When I'm Sixty-Four
June 1, 1967
When I'm Sixty -Four (English: When I'm sixty-four ) is a song by The Beatles, which was published in 1967 as the ninth track on the LP Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Recordings
The recordings of the piece took place at Abbey Road Studios on 6 and 8 as well as on 20 and 21 December 1966. The composition comes from Paul McCartney and was recorded between the recording sessions for Strawberry Fields Forever. Ringo Starr played the percussion with a hard Jazz Brushes and uses different bells. When mixing the recording was increased by approximately a semitone to make it sound McCartney's voice younger. As a copyright holder Lennon / McCartney are given.
Already in their early club times, the band played the song often when the system failed at concerts. In 1966, McCartney's father was 64 years old, making him likely to inspired you to take the title from his archive and record. The text and melody, however, were modified several times.
George Martin said to the song:
"If you look at the lyrics you can see underneath did the jokiness They Are saying, Is not old age awful? Banality, tedium, nothingness, poverty, routine '. "
" Looking at the text more closely, you will notice that between the comical lines something else is written: ' If the age is not terrible? Banality, boredom, nothingness, poverty, habit '. "
Instrumentation
The song is accompanied mainly by a clarinet trio ( two B clarinets and a bass clarinet), uncommon in other genres of music, but most of all for rock and roll. George Martin said this was going back to the desire Paul McCartney, "to get around the lurking schmaltz factor" (German: " to bypass the intrusive lard factor " ), by the "traditional" use of clarinets in the last stanza. plays a clarinet, the second voice of Paul McCartney singing. unusual method of monitoring, particularly in 1967 Other accompanying instruments are a piano ( plucked ) Cello, tubular bells and electric guitar.
Yellow Submarine
The piece was used in the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. Just before the song, a short text, which indicates that 64 years of a number of 33,661,440 minutes correspond to appear. Is then counted in a different way from zero to 64 during the intro.
German language versions
Marius Müller -Westernhagen published 1972, a German version under the title When I am old. 1976, there was another German version under the title When I'm sixty-four, sung by Udo Lindenberg. Franz Hohler published a Swiss German version under the title mol Weni old bi. A version with verses on Kölsch and Saxon by Daniel Dickopf there from the Wise Guys.