The beatles Heather Unreleased from the white album sessions

[Vernyo]

I wish I was as creative as The Beatles were during the "White Album" sessions.

[mcrtnyfan]

Hopefully it won't be released of the "other" Heather will think it was written for her!

[CulworthStreet]

Sounds a bit strange...........but good and very interesting. I like it, hope it's gonna be released someday

[xTheLameOhx]

lol thats my name

[tonydio666]

@xTheLameOhx So? LOL

[xTheLameOhx]

@tonydio666 yams,LOL

[4FabBEATLES]

I think people forget what time period this was and think its about Heather Mills, which its not. If anything it would be about Paul's daughter Heather or just another imaginary person like the other Beatles songs

[sillyduffers]

i agree with Dylanfan. I was strictly John, but Paul was the one pushing the boundaries with the Beatles music. Sad but true I think. By the way, Yoko tryed to get with Paul first...but was told to go away.

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

@sillyduffers What could possibly be sad about pushing any previously perceived boundaries of creativity, regardless of who is doing it? You seem confused.

[casestudyification]

In the book "Beatles Recording Sessions" there's a reference to a song that Paul was working on called "Etcetera" which was apparently a beautiful song, but never surfaced. Anybody know if this can be found anywhere?

[Fawn2304]

It sucks that there are so many unknown Beatles songs that the rest of the world hasn't had the good luck of knowing.

[moto454]

anybody know the chords???

[closetome]

bluesy...

[Rogerrumjet]

Anyone the views The Beatles in a John Verses Paul context needs me to come over to their house and spray a load of explosive diarrhea in their mouth!

[OropherThranduil]

@Rogerrumjet

James Rolfe, what are you doing here???

[alexlancer11]

Sounds a lot like Dear Prudence. I bet Paul accidentally thought he came up with it first ,but he most likely heard John playing it and it just came out. That can happen and of course they both wrote many brilliant originals.

[RodCow]

@alexlancer11 With one main difference.The main chord here is a minor (Dm) and Prudence is D major.But you are right,the descending part is pretty much the same.

[jayseb666]

who wrote thelong winding road, Let it be, Michelle, yesterday, the fool on the hill, hey yude , Eleonor rigby , Get back...? The second part of Abbey Road ? all Mycartney by himself....the day Lennon died all beatles sogs became Lennons songs...what a joke

[ApollonAcheus]

wtf, this is good

[nath909]

Im a King Bee

[tauntingfrenchman1]

@nath909 agreed.

[melora72]

Paul's ex wife Heather Mills is actually a little younger than his daughter Heather.

[melora72]

It's about Linda's daughter (soon to be his adopted daughter) Heather. He had been with Linda for awhile, but this song was written before they were married. Someone claimed that it was about a receptionist at Abbey Road. There well may have been a Heather working there, but this song definatley sounds like it's written for a child.

[tintindwarf]

I like the color/contrast filter you added. Much nicer than just a static image.

[moto454]

tabs anybody????

[ballaesmeralda]

Heather is an Mccartney...Paul adopted her..

[Larrymarx]

Just like the girl... it never made the final cut :-) LM

[TheBeatlesRUL3]

the beatles were great , but some say they died out when they broke up , BULLSHIT ringo is still touring , lennon went solo and succeeded , paul went to wings and probably did the best , and i dont know what george did , but he probably did as good as everbody else

[susp1]

@TheBeatlesRUL3 You don't know what George did???? OMG! He had one of the most successful albums when the beatles went solo called "All Things Must Pass" not to mention his humongas hit "My Sweet Lord." George bloosomed as an solo artist whereas, in my opinion, Paul and John where not as good without each other (but I must say that the solo song by John called "Imagine" is one of the best songs ever written).

[pachacutti]

@susp1 yes and Imagine was actually borrowing a great deal of lyrics from Yoko Ono's book Grapefruit (1966)

[susp1]

@pachacutti What????? What you talking about??? You saying that John didn't write those lyrics? Liar!!

[dylanfan1969]

@TheBeatlesRUL3 George was very successful. He put out his best music at the end of his life. Cloud 9, The Traveling Wilburys, and Brainwashed. Plus all of his early hits. All those Years Ago...

