Beatles 1968
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One of the American rock stars that the song was actually teasing helped with the opener of the “White Album”.
In February 1968, McCartney performed his parody of Chuck Berry’s Back In The USA to beach boy Mike Love, also at Maharishi’s ashram in India. Love suggested a “California Girls”-like passage appropriately extolling the qualities of Soviet girls.
However, when the song was to be recorded in the studio on August 22nd, the Beatles were already at loggerheads.
When McCartney criticized Starr’s drumming, he quickly announced his departure from the band, stamped out and went on vacation to the Mediterranean.
The remaining Beatles continued to work: McCartney sat down on the drums, Lennon played the six-string bass – and the next day the song was rounded off with some jet noise from the sound archive.
When Ringo returned two weeks later, there was a bouquet of flowers on his drum kit.
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