The Beatles Song Of The Day is “I’m Only Sleeping.” “I’m Only Sleeping” is on The Beatles “Revolver” album. The song was written by John Lennon. This great sounding song can be seen as one of John’s ‘drug songs’, a folk song, a psychedelic song, a ballad. John at this point was taking LSD and he was by nature a sedentary type of person. He would talk about how he was a lazy person. He would be quoted in March 1966 “I’m physically lazy. I don’t mind writing or reading or watching or speaking, but sex is the only physical thing I can be bothered with anymore.” George’s contribution to this song cannot be overlooked. For this song George put extra craft into his trippy solo. He composed a melodic sequence that he recorded in reverse. He spent up to nine hours working on this. John Lennon: double-tracked vocal and acoustic rhythm guitar/ Paul McCartney: harmony vocal and bass guitar/ George Harrison: harmony vocal and lead guitar/ Ringo Starr: drums. The song was recorded on April 27th and 29th and May 5th and 6th, 1966 at Abbey Road. Producer: George Martin.

Rating “I’m Only Sleeping” on a scale of 1 to 5 stars ***** a classic.

• Both Rolling Stone Magazine’s “The Beatles 100 Greatest songs” and Spignesi and Lewis’ 100 Best Beatles Songs” lists ranked “I’m Only Sleeping” at #57 on their lists.
• Length of song 3:01.
• The song was never released as a single.
• John would spend a lot of his time-reading,sleeping, writing or watching television. According to his friend journalist Maureen Cleave ‘he can sleep almost indefinitely, is probably the laziest person in England.”

I’m Only Sleeping   {Lennon-McCartney}