| "Lady Madonna" | ||||
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| Single by the Beatles | ||||
| B-side | "The Inner Light" | |||
| Released | 15 March 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 3 and 6 February 1968 | |||
| Studio | EMI, London | |||
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| Length | 2:16 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Lennon–McCartney | |||
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |||
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| "Lady Madonna" on YouTube | ||||
"Lady Madonna" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. In March 1968 it was released as a mono non-album single, backed with "The Inner Light". The song was recorded on 3 and 6 February 1968, before the Beatles left for India, and its boogie-woogie style signalled a more conventional approach to writing and recording for the group following the psychedelic experimentation of the previous two years.
This single was the last release by the band on Parlophone in the United Kingdom, where it reached number 1 for the two weeks beginning 27 March, and Capitol Records in the United States, where it debuted at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 23 March and reached number 4 from the week ending 20 April through the week ending 4 May.[5][6] Subsequent releases, starting with "Hey Jude" in August 1968, were released on their own label, Apple Records, under EMI distribution, until the late 1970s, when Capitol and Parlophone re-released old material. The song's first album appearance in stereo was on the 1970 collection Hey Jude.[5]
- ^ Everett 1999, p. 149.
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- ^ a b Fontenot, Robert. "Lady Madonna: The history of this classic Beatles song". About.com. Archived from the original on 26 March 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Billboard Hot 100 Chart 1968-03-23". Billboard. Retrieved 12 June 2014.