The Brits hardly ever heard the term "meter maid" before this "Sgt. Pepper" track. Supposedly Paul had gotten a ticket from a parking enforcement officer by the first name of Meta, and changed her name slightly for the song. He'd heard them called meter maids in America. George Martin played the honky-tonk piano in the middle on the original. Those kazoo-like noises on the original were from combs threaded with toilet paper straight from the Abbey Road washrooms, where every sheet of TP had printed upon them "Property Of EMI." Video is of Paul at a 2013 concert in Japan.
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I always figured the piano style of the instrumental verse to be more vaudeville or ragtime than anything.
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