The long and winding tribute to the Beatles. Part I: the yeah yeah yeah years (b)

[continued from the long and winding tribute to the Beatles. Part I: the yeah yeah yeah years (a)]
The Beatles 4th lp was called Beatles for Sale. This could be called a country album of sorts, due to the guitar sound as well as the influences and the covers. The Beatles conquered US and returned home with records of their favoured artists, motown, R'nB, Bob Dylan, but also guitars that were characteristic of their favoured rockabilly and country and western sound. Lennon wrote his first Dylan-influenced autobiographical lyrics in 'I'm a loser'. 'Eight days a week' was the first song ever to start with a fade-in. Always in search for new ideas, they decided that if a song can end with a fade-out, it can very well start with a fade-in. From instant hits to calm ballads who's charm revealed iytself over the course of time, the Beatles tunes included surprising sound solutions, innovative or not. In 'I'll follow the Sun' the instrumentation was so bare that Ringo decided to keep the beat by patting his hands on his thighs. Singles or lp fillers their songs, were carefully structured, rarely repeating successful patterns, but rather creating new ones. In 'I feel fine' Lennon was proud to use feedback from a guitar's amplifier intentionally, on record for the first time.
'Help' was the second movie the Beatles made. 'Help' the song, was about what Lennon called his 'fat-Elvis' period. His autobiographical cry for help, couples nicely with McCartney's "yesterday". Just notice the lyrics! McCartney woke up one day having dreamed the melody and doubting that it was his own, he played it around to just about anybody, in fear that somebody would recognize an existing tune. This song is listed in the book of Guiness records for 6 million times of air-play, (the second song in the list, played 4 million times, is another McCartney original called 'Michelle'). During the shooting of 'Help' G. Harrison was introduced to Indian music. More about this you're welcome to find out during the second part of this tribute next Saturday at 12.