Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey (Lennon/McCartney)
Quotes
“That was just a sort of nice line that I made into a song. It was about me and Yoko. Everybody seemed to be paranoid except for us two, who were in the glow of love. Everything is clear and open when you’re in love. Everybody was sort of tense around us: you know, ‘What is she doing here at the session? Why is she with him?’ All this sort of madness is going on around us because we just happened to want to be together all the time.” - John Lennon
“He was getting into harder drugs than we’d been into and so his songs were taking on more references to heroin. Until that point we had made rather mild, oblique references to pot or LSD. Now John started talking about fixes and monkeys and it was a harder terminology which the rest of us weren’t into. We were disappointed that he was getting into heroin because we didn’t really see how we could help him. We just hoped it wouldn’t go too far. In actual fact, he did end up clean but this was the period when he was on it. It was a tough period for John, but often that adversity and that craziness can lead to good art, as I think it did in this case.” – Paul McCartney
Personnel
- John Lennon – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, handclaps
- Paul McCartney – backing vocals, bass guitar, bell, percussion, handclaps
- George Harrison – backing vocals, lead guitar, percussion, handclaps
- Ringo Starr – drums, percussion, handclaps
Release history
- The Beatles (1968)
- The Beatles Anniversary Edition (2018) [2018 stereo mix]
- The Beatles Anniversary Edition (2018) [demo]
- The Beatles Anniversary Edition (2018) [unnumbered rehearsal]
Notable covers
- The Feelies (from Crazy Rhythms)
