“Fixing A Hole” by The Beatles

"Fixing a Hole" turns up on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles' 1967 album, and while it wears the Lennon–McCartney credit, Paul McCartney wrote it. He sings lead and plays guitar, bass and harpsichord, with producer George Martin also on harpsichord; George Harrison adds guitar, Ringo Starr handles drums and maracas, and Harrison and John Lennon sing backup. Geoff Emerick and Adrian Ibbetson engineered.

McCartney has explained it more than one way. In 1968 he pictured a hole in the road letting the rain in, a stand-in for whatever keeps the mind from roaming, with a jab at the fans who loitered outside his house day and night. In 1997 he called it a song about mending, about letting his mind wander and not sneering at the avant-garde, and in 2021 he named its biggest influence as a little blue hole he once saw on LSD.

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