Allegedly this took more than 60 takes to finish over seven sessions, fraying everyone’s nerves, yet it sounded like one of the happiest songs the Beatles ever recorded. Paul totally scrapped the track once and almost did so again, but thought better. He wanted this as a single but was outvoted; the others completely detested the song. Lennon became so frustrated he showed up for a session stoned out of his gourd and played the piano intro furiously at double speed. That’s the version we hear today. Paul made a gender error on his vocals near the end (“Mollie is a singer in the band, Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face”); it was left in. The Scottish group Marmalade soon covered the song and had a UK #1 hit.
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