Yoko" on 14 April.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn

The group taped eight takes of "Come Together", with take six marked "best".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The line-up consisted of Lennon singing lead vocal, McCartney on bass, George Harrison on rhythm guitar and Ringo Starr on drums.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Starr placed tea towels over his tom drums to further dampen their sound.Шаблон:Sfn Without needing to use his hands to play guitar, Lennon added handclaps each time he sang "Shoot me!",Шаблон:Sfn also adding tambourine over both the solo and coda.Шаблон:Sfn Taped on 4-track recording equipment,Шаблон:Sfn at the end of the session, take six was copied over to 8-track tape in Studio Two,Шаблон:Sfn allowing for both overdubbing and the easy manipulation of EQ.Шаблон:Sfn

Overdubbing and mixing

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A Fender Rhodes electric piano, similar to the one McCartney plays on the recording

Overdubbing for "Come Together" took place in the week following the recording of the basic track.Шаблон:Sfn On 22 July, Lennon sang a new lead vocal and again added handclaps, both being treated to a tape delay,Шаблон:Sfn with automatic double tracking added during the choruses.Шаблон:Sfn At Lennon's request, McCartney played a Fender Rhodes electric piano,Шаблон:Sfn with McCartney later recalling that Lennon "wanted a piano lick to be very swampy and smokey, and I played it that way and he liked that a lot".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Harrison added a heavily distorted guitar during the refrains, while Starr added a maraca.Шаблон:Sfn Work on the track continued the next day,Шаблон:Sfn with more vocals added.Шаблон:Sfn On 25 July, McCartney contributed a harmony vocal sung below Lennon's part, and on 29 July, Lennon overdubbed a guitar during the song's middle climax.Шаблон:Sfn Work on the song finished the next day,Шаблон:Sfn with Harrison playing a lead guitar solo with a Gibson Les Paul during the song's coda.

Mixing on "Come Together" was completed on 7 August in Studio Two.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Done on EMI's new solid state mixing console, the EMI TG12345, Emerick later suggested that the console's "softer and rounder" sonic texture influenced the band's performances, with "the rhythm tracksШаблон:Nbsp... coming back off tape a little less forcefully", the overdubs were subsequently "performed with less attitude". He also suggests that, because McCartney's bass hits on the "me" of Lennon's line "Shoot me!", only "Shoot" is easily audible on the finished recording.Шаблон:Sfn Ten stereo mixes were made during the process, with the first attempt marked "best".Шаблон:Sfn Like the rest of Abbey Road, the song was never mixed for mono.Шаблон:Sfn

Release and legacy

Apple Records, the Beatles' EMI-distributed record label, released Abbey Road on 26 September 1969,Шаблон:Sfn with "Come Together" sequenced as the opening track.Шаблон:Sfn The song was issued as a double A-side single (as Apple 2654) with Harrison's "Something" on 6 October in America.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Commercially, the single was a massive success, staying on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for 16 weeks, and reaching No. 1.Шаблон:Sfn It was released on 31 October 1969 in the UK (as Apple R5814) and reached No. 4.

The first take of the song, recorded on 21 July 1969, with slightly different lyrics, was released in 1996 on the outtake compilation Anthology 3,Шаблон:Sfn and take five of the song was released on the Abbey Road 50th Anniversary release.

In May 2021, Ringo Starr said it was his favourite Beatles song in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Accolades

"Come Together" has frequently appeared on numerous publications' lists of the Beatles' best songs. In 2006, Mojo magazine placed it at No. 13 in their list of the Beatles' 101 best songs. Four years later, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 9 on their list of the band's 100 greatest songs. Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly and Ultimate Classic Rock ranked it at No. 44 and No. 20, respectively. In 2015, NMEШаблон:CN and Paste placed it at No. 20 and No. 23 in their respective lists of the band's best songs.

Rolling Stone ranked "Come Together" at No. 202 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, re-ranking it No. 205 in the 2010 revised list.Шаблон:CN

Lawsuit

In late 1969, "Come Together" was the subject of a copyright infringement claim brought against Lennon by Big Seven Music, the publisher of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me".Шаблон:Sfn Morris Levy, the owner of Big Seven Music, contended that it sounded similar musically to Berry's original and shared some lyrics (Lennon sang: "Here come ol' flattop, he come groovin' up slowly", and Berry's had sung: "Here come a flattop, he was movin' up with me"). Before recording, Lennon and McCartney deliberately slowed the song down and added a heavy bass riff in order to make the song more original.Шаблон:Sfn The case was settled out of court in 1973, with Levy's lawyers agreeing that Lennon would compensate by recording three Big Seven songs for his next album.Шаблон:Sfn A brief version of "Ya Ya" with Lennon and his son Julian was released on the album Walls and Bridges in 1974. "You Can't Catch Me" and another version of "Ya Ya" were released on Lennon's 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll, but the third, "Angel Baby", remained unreleased until after Lennon's death. Levy again sued Lennon for breach of contract, and was eventually awarded $6,795. Lennon countersued after Levy released an album of Lennon material using tapes that were in his possession and was eventually awarded $84,912.96. The album was called Roots: John Lennon Sings the Great Rock & Roll Hits.Шаблон:Sfn