[DonDonCastCastt]

@uppityhomo Only problem I have believing you, is your username. Hard to take a guy seriuosly when his name is Uppityhomo.

[uppityhomo]

Contrary to popular belief, he did not write this song for Linda's daughter, Heather. He wrote this song for my Auntie Heather, who was the receptionist at Abbey Road Studios at the time. You can read all about it in Auntie Heather's memoir, "Abbey Road, Please Hold" which will be published in November 2010 by Viking Press.

[bufonoise]

@uppityhomo wow ! i wait for that book

[uppityhomo]

My auntie Heather McGhee, was the part-time receptionist at Abbey Road Studios at the time. He told her at the time that he was writing a song for her! I have to start needling auntie again to write that book she's been threatening to write for years, tentatively titled, "Abbey Road, May I Help You?"

[swatkins246]

I just realized that I never knew Donovan's last name...it never occurred to me to look it up

[melora72]

@swatkins246

Donovan's last name is Leitch.

[quillber]

pressing the 'dislike' button under a beatles related clip.. should be a law against it.

[rainbowdancer99]

@quillber // RIGHT ON!!! always LIKE!!!thankyou!

[Emerystreet]

@quillber Here Here!!

[rockerguy18]

@quillber correction it should be illegal to press dislike under ANY video of the beatles or them personally

[ExodusPessoa]

@quillber Well put my friend ha ha ha ha.

[briteness]

I didn't know Paul ever recorded w/ Donovan. A bit disreputable, if'n ya ask me.

[swatkins246]

@briteness well they got to know each other in India so it's not totally random that they would collaborate a bit

[SuperNevile]

@briteness I read somewhere that Donovan taught John and Paul finger picking in India. We then got classics like Blackbird and Mother Nature's Son. Paul sang backing on Atlantis

[lumbago12]

@SuperNevile It was a particular style John used to good effect on 'Julia' and 'Dear Prudence'.

[atowlcreekbridge]

This was the genesis of "Helter Skelter". There's another version floating around where it sounds more like the white album version and he sings "Heather Leather" instead of the eventual title.

[carlmoore19]

This photo and the big one of Paul inside the White Album show the start of a beard. He would have a beard during the Let It Be sessions, which were actually BEFORE the Abbey Road sessions, but that's not the order of the initial public release of Let It Be and Abbey Road.

[carlmoore19]

Yes, this does remind me of "Can You Take Me Back" (heard at end of "Cry Baby Cry"), "Mother Nature's Son","Blackbird".  (i.e., the acoustic stuff)

I do remember hearing of Heather (Linda's daughter). Paul's marriage to and divorce from Heather Mills was MUCH later!

[michuvede]

oh!!! he's so cute so romantic

[funnycarrot]

I gotta say.. how did Wild Honey Pie make the album and this did'nt??

[NyeTunes]

@funnycarrot It was recorded after the rest of the White Album.

[redletter2008]

@funnycarrot Really! Same could be said about George's 'Not Guilty' - which after hearing it on Anthology 3 really surprised me. Why was that song rejected? It is FAR better than Wild Honey Pie, Revolution 9 and Don't Pass Me By. I even prefer it to George's own Piggies! So the merits of a song were not necessarily the determining factors on inclusion. Ringo had to have his one, obligatory track (and finally had his own composition by '68). George got his "2 cuts per LP" & John/Paul - the rest!

[selloutasaurus]

like the descending line off the minor chord reminiscent of Elenor Rigby & Cry Baby Cry.Certainly does sound like Can You Take Me Back bit! thnx 4 posting this excellent song!

[bobinwanker]

this sounds like the "can you take me back where i came from" bit at the end of cry baby cry

[goatsheadsoup20]

i was just thinking that

[capitolemiproducer]

Bummer about Heather. True it's his stepdaughter, but it's the same name as the wicked witch he married. She makes Yoko look like Mother Theresa

[binkle1]

Linda was not wicked! Why do people say that about her? Give me a story to back up your claim. I don't know any. He loved her very deeply.

[marvy1118]

Not Linda, Heather. Mills.

