This is my favourite Beatles song and Abbey Road is, by no small margin, my favourite album. Trust me, it's hard to choose. The lyrics, harmonies, and electric harpsichord just get to me with this track. For me, the Beatles lyrics have always been the most beautiful and complex and this song is my favourite example.
The song was one of the few Beatles' songs to include an analogue synthesizer arrangement (although analog keyboards such as the Mellotron had been used often by The Beatles, few songs featured the use of a traditional analog synthesizer with voltage-controlled oscillators). The Beatles at the time of Abbey Road were among the first contemporary rock bands to experiment with the Moog synthesizer (the first, or at least the first to chart on the top 40, had been The Monkees). According to Lennon, "Because" was inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". "Yoko was playing Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano ... I said, 'Can you play those chords backwards?', and wrote 'Because' around them. The lyrics speak for themselves ... No imagery, no obscure references." -- I like that idea. Straight forward lyrics; raw feelings about nature, beauty and love.
As cheesy as it may be, my plan has been to get "Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you." tattooed on the inside of my forearm -- the key change here melts my heart every time I hear it.
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