Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

June 1, 1967

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Eng.: For the benefit of Mr. Kite ') is a song by The Beatles, which was published in 1967 as the seventh track on the LP Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It completes the first side of the LP.

This John Lennon composition was recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 17 February and from 28 to 30 March 1967. As a copyright holder Lennon / McCartney are given.

During the shooting of the promotional film of Strawberry Fields Forever on 31 January 1967 in Sevenoaks (Kent) John Lennon discovered in an antique shop an old poster for Pablo Fanques Royal Circus and bought it. From the text of which he developed the song.

Lennon envisioned a real carnival atmosphere. In the archives of the Abbey Road Studios were found tapes with excerpts of marches played by steam and fairground organs. Copies of these tapes were cut from the sound engineer Geoff Emerick in small Fitzel and glued together randomly again. The result was a chaotic sound collage that Lennon liked. Parts of this book were mixed with the end of the song and let it fade away.

In Being for the Benefit of Mr.Kite! Lennon wanted " ... that you could smell the sawdust formally ". Such remarks were typical of him. At producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, it was then to implement these requirements. Emerick was always very hard to realize the recordings according to the ideas of the Beatles.

However, Lennon was with the final product does not quite satisfied, because he thought the song for no result real work, which in 1967 the Beatles biographer Hunter Davies expressed to. Over time, he revised his opinion, and in an interview for Playboy magazine in 1980, he described the song as " cosmically beautiful ... The song is pure, like a painting, a pure watercolor. "

The text of the poster

PABLO 'S CIRCUS ROYAL FANQUE Town Meadows, Rochdale Grandest Night of the Season! and positively the LAST NIGHT BUT THREE! being for the BENEFIT OF MR.KITE, (late of Well 's Circus ) and Mr. J. Henderson, the Celebrated somerset - thrower! Wire dancer, vaulter, rider, etc. On TUESDAY Evening, February 14, 1843 Messrs.. Kite and Henderson, in announcing the Following Entertainments Ensure the Public thatthis Night 's Production will be one of the most splendid ever produced in this Town, having been some days in preparation. Mr. Kite will, for this night only, introduce the Celebrated HORSE ZANTHUS! Well known to be one of the best horses Broke IN THE WORLD! Mr. HENDERSON will under take the arduous task of THROWING TWENTY -ONE Somerset, on the solid ground. Mr. KITE will Appear, for the first time this season, On The Tight Rope, When Two Gentlemen Amateurs of this Town will perform with him. Mr. HENDERSON will, for the first time in Rochdale, introduce his extraordinary TRAMPOLINE LEAPS and Somerset! Over Men & Horses, through Hoops, over Garters and lastly through a hogshead of REAL FIRE! In this branch of the profession Mr. H challenges THE WORLD!