“And Your Bird Can Sing” by The Beatles

Tucked onto Revolver in 1966, and onto Yesterday and Today in America and Canada, "And Your Bird Can Sing" is mostly John Lennon's song, but the reason to lean in is the guitars. George Harrison and Paul McCartney lock into a twin-guitar line that coils around Lennon's vocal and never lets go, a harmonised trick that Southern rock, hard rock and heavy metal bands would lean on for years, while Ringo Starr keeps the whole thing clattering along.

Lennon later waved it off as one of his throwaways, and he never did explain the cryptic words, which has kept the theorists busy: one camp hears a jab at Frank Sinatra, another at Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull. It started out as "You Don't Get Me", and the first attempt went for a Byrds jangle; that take surfaced on Anthology 2 in 1996, complete with Lennon and McCartney cracking up mid-overdub.

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