Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Only a Northern Song\" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles from their 1969 album Yellow Submarine. Written by George Harrison, it was recorded in 1967 during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but rejected for inclusion on that album. Instead, it became one of the four new songs that the band provided for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists.Harrison wrote \"Only a Northern Song\" as a complaint against the Beatles' publishing company, Northern Songs. The lyrics and music combine to convey his dissatisfaction at how the company, rather than the individual composer, retained the copyright for the songs it published. As a further disadvantage to Harrison, his bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both major shareholders in Northern Songs, profited financially from his compositions more than he did. The recording features Hammond organ, played by Harrison, and an overdubbed montage of assorted sounds including trumpet blasts and spoken voices, anticipating Lennon's 1968 sound collage \"Revolution 9\". Due to the difficulty in assembling the completed track from two tape sources, \"Only a Northern Song\" remained a rare song from the Beatles' post-1963 catalogue that was unavailable in true stereo until 1999. That year, it was remixed for inclusion on the album Yellow Submarine Songtrack.The song has received a varied response from reviewers; while Ian MacDonald dismisses the track as a \"self-indulgent dirge\", the website Ultimate Classic Rock identifies it as one of the Beatles' best works in the psychedelic rock genre. A version of the song with a different vocal part, and omitting the sound collage overdubs, was issued on the Beatles' 1996 outtakes compilation Anthology 2. \"Only a Northern Song\" has been covered by Gravenhurst and Yonder Mountain String Band."@en }
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- Only_a_Northern_Song abstract "\"Only a Northern Song\" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles from their 1969 album Yellow Submarine. Written by George Harrison, it was recorded in 1967 during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but rejected for inclusion on that album. Instead, it became one of the four new songs that the band provided for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine, to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists.Harrison wrote \"Only a Northern Song\" as a complaint against the Beatles' publishing company, Northern Songs. The lyrics and music combine to convey his dissatisfaction at how the company, rather than the individual composer, retained the copyright for the songs it published. As a further disadvantage to Harrison, his bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both major shareholders in Northern Songs, profited financially from his compositions more than he did. The recording features Hammond organ, played by Harrison, and an overdubbed montage of assorted sounds including trumpet blasts and spoken voices, anticipating Lennon's 1968 sound collage \"Revolution 9\". Due to the difficulty in assembling the completed track from two tape sources, \"Only a Northern Song\" remained a rare song from the Beatles' post-1963 catalogue that was unavailable in true stereo until 1999. That year, it was remixed for inclusion on the album Yellow Submarine Songtrack.The song has received a varied response from reviewers; while Ian MacDonald dismisses the track as a \"self-indulgent dirge\", the website Ultimate Classic Rock identifies it as one of the Beatles' best works in the psychedelic rock genre. A version of the song with a different vocal part, and omitting the sound collage overdubs, was issued on the Beatles' 1996 outtakes compilation Anthology 2. \"Only a Northern Song\" has been covered by Gravenhurst and Yonder Mountain String Band.".