Mean Woman Blues

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Mean Woman Blues is a song by Claude Demetrius. The Beatles, influenced by either Jerry Lee Lewis or Elvis Presley's covers, covered it live from 1960 to 1962. No recording of The Beatles playing it exists.

Live Performances

Piano player John Lowe was brought into The Quarrymen in 1958 specifically because he could perform the arpeggio part. Paul McCartney recalls, "There were the five of us: George, John, Colin Hanton, 'Duff' Lowe and me. Duff was a friend of mine from school who could play the piano. He could play the arpeggio at the beginning of Jerry Lee Lewis' Mean Woman Blues. That's the reason he was in. No one else we knew could play arpeggios right up the piano keyboard; we could do one broken chord and pause, and then do another and pause again - ge could go right through with the correct fingering.

Source

  • LENNON, J., MCCARTNEY P., HARRION G., STARKEY R., 2002, The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books -- Buy it on Amazon.com
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