The Beatles "Revolution"??!! PLEASE HELP!!!?

Question

im doing a school report on the song "revolution" and i need your guys help....

whats the story behind this song? you know like why was it written and what was it about? ive heard there is more then one version, if thats true, how many versions are there? and anything else you know about the song

if you could put down a source for your answer that would help, thanks

Answer 1

I can't tell you about the history of the song or anything, but I can tell you that there are three different versions of this song.

The original: Revolution

The LOVE version, which is edited, also called Revolution

The White Album version, which is just slowed down: Revolution 1

Answer 2

Okay you have Revolution 1 and Revolution 9, they are both on the white album okay and it was released on August 28, 1968,

as far as history item during this time,

Nixon was nominated for president and spiro agnew for vice president

Medal of horor is awarded to James Anderson Jr, the first black US Marine to be awared teh medal of honor

france  explodes its first hydrogen bomb

Police clash with anti-war protesters in chicago illnois outside the democratic  convention

This was a time , that Lennons einvolvement with politicaially oriented artist Yoko Ono and the growing social upheavals of 1968...McCartney was uneasy about the political nature of the song because this want within the beatles style

Answer 3

The hard, electric version is called "Revolution" and was released a single. There is also a slower, calmer version called "Revolution 1" on the self-titled White Album.

This was the first overtly political song the Beatles recorded, reflecting the shift in Lennon's 1967 creative focus on psychedelia, LSD, and transcendental meditation, which had collapsed in the wake of the Beatles' February-March 1968 trip to India, Lennon's involvement with politicially-oriented artist Yoko Ono, and the growing social upheavals of 1968. McCartney was initially uneasy about the political nature of the song, which he felt was at odds with the Beatles' style.

Answer 4

Two versions, fast one was released as a single and the slow one was

on the Beatles White Album. It's a socia-political commentary on freedom in the USA verses the "popularized" idealism of Communism.

The Beatles were considered very cool and influential when this song came out. John Lennon particularly loved the freedoms in the USA Constitution and was essentially giving his generation a clue that communism was not the answer it was hyped to be in the 60's hippie culture where communes were a fad, despite shortcomings in the democracies of the world. "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" (Mao was the despotic ruler of Communist China) John ultimately battled to live in the US as a permanent resident, wanting to become a citizen. John believed that good would ultimately prevail in a democratic society - "Don't you know it's gonna be alright." Rock on Liberty!

Read about the perceived menace of growing communist domination by the USSR and China in the late 50's and 60's - that was what was going on at ther time following World War II - often referred to as the Cold War, particularly with Russia - read about Cuba, East Germany and Poland. Regarding China, the US was at war in Korea and then later Vietnam, and it came out years later that China was actually supplying troops to the North Koreans and the North Vietnamese.

  

Answer 5

If I remember correctly, it's a song about how Lennon was ticked off that so many different "social promotion" groups were asking him for a song or his involvement in them. He didn't agree with their ideas of a social revolution.

It's in The Beatles by Bob Spitz...I read this a while back, so my memory on the particulars are rather hazy.

Answer 6

here is some information:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_...

Just make sure you put it in your own words.