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US Release date : Monday, March 18, 1968

Lady Madonna / The Inner Light (US - 1968)

By The Beatles7" Single • Part of the collection “The Beatles • Singles

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Side 1

  1. Lady Madonna

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    2:19 • Studio versionA • Mono

    Paul McCartney : Backing vocals, Bass, Handclaps, Mellotron, Piano, Vocals Ringo Starr : Drums, Handclaps, Tambourine John Lennon : Backing vocals, Handclaps, Lead guitar George Harrison : Backing vocals, Handclaps, Lead guitar George Martin : Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Ken Scott : Recording engineer Bill Povey : Tenor saxophone Harry Klein : Baritone saxophone Ronnie Scott : Tenor saxophone Bill Jackman : Baritone saxophone

    Session Recording: Feb 03, 1968 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road

    Session Overdubs: Feb 06, 1968 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio One, Abbey Road

    Session Mixing: Feb 15, 1968 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road

Side 2

  1. The Inner Light

    Written by George Harrison

    2:35 • Studio versionA • Mono

    Paul McCartney : Backing vocals John Lennon : Backing vocals George Harrison : Vocals George Martin : Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Hanuman Jadev : Shehnai Hariprasad Chaurasia : Bansuri Mahapurush Misra : Pakavaj Rijram Desad : Harmonium Ashish Khan : Sarod JP Sen : Recording engineer SN Gupta : Recording engineer Unknown musician(s) : Tabla tarang

    Session Recording: Jan 12, 1968 • Studio EMI Recording Studio, Bombay, India

    Session Overdubs: Feb 06, 1968 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio One, Abbey Road

    Session Mixing: Feb 06, 1968 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio One, Abbey Road


From Wikipedia:

In Britain, Parlophone issued “Lady Madonna” backed by “The Inner Light” on 15 March 1968, with the catalogue number R 5675. The single was released three days later in the United States, as Capitol 2138. One of the promo clips was aired by the BBC on the 14 March edition of Top of the Pops and then on Alan Freeman’s All Systems Freeman the following day, and in the US on ABC-TV’s The Hollywood Palace on 30 March. In Everett’s description, the single was “at the forefront of a spring–summer 1968 rock-and-roll revival in the United Kingdom”, which included UK-exclusive reissues of singles by Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Little Richard.

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