Got to Get You into My Life

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Got To Get You Into My Life is a song off The Beatles' 1966 album Revolver. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney.

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The second song to be recorded for Revolver, Got to Get You into My Life was influnced by Motown music. John Lennon thought highly of the song, assuming it to be about LSD. He once said, "I think that was one of his best songs, too, because the lyrics are good - and I didn't write them. When I say that he could write lyrics if he took the effort, here's an example. It actually describes his experience taking acid. I think that's what he's talking about. I couldn't swear to it, but I think it was a result of that." In reality, McCartney had written the song about marijuana. Paul McCartney recalled in his authorized biography, Many Years From Now, "Got To Get You Into My Life was one I wrote when I had first been introduced to pot. I'd been a rather straight working-class lad but when we started to get into pot it seemed to me to be quite uplifting... I didn't have a hard time with it and to me it was mind-expanding, literally mind-expanding. So Got To Get You Into My Life is really a song about that, it's not to a person, it's actually about pot. It's saying, I'm going to do this. This is not a bad idea. So it's actually an ode to pot, like someone else might write an ode to chocolate or a good claret."

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Recording work on Got to Get You into My Life began on April 7, when the first five takes of the basic track were attempted. Take 5 from this date was included on Anthology 2, which had an arrangement much different than the final version. The next day, three more takes were recorded with a different arrangement. They overdubbed a guitar part on April 11, but they would not work on the song again until May 18. That day, they added the brass and woodwind parts, lead and backing vocals, and another guitar part. For the brass parts, two members of Georgie Fame's backup group, The Blue Flames, were recruited, as John and Paul knew them from the London club scene. These musicians, Eddie Thornton and Peter Coe, performed with other freelance jazz musicians. Coe recalls, "The Beatles wanted a definite jazz feel. Paul and George Martin were in charge. There was nothing written down but Paul sat at the piano and showed us what he wanted and we played with the rhythm track in our headphones. I remember that we tried it a few times to get the feel right and then John Lennon, who was in the control room, suddenly rushed out, stuck his thumb aloft and shouted 'Got it!' George Harrison got a little bit involved too but Ringo sat playing draughts in the corner." Recording would finish on June 17, when a final guitar overdub was added.

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