Personnel

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• John Lennon – lead and backing vocals, guitar, handclaps, tambourine
• Paul McCartney – backing vocal, bass, electric piano
• George Harrison – lead and rhythm guitars
• Ringo Starr – drums, maraca

Charts

Weekly charts

1969 weekly chart performance

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Australia Go-Set National Top 40 Singles	1
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Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)	12
Italy (Musica e Dischi)	4
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UK Record Retailer	9
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US Cash Box Top 100	1
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West Germany Musikmarkt Hit-Parade	3

1989 weekly chart performance

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2010 weekly chart performance

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Hot Canadian Digital Song Sales (Billboard)	40
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US Billboard Hot 100 Recurrents	15
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2016 weekly chart performance

Chart (2016)	Peak position
US Rock Streaming Songs (Billboard)	18

2019 weekly chart performance

Chart (2019)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot Rock Songs	6
US Rock Digital Song Sales (Billboard)	4

Year-end charts

1969 year-end chart performance

Chart (1969)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)	25
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)	70
UK Record Retailer	67
US Billboard Hot 100	85
US Cash Box	63

Cover versions

Ike & Tina Turner version

A month after the original version by the Beatles was released, Ike & Tina Turner began performing their rendition of "Come Together," most notably at Madison Square Garden in November 1969. Due to the public response to their live performances, Minit Records rushed the release of a studio version. The single, also credited to the Ikettes, was released in December 1969. It reached number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 21 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. The B-side features another soul-infused rock cover, "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones.

"Come Together" is the lead single from Ike & Tina Turner's 1970 album of the same name. The song has been released on various compilations, including Greatest Hits (1976), Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner (1991), and The Ike & Tina Turner Story: 1960–1975 (2007). A live version was recorded at L'Olympia in Paris on 30 January 1971, and released later that year on their live album Live in Paris.

John Lennon solo version

"Come Together" was the only Beatles song Lennon sang during his 1972 Madison Square Garden concerts. It was Lennon's only full-length concert performance after leaving the Beatles. He was backed by the band Elephant's Memory. This version of the song appears on the concert album Live in New York City, recorded on 30 August 1972 and released in 1986.

Aerosmith version

Шаблон:Infobox song American hard rock band Aerosmith recorded one of the most successful cover versions of "Come Together" in 1978. The band performed the song in the 1978 film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; their recording appeared on its accompanying soundtrack album. Released as a single in July 1978, Aerosmith's version was an immediate success, reaching number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100, following on the heels of a string of Top 40 hits for the band in the mid-1970s. However, it would be the last Top 40 hit for the band for nearly a decade.

Another recording of the song was released several months later on Aerosmith's live album Live! Bootleg. The song also featured on Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, the band's first singles compilation released in 1980. Their live performance from the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was released in a Grammy compilation CD. The song has also surfaced on a number of Aerosmith compilations and live albums since then, as well as on the soundtrack for the film Armageddon.

Godsmack version

Godsmack released Come Together in 2012 on the Live & Inspired album. An official music video was released and the single entered the Hard Rock Charts at number 11, then in 2017 resurfaced to land at position No. 1 on Billboard's Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart.

Gary Clark Jr. and Junkie XL version

Шаблон:Infobox song American musician Gary Clark Jr. and Dutch composer Junkie XL released a cover version of "Come Together" as the first single from the soundtrack of the 2017 superhero film Justice League on 8 September. A music video featuring Gary Clark Jr. on guitar and vocals interspersed with cuts of footage from the film was released on 27 October. The single reached No. 27 on the Billboard Digital Songs Sales and No. 7 on the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs.

Weekly charts

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Other versions

McCartney recorded an updated version of "Come Together" with Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller for the 1995 charity album Help, under the name the Smokin' Mojo Filters (derived from a line in the song). Weller performed the lead vocal duties, with McCartney and Gallagher providing backing vocals, harmonies and bass and guitar. Their rendition reached No. 19 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1995.

Michael Jackson also covered the song in 1986. The song was recorded for Bad (1987), but was scrapped and instead put on HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995). It was also included as a B-side on Jackson's "Remember the Time" CD single. It was featured at the end of the 1988 film Moonwalker and also had an official video. Notably, it was the only Beatles song covered by Jackson on an official release. Jackson had purchased the publishing rights to the Beatles' catalogue in 1985 and thus owned the rights to "Come Together" at the time he covered the song.

Arctic Monkeys covered the song for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, it was released on the album Isles of Wonder and reached No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart.

Foo Fighters, Liam Gallagher and Aerosmith's Joe Perry covered "Come Together" at the CalJam Festival in San Bernardino, California in 2017. Gallagher forgot the words during the performance, later explaining that he thought they were performing "I Am the Walrus".

See also

• Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music

References

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External links

• Шаблон:Noteson
• Full lyrics for the song at the Beatles' official website
• Lyrics and video of Come Together
• The 15 Best Come Together Covers