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Birthday

No, I'm not havin' one today, thanke ye kine anyroad.

“Birthday” was recorded during the 16th week of the White Album sessions, and the second week of Chris Thomas’ acting role as producer.

It was a Wednesday. They'd spent the first few days of the week concentrating on Paul's track “I Will” (on which George had disinclined himself from playing), plus mixing and minor overdubs of a couple other songs.

By all accounts “Birthday” was invented on the spot. So the story goes, they'd discussed meeting earlier than usual so they could break and go to Paul's to watch The Girl Can't Help It (with the theme song by Little Richard). In the first part of the session Paul introduced the riff, he and John cobbled some lyrics together, and George and Ringo pitched in on the arrangement. By the time the movie started they had a basic arrangement worked out, and after the film they went back to the studio and polished it off.

So they built the song in basically that one session, 18 Sept 1968, and on into the wee hours of the next morning. They don't appear to have done any overdubs on it after that day, so the song must have been completed on that very night.

Why a song on the subject of a birthday though? Why a novelty song at all, and on that topic specifically?

The “Christmas song” is something The Beatles had managed to avoid as artists — cf. Chuck Berry, “Run Run Rudolph”; or The Beach Boys “Little Saint Nick” — except for their special non-commercial fan club recording “Christmas Time Is Here Again”. Still, there was a charm to the notion of having that one song that could be pulled out for certain occasions. The concept was ultimately Paul's — John thinks it was inspired by the 50's song “Happy Birthday Baby”?

Is that the whole story?

What's it all about?!

Was it purely a spontaneous burst of rock'n'roll inspiration? Or were birthdays lingering in the back of Paul's mind? Not unreasonable, considering the circumstances of his 26th birthday and his Apple AWOL adventure immediately after.

Recent Beatle birthdays in review:

The first Beatle birthday of the new year is George on 25 Feb. This year they celebrated his 25th birthday all together now at the Maharishi's meditation retreat in Rishikesh, a poetic setting given George's deepening embrace of Indian music and culture, sort of the ultimate birthday destination for him, and at his quarter-century mark no less.

The second Beatle birthday of the year is Paul on 18 June (nearly four months after George's). What a contrast was Paul's birthday. The others were all too busy doing their own thing to give Paul time, and he partied with the Apple staff without them. He chose to attend Jane's theatre opening instead of John's, and afterwards there may have been some hurt feelings and confusion on all sides. Who knows if they even saw each other before Paul jumped ship with the Apple crew two days later and went to California, where George and Ringo had just come from. All so weird.

The third Beatle birthday of the year is Ringo on 7 July (nearly three weeks after Paul's). It fell on a Sunday this year, and there's no news about what he did #OTD, so it must have been a low-key occasion. It's not unreasonable to infer that the weirdness surrounding Paul's birthday (less than three weeks prior) was still fairly fresh in everyone's minds at this point.

The fourth and final Beatle birthday of the year is John on 9 Oct (three months after Ringo's last, and four and half months before George's next). With the end finally in sight, John leads the band thru the final charge into the wee wee hours of his birthday morning, then disappears for the next three days.

The deeper you go...

Curious that “Birthday” was created exactly three weeks before John's next birthday (which also fell on a Wednesday) — and exactly three months after Paul's last (on the 18th of the month).

Had Paul been harbouring this since June? Had he gone through this on the 18th of every month since, trying to recreate the ideal birthday circumstance that he'd been denied in June?

On 18 July the band attempted “Helter Skelter”, the first full-band rock piece that Paul had proposed for these sessions so far. The session produced nothing useable, as the song is unstructured and the band sound like a pack of meandering gobshites. Did Paul feel like the others were unenthusiastic about his new song that day, perhaps even deliberately sabotaging it? (The others may have been justifiably wary, as the last Paul song had taken them a full week to complete, as would the next.)

On 18 Aug there's no news, and it was a Sunday, so another low-key day. But George and Pattie have just flown to Greece the day before, which may have reminded Paul about George's last trip back in June, and their missed connection on Paul's birthday. If Paul was still pissy over this, that may explain the tense vibes two days later (a Tuesday) when John and Ringo are mixing in studio two, and they drop in on Paul while he's overseeing horn overdubs to “Mother Nature's Son” in studio three. Had Paul declined to go into the studio on Monday? (This became a mounting source of annoyance to the others, since Paul lived literally a couple blocks from the studio whereas the others commuted in from the suburbs. More on this pattern of behaviour later.) Only to go in on Tuesday and work on his own thing without them? Even if that wasn't his intention, that may be how it was perceived by John and Ringo. Whatever the case may be, Ringo's annoyance bubbled over two more days later (on a Thursday) when he quits the band in the middle of the session after Paul incessantly corrects his drumming on “Back in the U.S.S.R.”

So the 18th's of the month haven't been great for Paul this summer.

(If Paul were sinister, which he is not, but if he were, then he might revel in seeing John and Yoko busted on 18 Oct — the day after finishing the White Album. Poetry in motion.)

And in the end...

Is “Birthday” Paul's attempt at channeling his three-month frustration into something constructive and cathartic? Was it addressing an elephant in the room, one that the others might not even be aware of? Was it Paul's subtle way of throwing a little shade, especially on John, and also on George? (But not on Ringo, who remains blameless...)

Perhaps. Or maybe it's all a big coincidence. Did those accumulating co-incidences gave rise to suspicions of deliberate intentions on the part of one or another Beatle? Did these provide opportunities for plausible deniability that they exploited to get what they wanted and stick it to each other?

Who knows. But it looks as though — between hanging with his mates at his house and watching a classic rock'n'roll movie, creating a fresh rocker for The Beatles, and recording a full song together — Paul finally got the birthday party he didn't get back in June.

A very merry unbirthday to you too.

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