[LeoMidori]

Hmm, interesting. Melody wise it sorta reminds me of Mother Nature's Son, even though I know that was based closer to Child of Nature by John I think.

[mobleym007]

Heavy . That shit is heavy man... WOW.

[francoboy100]

sounds like it is from the I will sessions

[hazelwood1963]

This from classic bootleg Abbey road#3.

[TheTigercave]

L.S.D ....

[MarieNC2]

Can anyone make out the words to this song?

[RodCow]

Well you take feather,in any kind of weather

Put it together and what have you got,

You got Heather,Heather,Heather

Well you take a cat,it maybe fat (?)

Put it on the mat and what have you got

You got Heather....

Well you take a goose,Cut it loose,

Drink some juice and what have you got,

You got Heather...........

Heather was Linda's daughter from a previous relationship.You can see her in the studio with The Beatles in the Let It Be film.

[mazurchris]

i think it sounds a lot like 'great day'

[Teelux]

Sounds a bit like Dear Prudence

[KRAZYCorps]

Donovan's on this one, I've got the full version with them talking.

[MattHatter]

Sounds like something that could have possible made it to the "McCartney" album.

[jlgruener]

McCartney's nothing without Lennon.

[dylanfan1969]

You must be young. McCartney may be cutesy and seem plastic to you but you must remember the laws of nature. McCartney was the positive force to Lennon's negative force and that is why the Beatles were wrote great music. I'm a Lennon man myself but John was nothing really without Paul also. You make it seem that Paul's music sucks. The man has been writing music for 45 years. Every song can't be great.

[jlgruener]

Reread my comment. We don't disagree.

[farizbinusian]

yeah..they complete each other..thats why the lyrics from free as a bird seem so touching. "can we really live without each other?"

[NintenDudeProduction]

some lennon's songs may have been more nagiteve but, his adittude was more cheerful and wity.

[WiltatKansas]

I'm a Lennon fan, Paul is the best with John and Joihn without Paul, what is better? the both together.

[Mailebran]

@dylanfan1969 "but John was nothing really without Paul"...and the album plastic ono band or imagine were nothing???... i dont think so!

[floridacomedyfan]

@Mailebran I never said John was "nothing" nor do I imply that Paul is "nothing" either. I'm just saying that Paul is not this plastic hollow shell that this other person on here wrote.

[Jezuzlovesu737]

@dylanfan1969 But every song WAS great!

[jsilence418]

@dylanfan1969 well put, if you cannot appreciate Paul ,you are seriously out of it.

[carrier3232]

@dylanfan1969 John was not a negative force, but a different aspect of a positive force. more forceful, pressing, and at times angry and exaspirated. This not make him negative, just John~!

[BlackSheepParty]

@carrier3232 I think it was a figure of speech that you misunderstood try "Ying Yang" which is used to describe how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn. Opposites thus only exist in relation to each other. The concept lies at the origins of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy, as well as being a primary guideline of traditional Chinese medicine,

[godwhatcanihave]

anyone know cbords

[ZachStarkey]

Heather WOULD be put on an album. Or at least a song very much like it.

Great Day on Flaming Pie.

[mark919]

You're right..

[XxXBanannaWaspsXxX]

its a rubber soul outtake

[faydajova]

I actually am putting this up my channel, but restored the quality if you're interested in listening to it. Just need to put together the video.

[123ThisIsMe]

Heard this on an old Bootleg vinyl years ago ... it's nice ... I think they should have worked on it and added it to the album.

[TheBeatlesL0VE]

he probably wrote it for Linda's daughter

Heather

[Waitingforriki]

obviously! Any fool can work that out!

[justme81487]

Nice picture,love the song.

[spiderdragon1969]

nice song.

[bbtoob]

Listen to the piece at the end of Cry Baby Cry starting at 36 seconds left on the (cd) track that starts "Can you take me back where I've been from, can you take me back...". It's extremely similar sounding overall, so including the one as a snippet where they decided to may be why Heather was left off of "The Beatles" album...or not...

[MaryOMackie]

It's so eerie how he was fated to come across this woman "Heather".

[budmaca1]

It's about Linda's daughter.

