{"id":800218,"date":"2026-08-03T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:40:11","slug":"3-iconic-beatles-songs-that-had-weird-working-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800218\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Iconic Beatles Songs That Had Weird Working Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, all good ideas have to start somewhere. Here are a few Beatles<\/a> songs that had weird working titles before they became the tracks we know and love.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexy Sadie\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSexy Sadie\u201d is actually a tribute to\u00a0Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian spiritual leader, disguised as a pop song. Lennon apparently started writing this one while waiting for a taxi. He was preparing to leave India at the time and started writing this one with \u201cMaharishi\u201d in place of the \u201cSexy Sadie\u201d title.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJohn had a song he had started to write which he was singing: \u2018Maharishi, what have you done?\u2019 and I said, \u2018You can\u2019t say that, it\u2019s ridiculous,\u2019\u201d George Harrison told The Be<\/a>atles Anthology<\/a>. \u201cI came up with the title of \u2018Sexy Sadie\u2019 and John changed \u2018Maharishi\u2019 to \u2018Sexy Sadie\u2019. John flew back to\u00a0Yoko\u00a0in England and I went to Madras and the south of India and spent another few weeks there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday\u201d<\/p>\n

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The working title for this Lennon-McCartney collaboration was \u201cScrambled Eggs.\u201d Apparently, before the song\u2019s actual opening verse was written, McCartney had come up with something else. <\/p>\n

\u201cScrambled eggs\/Oh my baby how I love your legs\/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, the title was changed to \u201cYesterday\u201d, thanks to the persuasion of the fifth Beatle, George Martin.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul said he wanted a one-word title and was considering \u2018Yesterday\u2019, except that he thought it was perhaps too corny. I persuaded him that it was all right,\u201d producer George Martin told Mark Lewisohn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTomorrow Never Knows\u201d<\/p>\n

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This one was originally supposed to be called \u201cThe Void\u201d. Lennon changed the title because he wanted to make it more digestible for Beatles fans. Apparently, \u201cTomorrow Never Knows\u201d was in part inspired by drug experimentation and in part inspired by a book by Timothy Leary.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026John had got hold of Timothy Leary\u2019s adaptation of\u00a0The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is a pretty interesting book,\u201d Paul McCartney explained to The Beatles Anthology. \u201cFor the first time we got the idea that, as with ancient Egyptian practice, when you die you lie in state for a few days, and then some of your handmaidens come and prepare you for a huge voyage. Rather than the British version, in which you just pop your clogs. With LSD, this theme was all the more interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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