| 词条 | Sexy Sadie |
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| name = Sexy Sadie | cover = | alt = | caption = Cover of the song's sheet music | type = | artist = the Beatles | album = The Beatles | EP = | written = | published = Northern Songs | released = 22 November 1968 | format = | recorded = 19 and 24 July 13 and 21 August 1968 | studio = EMI Studios, London | venue = | genre = Rock | length = 3:15 | label = Apple | writer = Lennon–McCartney | composer = | lyricist = | producer = George Martin | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = | next_title = | next_year = }} "Sexy Sadie" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). The song was written by John Lennon in India and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Lennon wrote the song during the Beatles' stay in India in response to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's alleged sexual advance on actress Mia Farrow. Composition{{main|The Beatles in India}}Lennon originally wanted to title the song "Maharishi",[1] but changed the title to "Sexy Sadie" at George Harrison's request. Lennon was disillusioned after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had allegedly made a sexual advance towards Mia Farrow[2] attending the course the Maharishi was teaching at his ashram. (Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Cynthia Lennon later said that they thought the story, which had come from Alexis Mardas, had been fabricated.[3][4][5][6][7]) Lennon once said of the song: "That was inspired by Maharishi. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and were leaving. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I just called him, 'Sexy Sadie,' instead of (sings) 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool...' I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I'd like them to be."[8] He told Rolling Stone that when the Maharishi asked why he was leaving, he replied, "Well, if you're so cosmic, you'll know why."[9] After returning from India, Lennon scratched the lyrics into a piece of wood, with the original title "Maharishi". The recorded version changed only after Harrison insisted that if the song was used he wanted the name changed and persuaded Lennon to change the title to "Sexy Sadie". Harrison recounts the event in the director's cut of the Anthology film. Derek Taylor remembered Lennon's fiddling about scratching the wood in the Apple offices. The wood ended up in the possession of Maureen Starkey and was ultimately sold to a Beatles collector.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} According to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, an early outtake of "Sexy Sadie" features Lennon demonstrating the song's original working lyrics to the rest of the band: "Maharishi, you little twat/Who the fuck do you think you are?/Who the fuck do you think you are?/Oh, you cunt." The song's instrumental fade-out was originally longer and featured a breakdown based around the middle eight. This was edited out prior to mixing. In a 1968 Rolling Stone interview, Lennon complimented the song "I've Been Good to You" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.[10] The Miracles song begins with the lines "Look what you've done/You made a fool out of someone",[11] compared to "Sexy Sadie"'s "What have you done?/You made a fool of everyone".[12][13] LegacyCoinciding with the 50th anniversary of its release, Jacob Stolworthy of The Independent listed "Sexy Sadie" at number six in his ranking of the White Album's 30 tracks. He wrote of the song: "To this day "Sexy Sadie" drips with bittersweet disdain, its moody final minute – inspiring Radiohead's "Karma Police" and "Four Out of Five" by Arctic Monkeys – managing to spring hairs on end, however many times you've heard it."[14] Personnel
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Cover versionsWhen Mojo released The White Album Recovered in 2008, part of a continuing series of CDs of Beatles albums covered track-by-track by modern artists, the track was covered by Rachel Unthank and the Winterset. The disc also featured a bonus track of the same song performed by Paul Weller.[18] The song was also covered by Anderson Paak on multi-instrumentalist and producer Kush Mody's first album Creature Comforts.[19] References1. ^{{cite book |last=Harry |first=Bill |authorlink=Bill Harry |title=The Book of Beatle Lists |publisher=Javelin |year=1985 |isbn=0-7137-1521-9}} 2. ^{{Cite book|title=Lennon Remembers|page=27|publisher=Verso, W.W. Norton & Co.|last=Wenner|first=Jann|authorlink=Jann_Wenner|year=2000|origyear=1971|isbn=1-85984-376-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymjy06WZnd4C&pg=RA1-PA27&dq=%22lennon+remembers%22+maharishi&sig=Z-ZRmuOd3HN0av5kTK6IuemPGTY|quote=Yeah, there was a big hullabaloo about him trying to rape Mia Farrow or trying to get off with Mia Farrow and a few other women, things like that.}} 3. ^{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Peter |year=2002 |authorlink=Peter Brown (music industry) |last2=Gaines |first2=Steven |authorlink2=Steven Gaines |title=The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles |publisher=New American Library |location=New York |isbn=0-451-20735-1 |page=264}} 4. ^{{cite book |last=Spitz |first=Bob |year=2005 |authorlink=Bob Spitz |title=The Beatles: The Biography |publisher=Little, Brown |location=Boston |isbn=0-316-80352-9 |pages=755–757}} 5. ^{{cite book |last=Lennon |first=Cynthia |year=1978 |title=A Twist of Lennon |publisher=Avon |pages=174–176}} 6. ^{{cite book |author=The Beatles |year=2000 |authorlink=The Beatles |title=The Beatles Anthology |publisher=Chronicle Books |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-8118-2684-8 |pages=285–286}} 7. ^{{cite book |last=Miles |first=Barry |year=1997 |authorlink=Barry Miles |title=Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-5249-6 |page=429}} 8. ^{{cite book |title=All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono |page=191 |last=Sheff |first=David |authorlink=David Sheff |publisher=Macmillan |year=2000 |isbn=0-312-25464-4}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=93 – 'Sexy Sadie'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919/sexy-sadie-19691231|work=100 Greatest Beatles Songs|publisher=Rolling Stone}} 10. ^{{cite journal |last=Cott |first=Jonathan |date=23 November 1968 |title=The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-lennon-the-rolling-stone-interview-19681123 |journal=Rolling Stone |location=San Francisco |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. |accessdate=10 July 2014 }} 11. ^{{cite web |last= |first= |date= |title="I've Been Good to You" lyrics |url=http://motownjunkies.co.uk/2010/04/30/145/ |accessdate=10 July 2014 }} 12. ^{{cite web |last= |first= |date= |title="Sexy Sadie" lyrics |url=http://www.beatleslyrics.org/index_files/Page8608.htm |accessdate=10 July 2014 }} 13. ^{{cite journal |last=Cott |first=Jonathan |date=23 November 1968 |title=The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-lennon-the-rolling-stone-interview-19681123 |journal=Rolling Stone |location=San Francisco |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. |accessdate=10 July 2014 }} 14. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-beatles-white-album-tracks-ranked-paul-mccartney-john-lennon-george-harrison-50-anniversary-a8643431.html|first=Jacob|last=Stolworthy|title=The Beatles' White Album tracks, ranked – from Blackbird to While My Guitar Gently Weeps|newspaper=The Independent|date=22 November 2018|accessdate=27 March 2019}} 15. ^{{cite book| first=Ian |last=Inglis| title=The Words and Music of George Harrison| publisher=Praeger| location=Santa Barbara, CA| year=2010|ISBN=978-0-313-37532-3 |page=45}} 16. ^{{cite book|first=Simon |last=Leng| title=While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison| publisher=Hal Leonard| location=Milwaukee, WI| year=2006| ISBN=1-4234-0609-5| page=151}} 17. ^Webb, Robert (15 September 2006). "Story of the Song: 'Karma Police' Radiohead (1997)". The Independent. Accessed on 15 October 2008. 18. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.mojocovercds.com/cd/306 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=26 January 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202101752/http://www.mojocovercds.com/cd/306 |archivedate=2 February 2014 }} 19. ^{{Citation|last=Kush Mody - Topic|title=Sexy Sadie (feat. Anderson Paak)|date=22 August 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ADfyJbQTZo-Topic|accessdate=6 June 2017}} External links
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