[beasely1000]

Fated? So it's been about 41 years since the White Album was released. What are the odds Mr. McCartney, who travels all around the world and meets tons of people, would ever run into a woman named "Heather". Do you think he might have met someone named Heather before marrying Heather Mills? If so, was that "Fate"?

[RunyonFan]

Yeah, I agree. The "fated" comment is just an overzealous fan, tossing bullshit out there.

[mayakronfeld]

i like it; unusually bluesy

[truthslap]

amazing upload thanks for this!

[rayrf]

thats not george on the other guitar,its Donavon.

[flurpis]

Notice how it starts out rough, but as they go with it, George seems to pull it together with his guitar and the song becomes something else with a great sound by the end. amazing to hear something like this

[sprousesrockmyworld]

sounds almost like can you take me back?

[DigYourselfADitch]

lyrics please

[iggystompbarnyard]

NICE! i love finding beatle shit like this

[dormanbenton]

sounds too close to other songs on the white album Bungolo bill? Maybe not but I feel like I've heard this melody in the white album elsewhere. However it's a Good tune!

[joeredente]

How ironic that Pauls was to marry a Heather some 25 yrs later!!

what a bad move on Paul's part...

[helenacreswild]

heather louise was linda's daughter (had from a previous marriage) whom paul adopted in 1969

[happylittleEStar]

Why I haven't got this song???

[GooGajoob224]

Heather Stormy weather.

[Orysz517]

Hey, do you know lyrics of this song, and can you write it, thanks !

[TigerRocket]

Mary Hopkins' 'Post Card' album was released in February of '69. It included covers of three songs from Donovan, who also played on the album, and one song each from George Martin and Harry Nilsson. It reached number three on the UK Albums Chart.

The next single was 'Goodbye,' written by McCartney (but credited to Lennon-McCartney), released on 28 March 1969, it reached #2 in the UK singles chart. It was kept off the top of the charts by the Beatles' single 'Get Back.'

[tatelabianca]

yeah, I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with Paul's new daughter...Linda's Heather. your idea makes much more sense.

[ozzsabbath1]

wut the lyrics to this song

[GreenGirl32Jess]

Printed on the cover of the White album? I don't think so...

[Kimians]

Yeah and if you play the whole track backwards its says .... shwaaarp nishuyand finda neufneuf waloowponka haffendargie, roughly speaking!

[Themppe]

It's Heather McCartney, Linda's daughter.

[darost]

Paul used to play trumpet, so his guitar was often tuned down a whole step. Thus Yesterday, for example — he plays it in G but it's actually in F.

[freezazoid]

how do you know that! That's awesome. It makes sense because you can hear the strings have this buzzy type quality like they're really loose. That totally explains it.

[rjv54]

Was extasy even around when the white album was recorded?????? I was doing enought acid at the time, and anything else that was out there. I do not believe I ever heard of it back then, because if it got you high, we took it, drank it, smoked it, or hit it. Lets not forget hoofin the baggie. lol

[OroborusFMA]

"E" was not being used recreationally in the 1960s.

[guitaoist]

Melody too much like "Gently Weeps"... probly why it wasnt on the white album?

[JayXavier]

No way, man. It's a great tune and it's definitely different enough to stand on it's own. If Bob Dylan can release 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'Maggies Farm' on the same album, and Nirvana can release 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and 'Rape Me'.. this song could have a fine please in the Beatles Catalogue. Artists are allowed to build off their old songs, so long as they wrote them, in my opinion.

[limunan]

isthis the song for linda's daughter

[Hari909]

oh, the irony. Heather Mills gets a song written for her even BEFORE they got together. Its so strange how things work out in this world.

but enough of my babbling. Its an ok song, from an ok album, next.

[tallulahlynn]

Beautiful song about his little daughter Heather! So sweet

[rodito25carp]

It's a combination between Blackbird and Eleanor Rigby, y'know...

[roswell3980]

why would you tune it down half a step then use a capo?

[roswell3980]

if you're tuned down half a step and capo at the fifth it's the same as capoing at the fourth in standard.

[willbaird]

yawn

[BeatleUniversity]

This must have been where Helter Skelter came from. It's the same chord structure.

