4. Come mothers and fathers
throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and daughters
Are beyond your command
There’s a battle
Outside and it’s ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

7. Shea Stadium, August 15, 1965

8. Rubber Soul Sessions
• “Day Tripper” / “We Can Work It Out”
• Rubber Soul

13. Another PM-JL pair?
• “Drive My Car”
• “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”

14. Drive My Car
I asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said, Baby, can’t you see Otis
I wanna be famous, a star of the screen Redding, “Respect”
But you can do something in between
Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I’m gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I’ll love you
I told that girl that my prospects were good
She said, Baby, it’s understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time
Baby, you can drive my car …
I told that girl I could start right away
She said, Listen, Babe, I’ve got something to say
I’ve got no car and it’s breaking my heart
But I’ve got a driver and that’s a start
Baby, you can drive my car ….

15. A Surprise for Little Bobby
It was little Bobby's birthmark today and he got a surprise.
His very fist was lopped off, (The War) and he got a
birthday hook!
All his life Bobby had wanted his very own hook; and now
on his 39th birthday his pwayers had been answered. The
only trouble was they had send him a left hook and ebry
dobby knows that it was Bobby's right fist that was
missing as it were.
What to do was not thee only problem: Anyway he jopped
off his lest hand and it fitted like a glove. Maybe next year
he will get a right hook, who knows?

21. A New Beginning (1966)
• January–March: “Down time” as group
• PM, the Avant-garde, and the Underground
– Magritte, avant-garde films, experimental tapes
– Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio
– Indica Bookshop and Gallery
• JL and LSD
• March: interviews with Maureen Cleave for Evening Standard (“How
Does A Beatle Live?”)
• April–June: Revolver recording sessions
– “Paperback Writer” / “Rain” (released June)
– Revolver (released August)

22. “Tomorrow Never Knows” (JL)
Tibetan Book of the Dead

25. “Love You To” (GH)
• North Indian (Hindustani) classical music
• Sitar (Ravi Shankar), Tamboura, Tabla

30. Budokan (July 1966)

31. John Lennon, How I Won The War

32. Paul McCartney, The Family Way

33. George Harrison and Ravi Shankar

34. Yoko Ono
• International Times (14 October 1966)

35. 14 Hour Technicolor Dream

36. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Recording sessions
– 24 Nov. 1966 through 1 Apr. 1967
– “Penny Lane”/”Strawberry Fields Forever”
– Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Overall themes
– Childhood
– Alter ego for the band that the Beatles could
pretend to be

41. “Penny Lane”
• J. S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (piccolo
trumpet)

45. “Within You Without You” (GH)
• Product of GH’s studies of sitar, meditation, and Hindu beliefs
– GH (sitar, vocals, tamboura)
– Indian musicians (tabla, swaramandal, dilruba [violin-like
instrument])
– Orchestral score by George Martin (8 violins, 3 cellos), written in
imitation of Indian parts

47. “A Day In The Life” (JL/PM)
Suki Tara
Potier Browne

49. “I’d love to turn you on”: Sgt. Pepper and the
Counterculture
• Drugs (“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” “A Little Help From
My Friends,” “A Day In The Life”)
• The exotic (“Within You Without You”)
• Sexual freedom (“Lovely Rita”)
• “Dropping out” (“She’s Leaving Home”)
• Anti-suburban (“Good Morning Good Morning”
• Psychedelic sounds
• Sense of Community