| 词条 | Lovely Rita |
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| name = Lovely Rita | cover = | caption = Cover of the Northern Songs sheet music | alt = | type = | artist = the Beatles | album = Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | released = 26 May 1967{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=123|ps=. "In the United Kingdom Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...was rush-released six days ahead of its official date, June 1."}} | format = | recorded = 23 February and 21 March 1967 | studio = EMI Studios, London | venue = | genre =
| length = 2:42 | label = Parlophone | writer = Lennon–McCartney | producer = George Martin }} "Lovely Rita" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It is about a female traffic warden and the narrator's affection for her.{{sfn|Riley|2011|p=354}} InspirationThe term "meter-maid", largely unknown in the UK prior to the song's release, is American slang for a female traffic warden. According to some sources, the song originates from when a female traffic warden named Meta Davies issued a parking ticket to McCartney outside Abbey Road Studios.{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=239}}{{sfn|Everett|p=113}} Instead of becoming angry, he accepted it with good grace and expressed his feelings in song. When asked why he had called her "Rita," McCartney replied, "Well, she looked like a Rita to me".{{sfn|Clayson|2003}} RecordingRecording began on 23 February 1967. Using a four-track recorder, this first performance featured George Harrison's guitar on track 1, John Lennon's guitar on track 2, Ringo Starr's drums on track 3, and McCartney's piano set on track 4. Once those tracks were "bounced", the band later added lead vocals, bass, and a three-part backing vocal section. Engineer Geoff Emerick has said that McCartney's vocal arrangement was directly inspired by Brian Wilson's work for the Beach Boys.[1] A second piano, played by George Martin and processed electromechanically to wobble in and out of tune {{citation needed|date=January 2018}} was added for the distinctive solo. By 21 March, the final mono mix was completed and a month later, the stereo mix was done.{{sfn|Everett|p=113}} During mixdown the tape machine ran at 48.75 Hz instead of the standard 50 Hz, so that the pitch on the released recording is nearly a quarter-tone flat from the key of E in which the song was performed.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=100–101, 104}} The unusual noises during the song after the lines "and the bag across her shoulder/ made her look a little like a military man" were band members playing comb and paper.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|pp=104}} Pink Floyd watched the Beatles recording "Lovely Rita".[2][3] Later, Pink Floyd used effects inspired by "Lovely Rita" for recording their instrumental composition "Pow R. Toc H." from their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Personnel
Personnel per Ian MacDonald{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=239}} According to some sources George Harrison played slide guitar on the recording. However, this has not been confirmed by either MacDonald nor Lewisohn. Live performancesPaul McCartney performed the song live for the first time by any Beatle on 4 May 2013 at the Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil and throughout his 2013–2015 Out There! Tour. Other versions
Notes1. ^{{cite book |last=Emerick |first=Geoff |authorlink=Geoff Emerick |last2=Massey |first2=Howard |title=Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles |year=2006 |publisher=Gotham Books |page=171 |isbn=1-59240-179-1}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Manning|first=Toby|title=The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd|year=2006|publisher=Rough Guides|location=London|isbn=1-84353-575-0|page=36|edition=1st}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Palacios|first=Julian|title=Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe|year=2010|publisher=Plexus|location=London|isbn=0-85965-431-1|edition=Rev.|pages=198–199}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band|url=http://www.easystar.com/releases/show/22|website=www.easystar.com|accessdate=31 January 2017|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223191208/http://www.easystar.com/releases/show/22|archivedate=23 February 2014|df=dmy-all}} References{{Refbegin|2}}
| last=Clayson | first=Alan | year=2003 | title=Paul McCartney | publisher=Sanctuary Publishing Limited | isbn=1-86074-482-6 | ref=harv }}
|last=Everett |first=Walter |authorlink=Walter Everett (musicologist) |year=1999 |title=The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-512941-0 |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=eTkHAldi4bEC}} |ref=harv }}
| last=Lewisohn | first=Mark | year=1988 | authorlink=Mark Lewisohn | title=The Beatles Recording Sessions | publisher=Harmony Books | location=New York | isbn=0-517-57066-1 | ref=harv }}
| last=MacDonald | first=Ian | year=2005 | authorlink=Ian MacDonald | title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties | publisher=Pimlico (Rand) | location=London | edition=Second Revised | isbn=1-84413-828-3 | ref=harv }}
| last=Spitz | first=Bob | year=2005 | authorlink=Bob Spitz | title=The Beatles: The Biography | publisher=Little, Brown | location=Boston | isbn=0-316-80352-9 | ref=harv }}
| last=Haugen | first=David | year=2004 | title=The Beatles | publisher=Greenhaven Press | isbn=0-7377-2595-8 | ref=harv }}
| last=Cadogan | first=Patrick | year=2008 | title=The Revolutionary Artist: John Lennon's Radical Years | isbn=1-4357-1863-1 | ref=harv }}
| last=Julien | first=Oliver | year=2008 | title=Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: it was forty years ago today | publisher=Ashgate Publishing | isbn=0-7546-6708-1 | ref=harv }}
| last=Unterberger | first=Ritchie | authorlink=Richie Unterberger | url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/lovely-rita-t23447 | title=Lovely Rita | publisher=AllMusic | ref=harv }}
| last=Riley | first=Tim | year=2011 | title=Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music – The Definitive Life | publisher=Random House | isbn=1-4481-1319-9 | ref=harv }}{{Refend}} External links{{Wikiquote|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band}}{{Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band}} 5 : The Beatles songs|1967 songs|Song recordings produced by George Martin|Songs written by Lennon–McCartney|Songs published by Northern Songs |
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