[funkcool]

certe canzoni dei beatles furono scartate perche erano troppo "avanti".

[Transfixion]

whos donovan

[ArchieMeadies]

Donovan Leitch -a Scottish singer-songwriter who was a friend of the Beatles from about 1965 onwards.

He was often present in the studio when the Beatles were recording.He contributed lines to a few songs, too!

He was described for a while as "Britain's answer to Dylan", presumably because he sang and played acoustic guitar and had a folk-music background.

Donovan taught the Beatles various finger-picking techniques.You can hear the results on John's "Julia" and "Dear Prudence",for example.

[wildenfree]

Oh mate,

Donovan was a 60s hippy styled singer/songwriter, a bit like an english version of Bob Dylan.Check out his stuff on Youtube. He went to India with them and met The Maharishi. Please don,t ask me who the Maharishi is now.

[AmyCoeur]

Donovan was the Prince of Flower Power - NOT a hippie. Flower Power was for peace, flowers and love-ins, not war or drugs, which devastated flower-power people. Things got heavy and dark once they drew people in. Before that, it was more a musical social and political anti-war statement or movement aiming to make people gentler and kinder, where music, flowers and love from the heart were exchanged, more artistic English-Victorian childhood than hardcore sex, drugs and rock&roll SOB business.

[sebas71]

This song is from a jam session Paul and donovan Leitch had in 1968. You can hear Donovan playing those nice guitar fills in the breaks.

[sebas71]

Paul and Donovan should have made an album together.

[AmyCoeur]

Definitely. Why can't Donovan and Paul make an album together now?

[babitzky]

Nice song

[lecturerob]

Mac makin a rammy aboot all they natural drugs he smoked in tha late 60's in our wee town ya balms that ya arr. Heather grows around tha country and daes whar nappers.

So wha pish ta ya rumours he married a 1legged scuzza from a geordie toon.

I tells ya this boy this wee weldas shanty is wha bastars that ya arr. She tak his broth & had his wean.He daesnae show his coupon raund ther reet well way before he shantied her crevice boy.

Macca o tha kintyre. believe me boy tha scuse is tired tha noo

[Datty]

Its the same thing as that part from the end of "Cry baby Cry"

[phadde]

It's Skip James, bitch!

[brontular]

My weekends are shitty.

[FidoForce42]

Ha ha ha

sounds like hes saying edward

[lizzabbott]

I'm sure he was singing about Linda's & his oldest daughter, Heather. Lovely start of another great song... And speaking of "Junk", I just LOVE that song! God bless you & your family, Paul! -Liz

myspace lizabbottmusic

[dimebuckerpickups]

ironic isnt it

[ElizabethUnlimited]

This was NOT written about Mills.

[nljmorrison]

you think?!

[laneatlileden]

weird that he married a heather and she took him to the mill.BIG FUCKIN PUN!

[solitudesblind]

This is better than most of McCartney's White Album stuff. Pity this wasn't put on the album.

[ooglewaboogle]

nonsense

[bunchie1966]

What twaddle.

[juanchisgomez]

they were so dark!

[newt0830]

definitely not lennon's lyrics

[ScenesFromPalacio]

Its a good song..I wonder why he never did it after like with JUnk n Teddy Boy?

[axlojones]

As a lifelong beatle fan I wonder why this is the first time I am hearing this.

[JohnMalloy05]

its about his linda mccartneys daughter

[rjkahlon]

He wrote it about Linda's daughter (Paul's stepdaughter)

[DMarriott81]

i know pal im just joking ;)

[torct1]

and that was so funny!!!!!!

[DMarriott81]

this could be about heather mills!! macca could re write the lyrics to

"i thought she was nice i was wrong shes a bitch she deserves to live in a ditch thats heather, heather, heather..........maybe?? lol

[jimbar1]

His step daughters name is heather.

[JohnMalloy05]

its about heather, and i know it

[barlo33]

yeah.....what ever catwiggy said..

[Catwiggy]

Hermosa canción! no la conocía, pero si es del White album tenia que ser buena. Seguramente Paul se la dedico a la hija de Linda.

Que bueno descubrir que las buenas canciones de los Beatles no se han acabado